How To Talk To Your Shadow Self | Active Imagination Exercise & Live Demo | Shadow Work Series 02/08
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To celebrate the launch of The Shadow Work Library online course, this shadow work exercise teaches you about how to talk to your shadow self with Jungian active imagination: including a live demonstration of how to do active imagination and integrate your shadow in real-time.
Grab your journal, and join me in this shadow work practice if you want to learn more about active imagination, parts work and the implications of the Jungian shadow. We all need to learn how to integrate the shadow and learn more about shadow psychology. I hope this video helps.
⏱️ TIMESTAMPS ⏱️
00:00 I Found My Inner Tyrant
01:24 Your Shadow Isn't Magical...
03:10 Exercise Overview & Small Warning
05:16 How To Strengthen Your Imagination
07:37 Exercise Walkthrough & Live Demonstration
17:20 Talking With My Inner Child
20:36 Watch This Part (Real Talk)
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I know that not everybody can afford an online course, but I hope that the fifteen videos in the Shadow Work Playlist will support the next steps of your shadow integration journey.
I created this free playlist to function like a crash-course on shadow psychology with the intention of being as accessible and actionable as possible. I didn't want to stash the basics behind a paywall or email signup - I would rather you keep learning right here on CZcams.
You can instantly access over five hours of beginner-to-advanced shadow work exercises and lectures with the free playlist linked in the description.
Make sure to take your time with the guided exercises, and don't forget to buy the golden books.
Jordan
P. S. I want to say a heartfelt thank you to this comments section community. My channel is niche, and you've seen the Inner Work Library slowly expand over the last two years. I feel fortunate to receive such deep and genuine connections online, and CZcams recently told me that there have been more than 4000 unique commentors across my entire channel.
Thank you for showing up, I appreciate you.
If you want more depth, we can meet inside the library:
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COFFEE IN MY EXPERIENCE JUST COMPLETLY SILENCES THE FEELING OF HUNGER
BLENDER + WHATEVER COMBINATION YOU WILL BE ABLE 2 STICK WITH CONCISTENTLY = IS EASY & SIMPLE = LEAVE THE CALOURIE DENCE FOODS BY THE BLENDER = PEANUT BUTTER = PROTIEN / HEALTHY POWDERS I MIX TOGETHER BEFOREHAND = & U CAN EASILY DOUBLE THE CALORIES U EAT = OVER TIME LIKE ANYTHING ELSE IT JUST BECOMES A HABIT = DRINKING FOOD IS UNDERATED
ALSO MAKING FOOD IN BULK WITH JUST THE HEALTHIEST COMBINATIONS U HAVE ON HAND & THEN SPREADING MUTIPLE MEALS THROUGHT THE DAY BECOMES EFFORTLESS = IM VEGAN & DRINK 95% OF MY FOOD = IT TAKES 2 ~ MINS TOTAL = 2 FILL THE BLENDER & DRINK AN INTIRE MEAL & CLEAN THE BLENDER :}|{: THE SOUP DIGESTS SO EFFORTLESSLY :}|{:
What I appreciate about this video is that you’re demonstrating processes that some might believe requires 3rd party hypnosis or NLP to initiate.
By nature I’m incredibly contemplative with an active imagination (strong only child trait?). I found my Self entering these conversations as I began healing, before I knew what I was actually doing. A video like this would have been very valuable to help me make sense of what I was unearthing during that time.
These are always strange videos to film because I can’t fake ‘beginner mode’ very convincingly and don’t attempt to… but I hope that the direct-image symbolism and subsequent language breakdown are still useful for people 😅
thanks for your tremendous effort on shadow work education! human beings really need these now!!
Trying my best to get the message out there - feels great to be making these videos and likewise have the course available for real depth and studies!
Your perspective is very beneficial, making active imagination more practical and straightforward. I liked some of the precisions on inner visualization. Thank you for taking the time to do this video, I found it useful both as a youtube user and as a course participant. The deeper and wider knowledge from the course combines very well with this short series!
Great perspective from yourself inside the shadow work library but also seeing these videos too - interesting experience, I'm sure. Cheers, Clem!
Thank you Jordan for this communication
I'am working with my inner child, doing the shadow work and you explained it well.
Images are showing up and I am glad that you post this video because I found solid confirmation of my path.
Thank you for your work and sharing.
Inner child work and shadow work are critical processing and practices - thanks for showing up here 🌲
Thank you, Jordan. This is important work.
Absolutely agree, very important
Thank you so much! Appreciate your work 🙏🏽
Always happy to share, in hopefully a grounded way 🌲
Thank you Jordan.. 🌲
Always happy to help - fun video to film here too 🌲
Thank you so much, I was looking for your first videos and I didn't find them. Thank you for posting this 🌿
Yeah, this 8 episode series is going to serve as an update for that old series from two years ago - going to cover the same themes and more 🌲
Your advice with not to create an ego around the ability of imagination reminds me with the myth of Icarus.
this video was very enlightening
happy to have shared some gold here!
You are one impressive young man 🙏🏾
Thank you, and wishing you well this week ✌🏻
25:20 JORDAN, I ALSO HAD THAT SAME ENCOUNTER! Exactly as you described it! The mind and spirit give such wondrous experiences full of fascinating mysteries. The fact that we all share archetypes despite not knowing each other, is astonishing in itself.
Archetypes are fun in how they feel so deeply personal and yet are entirely collective in essence hahaha
Just the right words that I needed to hear today. I already use this technique, whenever I notice, that I‘m about to get some food although I‘m not hungry. I learned that my overeating problem usually starts, when I swallow my problems - then I also swallow a lot of food. And talking to my inner child helps me a lot to find out what it really is, that I need (or need to do instead) in those moments. But as funny as it might sound, I never tried this technique with other things I struggle with. No idea why, since I know the technique and alredy use it. Now that I watched this video, I just sat here like ‚Oh my god, of course!Why didn’t I think of this before?‘ Thanks for the eye opener. 😅
Glad you’re enjoying this video and hopefully the shadow work playlist overall! Some powerful exercises in this space, and they really do open new depths for our issues ✌🏻
Hi Jordan! I really appreciate your honestly. Thank you so much, I found this video helpful
Here to help!
I love the mystical stuff. And it's extra daunting. Adds so much to it, and a lot of unnecessary weight. It's nice to hear it put practically. It's somehow much more magical. Thank you.
Yes, for sure - check out the reading material mentioned throughout this mini-course playlist... will help significantly.
Noting and appreciating the simplicity that seems to be emerging out of the complexity of the subject.
Like handle on pot. Takes me closer to essence easefully.
Never occurred to me I was niche. I thought I was freak. So, x marks the spot.
And so it goes.
Really beautifully said, thank you for sharing this.
Thank you again for another great video Jordan
Consistently creating the most valuable content on this platform. I really appreciate the day I found this channel; it's genuinely really helping
Will hopefully be starting the course in the New Year
Wishing you a wonderful Christmas 🎅🌲🌲
It’s been a pleasure to have been useful for you, James. Going deeper with me in the course experience is a great idea, especially at this time - I find that people are in heightened reflectiveness and transformative potential at the end of years / beginning of years (cliche as it might be, there is more time for reflection and introspection, for sure) Looking forwards to seeing you on the inside and answering your questions in video format inside the student Q&A 🌲
Robert Johnson is great! I finally got Inner Work and am slowly going through the book now. (I'll add more later)
Great timing. It’s a classic.
Hello Jordan, I sincerely hope all is well in your life.
your videos are a true inspiration, and lovely to follow, you teach it very well, and I am able to follow without being lost in words.
As it has structure.
And I feel inspired to explore my journey of inner work.
May I ask you some questions?
What does it mean to have a shadow entity that is of opposite gender?
For example your maiden entity, what does she represent in you?
Where do they come from?
And if I had a shadow entity, that is the opposite gender, why would that be?
Who would it be?
And what examples are there?
I am new to this, and feel very eager to learn.
this is the first I’ve heard of shadow entity.
Thank you, for your time and videos 🌲
Great questions. You'll love the book Invisible Partners by John Sanford - it answers all your questions in much greater detail than I could in a single comment. Really the best place for me to direct you, and likewise thank you for being here and commenting so enthusiastically! The books recommended in this playlist are really the absolute best to go into for free, and my course is likewise rigorously structured if you want some shortcuts and real clarity.
@@jordanthorntonI will definitely be looking into your recommendations! As some of these books I’ve seen in my childhood.
I love your library, I would be over the moon for something like that.
And would love to someday do your course. For at this time I am unable.
I feel appreciation at your answer and direction on where I can start.
Thank you so much for the gift of your time and making these videos, I really enjoy listening and learning from you 🌙
Love the video on this exercise!
Question: Would you encourage only tracing current problematic shadow behaviors to the entity, or can old cycles of shadow behaviors be included in this exercise?
Bringing in past behaviours are absolutely appropriate - helps to get beneath the surface to prevent future recurrence. Absolutely.
Hi and always thank you VERY MUCH! I have always had a question at this regard: during the active imagination / visualization, how do we tell if it's our inner child speaking or our adult logical mind?
Repetition over time, it's worth spending a few months with similar themes and eventually you start to discern.
@@jordanthornton THANK U!
Very much interested on your take towards philosophy.... do you read philosophy?
I’m the opposite ….i over eat …and more so alone as too many people observe what I can consume …so alone is bigger amounts …..and same throat issues not being able to express ….my imagination saw a pig ….a glutton 😂🙌
Fascinating - keep going with your practices. Truth in your depths!
+1
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Final takeaway- have breakfast
This is a great point, not letting ourselves to swept up by their wisdom or their darkness. This, also reminded me of the point Robert Jhonson was making in his book that these entities might wanna take over in certain encounters by asking to have one of our belongings. And he was talking about the instance that happened to one of his clients. A woman was working with one of the archetypical figures, a wise old man. As she talked with this wise one she was intrigued to give her keys of some sort. Eventually, this meant the wise one to take over the driver's seat. And then of course she needed to go and take back her keys and the situation was resolved.
So, this story sounds a bit fear-provoking but it can be a useful point to think about. And funny, although I forgot about this story I had a very similar encounter with a little one but I see the point in this story that encountering a wise one might feel as if that entity is smarter than you and knows better. I feel like these encounters are a bit next-level. So I was a bit afraid of exploring the archetypes after reading this story in Robert Jhonson's book 🥲
Really beautifully written comment here, and yes - I know the hesitancy with those certain possession aspects, but it's really not worth worrying over if you feel generally stable and resilient. Keep going!