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“Thought cannot see the whole but thinks that it can.”
Consciousness
Our consciousness is everything we are aware of. We become conscious of things via thinking, feeling, sensing and intuition. Our thinking plays a major role in our consciousness. The contents of our thinking are the sediments of our nurture-experiences: personal and cultural influences. Our thinking resides in our head, and stems from the higher brain functions that humans have since a few thousand years. Our level of consciousness and rationality is what differentiates us from animals. It speaks via the language of words.
The unconscious
The contents of our unconscious are the sediments of billions of years of human experiences: emotions, instincts and archetypes (primal patterns). The unconscious forms the fundament of who we are: our character, our nature. Our unconscious works autonomously: we do not decide what we dream of, what we love, or if our heart beats. This is given to us. The unconscious is much older than rationality, consciousness, language or civilization. It communicates with our consciousness via two languages. Via the symbolical language: dreams, imagination and creativity. And via body language. Our unconscious is rich in information and is very influential in our lives. Humans can also suppress and forget things. This then goes to our unconscious. Example: a song or scent from your youth can revive long forgotten memories and (bodily) feelings into consciousness.
“Dreams are the illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.”
What is the purpose of Jungian, archetypal psychology?
Together we work on increasing your consciousness and soulfulness. We connect your consciousness with your unconscious; your mind with body and soul. We make that what is unconscious, conscious. Then you can process or change it if you want. In the treatment we look amongst other things at: psychic abscesses and ugly ducklings.
Psychic abscesses
We humans are clever! We can suppress our pain in our unconscious. These wounds then become part of our shadow. Jung discovered: everything unconscious, you are forced to live out. Your problem comes back at you via the outside world until you have faced it. It forms into an unconscious recurring pattern. Besides, they cause crisis: unhealed wounds fester. They make us gradually more ill at ease, physically and mentally, and via this way they force us to face them. Do you recognize this call for consciousness?
The ugly duckling
We humans adapt to the (silent) expectations of our outside world, consciously ánd unconsciously. Plus: we learn from our experiences! These are the roots of unconscious convictions and associations that create self-alienation. Do you want your life story to be like the story of the ugly duckling? The creature that was born as a swan in a duckling nest? Who adapted to the ducks? The creature that thought it was an ugly duckling. Who was deeply unhappy because it tried to be something it was not. Do you know your dreams, imagination and creativity tell you how you can become your true self?
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The figure above gives an overview of the different forms of therapy that are available. It shows till what ‘depth’ they go. Every next level thereby envelops and transcends the levels above; these are thus included in the therapy. Jungian, archetypal psychology can go deep, but that is not a must of course. However, we do always envelop the persona and ego-levels in the therapy while we go on discovery in your unconscious.
The therapy can follow up on other treatments you have had. For example because you want to do more, or because you have noticed that your problem is not yet solved or has returned. It can be that the roots were not (fully) removed. Furthermore, this form of therapy is also suitable for people who notice that something is amiss, but who don’t know what exactly.
On a side note: in Jungian, archetypal psychology we go further then solving problems; simultaneously we search for meaning and who you truly are. (Source: Wilber set out ‘therapies and the levels of the spectrum’ and Reynolds made the figure above (Embracing reality, 2004, pg93).)
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