RB (7/1/23)
i’d like to write a ballad for the artist that lives within you:
Thank you, oh dear fire, for lighting my way through the darkness and thank you ^for providing the heat that shields me from the coldness from their hearts like palms against steel • my dear fire, it is what captures my living attention when there is all of space to be gazed upon
“Jung – healing” (7/2/23)
“Where your fear is, there is your task”
Predispositions tied to symptoms
– Anxiety, low energy, lazy, too high strung
Chronic illness’ linked to these personality traits
• Treat the person if you want to see the symptoms resolved
• The patient’s own healing
heroes journey
Symptoms -> chronic -> linked to way person thinks, lives
Knowledge that benefits the person
Most difficult knowledge is self-knowledge
easy to be objective w/ others and subjective w/ ourselves
What are my patterns -> self sabotage, things do to myself, diet, things I do in my relationship, in my marriage
They’re all on me
Where your fear is, there is your healing.
“Understanding Personality And Disease Archetypes:
Rigidity & Laxity
. YANG Yin .” (7/3/23)
• Yin & Yang ☯
Rigidity: hyper aroused nervous system, more tense, anxious, neurosis, excessive worrying, every little thing is a problem to be fixed now, excessive urgency in living
Laxity: Laziness, undisciplined eating, can’t exercise, hard to get out of bed, lax eating, lax approach towards life, no urgency to live
no deliberate living
Bring personality traits to the middle
Damp constitution – Dry them up a bit & their bloating will get better
Dry Constitution – Give them moistening herbs so that they’re not drying out too much
Bring the psyche to the middle • coming back to the middle will be healing heroes journey
Heal the person to heal the disease
Fears – what you’ve been avoiding
Traits, valves, thought systems
“Jung – Confront oneself” (7/3/23)
Confront oneself – fear of confronting oneself;
Jung – confronting oneself like going to the depths of hell & confronting the shadow aspects of ourselves is where the greatest healing begins
Understand where we are on that yin and yang spectrum
“Nietzsche & Jung: Healing your inner child” (7/3/23)
• Child -> Metamorphosis •-> becoming the child
- Crucial realization
-> Child represents innocence, forgetfulness, a new beginning, a game, self-propelling wheel, a first motion, a sacred yet ——> relevant in self-improvement
• Shadow -> Jungian shadow work
- repression, avoidance, void
• Rooted within childhood trauma which we repress from ourselves
• Develope self-awareness of ourselves and of our past
“Nietzsche” (7/3/23)
Nietzche identified the child as what should be the final metamorphosis of all human souls • spirits in this life ->
That life is at it’s best when we finally embody the characteristics of the inner child -> to be of complete innocence, forgetfulness, playfulness
view of life as a sacred nest of spontaneity & play
Pinnacle of existence
-> Remember being a child, life was euphoric -> enjoy life