Trauma & The Soul: How Dissociation Kept You Safe I Jungian Inner Work for Self Healing [26/52]

Ever felt like you don't actually exist? This is a sign of chronic dissociation. Learn how to heal your dissociative defences with this video. Dissociation kept your soul safe during childhood but need not be continued for the remainder of your life.

In this twenty-sixth episode of Inner Work Essentials we are exploring the challenging nature of dissociation and how to heal from dissociative defence via the paths of purification, boundary making and dedicated grounding and embodiment practices. This is the path of committed self healing via long-term Inner Work.

Warning: This video covers themes of self-healing from abuse and trauma.

Book Recommendation: Trauma and The Soul, Donald Kalsched.

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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS ⏱️
00:00 Trigger Warning: Childhood Abuse & Traumatic Memories
01:53 Book Recommendation: Trauma and The Soul, Donald Kalsched.
03:35 Soul Sanctuary: Where can you hide?
04:57 How To Heal From Chronic Childhood Dissociation
06:33 Floating Heads - Existing Above Ourselves?
07:45 Addiction & Disembodiment: Signs of Dissociation
10:03 Spiritual Emergencies & Mystical Escapism
11:43 How to Heal From Dissociation & Traumatic Disembodiment
12:44 Healing via Purification, Sobriety & Self-Reverence
16:39 Empath: The Classic Defensive Response
17:33 The Necessity of Boundaries, Barbells & Limited Screen Time
19:50 Next Steps: Spiritual Intelligence & Esoteric Wisdom

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Welcome to INNER WORK ESSENTIALS: the 52 episode series designed to provide you with an intense, diverse and holistic roadmap for full-spectrum self-healing and transformative self-education!

It's been a long time coming... with over 350 books researched in the last 27 months... but I'm overjoyed to FINALLY be sharing what I've learned about the Inner Working Landscape and how to do Inner Work at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels.

Want to know where this series is heading? Read my teaching intentions below!

INNER WORK ESSENTIALS: SERIES AIMS (STATEMENT OF DIRECTION)

1) Provide the student with an informed and representative overview of multiple complementary therapeutic modalities to support their self-healing process; with special encouragement placed upon the auto-therapeutic application of particular healing modalities for particular problems at particular stages in their journey.

2) Nourish the intellectual and spiritual maturation of the student by familiarising them with the most exciting, challenging and credible concepts in developmental psychology, consciousness studies and transpersonal metaphysics; with central emphasis being placed upon comparative analysis of multiple complex theories.

3) Encourage an empowered and more authentic sense of individual self-expression as a combined outcome of the two previous intentions, plus the application of holistic lifestyle principles, self-educational practises, and foundational healthy habits.

INNER WORK ESSENTIALS: EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES

On completion of this series, the student should expect to be:

1) Auto-therapeutic. The student will feel generally competent in their ability to select and self-administer the most suitable therapeutic modality on a full-spectrum basis: ranging from the somatic resolution of central childhood wounds to the everyday self-regulation of symptomatic stress responses such as anxiety and addiction.

2) Closer towards baseline integral consciousness (Wilber). Through their combined efforts of rigorous self-inquiry and critical engagement with recommended reading material, the student will have significantly developed their intellectual and spiritual maturity to a noticeable degree, in likely correlation with their depth of engagement.

3) Holistically Empowered. The student will enjoy a meaningful expansion of their physical, emotional, sexual, and creative expression as a result of their healing and expansion work. In short, they will be healthier, happier and feel more complete.

4) Self-educational. The student will have felt organically inspired to move beyond free video content and create a self-structured learning arc which takes maximum advantage of at least several dozen inner working books mentioned within the course. The student will consequently enjoy lifelong learning habits including: critical research skills, long-term focus, and the ability to know when to stop studying.

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