Make it Conscious - Inner Work Exercises

Max Chegwyn

Welcome to the Make it Conscious sister podcast - Inner Work Exercises, your space for guided practices designed to help you engage with the unconscious mind and deepen your relationship with it. Here will find extended versions of the exercises published on the Make it Conscious YouTube channel, including Jungian active imagination, meditation, shadow work and emotional integration practices. Hope and Strength to you on your journey of self-discovery.

  1. The Mirror: Symbolic Investigation Active Imagination | Carl Jung's Shadow Work Method

    -6 ДН.

    The Mirror: Symbolic Investigation Active Imagination | Carl Jung's Shadow Work Method

    In ancient Egypt, the word for mirror and the hieroglyph for life shared the same root - "Ankh." From the very beginning, the mirror was understood as offering more than a surface appearance. It was a place where something essential about a person becomes visible. Before polished metal, people saw themselves only in water, and across cultures the mirror appears not as a passive surface but as something that retains - a soul catcher. To break a mirror was to damage some part of yourself. In this exercise, we're going to engage with this symbol directly and allow whatever needs to come to the surface to do so. This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation. 🔥 Extended exercises and premium packs available in Hestia: https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/ ---------- Free Personality Dynamics Assessment: https://makeitconscious.com/pda/ Discover your psychological type and development pathway. Hestia - The hearth of the Make it Conscious community: https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/ Premium courses, active imagination exercises, and community for Jungian depth work. ---------- Playlists & Series: Active Imagination Exercises - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2MMxqoPMkk9eEbVIrbwq-7B&si=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpb Mapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27Nsw More from Make it Conscious: MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3 Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536 Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/ Connect: Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconscious X - https://x.com/makeitconscious

    16 мин.
  2. The Inner Critic | Guided Active Imagination Exercise | Carl Jung's Shadow Work Method

    13 АПР.

    The Inner Critic | Guided Active Imagination Exercise | Carl Jung's Shadow Work Method

    The inner critic—a figure most of us can relate to on some level—is often assumed to be on our side, pushing us to improve, to achieve, to become who we're supposed to be. And that's not entirely wrong—it does produce movement, it does compel us to take action. Often entire careers or lifestyles are built around meeting the demands of the inner critic. But often that movement, while it feels like progress, is actually another form of appeasement. By following it alone, you're not building what truly matters to all parts of you, but rather satisfying a voice on its own terms. From the perspective of Jungian psychology, the inner critic is a complex—a part of the mind with its own agenda, borrowed from somewhere real, usually very early in life, and usually from people who wielded enormous power over you. In this exercise, we open up that connection. Not to eliminate or to silence it, but to meet with it directly, understand what it's actually doing, what it's protecting, what its needs are, and communicate back to it what you need in turn. This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation. 🔥 Extended exercises and premium packs available in Hestia: https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/ ---------- Free Personality Dynamics Assessment: https://makeitconscious.com/pda/ Discover your psychological type and development pathway. Hestia - The hearth of the Make it Conscious community: https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/ Premium courses, active imagination exercises, and community for Jungian depth work. ---------- Playlists & Series: Active Imagination Exercises - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2MMxqoPMkk9eEbVIrbwq-7B&si=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpb Mapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27Nsw More from Make it Conscious: MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3 Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536 Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/ Connect: Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconscious X - https://x.com/makeitconscious

    19 мин.
  3. The Moon: Symbolic Investigation Active Imagination | Carl Jung's Method

    4 АПР.

    The Moon: Symbolic Investigation Active Imagination | Carl Jung's Method

    For most of human history, the moon was the only source of light after dark, reflecting back the sun's light. It gave humans a sense of time — the word "month" comes directly from the same root as "moon" — and there is evidence to suggest that humans have been tracking its cycles for at least 30,000 years. The moon is probably the most universal symbol of the feminine, its phases mirroring the female menstrual cycle. In this exercise, we're going to come to know this symbol more intimately and allow whatever insight needs to come to the surface. This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation. 🔥 Extended exercises, premium packs and shadow work courses available in Hestia: https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/ ---------- Free Personality Dynamics Assessment: https://makeitconscious.com/pda/ Discover your psychological type and development pathway. Hestia - The hearth of the Make it Conscious community: https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/ Premium courses, active imagination exercises, and community for Jungian depth work. ---------- Playlists & Series: Active Imagination Exercises - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2MMxqoPMkk9eEbVIrbwq-7B&si=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpb Mapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27Nsw More from Make it Conscious: MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3 Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536 Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/ Connect: Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconscious X - https://x.com/makeitconscious

    14 мин.
  4. Working with Fear | Guided Active Imagination Exercise | Carl Jung's Method

    28 МАР.

    Working with Fear | Guided Active Imagination Exercise | Carl Jung's Method

    In this exercise, we're going to be working with fear. As Carl Jung famously said, "where the fear, there is your task!" Working with fear is a very important part of the individuation journey, and in adult development more generally. There is little growth without confronting fear at some point or another. Often what makes fear so challenging is more about how our mind is relating to it than the fear itself. Fear is coaxed and encouraged in large part by our own minds, and our avoidance of it feeds it. In this exercise, we use active imagination to gently confront fear: not to eliminate it exactly, but to transform it, understand it better, and let it point the way to whatever you need to do as part of your development. This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation. 🔥 Extended exercises and premium packs available in Hestia: https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/ ---------- Free Personality Dynamics Assessment: https://makeitconscious.com/pda/ Discover your psychological type and development pathway. Hestia - The hearth of the Make it Conscious community: https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/ Premium courses, active imagination exercises, and community for Jungian depth work. ---------- Playlists & Series: Active Imagination Exercises - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2MMxqoPMkk9eEbVIrbwq-7B&si=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpb Mapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27Nsw More from Make it Conscious: MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3 Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536 Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/ Connect: Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconscious X - https://x.com/makeitconscious

    18 мин.
  5. What is Coming Alive in You? | Jungian Active Imagination Exercise | Core Practice Series

    21 МАР.

    What is Coming Alive in You? | Jungian Active Imagination Exercise | Core Practice Series

    In this exercise, there's no need to decide ahead of time what you'd like to work with. It's appropriate for when you aren't sure quite how you're feeling, or you know there's something that is bothering you but you can't quite get a handle on it. Instead, we ask the question 'what is coming alive in me that is calling for my attention,' and let the unconscious present the seed for the active imagination exercise itself. This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation. 🔥 Extended exercises and premium packs available in Hestia: https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/ ---------- Free Personality Dynamics Assessment: https://makeitconscious.com/pda/ Discover your psychological type and development pathway. Hestia - The hearth of the Make it Conscious community: https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/ Premium courses, active imagination exercises, and community for Jungian depth work. ---------- Playlists & Series: Active Imagination Exercises - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2MMxqoPMkk9eEbVIrbwq-7B&si=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpb Mapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27Nsw More from Make it Conscious: MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3 Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536 Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/ Connect: Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconscious X - https://x.com/makeitconscious

    16 мин.
  6. Honouring the Unconscious | Guided Active Imagination Exercise | Core Practice Series

    14 МАР.

    Honouring the Unconscious | Guided Active Imagination Exercise | Core Practice Series

    In this active imagination exercise, there's a particular focus on how to engage with the unconscious effectively. In active imagination practice, one of two things can happen. Either there's a tendency to try and control the experience a bit too much — the ego gets too involved and the unconscious takes a back seat, producing what it already wants to create, and you come away having not really learned much about what the unconscious has to say. On the other hand, if you're not involved enough, the experience can seem fragmented, busy, chaotic — showing up more as noise than something coherent and useful. The sweet spot is in the middle, and this exercise guides you in finding it. This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation. 🔥 Extended exercises and premium packs available in Hestia: https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/ ---------- Free Personality Dynamics Assessment: https://makeitconscious.com/pda/ Discover your psychological type and development pathway. Hestia - The hearth of the Make it Conscious community: https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/ Premium courses, active imagination exercises, and community for Jungian depth work. ---------- Playlists & Series: Active Imagination Exercises - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2MMxqoPMkk9eEbVIrbwq-7B&si=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpb Mapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27Nsw More from Make it Conscious: MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3 Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536 Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/ Connect: Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconscious X - https://x.com/makeitconscious

    15 мин.
  7. The Mountain: Symbolic Investigation Active Imagination | Carl Jung's Method

    7 МАР.

    The Mountain: Symbolic Investigation Active Imagination | Carl Jung's Method

    In almost every tradition, the gods are placed on the mountains - Olympus, Sinai, Fuji. The mountain is where heaven meets earth. In alchemy, the mountain is considered the source of prima materia, containing the raw materials needed for transformation. The ascent of a mountain gives you perspective, expansion, maybe a fleeting peak experience - it literally involves rising up above the earth, but it also means becoming more exposed and losing all of your usual supports and lifelines. This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation. 🔥 Extended exercises and premium packs available in Hestia: https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/ ---------- Free Personality Dynamics Assessment: https://makeitconscious.com/pda/ Discover your psychological type and development pathway. Hestia - The hearth of the Make it Conscious community: https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/ Premium courses, active imagination exercises, and community for Jungian depth work. ---------- Playlists & Series: Active Imagination Exercises - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2MMxqoPMkk9eEbVIrbwq-7B&si=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpb Mapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27Nsw More from Make it Conscious: MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3 Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536 Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/ Connect: Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconscious X - https://x.com/makeitconscious

    18 мин.
  8. The Cave: Symbolic Investigation | Guided Active Imagination Exercise

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    The Cave: Symbolic Investigation | Guided Active Imagination Exercise

    In today's exercise, we're going to be investigating the symbol of the cave. Caves form a profound part of our collective psyche. Long before we had temples or structures of our own, humans were entering caves. The oldest known art on Earth was made deep inside caves. To enter a cave is literally to go inwards, to go beneath the surface — making it a very useful symbol to work with as a way to facilitate a deeper inquiry during this practice. As Joseph Campbell reportedly said: "The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for." This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation. 🔥 Extended exercises and premium packs available in Hestia: https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/ ---------- Free Personality Dynamics Assessment: https://makeitconscious.com/pda/ Discover your psychological type and development pathway. Hestia - The hearth of the Make it Conscious community: https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/ Premium courses, active imagination exercises, and community for Jungian depth work. ---------- Playlists & Series: Active Imagination Exercises - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2MMxqoPMkk9eEbVIrbwq-7B&si=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpb Mapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27Nsw More from Make it Conscious: MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3 Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536 Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/ Connect: Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconscious X - https://x.com/makeitconscious

    18 мин.

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Welcome to the Make it Conscious sister podcast - Inner Work Exercises, your space for guided practices designed to help you engage with the unconscious mind and deepen your relationship with it. Here will find extended versions of the exercises published on the Make it Conscious YouTube channel, including Jungian active imagination, meditation, shadow work and emotional integration practices. Hope and Strength to you on your journey of self-discovery.

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