You have a funny way of showing the way.
It was during the lockdown that I became friends with Su, Bha, An and before that I used to play with their children and pets. -- The presswala's gang.
They say that you create your destiny.
Btw God I was reading an article on narcissism and Ma has quite a few qualities of a narcissist.
I also read a Josie Grouse article. I find her thoughts quite interesting. She says that if a mother hates her husband's family and his harsh she ruins her children's destiny and blocks her bloodline.
Unless you make the unconscious conscious you will call it fate.. you will call it fate... im forgetting the quote... but about making the unconscious conscious... I need to accept my shadow side .. that Im capable of being friends with Shudras, Chandals, Brahmins, Kshatriyas, the rich and famous and the poor and downtrodden.
Chatgpt aided
1 What affected me disproportionately today?
Write about the moment when your emotional reaction felt bigger than the situation seemed to warrant.
Ask:
What exactly happened?
What did I feel?
What did I fear would happen?
What did I immediately want to do?
This helps reveal unconscious complexes and triggers.
Today Tejal called and was furious that my laptop has not yet been repaired and that my camera was off. Madhav's mother also blasted me. Im glad I remained humble and went ahead with the class. I feared that I might lose my job. I immediately felt like ending this sojourn with Metamorph but I decided to perseveare.
2. What am I seeing in someone else that may also belong to me?
Think about someone you strongly admire, resent, envy, fear, idealise, or feel possessive about.
Ask:
What quality in them affects me so strongly?
Do I reject this quality in myself?
Do I secretly long to possess it?
Am I possibly projecting something onto this person?
This works with the Shadow and projection.
I love Arun a lot. I admire him, am artracted to him and betrothed to him in my heart. I think hebis ambitious, hardworking, suave, funny and charming. He is a happy humanbeing. I dont reject these qualities in myself. I want to be as hardworking as him. Im projecting my heart on to him and all the trouble I have with my mother.
3. What is my unconscious trying to show me?
Record any significant dream, recurring thought, fantasy, image, or unusual impulse.
Ans I have quite a number of times dreamt of flying in the sky. This image means freedom to me. I am accompanied by a feeling of bliss and wonder. It may be commenting on the fact that Im unbound. I mat be refusing to see my own potential.
Then ask:
What associations does this image have for me personally?
What feeling accompanies it?
What part of my waking life might it be commenting on?
What might I be refusing to see or acknowledge?
Don't force an interpretation. Sit with the image and let its meaning develop.
A lovely Jungian rule for your journal would be:
Don't ask, "What is wrong with me?" Ask, "What is this trying to tell me?"
That's the shift from fighting the unconscious to listening to it.
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