Dreams according to Carl Jung: Valuable advice from your subconscious

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Carl Jung stated that the psyche has a self-regulating system. This self-regulating system helps people grow and stay healthy. If you believe that every person has a specific life path to follow, it’s good to know that we have a kind of inner compass that guides us back on track when we lose our way.

(Who is Carl Jung? Read about him here: www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung)

When we get stuck in daily life due to certain patterns or complexes, it hinders our growth. And we fail to reach our life’s destiny. 

According to Jung, growth means getting to know ourselves completely, from the inside out. And developing new aspects of ourselves.

In psychoanalytic therapy, the therapist uses dreams, drawings, and active imagination to bring the images of the subconscious into focus. 

When we can’t grow—perhaps because we don’t know how to handle a situation or can’t process our feelings—or when we can’t let go of something or someone. You find yourself repeating the same patterns and getting forth in life. You notice this because you keep running into the same problem and don’t know how to break free from it.

That’s when our self-regulating system activates and help us get moving again. When we get stuck, it’s important to learn new things to break free. Learning new things is essential for growing and developing as a person. 

Our self-regulating system resides in our subconscious. The subconscious contains all the information about ourselves; it speaks through symbols and thus sends signals to our conscious mind. Think of the subconscious as an internal advisor that gives guidance on how to move forward in this life.

Our subconscious communicates with the conscious mind through dreams, fantasies, drawings, and also through the cards of the Rider-Waite Tarot. The latter is also referred to as synchronicity. 

Jung assumes that what our subconscious communicates to us is not so much about processing past experiences but rather about the future. It is about helping you get back on the right track. You can interpret the right track as your life path—the purpose of what you do and learn in this life.

In my practice, I use Tarot, dream analysis, and drawings.
Jungian counseling -> www.ardite.org


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