How to Talk with your Unconscious Mind | Live Demonstration of Parts Work & Active Imagination
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- This is a RAW, UNSCRIPTED & REALTIME DEMONSTRATION of Jungian Active Imagination to show you how to speak safely with your Unconscious Mind.
Parts work practices are essential elements of any introspective journey, but there are unfortunately few good examples of what this messy practice actually looks like... and I find that intolerable. It's time to put some skin in the game.
In this episode of Inner Work Essentials, I've decided to put my private psyche in the public spotlight. This video openly demonstrates how to use Voice Dialogue & Parts Work to make contact with central archetypal and shadow figures, release the tension of internal conflicts, and progress further along the path of lifelong inner work and self-healing.
Book Recommendation: Embracing Ourselves, Hal Stone & Sidra Stone
Questions?
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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS ⏱️
00:00 Preview - Live Demonstration of Unconscious Mind Exploration
00:35 Introduction to Active Imagination & Parts Work
01:24 Video Outline: No Script & Healing My Addictions.
02:08 Forewarning: Parts Work is Powerful... but often messy.
03:12 Psychic Multiplicity & Existing Clinical Literature
03:50 Book Recommendation: Embracing Ourselves, Hal and Sidra Stone
05:26 Talking with My Unconscious Mind - Unedited Demonstration
17:28 Post-Processing: How to Integrate an Inner Journey
19:43 Voice Dialogue Tips: Make Requests, Honour Commitments.
22:13 Next Steps: Healing The 'Toxic Masculine'
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Welcome to INNER WORK ESSENTIALS: the 52 episode series designed to provide you with an intense, diverse and holistic roadmap for full-spectrum self-healing and transformative self-education!
It's been a long time coming... with over 350 books researched in the last 27 months... but I'm overjoyed to FINALLY be sharing what I've learned about the Inner Working Landscape and how to do Inner Work at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels.
Want to know where this series is heading? Read my teaching intentions below!
INNER WORK ESSENTIALS: SERIES AIMS (STATEMENT OF DIRECTION)
1) Provide the student with an informed and representative overview of multiple complementary therapeutic modalities to support their self-healing process; with special encouragement placed upon the auto-therapeutic application of particular healing modalities for particular problems at particular stages in their journey.
2) Nourish the intellectual and spiritual maturation of the student by familiarising them with the most exciting, challenging and credible concepts in developmental psychology, consciousness studies and transpersonal metaphysics; with central emphasis being placed upon comparative analysis of multiple complex theories.
3) Encourage an empowered and more authentic sense of individual self-expression as a combined outcome of the two previous intentions, plus the application of holistic lifestyle principles, self-educational practises, and foundational healthy habits.
INNER WORK ESSENTIALS: EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES
On completion of this series, the student should expect to be:
1) Auto-therapeutic. The student will feel generally competent in their ability to select and self-administer the most suitable therapeutic modality on a full-spectrum basis: ranging from the somatic resolution of central childhood wounds to the everyday self-regulation of symptomatic stress responses such as anxiety and addiction.
2) Closer towards baseline integral consciousness (Wilber). Through their combined efforts of rigorous self-inquiry and critical engagement with recommended reading material, the student will have significantly developed their intellectual and spiritual maturity to a noticeable degree, in likely correlation with their depth of engagement.
3) Holistically Empowered. The student will enjoy a meaningful expansion of their physical, emotional, sexual, and creative expression as a result of their healing and expansion work. In short, they will be healthier, happier and feel more complete.
4) Self-educational. The student will have felt organically inspired to move beyond free video content and create a self-structured learning arc which takes maximum advantage of at least several dozen inner working books mentioned within the course. The student will consequently enjoy lifelong learning habits including: critical research skills, long-term focus, and the ability to know when to stop studying.
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Video Themes: levels of consciousness; carl jung; jungian therapy; unconscious mind; the personal unconscious; voice dialogue; active imagination; how to integrate the shadow; individuation; how to individuate; how to do parts work; how to do shadow work; how to do inner work; hal stone; sidra stone; embracing ourselves; voice dialogue manual.
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Hey - this was a strange one to film. 😅 What do you think of this episode? Would you like to see more of these live demonstrations? Let me know - I'm always receptive to your feedback!
I loved it! Sure, I think that more raw, live demonstrations would be extremely helpful.
@@juanmaparram4076 Perfect - I’ll find ways to include them where appropriate!
Wow... I got chills and some shaky breathing just from watching. Without expanding any further, I will just say that much of that seemed VERY familiar. But one figure I have yet to encounter is that angst filled teen ... Lots of "ghoulish" figures lately. 😒
Anyway, many thanks for your courage in doing this! If you are comfortable doing more demonstrations, by all means, they'll surely be of help to someone. However, this video alone is a great example!
@@GrasslandsG81 Thank you for taking the time to comment, brother. I'm sorry that you've experienced similar - I know the pain there, even if I don't know the specifics.
I'll do more demonstrations in the future for sure. I recognise how confronting but likewise affirming they can be!
Immediately... As you closer your eyes. I felt who you were calling arise.. the energy around you and within you changed and I felt goose bumps within myself and a dense feeling in my heart.. I felt you. Or atleast I feel a resonance to what you experienced within myself and it was a complete empathic experience that happened watching you .. I almost wanted to cry. And another more perverse side wanted to take you. I see you.. I thank you for this. I appreciate it.
Brother that was so inspiring. You're adding much more value by sharing this process than by just explaining the theory. It's also comforting to see that you still have those types of things to work on, like addictions. I see that we are all human. I should not hold myself to an ideal of perfection, nor beating myself up when I still have ton of things to heal. Much love.
Of course - always more mess behind the scenes 🤫 The screen-time zombification is something I’m always vigilant for, and it’s only gotten harder as I’ve started doing more work on them! Although things have been better in the last week since posting this - inner adolescent feeling seen, and already noticing changes in well-being & sleep quality!
This kind of rawness and vulnerability around these practises is so incredibly valuable - thank you
I'll keep going - thank you for commenting!
Your authentic vulnerability is a source of inspiration and healing for others. What a gift you’re giving to the world. 🙏🏼
Thank you Rachel - it's a pleasure to show up and set an example. Hopefully more people will feel called to go into these spaces and experience their potential too!
Jordan ha it seems we have a similar issue… but this is what I did… I asked my guides and ancestors to work my devices and algorithms… and I kid you not, literally mid short my screen would start doing it’s own thing (like invisible swiping) and land on something I can connect with or learn from… it’s amazing… I just smile and say thank you ♥️
*INNER WORK ESSENTIALS - TEACHING INTENTIONS & STATEMENT OF DIRECTION*
1) Provide the student with an informed and representative overview of multiple complementary therapeutic modalities to support their self-healing process; with special encouragement placed upon the auto-therapeutic application of holistic healing modalities for particular problems at particular stages in their journey.
2) Nourish the intellectual and spiritual maturation of the student by familiarising them with the most exciting, challenging and credible concepts in developmental psychology, consciousness studies and transpersonal metaphysics; with central emphasis being placed upon comparative analysis of multiple complex theories.
3) Encourage an empowered and more authentic sense of individual self-expression as a combined outcome of the two previous intentions, plus the application of holistic lifestyle principles, self-educational practises, and foundational healthy habits.
*EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES (what you'll get from these videos)*
*On completion of this series, the student should expect to be:*
1) Auto-therapeutic. The student will feel generally competent in their ability to select and self-administer the most suitable therapeutic modality on a full-spectrum basis: ranging from the somatic resolution of central childhood wounds to the everyday self-regulation of symptomatic stress responses such as anxiety and addiction.
2) Closer towards baseline integral consciousness (Wilber). Through their combined efforts of rigorous self-inquiry and critical engagement with recommended reading material, the student will have significantly developed their intellectual and spiritual maturity to a noticeable degree, in likely correlation with their depth of engagement.
3) Holistically Empowered. The student will enjoy a meaningful expansion of their physical, emotional, sexual, and creative expression as a result of their healing and expansion work. In short, they will be healthier, happier and feel more complete.
4) Self-educational. The student will have felt organically inspired to move beyond free video content and create a self-structured learning arc which takes maximum advantage of at least several dozen inner working books mentioned within the course. The student will consequently enjoy lifelong learning habits including: critical research skills, long-term focus, and the ability to know when to stop studying.
This is so touching and powerful. I’ve heard of parts work and active imagination but you were courageous enough to actually demonstrate how to do it.
Always useful to have more examples out there! Plenty more episodes in this series exploring parts work & active imagination on this channel if you’re looking to go deeper! Wishing you all the best, thank you 🌲
Jordan thank you so much for making this powerful video, this is the first live demonstration I've seen of this process. The vulnerability you've shown gives me strength to confront my personal demons. I can relate so much to what you shared. Sex addiction, porn addiction... trying to fill a void with a bad behavior, positive feedback loop... this made me cry, so many questions can't wait to jump into this for myself. Sincerely thank you, new subscriber
Zachary, thank you! I know these challenges myself - a difficult journey for sure. It's my pleasure to show up and demonstrate, and I wish you the best with your own parts work and introspection. Thanks for taking the time to comment and let me know - more on the way!
Thank u so much for filming this process, for putting urself out there ,raw. The ability to b vulnerable is such a strength. I've just discovered ur channel n I'm enjoying the depth in ur content. So refreshing in a world of 'shorts' ,which I'm prone to scrolling aimlessly myself 🙏💖
You are so welcome! Bugger the shorts hahah
I just came upon your videos, Jordan. I have always adored Jung & his immense volume of work.
You do a marvelous job of presenting & clarifying this work so we can do the hands-on/self- processes. Priceless! More-More 👏👏
I massively appreciate this comment, thank you Marsha! More on the way, for years to come!
Beautiful video, it takes alot of courage and strength to do what you did. I wish you alot of success ❤️
I am so grateful to you for this vulnerable video I could relate very much to every aspect of it. In fact, when you started, I immediately became present to my shadow parts that have the same behavior. I’m staying up late and watching mindless garbage and I started to giggle because they showed up basically a snot nose kids and they were really funny so I really got a lot of the video. Appreciate you so much. Thank you for putting yourself out there for us.
Thank you . I respect your courage to be vulnerable. That’s the best way to bring this across . I learnt a lot . Thank you again
I appreciate you attention and I'm glad you found it valuable - certainly strange attempting to vocally facilitate yourself while filming while introspecting... but hey, learning new skills hahah
Thank you so so much! This is my absolute favorite video of yours. So raw and real. I understand that it wasn't easy for you but I greatly appreciate it and I'm sure many others do too. This should have at least a million views so far. Crazy! Loved it! Now I actually understand how to fully meditate. 🙃
A Million views would be far too many hahah - but yes, thank you! Enjoy the process and happy to demonstrate.
Thank you I was literally crying, such a beautiful thing. This helps so much since I’m always tryin to understand words and put them into action, and sometimes guidance is needed. Thank you again!❤️
Powerful to receive this - keep going with your work, I’m glad to have provided some support 🌲✌🏻
Thank you for sharing this vulnerable side of yourself. It's so much easier to connect & learn from someone who does not place himself on a high pedestal. It takes courage to do this kind of a thing in public & it's indeed a great way of getting others to look into the dungeons of their own subconscious to track down the demons that might be enslaving them with unhealthy behavioral patterns that keep draining their energy.
Bless you brother for dedicating your life to help others in their quest to be free! So much to learn from your videos.
Benjamin, thank you. Right here for this work alongside you - can’t be any other way. 🌲🔋
I'm grateful for you with all of my heart
I'm going through challenging times and your videos helps me alot, thank you so much for being a fearless soul and sharing these sensitive subjects 🙏🏻💚
Witnessing your in your own fearlessness, thank you. I'm sorry you're going through tough times - reflecting that light and reminding you of your power and stability.
Thank you for being so open and vulnerable. You have helped
Me more than you know . Light. and. Love to you.♥️
Angela, it's my pleasure. Wishing you all the best
I really appreciate you walking through this. It was a great help. Thank you for sharing your personal experiences, I know it's a very personal experience
Mel, thank you - happy to show up and demonstrate, and I hope it helps support your own parts work too 🔋
I am almost 30. For the last 2 years, I have only just begun learning about inner healing from past traumas.
Psychology, parts work, shadow work, integration has been endlessly fascinating to me because for much of my late teens and all throughout my twenties, I was doing some of these therapies naturally.
They would just come to me spontaneously and I would do them- somatic releases through small dance-like motions when I had moments alone, journaling memories and emotions, having INTENSE dream states with revealing stories, closing my eyes to see these other realmly places or moments in time and having dialogue sometimes, intentional breathing, scary dreams with cathartic silent screaming that would jolt me awake, mindfulness practices like reflection of seemingly mundane moments and realizing the greatness of their impact on my life.
Every time I find out about another kind of therapy or psychological territory or theory, I get childishly excited because it affirms that in my most vulnerable, broken moments there was so much innate healing occurring at the same time.
I am loving my body and mind more and more, and seeing the real desire to want to live and to want to heal touches me deeply; it's hard to describe. Conceited as it sounds, I inspire myself!
I want to thank you immensely for what you gave out in this video.
As I listened to your words, it was suddenly revealed to me why I have been avoiding a certain creative endeavor. And that is because I used to use this particular outlet as escapism when I was a child when things were unsafe. I think my inner child may have anxiety/fear that I must be in danger right now because this is the thing I want to do. She may be trying to keep me safe, or may be telling me that I AM safe and that I do not need to "escape". Vigilant child, she is. Maybe she needs comfort and reassurance. I will visit her with further inquiry on the topic.
Inspiring yourself is the powerful central point of healing, thank you for sharing some of your experiences for other people to read. I'm sure someone will find value here, and your words are thoughtfully considered. Wishing you well in the new month ahead.
This is amazing and thank you for your vulnerability. It’s the integration of parts work that is the hardest bit! With so many parts and maladaptive patterns. Thank you again… I actually shed a tear watching this ❤
Happy to be here to demonstrate, enjoy your own processing 🌲
Thank you for your courage! Your vulnerable, genuine sharing is very much appreciated. Thank you.
Zorro, thank you - I appreciate your engagement and hope this video was useful for you and your own process with parts work.
Gosh, Jordan...just discovered you tonight. Late, not sleeping, and coming to a true reckoning point, but running out of hope and a sense of resource. I cannot fully express how grateful I am that your video ended up in my CZcams feed. Thank you for your work...it's depth meets the wound I have worked a lifetime to heal, but have felt I was running out of any chance to do so. You've offered a path that resonates deeply, and such beautiful support to begin again. Bless.🙏
It's never too late. You've absolutely got this. I'm sorry to hear of some of your troubles, and happy to connect at this important time. Plenty more resources on the way, and thank you for such warm words, Jordan!
@@jordanthornton Thanks so much for your kind words and encouragement, Jordan. I'm astonished by all you've shared on your channel already...grateful for your work.
Brilliant work! Thank you for sharing. It takes alot of courage to share such a space of vulnerability. The most intimate parts of self in which we are still navigating and discovering. I like that you stated you weren't trying to change this aspect of self. As humans we always feel the need to fix or change these parts. Yet in essence these parts just need to be seen, witnessed, embraced and loved with no judgement. Re-parenting the inner child is a difficult task yet the most rewarding. I appreciate your work, blessings on your journey forward.✨
Mel, thank you for taking the time to write this - your comment is well received and I’m glad that the demonstration proved useful. Acceptance and compassion of parts really is the way forward 🌲
Wow, i applaud your brave ness. well done for putting this out there, and thank you so much, seeing how it is when you go through it made me relise loads. of course seeing it through the 3rd person is seeing it from a higher perspective, a higher self. its so literal . look how much you have grown from that teenager, and in such a way you have benifited at least 1 person today by what you are using the screen for now. Thank you Jordan, Bless ya.
Fred, it's my pleasure to show up and teach from this place - thank you for your attention and engagement. Wishing you the best with your journey now and ahead.
This was so so touching. Thank you so much for your vulnerability.
Wow. It’s the only time that’s safe🙏🙏🙏
Bizarre process to demonstrate, but absolutely worth it!
This is by far your most powerful video. Holy cow. Thank you. I'm much more experiential in my learning...and this just reverberated in my soul. Gorgeous. I can feel my inner archetypes already asking to speak. Thank you. I'm curious to see what truths lay beneath for me...and am thinking I will use this with future clients as well. This is a path I want to study more.
Strange one to film, but well worth it.
Wow!!
Thank you so much for being vulnerable!
Your strong, brave and very intelligent with your capacity to help and show others how inner dialogues work.
So happy I found you!😍❤
Oh by the way..I stay up also looking at meaningless chat on my phone...ending up tired and angry with myself why I can't seem to stop doing that.
Laurie, thank you - It's a strange process to demonstrate but I'm glad that it offered you something. Sending my best.
Your honesty and vulnerability in this video is so beautiful. It makes me feel very sad as I am reminded of the society we are a part of where 'exposing' ourselves like this is not acceptable. Eg. I have a very special tree that I visit often near where I live by the river (A river that flows at 90% less than its natural capacity due to the city growing and 'damming' the water for human use 😥)
Anyway, sometimes I notice my pace quicken as I approach her because I know I can truly relax in her company and no words are needed. I hugged her the other day but made sure I could not be seen by the passers by who are generally people walking their dogs (would they even be walking by the river if they didn't have a dog? 🤔)
Anyway, this fear of being one's true self in front of others because of what they may think is so unhealthy for us, it is beyond words.
Anyway, thank you so much and I just had a thought ...You have inspired me to do a video of me hugging the tree (thats her in the background of my picture by the way)
Much love and gratitude to you my friend 🙏
This is extremly courageous and vulnerable. Thanks, you´re great!
Thank you, it’s a strange process to demonstrate but necessary to present and share - glad it helped 🌲
Hi. Thank you for sharing this most intimate time of your inner working. I just met you here on YT, 2 videos back and I appreciate very much what you bring.
I’d been in “church” 50yrs when in 2012, I shifted to this side of the fence. I’ve not thought of myself as being new age, but more the now-age, expanding into more of my authenticity, playing and exploring like a child, this field of personal development and consciousness;0)
Viewing the inner children/folk whom I’ve connected with as fractured off aspects of my self, after our intros and dialogue out of understanding, compassion and absolutely no judgment, I assure them how I've grown/ evolved, and how they were instrumental in getting me to where I am…Now, if they would like, we can amalgamate into the One Love, I am. They no longer need to be alone.
I open my arms and I sense their relief as they walk into my opened arms, my heart, and we reunite. :)
Something pretty kewl happened one of the last times I did this work. At the end of our chat, I'd only just opened my arms, and readying to express the invite, like a spark or flash, they flew/ popped into me. I loled, at all of this, ...so unexpected!
All of this is most different to the days in church, being part of healing and deliverance teams, where I rebuked, broke strongholds and cast “things” off.
Care to respond?
In the meantime, I’ll be checking out more of your videos, esp. the Essentials Group. Again, thank you so much.
I’ve a son 34, on disability and still home who is most angry and only sees this mama as a Woo-wooer, hehe. I’ve tried to guide him to look at the idea of the inner child, but maybe, the way you’ve expressed this idea would be more palatable to him. We’ll see.
Thank you, again…For now, I will continue enjoying you:)
Exactly as anyone stated. You are showing the theory and make it pragmatic, instead of over theorizing every jungian theory which is complex enough on its own. So u got my subscirption thanks man
It’s truly my pleasure, thank you!
Wow. That was amazing. Thanks so much for sharing and being raw. Peace and light to you.
You are most welcome - glad it helped and wishing you the best with your own parts work! 🌲
Thanks this was very interesting and super helpful for those of us that learn by observing. Great stuff.
Glad it was helpful! Parts work is sometimes best demonstrated not spoken!
Such a beautiful process to watch. Thank you for sharing this intimate moment
Tiffany, you are most welcome - hope this example supports you in your owns parts work process 🌲
The first time I heard of the Shadow, was from a Tool song Forty Six & 2.
I had zero clue what it was about. Many years later searching for self healing and development I'm reading Carl Jung's Red Book and finally found what I'm looking for In your videos. Conscience information broken down in a practical order. Unscripted emotions displayed showing honesty, sincerity, and the courage to admit addictions and past traumas have me inspired to commit to this. Thank you for your work!
Tool is wonderful, real depth. I'm happy you're reading Jung and also finding value in these teachings - always looking back towards the book, however. It's a pleasure to show up and inspire this work, thank you for taking the time to comment and let me know - keep going with the inner work, Nick!
Dear Jordan, that was turely illuminating! Thank you sooooo much for putting yourself out there and shooting this in the raw and vulnerable way you did so we can watch it and learn from it. Thank you for your courage. I just discovered your channel yesterday. Randomly, one of your videos showed up, and it feels like the missing part in my own journey. I have been fascinated by Jung for years but never really tried to go about doing Jungian inner work, but this video has inspired me to. I will be watching all your videos. I hardly ever comment on CZcams so I feel a little raw myself doing so. I just wanted to say thank you:))
Priya, your messages are well received and I massively appreciate your pattern-interrupt with commenting publicly to connect! I hope you gain loads of practices & suggestions from these videos - and I wish you the absolute best on your continued healing journey. Thank you for witnessing and supporting.
@@jordanthornton Thank you for your reply!! I have begun to read Johnson's Inner Work and will be following your channel avidly:)
@@priya9899 Of course, always try to respond meaningfully to everybody who pays attention and seeks contact! Have fun with your studies!
Hello. I find your videos very enlightening and the information resonating within me. Thank you for that! When you were speaking to your inner child I could sense anger, disappointment, and sadness in having to witness parental upheaval which cultivated an apathetic safety barrier against uncomfortable situations. Now, with the digital age, we have everyone's issues intrude on our minds and lives. You perhaps are more sensitive to the vibrations of the current state of our world and that feeds the memory of those particular times of your life which results in your scrolling as the escape you desire. We all have done it and some still do it....no shame there. Personally, when I go to bed, I do the meditative shift you showed us but focus on releasing the events of the day. I truly enjoyed the process you shared and will try to apply it to other aspects of my life. Thank you so very much!! Many blessings to you!
It’s a pleasure to receive such a deep engagement, thank you for taking the time to write this. Parts work processes are so vital, especially with younger parts 🌲
Absolutely fascinating, I dont think anyone would judge this negatively I feel my mind has opened so much by watching this, it's a gift. I've spoken to my internal family systems but this strategy is so much more powerful....... wow.
Wishing you the best with your own parts work process, Viv.
You are AMAZING! Not messy...brave, clear, fresh, raw, honest, organic and real! I love this episode so much. I like how you mention to not change them and to also wait for them. Also how you speak to him on his level. Soul food for the deep and old souls - so grateful for your bravery and for creating that situation, then, in order to raise consciousness, now. Thanks Emo Teen Jordan and of course all your past and future selves - super valuable work!! Thank you for you!! More please! You got this!!
Eloise, thank you! I really appreciate this extra warm comment and hope it helped you to find further clarity in your own parts work?
@@jordanthornton You are super welcome! Indeed, witnessing you be with (y)our parts has invited me to be kinder and more patient in my process. This specific video showed me that I can bring in more time and compassion. My teenage part seemed dramatic, dark, intimidating and unrelatable 😕 so far...seeing you be with yours, has given me a different angle/approach. Very valuable perspective shift, cause I can see how my separations, rejections and projections onto her has not been a safe and welcoming space. I now have a bridge! Beautiful gift, thank you!
@@eloise3280 Yes, teenagers are often awkward creatures poised between the past and the future - really difficult to 'work with', so I get it. Once more pleased to have provided an example of resonance!
Super helpful! I can see now that I've been skipping the curiosity and acceptance aspects, rushing headlong towards talking this part out of its lifelong mission. Geez no wonder my parts don't wanna talk to me! ha! Thank you for being this vulnerable. I am finding the truth and feeling the peace of it.
Patience and compassion - they’re really the key.
👏👏👏 Bravo. Thank you for putting yourself in a vulnerable spot to show the technique. Your videos are valuable and informative. Your voice makes the videos soothing to listen to.
You’re welcome - I was going to try screaming dogmatically the whole time but I thought that calm speaking would be better for teaching purpose 😉
@@jordanthornton funny, haha
This video is causing me to identify a situation in my life that I would like to dialog with. Thank you.
I encourage you to explore - in your own timing, of course. Happy to show an example of the process. Wishing you all the best, Barbara.
Wow. I am just getting started on your videos although I have been doing similar work with myself and others for years as a physical therapist gone “psycho”. The melding of it all holds many answers and many more questions. So I keep playing.
This particular video is amazingly helpful in many ways. I love your easy receptive and accepting approach to your inner troubled teen. Seeing and experiencing this process with you in such organic format is invaluable to my ability to utilize it in my own practice. Thank you so much for taking the risk and I hope to come across more of the same.
Kelly, it's my absolute pleasure to share this process and inspire your response. Glad to have resonated and wishing you the best with your own practice going forward.
I'm very grateful to you for sharing this. It was revealing and profoundly educational. Thank you
Luis, you are most welcome. I've got a new shadow work playlist which goes deeper into these kinds of themes at great depth if you're interested - right there at the top of my channel!
Thank you. That was very brave and helpful. Idk how I got here but it's EXACTLY what I need to learn
Alecia, you are most welcome! Thank you for leaving a comment and connecting, it's a pleasure to show up and demonstrate and I'm glad you found value - I have no idea how you got here either, unless you searched for active imagination / parts work?
This demonstration elevated my understanding to the level I had been trying to achieve for several months. Thank you for sharing this!
You're very welcome!
Thank you for your courage in sharing your inner space in this way Jordan. Beautiful and inspiring.
I saw a Canadian IFS therapist film a session for youtube and before they started the process he mentioned to the real client that they could let their worried parts know that they could erase the video at any point before publishing. That might be something you want to share with a part you encounter if you were to do this again.
Anyway, thank you again. Courageoue and ver valuable. I've ordered that book by the by :D
This was incredibly insightful and interesting, please keep making content
No plans of stopping anytime soon - more on the way, thank you for commenting!
That was extremely generous of you. I really felt that. thank you
You are most welcome, hope this helped and provided illumination.
Thank you so much for your translucency. I think it is so brave and beautiful what you are doing.
Aiming for that glass-clear quality more and more with each video, thank you!
I really appreciate and honour your venerability. This video has helped my process tremendously. Thank you :)
You're very welcome! It's a life-changing process when taken seriously, and I'm happy to have helped Pam.
Jordan- I’m a 40 yo woman, questioning if I’m going thru a spiritual awakening or starting my midlife crisis. I am on the journey as a healer, but feel like I’m not equipped to do the inner work to heal myself. There is so much shit information out there. And since I feel a certain connection to how your mind works, hoping your suggested books are books my dyslexic brain can get thru. I am a hands on learner. I can see it once then teach it. I’m not stupid but reading is an area of learning I could work on. lol
Thank you for showing this process. It provides me with what I need to start the process. Not only that, I hear people talk about ‘shadow work’ and no one has ever given me the meaning that you have. I already do this type of thinking, but have never tried to attempt it, since most people are not actually getting the work done. But are just doing the social media bs. Thanks for your strength. You have pushed me in the exact direction I needed
I went and had the most fun last weekend, playing in the mud, wind in my hair, under the moonlight. It really revived a place in my soul that has given me the motivation to start the work, I’ll need to remember to go have fun from time to time.
It means the world for me to read your words, and I wish you my very best with the next steps on your journey ahead. Thank you for taking the time to share some of your story... keep going.
Messy and beautiful! This helped me imagine how to do this work. Thank you 🌿
You are so welcome!
Powerful video. Thanks for sharing. I have just started exploring parts work. Although I have been intuitively doing something similar in a looser sense, using journalling. It was good to see it expressed in the moment verbally.
Ellie, absolutely. Demonstration really does bring the practice to the next level of understanding - good luck with your inner work 🌲
@@jordanthornton yes, it would be good to see more demonstrations of parts work, detailing the process. Live is good, but also edited is fine. It's about making the techniques user friendly and straight forward. Thanks.
Thank you for being so vulnerable so we can see how this works!
My pleasure - I think that demonstration really helps with these kinds of unconscious explorations! Have you explored these practices much already, Amy?
@@jordanthornton Hi Jordan 👋 No, your videos are actually the first I've come upon that are so informative but easy for me to understand the method. I've started on the playlist and up to the episode where I wrote out the 6 open ended questions.
I tried this on my own first and I was so scared and frightened of the visions I was having I had to stop and find someone to learn from.
I'm on an awakening journey and realized I have so many repressed and unidentified issues I need some kind of therapy for. I've been on a Bernardo Kastrup trip listening to all his interviews and listened one about his book on Jung. I am an old nurse and remember in the 90's when I took mental health and psychology courses Jung was "out there" and look how his "out there" therapies stood the test of time!
@@selfishjeans Just saw your replies here as I was looking at my page - my apologies I didn't see them sooner, Amy! Hope you're well!
Hi Jordan, just want to say these were the missing piece of my own work, and will probably read one of these books with more concise steps. I've been meditating for many years now and that part of myself that seeks attention after all this time. Most millennials really have issues with technology these days as a form of escapism. It's a hard egg to crack but knowing with deep understanding really helps to some extent.
This was beautiful ❤️👽
It's okay. Seriously. I struggle with CZcams addiction as well. I think many of us do these days. It's so awesome that you helped your porn addiction though. That's great that you are self-aware. I feel like many people are not and that they have so much trouble with going within and actually completing the inner work that needs to be done. So bravo for how far you've come! 🎊 👏 love your videos!
Always the hardest part to get started, yes. Thank you again for such warm words, Heather.
Thank you for being courageous enough to put yourself in such a vulnerable position. It’s appreciated a lot and you’re setting a great example. By the way, nice work you did there. I know how hard it is to guide yourself through active imagination, with no external help. The inner work you’ve done is very impressive and inspiring, it is not left unnoticed.
Thank you, Ani. Saw that you followed over on IG and know you know the depths too.
@@jordanthornton yes, I’ve discovered your channel a few days ago and have watched some of your videos ever since. Your profound inner work is so much present in each of them, I enjoy the way of your being on these social platforms. Keep up the good work, I’ll be following your further blooming. All the best ☀️
@@anipapikyan Yeah, currently navigating how to stay as authentic and inspired as possible on the various online platforms while also not ruining my personal focus with too much screentime. Messy. Perfect time to find me hahah
Oh my god Jordan I'm so in love with you! that seductive but masculine voice, the clear expression in your face, the intellect behind those blue eyes, the way the camera just loves you. Its really hard to resist because its a double whammy with the wisdom that you impart by living it! Showing us what humanity is capable of in this sea of stupidity that we are living in now. I'm one of those HSP that spent a lifetime of being a artist as a way of intergrating my homosexuality and other aspects of my personality into my person. At 84 yrs old now and I'm shocked at just how many aspects of my personality that don't talk to each other! I'm familiar with pathworking but I used it to create the future I wanted to have happen. After this vid I'm going to try and talk to the 'child' Really Jordan you are breathtakingly beautiful in the full meaning of that word.
An incredibly particular compliment to receive - wishing you well in your golden years!
Thanks for showing me what shadow work is. I had heard of it from others online. It reminds me of how I used to voice my dolls/action figures when I was young. I truly had some good dialogue going on then. I had trials in my childhood as well, but I felt them harder than my brothers. I told my little brother “if I ever get away from home, I’ll never come back!” He begged me not to say that. Of course, I don’t go home very often now. It’s painful, but I make an effort to call the parents every weekend now. Now, that’s some shadow work! LOL
Yes, children will often play in these ways if they are allowed - autotherapeutic. Glad that you're finding value here, and good luck with your continued shadow work.
Holy shit, thank you so much Jordan! That was so moving to watch, and so helpful to see done in real time. I appreciate your vulnerability and bravery ❤️
Happy to help - it’s an important process to demonstrate. Good luck with your own parts work 🌲
Thank you, Jordan. It was illuminating.
My pleasure - strange process to demonstrate, but I’m glad it proved valuable.
Thank you. I actually still have those same issues as you and been working on it for a long time.
Brother, I’m right in it with you. Glad to provide value & sending strength for your journey ahead 🌲
@@jordanthornton Thank you. 🙏 I took your advice and got "Inner Work".
Wow! Thanks for sharing this with us, you are very courageous and generous.
My pleasure - strange to demonstrate, but worthwhile! Hope it helps and good luck in your own parts work + active imaginations, Chantal!
@@jordanthornton I’m really scared of actually doing it, I’m searching for some sort of psy to helps me with this but it seems that it doesn’t exist in my area 😔
@@chantalplante7900 Wishing you the best in your search for support - letting you also know that this kind of work is something I facilitate as part of my 1-1 mentorships, although it’s a much larger commitment than parts work alone. Feel free to message me on insta if you’re interested in going deeper 🌲
@@jordanthornton done
Thank you Jordan 😃😃
Identical behavior pattern alert right here 🙋♀️
Hmmmm , it’s been playing on me mind as well. Especially as it’s effected my link to my spirit guides and astral realm during sleep. It’s turned into a chronic pattern.
Remaining vigilant and staying compassionate. Wishing you well, Jaitika.
Thank you Jordan 😃
I chose to pray last night, after watching two videos I had saved for watching.
Love n Light
THANK YOU SO FUCKING MUCH for allowing us to hold space with you!! That was one of the most vulnerable things I’ve ever witnessed. I got emotional!! This was so helpful for me. I’ve only had one conversation with an inner child during a meditation and it was by accident! I’ve been searching for any idea on how to get back to that child. This video is best example of how to do this. I’m so grateful for your bravery! Thank you thank you! You are so inspirational. Your journey is giving me hope and reminding me to be patient, it’s a process. -Angie
Heart-wide open upon receiving this comment. It’s my pleasure to show up and demonstrate. Thank you, Angie.
I really need to do this. Thanks for showing it.
Sarah, you are most welcome. Glad it resonates & hope the example supports your own inwards work 🌲
Thank you for doing this, very helpful
You're very welcome!
I beg to differ: don't think at all this was neither messy nor confusing. Our habitual way to dig for candied truths out there actually needs some of these bridging orientations. Again, it is an infinite source of amazement to me that, even though this field of study and practices are decades old, our general public recognition of it is nonexistent.
I have to say, you're one courageous fella! Very grateful to have that sort of people in my radius of interaction. Thank you for the initiative, resourcefulness and upfront mien. I'm sure no one that follows you would be judgemental in any way, but I get that it's an open space and all sorts of jerks can come here and do their show. Much appreciated for putting yourself exposed like that to construct this framework and help a bunch of seekers.
I'd have one request to make relative to this process: I have had a hard time when something I'm afraid of is manifested in the inner sight. For example, things having to do with the sea, deep sea, big sea animals, etc. It's a big issue I don't know where it stems from. Sometimes it becomes very overwhelming, even though we are consciously aware it's just a representation. Any suggestion on how to approach it? Thank you so much again for it all.
Thank you so much for such insightful and considerate feedback, Fran - it’s always appreciated.
To answer your question... the way I would approach building the capacity to hold to more ‘terror’ in the interior world would be having a VERY safe embodiment practice before entering into these spaces. Endeavouring to create as peaceful and solid a physical situation as possible.
Self soothing is also important. During this video I started automatically self-soothing and stroking my hand when things were getting tense - those kinds of small self regulations can be done without ‘breaking state’. Anchoring us into peace again. Hope this helps.
@@jordanthornton Ok, I'll try and put more attention to that next time. And I'll make sure to do a small list of self-soothing things, so whenever I'm in the state I have something already in mind to resort to. Thanks again and again... ; P You're the best!
Appreciated content. Thank you.
Thank you for taking the time to comment and let me know - more to come, and it's a pleasure to connect with you.
10:14 no judgement, just the space created in a spirit of beautiful compassion. 👍
Hi Jordan, I'm years researching videos, not 1 comes anywhere close to that. The rawness of this video leaves me nearly wordless! My heart is filled with hope while terrified with the thought of walking down those lanes. Yet, I know I've been waiting to do so. The steps you provide will truly heal so many souls & spread so much love - thank you for your exposure, time and sacrifices 💙
Very kind and powerful words, thank you. A difficult process to demonstrate, but worth sharing so more can see 🌲
♏ Amazing intimate video I absolutely loved it. Pure Magick.
Cheers, Onyx! Appreciate your attention and engagement.
Thank you for this. Your so amazing
My pleasure, glad to resonate and provide an example. Good luck & stay grounded when exploring your parts too 🌲
Awesome parts work. Such a powerful way to communicate.
It's something we could all do with doing more of.
Powerful stuff. I appreciate your vulnerability.
Here to share, hope you enjoy the channel 🌲
Hello, Jordan. I have been listening to your videos on shadow work, father complex, inner healing, etc. every chance i get for several days, and i consider them all time well-spent. Would you believe i take notes and listen until the end of nearly every episode?
I heard you describe this video as "messy" and the like several times, but i didn't see that at all. I saw a strong and courageous man allowing himself to be made vulnerable and transparent for the benefit of others. I saw an equally courageous and altruistic man willing to model a very raw process so that his viewers could learn to do the same. Thank you, sir.
I believe we can all relate to the plight of your inner child. We are all on your channel so that we can make sense of and reconcile our *own* shards. Thank you for bringing us all together, and for championing this small army of light bringers. I hope you feel the love and admiration radiating from your crew.
I would appreciate more videos like this, although I recognize and honor that the lack of structure may horrify you.
I am going to attempt this exercise presently, because i have now seen the process and have a new, basic understanding of how it looks, as well as the benefit.
(Again, thank you.)
Your depth of engagement with these videos means a lot to me, and I truly appreciate you taking the time to comment to let me know how seriously you take this work. I've explored similar videos like this in my new shadow work playlist, and also the course - so yes, it's tricky territory, but more attempts have been made. Hope they help.
It's 3:42am. I am in full sleep rebellion, after months of stability, steadily unraveling.
My inner child has pulled from her integration (which only took my whole life to achieve) and is at it, armed with her rainbow duster, that never dusts. 6 Year olds are trying little people.
Thank you, Jordan.
This video is one of my absolute favourites.
An important topic for sure, happy to have helped and wishing you well with your next steps, Michelle!
Thank you for showing me how. I really appreciate your videos.
Always appreciate your comments, Gail 🌲
Beautiful video. Thank you
Thank you, Tshidi - appreciate you taking the time to comment.
Thanks for your vulnerability, this very interesting and inspiring 🙏
Thank you, will keep going 🌲
BLESSED BE THE ALGORITHMS❣☺🔥
Thank you so much for all that you do. Thank you.
You are so welcome, wishing you the best.
Thank you so much for this
You're so welcome!
Thanks for doing this, i didnt judge you in qny way shape or form.
Thank you for being vulnerable
You’re most welcome!
First time I see someone else doing this - fascinating to watch. Have you had beings in your mind saying something that later becomes real?
Glad that the video helped, although the second part of your comment I can’t help with 🌲
I felt every bit of it
Now it’s time to go exploring inwards yourself! 😉🌲
Thank You Jordan. Thank You.
Truly my pleasure - good luck with your active imaginations
Great content! Bravo
Even your voice is therapeutic
Cheers, welcome and enjoy!
Great video. Thank you
You're welcome, thank you! Good luck with your own active imaginations and parts work!
Hey man, any advice on unlocking the diaphragm? I’ve had locked up breathing for quite a few years now. It just seems like tension that I can’t quite unlock, has led to dissociation, anxiety, and hyper self awareness.
Hey Matt, I'm sorry to hear this and appreciate your question. It would be difficult for me to give a general suggestion without knowing more about you as an individual, but I know that the majority of breathing related restrictions usually root back to unaccessed rage or sorrow (usually both) - the path ahead seems to be one of cathartic release and using the vocal chords in a liberating way. What do you think?
This was a beautifully vulnerable video and a helpful demonstration of the process. I’ve been taken through similar processes many times on my healing journey and have had great success when guided by someone with clairvoyance … but on my own I can struggle to know who I am connecting with and to receive direct messages. I have no ability to visualize… I think they call it Aphantasia. Have you ever worked with clients who are limited in this way and do you have any advice for people with different senses as their stres? For me I can feel different frequencies and energy and also I can sometimes get downloads of information where I just know something.. but the info is much more abstract and I rarely can just receive clear direct information in this kind of process. My ability to connect inward and to trust the information I do receive is improving but I’m wondering if you have any advice for / experience with people similar to me?
Hey Breanna, I've had a very similar question before and I think you're in a fascinating situation.
I would obviously need to know you more to be able to comment with true accuracy, so I'll be more general - feel free to take or leave. Given that you're already highly intuitive with abstract information, my gut feeling is that there might be some 'fogging' of the visual field in relation to some unresolved traumatic situation - the kinds of things 'we don't want to see'.
There are occasional references within the trauma research that people who lose their visual capacity are also those who've 'seen things' which they want to forget - this all spills into their significantly limited dream recollection & imagination capacity too.
Potentially irrelevant response, could otherwise be certain drugs such as alcohol or other substances which are blocking. I believe that almost all human beings will be highly visual when they cultivate the skillset - we were born to dream and imagine.
Hope this helps, sorry I can't be more specific in not knowing you in particular.
@@jordanthornton Thanks for the thoughtful response. I’m sober from all drugs and alcohol so that won’t be a factor. I’ve never been able to visualize but I do “see” in my dreams and just as I’m falling into sleep I sometimes get images. My understanding is that the there is a disconnection between two parts of my brain. It’s a common enough condition. From a spiritual perspective I believe I came in this way for a reason and that other senses of mine are heightened. I’ve worked with advanced energy workers trying to activate this for me but so far no luck so I’m accepting this is just how I am for now….although I hope that I’ll be able to one day gain this skill.
My initial question was more about how can people who can’t visualize do this kind of process. Just wondering if you have experience taking people through this process who couldn’t visualize and if you had suggestions for working around this.
Thanks again for your reply to my initial comment. No need to reply to this too if this is going on too long for a CZcams comment!! All good here.
I love you unconventionally 🖤
Wishing you my absolute best - thank you
Thank you Jordan
Fiona, you are most welcome.
7:32 have you tried red lens glasses to block out blue light when watching media specially at night? for us Jungians the red may remind us of Jung's Red Book and therefore raise self awareness to consider disconnecting from screen time before bed time and that sleeping early is AWESOME for how we feel in the morning. i appreciate this video...