hey this is Carrie Jordan from the Rise
Collective and today I'm talking about
archetypes. When we understand the degree to which a certain archetype lives
inside of us it helps us to identify the
patterns that we live in our work and
our lives. This helps us understand ourselves
better and it helps us to identify our
patterns so that we can make new
patterns.This work is really important
and becoming a healthy spiritual
initiated adult who can take
responsibility for herself or himself,
and who can parent, and who can also be
in service to the community as an elder.
Okay so let's dive in and talk about
archetypes. Archetypes are ancient
patterns of human consciousness that are ingrained in us rather than developed.
So we can
think of archetypes as
psychological patterns that are
ingrained in us as human beings and
usually they come from very far back in
our line from mythological stories.
There are four ancient and
universal archetypes that we all share
as humans and each archetype has light
and shadow parts. All of the
archetypes have light and shadow aspects. They all have ways in which we might
really appreciate them and things that
they may do to undermine us in various
areas of our lives. Get to know
those archetypes. I think of
them as companions or people that
are always with me as I get to know
my little girl; as I get to know my
saboteur I'm able to work with them and
hear them when they're asking for my
attention. For example when I may be
doing something that I don't want to be
doing it's unconscious. But when I
recognize that it's happening then I can
kind of reroute and figure out how I can
work in concert with my little girl or
my saboteur so that I can
have choice around what I'm
doing instead of doing it unconsciously.
So let's talk about the four archetypes
that we all share. They are the child, The Saboteur, the victim, and the prostitute. Now I am going
to be creating a whole series about the
archetypes and how we can work with them
in our lives and right now you can go to
the bottom of the description and go
download the workbook that I created for
you. Okay so let's get into these four
archetypes. The child really shows us
where we're dependent and where we are
taking responsibility for our lives. When
we're in our child archetype we might be
leading with our little girl or a little
boy. aAs an adult-- as a healthy
spiritual initiated adult we don't
really want to be leading with our child.
We'd rather be leading with the adult
and the child is still by our side next
to us telling us what's going on for him
or her. Sometimes my child; my little
girl occurs as pulling on my dress and saying, "hey, you know last time
that this happened we got really hurt."
And as an adult I get to recognize that
that's happening and I get to kind of
pet her hair and say "thank you
I hear you. Yeah last time we got hurt
and this time it's different."
The next archetype is the victim. The
victim is really into blaming others and
so the victim also helps us really
identify where are we taking
responsibility where are we empowered
adult and where are we blaming other
people or circumstances for what's going
on in our lives. Whereas as healthy
spiritual adults we can take action we
can take responsibility for where we are
in our lives and we can change our
destiny. One of my favorite
archetypes is the saboteur.
The saboteur really helps us to
learn how we are betraying ourselves.
It's really about betrayal.
Where are you betraying yourself in your
work in your life?
where are you disempowering yourself?
This is a really fun one to work with.
And finally the archetype of the
prostitute helps us to see where we are
selling out; where are we selling our
integrity or our spirit for financial
gain or for the purpose of survival.
Where are we not aligning with what we
really truly believe and what our ethics
and our moral compass is telling us. When
are we ignoring it. That's what the
prostitute helps us to figure out. So now
you've learned about the four main
archetypes that we all share as human
beings and you may have your very own
archetypes that you can name within your
psyche and your soul so I invite you to
play with that. Now that you know the
basics how would you like a workbook
that would help you to really dive into
your patterns and your relationship with
your archetypes? Well I've made that
for you! So scroll down to the description
and click the link to download your
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