LIFE COACHING NEWSLETTER
April 2006
"If you bring forth what is within you,
what you bring forth will save you.
If you do not bring forth what is within you,
What you do not bring forth will destroy you."
This ancient quotation expresses a timeless wisdom: psychological growth and development is not merely as natural as breathing but, more importantly, it is the foundational requirement for human happiness and life satisfaction. Regretfully, most people in the ancient world were physically enslaved, so only the privileged became self-actualized. And with respect to modernity, Jung wrote that cultural conformity in the modern world was the “ever bleeding wound in the psyche of modern man.”[1]
Regrettably, modern enslavement is much trickier to uncover and escape. It requires a level of discrimination that becomes inherent only after one is ready to begin the process of individuation.
“Bringing forth what is within you” -- that which is whole and singularly true of only you -- is the natural agenda of the midlife journey and Jungians claim that if one is willing to follow their own heart and individuate themselves from an unconscious and collective consciousness, a gift of soul will be given.
But if all of this seems daunting, take heart! If one accepts this challenge, and follows their bliss, one naturally receives and experiences the presence of:
“Eros or the power of someone whose Soul is engaged in life and not afraid to be true to his or her core nature, for Eros comes directly from the Soul.”[2]
and
"After learning to change one's environment by great discipline, will and struggle, the Magician learns to move with the energy of the universe and to attract what is needed by law of synchronicity, so that the ease of the Magicians's interaction with the universe seems like magic. Having learned to trust the self, the Magician comes
full circle and like the Innocent, finds that it is safe to trust." [3]
Angela Maffeo
©April 2006
The schedule for the Day of Self-Discovery Programs at Radcliffe for 2006 is:
Sunday, May 7, 2006
Sunday, June 4, 2006
Email your comments and questions to:
amaffeo@post.harvard.edu
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[1] C.G. Jung, Psychological Types, pp. 71-72
[2] Carol Pearson, Awaken the Heroes Within, p. 156
[3] Carol Pearson, The Heroes Within
