The phrase "limiting your degrees of freedom" is used in the physical therapy world. It's when a patient intentionally restricts their range of motion so they can master a movement without being overwhelmed by possibilities. When I first heard that…
This Virgo season I find myself wanting to slow the game down, so to speak, because of the intensity of the energy these days, with plenty more to come (hello eclipses!). Therefore I'm focusing on the image of the Hermit,…
All of us as individuals, as well as a collective, suffer from a wounded feeling function. Per Robert A. Johnson, feeling is "the capacity to value or to give worth to something. People who have a finely differentiated feeling function…
Now seems as good a time as any to ponder the American psyche from a Jungian perspective. America was founded under a paradox: equality depends upon inequality. As historian Heather Cox Richardson says, "American began with a great paradox: the…
Jung saw the heart as "the centre of wholenes" and believed it possessed its own intelligence. Ancient traditions located the mind within the heart, not the head. In Chinese the word for mind and heart is the same: xin. "The…