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Powerful quote... thank you Laura. You're very welcome 🌟🔥

Sounds like you got some great inner work done. Good job! Thank you for the comment and you're very welcome 🌟🔥

You're very welcome!

It's certainly a biggie. Although it's not necessarily the biggest fear for everyone. Even where death is the greatest fear it might not be the most pressing or immediate barrier to inner work, and it may be beneficial to focus on other layers first. If you're looking to engage with death symbolically and even approach your fear of it, you could try out the Death tarot card exercise on this channel, available here: czcams.com/video/IIzEEkNXlTg/video.html Thanks for the comment and good work for doing the exercise 🌟🔥

Do you mean the anima from the masculine perspective? The anima is a feminine symbol and the subject of this exercise. If you are looking for an exercise which works with another symbol there are other exercises available on this channel. Feel free to follow up and I'll see if I can clarify or point you towards another exercise.

Do you have videos about the animas then? As this video was in a playlist but is directly for men looking at their feminine anima and is not directed towards myself as a female and my animas

Ah, it sounds like what you are looking for is exercises for the animUS, not the animA. What you are referring to as the 'male anima' is the animus. The anima is a feminine symbol. The animus is a masculine symbol There are multiple videos for working with both the anima and the animus on this channel. Here are a few you might be interested in for working with the animus: Meeting the Animus - czcams.com/video/eaHz8K3kfoM/video.html Walking with the Animus - czcams.com/video/3e_BsKnlzRA/video.html Animus Integration Exercise - czcams.com/video/pX-yucZgWII/video.html I recommend starting at the top if you're looking for a shorter exercise to begin with. Or if you feel ready to go for longer you could go straight to number 3. Extended versions are also available on the MiC Inner Work Exercises Podcast. Feel free to follow up and let me know how it goes :)

Great work setting out to deepen your relationship with the Animus. This is definitely worth a conversation to explore how this series of symbols could apply to you and your life. The characters of the Beast followed by Ken could represent an attempt to bring the raw and primal energy of the masculine under control. The Atlas symbol could then be hinting at a more realised form of the masculine, the need for responsibility and the benefits it brings, but also literally reflecting a burden or weight being carried - potentially burdens you carry, or emphasising the virtues of embracing the masculine. The mountains also seem to corroborate the presence of challenges to climb along with the potential for growth and integration. Well done and keep up the inner work. Feel free to follow up to let me know if this resonates and how having the experience has played out for you over the last few days.

Thank you, I truly appreciate you!

Hello Birgitte! That is wonderful to hear. Thank you for the comment and you're very welcome. The tarot series can be applied in many different ways, such as for insight into a particular life situation, after a reading or to enquire into the cards in your own chart. Glad you're benefitting from that. Feel free to share your experiences and ask any questions. Greetings from Georgia 😁🌟🔥

Why is that sad?

Wonderful... great work for completing this exercise. Shadow exercises are generally not easy. The first room portrays your conscious stance, perhaps in a way that is difficult to verbalise but nonetheless sitting close to conscious awareness. The cage clearly represents your own barriers - not entirely "self-imposed," but understandably that in part, based on your experiences and what worked for you in the past. The attempt to adorn it represents how working with the external world alone doesn't truly solve our challenges. The tiny hole represents the resistance to moving towards what you fear. The further rooms represent the layers of unconscious material to be worked through. Bringing the fearful you back into the light room clearly represents what happens to the fear when you shine a light on it. The coloured paint is interesting too. I wonder what you make of it? Is it an expression of your increased capacity for creativity once your fears are confronted? There remains a little ambiguity around whether the cage is still there. But one thing is for sure, you have the means to remove them. The open ceiling suggests a way up and not sideways. You can continue to work with this exercise and explore more of the shadow rooms you saw in your first experience. If you can identify a strong feeling or fear, the Emotional Integration Exercise is a good one to do next. I also recommend checking out the new series Beyond the Limen. When you get to part 5, that works more closely with fear. Emotional Integration Meditation - czcams.com/video/61SE-FBlxOY/video.html Beyond The Limen (playlist) - czcams.com/play/PLeuFwuWK5O2OvmSpHOqOPlcOQJUnHcZZa.html Well done again for digging deep. You're very welcome and thank you for the comment. Feel free to keep sharing your experiences any time 🌟🔥

Hey there, welcome to the channel and great work for diving deep. It's often not easy doing active imagination but it's certainly worthwhile. It is common for stored feelings and emotions to come to the surface or for the body to react in other ways. This is actually a sign that you are doing something right. By creating the conditions and applying this technique you are allowing these aspects of mind to come together and reconcile. This is a good thing, so well done and keep going, allow the feelings to flow. This is a fantastic start 🌟🔥

Stellar work Abbas! This is all great to hear. Sounds like you’ve been very open to the symbolic nature of your existence and interconnectedness of the psyche, while using it to do some deep inner work. The Fool, Tower, and Magician are all powerful archetypes from tarot and mythology. There is also an exercise called The Wall where it plays a similar symbolic role to the one from your experience. The spontaneous nature of the second experience is also interesting and further suggests this was some material that had reached a fever pitch and it was the right time for it to come out. You created the opportunity for it to surface by setting your intention to self-love and applying yourself to a technique. The magician gave some very wise words. Self-love and compassion are vital, but they are also qualities for navigating the underworld and the further work that entails, opening up to the reconciliation that has to happen. Strength to you as you delve in and save the children from the tower. Feel free to let me know how that goes :) It’s wonderful to hear that this part of you is back and integrating into your conscious self. It will remain with you now and serve you well in life, relationships and further work you do. It will be interesting to see how family life changes from hereon in. Great stuff, I love to hear of experiences like this. Very glad to be part of your journey Abbas and supporting you however I can. You deserve full credit for stepping up and doing the hard work. It’s not easy but it is always worthwhile. Big hug back and best wishes to you and your family 🌟🔥

You're welcome Laura :)

Hey SleepyLee. Yes, you’re right that “you matter” is about perspective in part, although it implies more as well. It means that we see the world *in terms of* ourselves. Our experience neither confirms to an objective reality, nor is it quite that “everything’s a projection.” Although understanding the role of both perspective and projection is key to self-knowledge, projection in particular is most misunderstood. Thanks for sharing your experience! It’s very interesting. The chipmunk seems to connect with your earlier encounter with the groundhogs and how you found a way to co-exist peacefully with them. Nurture and nature are a theme, as well as the aliveness aspect. How would you say the chipmunk’s character contrasted against your current conscious stance? (aside from the obvious 😅). The nut given by the “Self” represents a key element within you. Since the Self encompasses the totality of your being, it’s capable of producing this nut, which symbolises something significant for your journey towards greater freedom. What if you re-planted this nut, perhaps in the Planting a Seed exercise or The Empress, see what it produces? And even have a conversation with it. I hear you also on the difference between theory and practice in building freedom. It’s deep, emotional, energetic work, and the only way to freedom is through it. The pressure you felt around your eyes at the intense chipmunk also gives potential clues around where to look next. The brightness of the symbol could be compelling you to engage with a feeling. Working with this in the Emotional Integration Meditation could be a productive line of enquiry as well. It might also be interesting to see how these themes of nature, nurture, intellect and freedom show up in your birth chart. Thank you for the comment and for sharing your experiences, SleepyLee! Your insights greatly contribute to the conversation around this technique and to all of our learning.

​@@makeitconscious Those are good questions. Thanks Max!

You're welcome SleepyLee!

Hey there, you're very welcome! It's wonderful to hear that this video helped facilitate an experience of active imagination for you. Part 4 of this series went live today and the remaining three parts will follow each week after. Great job diving deep. Feel free to share your experiences and any questions as you go.

Thank you, I'm glad you're benefitting from the series. That's very kind of you to offer financial support. I don't currently have a Patreon or anything like that, perhaps I should look into it. However later this month I will be releasing the Active Imagination course - How to Talk to Yourself, which will follow on from this series and is designed to equip you to do unguided active imagination practice. Look out for announcements or sign up to the mailing list to be notified when that goes live. In the meantime you might be interested in coaching or ordering a Tarot Birth Chart report. Information on both is available at makeitconscious.com. Your Likes, engagement and simply doing the practice itself are already great support, so thank you for that 🌟🔥

Primordial images are what Jung often referred to as "archetypes." These are universal, fundamental images or patterns that exist in the collective unconscious, shared by all of humanity across cultures and historical periods. Examples include the Mother, the Father, the Anima, the Animus, the Self, and the Shadow. In active imagination, you may encounter symbols that relate to both the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious, particularly archetypes.

Hey, thank you for sharing this rich experience. Even if it seemed incomplete, this was certainly a worthwhile expedition. There are a several symbolic takeaways to highlight. The figures trying to open the door suggest barriers in your own inner work journey. The number four seems to represent ‘the quaternary’ or four modalities of consciousness (will, emotion, intellect and sensation) coming together to complete the individuation task, with you acting as the overarching ‘fifth element’ along with your higher self. Finding the key inside the submarine is clearly representative of how you already know the answers implicitly and have what you need within the self. The yellow light shining from inside can symbolise illumination and ‘gold.' It suggests there is still treasure down there waiting for you to discover. Your experience also highlights one of the downsides of guided practice, that its ending can be untimely. It’s encouraging though that you felt ready to keep going. The figures and the door are still down there, waiting for you to return, unite them and explore what treasure lies within. I recommend repeating the exercise and re-entering the space to progress it to the the next stage. Your willingness to explore and engage with the imagination are commendable. It will serve you well in inner work. Strength to you and feel free to let me know how you get on 🌟🔥

Hey and thank you. You're very welcome. It's wonderful to hear the practice has helped you to release physical pain and tension whilst opening up at the same time. I love to hear such feedback. You might be interested in checking out the Emotional Integration Meditation if you have not already, working with the feelings you identified in the active imaginations: Emotional Integration Meditation - czcams.com/video/61SE-FBlxOY/video.html Near the end of the month I will also be releasing a self-study course you might be interested on active imagination. It's called "How to Talk to Yourself." So keep a look out for that. Strength to you and thanks again. Your feedback means a lot 🌟🔥

You're welcome!

Hey Amber, thank you for your patience waiting for my answer to this one. Excellent questions, thanks for asking them. Rest assured your mind is working exactly the way it should be. You are likely tapping into elements of both your personal unconscious and the collective unconscious, the latter being a shared reservoir of archetypes and symbols common to all humanity. Although the emphasis can change depending on the seed you chose and your state of mind at the time. It’s not uncommon to experience similar symbols to others because of their collective nature and the themes of human experience and how they are represented. Similar symbols can also have different meanings for different people. I’ve often wondered what chocolate cake symbolises, now I know I’m not the only one 😅 The fact that I am guiding the exercise can influence what appears to an extent, but the aim is to keep you close to the seed of the interaction rather than prescribe it. So I think this is probably less of a factor in the themes you are noticing, although it is likely relevant that many people are all doing the same exercise with similar intentions and that you are tapping into some of that, which is cool to hear. Your experience is valuable because it is a direct insight into the workings of the psyche. We can talk about the psyche until the cows come home and still not really understand it. What you are doing is experiencing it directly, as it is. I would take your experience as a sign that you have this ability to access a realm of psychic material that may have been long forgotten, that it exists as a source of knowledge, and at the same time to embrace the mystery. Synchronicities can be very valuable in pointing towards further self-enquiry. It’s great that you are getting in touch with these abilities. There are many people who have pushed this part of themselves away for fear of how they might be perceived by others, but it’s a vital skill and part of your journey. It would be awesome to fully embrace this and see where it leads you.

@@makeitconscious All goodies, waiting is beneficial for me lol. Thank you, that’s very reassuring. Every few weeks I have almost the same moment where I feel the need to stop where my thoughts are leading and ask “Is this what it feels like to have a psychic break? If I keep this line of questioning or probing, will I come back the same?” Almost like Luke getting angry at Rey “You went straight to the dark”😂 And some days when I don’t feel crazy, I feel like I’m reading too much into signs and things that I hear, that I’m making it up. But most days I trust in the integration of what my body knows, and that spells and tarot aren’t doing the work for me, I am. But amazingly they manage to open some doors to get me where I need to be. At least where I think I should be. Anyways, I’m a great believer in affirmations and a personal favorite of mine lately is “I didn’t come this far to only come this far.” Still hoping I don’t go insane though 🤞🏻

You're welcome! Good work for completing it.

You're welcome SleepyLee!

Hey Comorants, wonderful to hear you’re getting so much benefit from active imagination, and getting such clear insight into the workings of the interaction. Experiencing a gift of seeds from the Sage right before this exercise was a nice synchronicity. I love how you described the reciprocal interaction and cycle of creativity between yourself and the unconscious content. That’s a beautiful way of putting it. It can certainly feel like stumbling upon some ancient lost technology when you get into the groove with this practice. And you kind of are. Even though it’s just one tool among many complementary practices - like journaling, studying and bodywork for example - nothing seems to get quite to the heart of the matter like setting the conditions and engaging directly with your own inner voice. It benefits though from all other practices such as those I describe in the Seven Habits guide. If the answers to the questions seem straightforward it could suggest the conscious stance is taking the leading role in those moments. A generally useful approach is to explore where you feel conflict - wherever you are suffering or feel tension. Wherever there’s conflict, suffering, tension or irony, there’s potential insight to be gained. This is in fact the mind’s way of letting us know when we’ve become misaligned. You ask a great question about creating a tangible symbol. Inherently there is no problem with this. Jung and Johnson themselves discussed various ways of expressing the active imagination experience physically, including through painting and crafts. Using some reminder to bring the lesson to the fore can be useful as a means to integrate it. At the same time it’s important to recognise that what you experienced is part of you, always has and always will be, whether consciously or unconsciously. It may not be at the forefront of your mind all the time, but nothing can be and that’s OK. Your experience suggests something that can be made meaningfully conscious within yourself, and it sounds like you went some way to achieving that in the exercise. So there is a case for expression as a way to remind yourself and integrate the content, as well as for letting it go, knowing that it’s already where it needs to be. I’d recommend taking whichever path seems most conducive to making the unconscious conscious. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experiences. They are fascinating for myself and others to read and also raise some really valuable points and questions. Good stuff. You’re very welcome and it’s great to hear how much the exercises are helping. Let me know if you have any follow-up questions and feel free to keep sharing your experiences🌟🔥

Hey Chiew, great work with the Four of Cups exercise. I love reading these accounts of powerful and synchronistic experiences. Although I am sorry to hear of the throat symptoms you've been having. It can be fascinating to witness the symbolic depth and autonomous intelligence of the unconscious mind in action. And to see firsthand how what appears as a somatic symptom can be directly related to a psychological tension. Although that in itself is not always enough to 'cure' it. It sounds like you know where to look next. Keep moving towards the resistance. You could repeat this exercise until it becomes comfortable, or move to the Shadow Room next to face what is inside the fourth cup. The Shadow Room - czcams.com/video/sTh776BUbZk/video.html Strength to you Chiew and well done again. Feel free to keep sharing your experiences and asking questions as you go🌟🔥

Hey Brandi, great to hear you've been getting stuck into active imagination practice. Wonderful to hear you've made some vital discoveries already. You're very welcome and thank you for the comment. If you have not yet seen it, I recommend beginning the series Beyond the Limen. Part 3 of 7 has just been published and the series as a whole will serve as an introduction to the practice of active imagination. Strength to you and feel free to ask questions or share your experiences any time 🌟🔥

Great work Abbas. You're delving deep and putting the effort in which is highly commendable. I'm glad to hear the exercises have helped you find peace, work through turmoil and come to more realisations. Your mind is an amazing thing :). You're very welcome sir and feel free to keep sharing your experiences 🌟🔥

@@makeitconscious ive been trying to figure out symbols. Its a new concept for me. in this session i saw my sage point me to a path lit by lanterns. they looked beautiful, but i didnt think much of it. then yesterday while i was cleaning my room, i found my sons toy lantern under my bed. ive been searching for what the symbol could mean and it brought me to the hermit. i have to pause before i go deeper in it, but this is amazing. thank you.

That's an awesome synchronicity Abbas. The sage seems to be pointing you to venture further into the darkness of the unconscious, guided by your own light. The fact you found a lantern under your son's bed as well might suggest that an innocent or "Fool"-like approach is needed. Certainly I recommend doing The Hermit card exercise. However I might even prioritise doing the Shadow Room, using the symbol of the lantern to explore in the darkness and see what you find. Both of these could be useful as well as, when you have time, The Fool. The Shadow Room - czcams.com/video/sTh776BUbZk/video.html The Hermit - czcams.com/video/fmRdjzPAWFM/video.html The Fool - czcams.com/video/aiFaHJuH6y8/video.html Great work Abbas and I'd be interested to hear how you get on.

Good to know you found the magic ✨. Great work for completing the exercise. There is now a revised and extended version of the Magician on the Inner Work Exercises Podcast: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/makeitconsciousexercises/episodes/The-Magician---Tarot-Active-Imagination---Harness-Your-Creative-Will-e2hl4ud

You're welcome sir!

Hey Christopher, thank you and glad the exercises are helping in your inner exploration. It's great that you are doing active imagination alongside prayer and meditation. I like your analogy to reading across different spiritual scriptures and disciplines and I wholeheartedly agree. There's wisdom in all of it. Thank you for bringing up bodywork! This is important and an often overlooked area, not least in depth psychology. Personally I do a bit of qi qong as well as movement and exercise daily. Bodywork in general is something I'd like to dig deeper into.

Wonderful as always! Thank you so much! Not at all what I was expecting - it never is! -yet so fulfilling regardless. Your advice on staying with the experience more than focusing on documenting the experience as it occurred will be a personal challenge for me! Especially since this subject had been one I’ve been ruminating over for months… There’s often a sense that if it’s not captured as faithfully as possible, it’s almost a disservice to the experience - risking overlooking important elements. It’ll definitely be a challenge to slow down and “live in the moment” rather than rush to capture and analysis - but I think I see the value in it as well… As I said, however, it’ll be a challenge! I had a fun little coincidence within my experience here, where my Sage figure was in a garden, surrounded by flowers to the point that they were growing on her as well. I happened to look up the name she gave me later, simply because I tend to have a general interest in etymology and names. It turned out that her name was a variation on the name of a particularly fragrant flower (whose name I hadn’t been aware of at all). It’s not a stretch to say that her name “sounded pretty enough to be a flower,” but I did have a pleasant surprise to find out that that was more on the nose than I might’ve thought!

Great work for going unguided. It does generally require more focus and energy but also potentially allows for a deeper, freer interaction. In the next episode of Beyond the Limen I will be discussing how to use a 'seed' for your active imagination. This might help with remaining connected with the material by acting as the inspiration and a point of reference. The seed can be many things including archetypes but also feelings, desires and other imaginary material such as from dreams. We will be practicing how to engage with many kinds of seed and maintain a two way interaction with it. The upcoming course How to Talk to Yourself will go into further detail about how to practice unguided, freeform active imagination using various seeds.

@21cormorants That’s awesome! Great work and you’re very welcome. I hear you completely on it feeling like a disservice to the experience to not capture it. It’s natural to want to capture any profound and special experience. But in doing so it also creates a kind of distance between us and the experience. Once we capture it, it’s no longer the same thing as it was but a representation. The key is to allow yourself to immerse fully, being with it, and prepared to let it go just as it came. In this way you can deepen your connection and engagement with the unconscious material. Your synchronicity with the sage and the flower is a beautiful example of the symbolic depth and autonomous intelligence of the unconscious mind. The name connection is a powerful reminder that our unconscious often communicates in ways that are more profound than we realise. It sounds like this experience might even connect with broader, collective themes. I am reminded of The Empress card in the tarot. Thanks for sharing your experiences and well done for going deep🌟🔥

Thank you and glad you liked the video. Most the existing and upcoming content on this channel - whether around philosophy, psychology, active imagination, shadow work - is relevant to resolving trauma. There is a great overlap between healing from trauma and developing self-knowledge. Active imagination is one such technique you can use for gaining insight and confronting unresolved issues from your past, as well as your family and ancestral history. I appreciate you might not want to share details here but feel free to contact me with your challenge and perhaps I can recommend something more specific. Either way, enjoy the Beyond the Limen series. I think it should help you make a dent in the issue and give you some tools and practice to take forward.

Thank you for the comment! That’s awesome. Great work digging deep. It can be profound to see what symbols appear during active imagination. Being able to access the imagination in this way can feel like a kind of superpower, but in truth it’s something everyone has the potential to do. The imagination is, in the words of William Blake, “the human existence itself.” You’re right - often what appears in active imagination is that content which appears ‘immediately below the threshold of consciousness.’ There are many reasons why we might not fully recognise and accept this material. Often this is due to resistance which exists for good reason, but must ultimately be faced in moving forward. It is also often this subconscious material that presents our current main challenge towards greater freedom and self-knowledge. It’s great to hear that meeting your soul was such a profound experience. Sounds like it was a powerful affirmation of self-love. Shadow work can even be seen as finding and resolving all the ways in which we secretly harm ourselves and learning to practice self-love instead. Active imagination is one of the best ways I know of to get to the heart of the matter and peel back the layers. Thank you very much for the encouraging words. I’m humbled that these videos have made such an impact on you. You are doing the deep work and gaining the insights, so you deserve a lot of credit for that. I’m grateful to you to be part of the process and to all the thinkers whose work inspired this practice. I don’t know what else I would do except keep synthesising and sharing it in my own way. Strength to you and hope to see you in a future episode🌟🔥

Hey Shishi, thank you and I'm glad you're benefitting from the exercises. Thanks for expressing an interest in a Court Card series. I've been considering it since I began the tarot series and if I make these I'll make all 16. At the moment however I am focused on the series Beyond the Limen and the upcoming Know Yourself Programme. I don't currently have any solid plans to produce a Court Card series but it could surely be helpful and worthwhile. Your interest has certainly been noted. If that's what the community needs then I'll make it happen :) For now I can recommend some alternative exercises. Depending on your presenting challenge, the following might be relevant: Ace of Wands: czcams.com/video/9qCcGmgL2c4/video.html Queen Archetype: czcams.com/video/9UL5O6JG-Ko/video.html The World: czcams.com/video/nD_VYClO_do/video.html Thanks again for the suggestion. Feel free to follow up and let me know your thoughts and comments🌟🔥

Great that you recognise this fear exists. That's the key first step. To what extent you relieve or heal this fear depends on you, but active imagination can certainly play a major role in this inner work. Jung regarded this technique as one of the most effective methods for engaging with the unconscious mind and resolving inner conflict. Whilst it's one practice among many, it's a particularly powerful one. I have a couple of recommendations. Check out the new series Beyond the Limen - it's an introduction to active imagination to get you grounded in the practice: czcams.com/play/PLeuFwuWK5O2OvmSpHOqOPlcOQJUnHcZZa.html Secondly, I recommend checking out my short ebook on the Seven Habits of Individuation for more ideas as to how you move forward: makeitconscious.com/sevenhabits Feel free to follow up. I'd be interested to hear how you get on 🌟🔥

Hey Ms Czeczenka, Great work for going deep and opening up to your emotions. This is key to shadow work and the process of individuation. As Jung said: "Emotion is the chief source of all becoming-conscious. There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.” Feeling is often the part we naturally resist the most, but it’s also where much of the transformative work happens. So good on you for being willing to go there. This openness to feeling will serve you well as you continue to cultivate a relationship with all parts of yourself. Keep moving forward, working through resistance one moment at a time. For addressing financial blocks specifically, I recommend The Wall exercise. I suggest this to most new coaching clients at the start of their programme. There’s also an extended version on the Inner Work Exercises podcast if you'd like more time: The Wall - CZcams) - czcams.com/video/9o8AaoqQdv0/video.html Extended version - open.spotify.com/episode/2GONu2WZnOyln7Az35rfNZ?si=2U1fMVqxRX6DD5xwHarqbw I’d be interested to hear what comes up for you in that exercise. The results can sometimes be quite surprising, and block in our physical or financial world can often have their source in seemingly unrelated matters. Thank you for your kind comments and engagement. Strength to you and feel free to check in and keep sharing your experiences🌟🔥

@@makeitconscious Thank you, thank you🙏 I was actually thinking to do some coaching work with you, but ...finances are stopping me...but I know I will come out from there and then try it out😊 but thank you for your time and the answer🙏I will definitely go into it ASAP and see. And will share my experience and discovery🙌

You're welcome! I am currently offering a free initial session so feel free to take advantage of that. It's an opportunity for you to get a sense of the coaching process and also for me to learn more about you and your situation. You can go ahead and book a slot here: calendly.com/makeitconscious I'll also be releasing a free course soon which may be of interest to you - the Make it Conscious Philosophy Course. I will also continue to keep releasing content on CZcams and the blog. Thank you for the engagement. Great job for getting stuck into active imagination and glad you like the content 🌟🔥

Try doing in a position where it’s really hard for you to fall asleep

Good work for beginning an active imagination practice. Sounds like you got a real taste of the value of this technique. The advice offered by @CartoonConspiracy1 is good. If you've been doing the exercises lying down, you could try switching to seated. It's most likely though that the exercise is just bringing some tiredness to the surface. So you could take it as a suggestion from the unconscious to rest more until you feel ready to engage with deeper content. Keep an eye out for Part 2 of Beyond the Limen coming out next week.

Sounds like active imagination! We'll be following a similar theme in Part 2 of Beyond the Limen.

You're welcome Abbas sir! Good work keeping up the practice.