Make it Conscious - Inner Work Exercises

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  Resistance at Work: Core Practice Active Imagination | Carl Jung's Method 12.09.2026 10min

  In this episode we turn attention to the world of work and what it is you do day to day, and specifically to the resistance you have to it. This might come up when you find yourself doing a task or your day job — something you feel you should be doing, or have decided you should be doing, but which you nonetheless struggle to get your full self on board with.🌿 This work begins with understanding your own psychological blueprint. Take the free Personality Dynamics Assessment: https://makeitconscious.com/pda/🔔 To work with Max directly, book a free Perspectives call — https://makeitconscious.com/coaching/This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation.----------Playlists & Series:Active Imagination Exercises - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2MMxqoPMkk9eEbVIrbwq-7B&si=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpbCore Active Imagination Series - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PWOC6QlGwXS2aWnaPTTF-8&si=m1YzEy1d8Ewf8e8dMapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27NswMore from Make it Conscious:MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/Connect:Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconsciousX - https://x.com/makeitconsciousFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571759044093
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  Inner Work as Contribution: Core Practice Active Imagination | Carl Jung's Method 05.09.2026 9min

  As much as we do active imagination for ourselves, it is not only us that benefits, if we are not being driven as much by our complexes, shadow and our unchecked needs and desires. This practice is certainly a gift to ourselves, but it is not a waste of time and not a frivolous activity. It is very purposeful, and in some ways a generous thing to be doing — not only for ourselves, but also for other people.This episode uses the basic three-step technique, working with whatever comes up during the practice.🌿 This work begins with understanding your own psychological blueprint. Take the free Personality Dynamics Assessment: https://makeitconscious.com/pda/🔔 To work with Max directly, book a free Perspectives call — https://makeitconscious.com/coaching/This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation.----------Playlists & Series:Active Imagination Exercises - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2MMxqoPMkk9eEbVIrbwq-7B&si=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpbCore Active Imagination Series - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PWOC6QlGwXS2aWnaPTTF-8&si=m1YzEy1d8Ewf8e8dMapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27NswMore from Make it Conscious:MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/Connect:Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconsciousX - https://x.com/makeitconsciousFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571759044093
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  Am I Doing it Right?: Active Imagination Exercise | Core Series 29.08.2026 9min

  One of the most common questions asked by active imagination practitioners is: "am I doing it right?" And "how do I know?"It's not uncommon to hear of people having profound experiences, vivid images, and fluid conversations with what they encounter. That's all possible — but it might be tempting to think that if it doesn't happen for you, you've done something wrong.Whether you're doing this practice right is not so much a question of what happens during it, or whether it produces the result you expect. By its very nature, this practice is about encountering something you don't expect. It's a question of attitude, and the stance you take towards the unconscious. It may not produce images at all. Whatever happens, it is always telling you something about the nature and state of your own mind.🌿 This work begins with understanding your own psychological blueprint. Take the free Personality Dynamics Assessment: https://makeitconscious.com/pda/🔔 To work with Max directly, book a free Perspectives call — https://makeitconscious.com/coaching/This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation.----------Playlists & Series:Active Imagination Exercises - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2MMxqoPMkk9eEbVIrbwq-7B&si=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpbCore Active Imagination Series - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PWOC6QlGwXS2aWnaPTTF-8&si=m1YzEy1d8Ewf8e8dMapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27NswMore from Make it Conscious:Extended Exercises (Hestia) - https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/Connect:Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconsciousX - https://x.com/makeitconsciousFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571759044093
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  Working with Archetypes: Active Imagination Exercise | Core Series 22.08.2026 10min

  One of the applications of active imagination is to engage proactively with the archetypes of the collective unconscious. While it's not possible to integrate any particular archetype in its entirety, it is important to build and deepen a relationship with them. If you reject or repress any archetype, it tends to return in a darker, more disruptive form. And by meeting archetypal material in symbolic form, you gain more information about it: its purpose, its features, its behaviours, and why it needs to exist.🌿 This work begins with understanding your own psychological blueprint. Take the free Personality Dynamics Assessment: https://makeitconscious.com/pda/🔔 To work with Max directly, book a free Perspectives call — https://makeitconscious.com/coaching/This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation.----------Playlists & Series:Active Imagination Exercises - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2MMxqoPMkk9eEbVIrbwq-7B&si=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpbCore Active Imagination Series - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PWOC6QlGwXS2aWnaPTTF-8&si=m1YzEy1d8Ewf8e8dMapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27NswMore from Make it Conscious:Extended Exercises (Hestia) - https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/Connect:Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconsciousX - https://x.com/makeitconsciousFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571759044093
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  Working with Emotion: Active Imagination Exercise | Carl Jung's Method 15.08.2026 10min

  Welcome back to this core active imagination series. Today we're going to be working with emotion, in a proactive way — meaning you get to decide from the outset which emotion you want to work with. You can work with any kind, pleasant or unpleasant, something you're experiencing now or experienced recently. The fact that it is an emotion means it has some kind of charge for you, that it is connected to the unconscious, and that there is something in it for you. We're going to use the technique of active imagination to examine it more closely and meet with it in symbolic form.🌿 This work begins with understanding your own psychological blueprint. Take the free Personality Dynamics Assessment: https://makeitconscious.com/pda/🔔 To work with Max directly, book a free Perspectives call — https://makeitconscious.com/coaching/This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation.----------Playlists & Series:Active Imagination Exercises - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2MMxqoPMkk9eEbVIrbwq-7B&si=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpbCore Active Imagination Series - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PWOC6QlGwXS2aWnaPTTF-8&si=m1YzEy1d8Ewf8e8dMapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27NswMore from Make it Conscious:Extended Exercises (Hestia) - https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/Connect:Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconsciousX - https://x.com/makeitconsciousFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571759044093
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  Working with Dreams: Active Imagination Exercise | Core Practice Series 08.08.2026 10min

  Working with dreams is one of the primary methods Jung practised and recommended to his patients. A dream is unconscious content coming alive at night, when the ego is quiet, so anything that felt unfinished still has something in it for you. If nothing particular comes to mind, that's fine — you can work with whatever your mind shows you as the exercise proceeds.🌿 This work begins with understanding your own psychological blueprint. Take the free Personality Dynamics Assessment: https://makeitconscious.com/pda/🔔 To work with Max directly, book a free Perspectives call — https://makeitconscious.com/coaching/Active imagination is the technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation.----------Playlists & Series:Active Imagination Exercises - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2MMxqoPMkk9eEbVIrbwq-7B&si=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpbCore Active Imagination Series - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PWOC6QlGwXS2aWnaPTTF-8&si=m1YzEy1d8Ewf8e8dMapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27NswMore from Make it Conscious:MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/Connect:Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconsciousX - https://x.com/makeitconsciousFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571759044093
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  Bare Attention | Active Imagination Exercise | Core Practice Series 01.08.2026 11min

  This exercise introduces a technique I call simply bare attention: directing your attention to the direct and raw experience of what you are actually feeling or sensing. Bare attention avoids two extremes that limit this work. The first is not noticing a feeling entirely; the second is getting involved in narrative about the feeling. To work with unconscious content, we need the layer where the full experience is less mediated by the conscious ego.🌿 This work begins with understanding your own psychological blueprint. Take the free Personality Dynamics Assessment: https://makeitconscious.com/pda/🔔 To work with Max directly, book a free Perspectives call — https://makeitconscious.com/coaching/This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation.----------Playlists & Series:Active Imagination Exercises - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2MMxqoPMkk9eEbVIrbwq-7B&si=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpbCore Active Imagination Series - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PWOC6QlGwXS2aWnaPTTF-8&si=m1YzEy1d8Ewf8e8dMapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27NswMore from Make it Conscious:MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/Connect:Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconsciousX - https://x.com/makeitconsciousFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571759044093
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  Turning the Mind Back on Itself: Core Active Imagination Exercise | Carl Jung's Method 25.07.2026 10min

  One of the main features of this work is the ability to turn the mind back on itself. At each step of this technique there's an element of doing exactly this — becoming aware of the mind itself. As far as we know, this is a uniquely human ability, something that defines us: the ability to self-reflect. Some might call it mindfulness, which captures part of it, though that word doesn't really explain what this is. It's meta-awareness — an awareness of awareness itself. The goal is to open up a connection with the mind, with yourself, and reach reconciliation with it.🌿 This work begins with understanding your own psychological blueprint. Take the free Personality Dynamics Assessment: https://makeitconscious.com/pda/🔔 To work with Max directly, book a free Perspectives call — https://makeitconscious.com/coaching/Active imagination is the technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents and facilitating genuine psychological transformation.----------Playlists & Series:Active Imagination Exercises - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2MMxqoPMkk9eEbVIrbwq-7B&si=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpbCore Active Imagination Series - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PWOC6QlGwXS2aWnaPTTF-8&si=m1YzEy1d8Ewf8e8dMapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27NswMore from Make it Conscious:Extended Exercises (Hestia) - https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/Connect:Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconsciousX - https://x.com/makeitconsciousFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571759044093
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  Producing Insight | Active Imagination Exercise | Core Practice Series 18.07.2026 10min

  One of the key purposes of active imagination is producing insight — into ourselves, into why we do what we do, into what caused our situation, and how what we're doing now might affect our lives in the future. This is a vital part of any inner work or adult development process. But there's a challenge, because producing insight is a contradiction in terms. How can you produce insight into yourself? You can't. That's why we need to engage with the unconscious, which contains all the seeds of our development. It's not so much that you produce insight as that you create the conditions, the openness and the intention, that allow insight to simply happen.🌿 This work begins with understanding your own psychological blueprint. Take the free Personality Dynamics Assessment: https://makeitconscious.com/pda/🔔 To work with Max directly, book a free Perspectives call — https://makeitconscious.com/coaching/Active imagination is the technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents and facilitating genuine psychological transformation.----------Playlists & Series:Active Imagination Exercises - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2MMxqoPMkk9eEbVIrbwq-7B&si=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpbCore Active Imagination Series - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PWOC6QlGwXS2aWnaPTTF-8&si=m1YzEy1d8Ewf8e8dMapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27NswMore from Make it Conscious:MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/Connect:Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconsciousX - https://x.com/makeitconsciousFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571759044093
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  Connect with the Unconscious: Active Imagination Exercise | Three-Step Method | Core Practice Series 11.07.2026 9min

  Today I'm going to be sharing more with you about the basic framework of this technique — this three-step approach to active imagination practice that you can use on a daily or regular basis, today the third step: bringing content into the imagination and connecting with it.🌿 This work begins with understanding your own psychological blueprint. Take the free Personality Dynamics Assessment: https://makeitconscious.com/pda/🔔 To work with Max directly, book a free Perspectives call — https://makeitconscious.com/coaching/This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation.----------Playlists & Series:Active Imagination Exercises - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2MMxqoPMkk9eEbVIrbwq-7B&si=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpbCore Active Imagination Series - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PWOC6QlGwXS2aWnaPTTF-8&si=m1YzEy1d8Ewf8e8dMapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27NswMore from Make it Conscious:MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/Connect:Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconsciousX - https://x.com/makeitconsciousFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571759044093
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  Thought, Feeling, or Image? Noting What Appears | Active Imagination Exercise | Core Practice Series 04.07.2026 9min

  Continuing through the three-step basic technique for active imagination that you can do on a regular, even daily basis — watch your mind, note what appears, and connect with it in the imagination. This exercise focuses on that second step, noting.🔔 Work with Max: Book a free Perspectives call — https://makeitconscious.com/coaching/🌿 Not ready to book a call? Take the free Personality Dynamics Assessment and start your journey with MiC: https://makeitconscious.com/pda/This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation.----------Playlists & Series:Active Imagination Exercises - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2MMxqoPMkk9eEbVIrbwq-7B&si=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpbMapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27NswMore from Make it Conscious:MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/Connect:Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconsciousX - https://x.com/makeitconsciousFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571759044093
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  Watch Your Mind: The Three-Step Method | Carl Jung | Core Active Imagination Series 27.06.2026 9min

  In this exercise we focus on the first of three steps in this active imagination technique — watching the mind. Using the breath as a canvas, we turn the mind back on itself rather than remaining lost in the natural flow of discursive thought. This is the foundation of the practice: simple, repeatable, and available no matter what's going on for you.This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation.🔔 Work with Max: Book a free Perspectives call — https://makeitconscious.com/coaching/🌿 Not ready to book a call? Take the free Personality Dynamics Assessment and start your journey with MiC: https://makeitconscious.com/pda/----------Playlists & Series:Active Imagination Exercises - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2MMxqoPMkk9eEbVIrbwq-7B&si=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpbMapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27NswMore from Make it Conscious:MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/Connect:Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconsciousX - https://x.com/makeitconsciousFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571759044093
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  An Introduction to Active Imagination: The Three-Step Method | Carl Jung's Method | Core Series 20.06.2026 10min

  Active imagination is a technique developed by Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, who described the conscious mind — the ego — as like a cork in an ocean, to illustrate the vastness of the unconscious relative to what we're aware of. In this exercise, we engage with the unconscious directly using a simple three-step method you can use on a daily basis. The unconscious mind is a vital part of who we are, containing the seeds of meaningful development — and yet it's something many of us have a fear of, or simply don't know how to work with.This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation.🔔 Work with Max: Book a free Perspectives call — https://makeitconscious.com/coaching/----------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=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpbMapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27NswMore from Make it Conscious:MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/Connect:Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconsciousX - https://x.com/makeitconsciousFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571759044093
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  Shadow Through Others' Words | Guided Active Imagination Exercise | Carl Jung's Method 13.06.2026 14min

  In this exercise, we're going to be working with the shadow. The shadow is everything we don't like about ourselves that we also hide from conscious awareness, and it exists for good reason. We have to take a stance in life, and any time we do that, something else must be left out. But if there's anywhere that our shadow gets revealed, it's often in our relationships with other people. Some of the best opportunities to understand our shadow are in conflict with others, in falling outs, in the feedback that was actually given to us explicitly by other people. In this exercise we're going to be relaxing some of those defences that may have served a purpose at times and using conflict as a mirror for shadow material.This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation.Work with Max: Book a free Perspectives call — https://makeitconscious.com/coaching/----------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=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpbMapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27NswMore from Make it Conscious:MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/Connect:Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconsciousX - https://x.com/makeitconsciousFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571759044093
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  Working with Anger | Guided Active Imagination Exercise | Shadow Work Exercise 06.06.2026 14min

  In this exercise we're going to be working with anger. Anger is one of the most misunderstood emotions across virtually every tradition — religious, therapeutic, cultural. This is quite simply because most do not differentiate between conscious and unconscious anger, or at least having a conscious relationship to anger or not. As Alan Watts once said, "The idea that there are no wrong feelings is an immensely threatening one to people who are afraid to feel." Anger gets treated as the problem when actually it's the relationship to anger that is the problem. Just like every other emotion, anger exists for a reason. It is a signal. It has intelligence. It often knows something before the rest of you does.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.Coaching with Max: Book a free 30-minute Perspectives Call: https://calendly.com/makeitconscious/30min----------Playlists & Series:Active Imagination Exercises - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2MMxqoPMkk9eEbVIrbwq-7B&si=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpbMapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27NswMore from Make it Conscious:MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/Connect:Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconsciousX - https://x.com/makeitconscious
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  Transforming Conflict: Guided Active Imagination | Shadow Work Exercise 30.05.2026 20min

  In this exercise, we're working with conflict — interpersonal conflict. This is a good exercise to do if you've had a conflict recently, especially one with an emotional charge that lingered and where you know there's something more to uncover about yourself and the situation.Interpersonal conflict is one of the best windows into understanding ourselves and our own minds. But whatever self-knowledge conflict has to offer, you often cannot think your way to all of it. A direct encounter with unconscious content produces what thinking alone cannot. And when it comes to conflict this can get tricky, because the ego has a real stake in it. There's also the opposite trap: assuming it's all projection, or all your own mind creating it. The goal is to see clearly, and that means being willing to look in both directions — at the inner and the outer shadow work.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=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpbMapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27NswMore from Make it Conscious:MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/Connect:Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconsciousX - https://x.com/makeitconscious
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  The Shadow: Through Others' Eyes | Guided Active Imagination Exercise 23.05.2026 14min

  In this guided active imagination exercise, we're going to be working with the shadow. The shadow is everything that we don't like about ourselves and that we keep out of conscious awareness. Any time we take a stance in life, something else gets left out, and this creates a number of challenges. What gets left out must find expression somehow, and is a vital and necessary part of our personality that must be reconciled with in developing self-knowledge.If there's anywhere that the shadow gets challenged and revealed, it's in our relationships with other people. Their responses to us - particularly the quiet ones, the unexplained distance and withdrawal - are not under our control, which is precisely what makes other people one of the most reliable mirrors for reflecting back our shadow material. Working with shadow material is not about becoming liked by everybody or reforming yourself for social gain, but about understanding where you may have become one-sided and, through that, developing greater self-knowledge and cultivating deeper relationships with others as well as with yourself.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=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpbMapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27NswMore from Make it Conscious:MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/Connect:Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconsciousX - https://x.com/makeitconscious
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  The House: Symbolic Investigation Active Imagination | Carl Jung's Shadow Work Method 16.05.2026 16min

  The house is a symbol that immediately incites something in all of us. The psyche of its own accord very regularly produces the symbol of a home or a house to communicate the self. There is so much in the symbol that relates to the structure of our minds - houses have multiple floors, multiple rooms, high parts and low parts, underground sections. They contain various objects and various different people, each also reflecting back aspects of ourselves.Carl Jung, in Memories, Dreams, Reflections, describes a dream he had of a house in which each floor was a different style from a different era. The ground floor medieval, the cellar Roman. This experience shaped his entire model of mind. There is also much to be said for the appearance of a house as the hard outer shell or facade we present, and the inner realm we protect. Home is a feeling state - a sense of belonging, safety, the ability to be yourself.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=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpbMapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27NswMore from Make it Conscious:MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/Connect:Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconsciousX - https://x.com/makeitconscious
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  What Are You Feeling? | Emotional Integration | Shadow Work Exercise 08.05.2026 9min

  This exercise is designed to be used on a regular basis for working with and becoming aware of feeling. Feelings are how the body communicates its needs. Whatever you're doing in life, whatever you're working towards, in whatever way you're growing, it's necessary that every action you take resists something else. So we have many needs, but not all of them can be addressed or met at the same time. It's important therefore to regularly check in with what the body is telling us - what our emotions are telling us about other needs we may have set aside for a time.This exercise is also available in extended fifteen and twenty-minute versions in Hestia.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=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpbMapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27NswMore from Make it Conscious:MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/Connect:Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconsciousX - https://x.com/makeitconscious
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  The Mirror: Symbolic Investigation Active Imagination | Carl Jung's Shadow Work Method 19.04.2026 15min

  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=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpbMapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27NswMore from Make it Conscious:MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/Connect:Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconsciousX - https://x.com/makeitconscious