"Living Archetypes"

When people sit around talking about archetypes it becomes very obvious that this subject alone can divide folks. Some people are very familiar with archetypes and others fear it and stay away because it brings in Mythology.

I discovered back in 1996 these archetypes basically through my daughter and the kinds of books she was bringing home to read. Instead of being fearful or upset I decided to take a look at what she was studying. It was then that I questioned, "Could it be that at different moments in our lives we live out these archetypes based on what we need in that moment?" And then I came across "Michael". This was a serious of readings that were done and they did speak about archtypes.

As time went on I could see different archetypes showing up in different people at different times, even within myself. So I decided to look into it further to understand what each archetype meant and what a particular archetype also resisted and desired. That's a lot of work let me just tell you.

Carl Jung (pronounced Young) must have realized this too because he states, "The psychological dilemma plaguing most of humanity is that the archetypes live us instead of us living them." This simple statement helps us to realize how important it is to stay conscious of these archetypes and to better understand how we are playing these roles our in our lives. Each of these archetypes are hidden deep within our psychic depths, guiding our emotions and thoughts when we are unaware.

How do we become more aware of them though? How can we understand when an archetype is living us rather than us living them? When you are confused about your life and feel you have no direction then you are surrendering to an archetype. There is an archetype energy that is playing a dominating role in your psyche. Now this doesn't have to be so, we never want to surrender our power like that, ever! What we want to be able to do is utilize that information and now move beyond it.

We all have obstacles in our lives that we have put there in order to grow. It is through our unhappiness and/or sadness that we reach out to others and say, "This can be different." It is through such emotions that allow us to understand what it is that our soul desires to know better in order to heal or to evolve. If two people are living in the same house day in and day out without a single word, without a single upset and without a single acknowledgement about what is going on in their worlds as a couple the couple will eventually cease to grow. Why? Because communication is key to our evolution. Not that we have to be chatty cathy, but rather to allow others to share as we share in order to see our reflections of what we are either projecting or extending. As long as you have a husband or wife that is willing to talk to you you can grow. If you have a husband or wife that is silent and walks around leaving you wondering about what is going on with them it might be time to check in with yourself to see where you are going and what archetype you are allowing to dominate your life.

We will not discuss the archetypes here because I have found that "thinkers" become lost and confused trying to figure out how all of these energies "work" rather than allowing themselves to feel them. Remember, the archetypes are deep within the depths of your psyche. To contact this part of us takes the ability to "feel".

Jung states, "....If thinking dominates our conscious mind then feeling would remain undeveloped, and if feeling dominates our conscious mind then thinking would remain undeveloped. If sensation governs our conscious mind, then intuition would remain undeveloped."

We know that all things should be within balance, just as the yin/yang sign is. However, many of us are either just thinkers, feelers, sensation, or intuition without regards to the balance of this. If you are proud of yourself that you're all in your head and that you have to think things through what Jung says is fear is the biggest problem with these folks. One of the main reasons is because they can't seem to get past all of their thoughts of everything that "could" happen, rather than just allowing it to happen and then feeling it. Mainly because these people are trying to prevent how they feel because feelings are uncomfortable for them.

So a thinker is going to resist feeling in order to prevent feeling bad or good about something, it works both ways. And a feeler is going to resist thinking in order to allow themselves the experience of what something feels like and then think about it. But when the two come into balance there is absolute beauty!!! Because now the person who is the thinker that knows how the feel evolved rather quickly, and the feeler that learns to think now is allowing ease within their evolutionary process, rather than feeling like they have to hurry up through it all.

A thinker will talk themselves out of doing something because they will be unsure of what is going to be said and how to respond back. A thinking usually gets caught up in his/her own head so much that when it comes to social activities within a group setting they seem dispondant or unable to interact with other members of the group. They are literally slowing down their own thinking process by not being connected to their full awakening energy centers.

I encourage each of you to pick up a book of Mythology and begin looking at the Archetypes and understand how they play out in our lives. Just reviewing a couple of them will allow you to see where you have surrendered your power.

Enjoy your day today by being balanced. Enjoy the feelings of life and the thoughts of love.

Love, Velvete