Empathy involves looking at what you're pushing away, not least in other people.

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When we're speaking about empathy, there's an intention involved. There's the need to notice what you are really driven towards and understand what that means about yourself. Having empathy for other people doesn't mean looking past their flaws, or the ways in which they do harm. It means recognising the real quality of what it is in you that rejects them and pushes them away. It's only in this way that you can turn projection into detection.

In this exercise, you bring to mind a quality that you find hard to bear in other people and use it as the seed. This is not about denying that there might indeed be something unwholesome in what you're seeing in others. It's about seeing both sides more clearly.

This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation.

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Playlists & Series:

Active Imagination Exercises - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2MMxqoPMkk9eEbVIrbwq-7B&si=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpb

Core Active Imagination Series - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PWOC6QlGwXS2aWnaPTTF-8&si=m1YzEy1d8Ewf8e8d

Mapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27Nsw

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Extended Exercises (Hestia) - https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/

MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3

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Wherever there's a really strong desire for something, it points to a need in the unconscious.

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In this exercise, we're going to be using active imagination to look into something that you crave or are addicted to. It's not that there's anything wrong with desire. It's more that misplaced desire will take you away from yourself. It's misplaced because it's not being questioned, it's not being seen properly, and so it's finding the most immediate, often quite unconvincing thing that appears to meet that need.

In this exercise, you meet with a part of yourself that really wants or needs something, something it keeps reaching for, with an aim to understand it better. In that way you can ensure that all of your needs are met, and that one need isn't having its way with everything else.

This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation.

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Playlists & Series:

Active Imagination Exercises - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2MMxqoPMkk9eEbVIrbwq-7B&si=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpb

Core Active Imagination Series - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PWOC6QlGwXS2aWnaPTTF-8&si=m1YzEy1d8Ewf8e8d

Mapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27Nsw

More from Make it Conscious:

Extended Exercises (Hestia) - https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/

MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3

Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536

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Empathy is one of the most fundamental and vital qualities to cultivate in inner work.

🌿 This work begins with understanding your own psychological blueprint. Take the free Personality Dynamics Assessment: https://makeitconscious.com/pda/

🔔 To work with Max directly, book a free Perspectives call — https://makeitconscious.com/coaching/

We might think of empathy as feeling what others feel, coupled with a kind of concern for them, and that is part of it. But when you feel what other people feel, you're actually feeling what you feel. You're understanding the other person's position through the lens of yourself. And so empathy is really a willingness to experience that, and therefore it is not only for other people, it's a willingness to feel what you yourself feel.

This exercise uses active imagination, a technique developed by Carl Jung for engaging directly with unconscious contents, facilitating genuine psychological transformation.

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Playlists & Series:

Active Imagination Exercises - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2MMxqoPMkk9eEbVIrbwq-7B&si=NgEZKF8F2ztgqEpb

Core Active Imagination Series - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PWOC6QlGwXS2aWnaPTTF-8&si=m1YzEy1d8Ewf8e8d

Mapping the Shadow Series - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeuFwuWK5O2PriUHnSAKpaf5eOpy27Nsw

More from Make it Conscious:

Extended Exercises (Hestia) - https://hestia.makeitconscious.com/

MiC Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa?si=4153da0bb1a243a3

Inner Work Exercises Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs?si=72af3c85c97b4536

Blog - https://makeitconscious.com/blog/

Connect:

Instagram - https://instagram.com/makeitconscious

X - https://x.com/makeitconscious

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571759044093