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"Only if you first return to the body, to your earth, can individuation take place, only then does the thing become true."

- C.G. Jung, Visions Seminar, p. 1314

"This living being appears outwardly as the material body, but inwardly as a series of images of the vital activities taking place within it."

- C.G. Jung, CW8, par. 619

If you want to know the state of your psyche, begin by tuning in to the felt sense of your body! Body is our primary home; it contains the “living being” that we are. Jung stressed that the “human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body.”  (CW 8, par. 2) They both express psychic energies, the life force. He repeatedly stated that “body and mind are the two aspects of the living being, and that is all we know.” (CW 18, par. 70)

Western culture and Jungian circles have prioritized head processes, like thoughts, ideas, logic, rationality, over the non-rational bodily sensations, innate affects, muscular armoring, and dis-ease states. Yet, Jung’s fundamental theory of complexes grew out of research tracking bodily changes as the indicator of unconscious complexes. If we are going to integrate our shadow (personal unconscious), we have to live consciously in our bodies.

The archetypal images that seduce many to Jungian flights of fancy “arise from the depths of the body.” Consciously holding opposites of archetype and instinct, thoughts/ideas and impulses/behaviors is key for the uniting third — our wholeness — to emerge.

Kathleen Wiley, MHDL, is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and diplomate Jungian Analyst in private practice in Davidson, N.C. Her work with analysands recognizes the importance of the embodied present moment, the moment of meeting between analyst and analysand, as primary. Kathleen believes that individuation, incarnation, and the forging of the philosopher’s gold all refer to the process of embodying your essence. To this end, she facilitates a self-paced embodiment circle through www.onlinesacredcircles.com. She also interweaves Jungian psychological concepts and Christian scriptures in her books, New Life: Meditations on the Birth of www.InnerDivineSpirit.com for symbolic reflections. Kathleen’s work empowers people to live out of a conscious connection to the Self.