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 phrase the other day I immediately thought of how that has a wider applicability to […] The post Limiting your degrees of freedom appeared first on Anita Ashland.| Anita Ashland
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, which is the tarot card associated with Virgo. This card also helps reminds us of […]| Anita Ashland
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 bring grace and good feeling with them; one feels valuable in their presence (Johnson, The […]| Anita Ashland
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 same men who came up with the radical idea of constructing a nation on the […] The post The Royal Road to America’s Psychic and Social Liberation appeared first on Anita Ashland.| Anita Ashland
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 heart-mind is the seat of our emotions as well as the center of our rationality” […]| Anita Ashland
While playing pickleball early this morning I got distracted looking up at airplanes as they would disappear completely into the clouds shortly after takeoff. For some reason I found it intriguing that I could clearly hear the loud planes but not see a trace of them. This brought to mind our recent Full Moon in […]| Anita Ashland
“Daylighting” is a term used when buried streams and rivers are brought back to life in towns and cities. Here we are at the beginning of Cancer season, the water sign associated with the beginning of summer, making daylighting personal for us right now. I love to read books that tie in with the current […]| Anita Ashland
The 5,500-year-old literary masterpiece of the Sumerian goddess Inanna's descent into the underworld serves as a modern-day template for the heroine's journey. This Jungian retelling serves as an excellent template for a deeper enquiry into the shadow.| Shinjini Mehrotra
Have you ever tried to imitate the influence of the Sun? That is what scientists in the Middle Ages tried to do through alchemy. They thought they could turn base metals into gold: They wanted to imitate the influence of the Sun, which was traditionally thought responsible, under God, for making all the gold that […]| Anita Ashland
The Power of the Imaginal with Stephen Aizenstat - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
