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You're Not Lazy. You're Going Through the Shadow | Carl Jung

We’re now live on Spotify 🎧 Listen here: ► https://open.spotify.com/show/033GvjFfuHsI9JZFWGZbOP 📕 Perception Training for Empaths: Book + 3 Exclusive Videos → https://shorturl.at/72zZL You sat down to do the thing you have always been able to do, and your hands would not move. You called it laziness. You bought the planner, set the alarms, gave yourself the hard talk, and by the next morning the floor had dropped out again. Carl Jung would have called it something else entirely. To him your energy had left the surface and gone underground, down toward something you buried a long time ago to keep the surface running. The stillness on top is the exact cost of the descent underneath. This one is about the frozen season people hide, and why force never reaches it. Why the way out runs down and through, in the one direction you keep refusing to look. And what Jung found waiting at the bottom of the shaft, which turns out to be the half of you that you buried alive to stay useful. There is no flattery here, and no order to push harder. The video names what is actually happening while you sit there hating yourself for standing still, and what the dark is quietly building the whole time. SOURCES: The regression of libido, psychic energy withdrawing inward rather than vanishing. On Psychic Energy, Collected Works volume 8\. A lowering of energy read as purposive rather than a defect. Collected Works volume 8, and Memories, Dreams, Reflections. The persona, the mask built to meet the outer world. Two Essays on Analytical Psychology, Collected Works volume 7\. The night sea journey, the descent as an archetypal passage. Symbols of Transformation, Collected Works volume 5\. The shadow, the buried and unlived half, and the vital qualities hidden in it. Aion, Collected Works volume 9 part 2, and Two Essays on Analytical Psychology, Collected Works volume 7\. Making the darkness conscious. Alchemical Studies, Collected Works volume 13\. The transcendent function, the new attitude born from holding the tension. The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche, Collected Works volume 8\. Individuation, wholeness rather than performance. Two Essays on Analytical Psychology, Collected Works volume 7\. The complex, from Jung's word-association work at the Burghölzli. Experimental Researches, Collected Works volume 2\. Subscribe to: ‪@thesurrealmind This video explores Jungian analytical psychology as a philosophical and educational framework for understanding self-awareness. It is provided for educational purposes and does not constitute medical advice or psychological diagnosis.