Carl Jung had a strange method for changing your life from the inside out.
Not affirmations.
Not manifesting.
Practice these 4 steps for 10 days, and watch what happens to your anxiety:🪡
1. What you refuse to imagine does not disappear.
(It controls your life from the shadows).
Jung didn’t believe in “manifestation.”
He believed most people never become who they are
because they never clearly admit what they secretly want.
Step 1 is simple:
Ask yourself:
“What would I want if I stopped pretending I didn’t?”
Not what sounds practical.
Not what your anxious mind says is safe.
What is true?
Step 2: The unconscious speaks in pictures before it speaks in plans.
Jung knew the psyche does not transform through logic alone.
It transforms through:
• imagery
• symbolism
• imagination
So don’t just say:
“I want peace.”
Imagine:
“I wake up and my chest is wide open.”
Now you’ve seen 2 of the 3 steps.
This isn't about "positive thinking .”
It’s about using your creative brain to imagine a life your anxious mind keeps blocking.
On May 26th at 7:30 PM EST, I’m teaching a free webinar on how to use the creative brain to lower anxiety and overthinking.
Sign up here:
offers.lorwenharrisnagle.com/visual-anxiety…
Step 3: Find the buried wish hiding beneath your anxiety.
What buried wish won't you let yourself entertain?
The one you learned to shrink because wanting it felt dangerous.
A relationship that feels real.
A self you don’t have to perform for.
What is it?
Next, give that wish an image.
Fairy tales begin with a wish:
• A child wants to leave the tower
• A prince wants to break the spell
• A girl wants to return home
• A wanderer wants to find the hidden kingdom
But the wish is never just about getting the thing.
It is about becoming someone new.
Step 4: Draw the image and reflect on your drawing.
This gives your fear a place to reside.
And when you place your wish next to your fear, something changes.
The vague becomes visible.
The hidden becomes real.
“I trust myself” is no longer a floating affirmation.
It becomes attached to an image:
where you are going,
and who you are becoming.
You're not tricking yourself.
You're giving your unconscious a new image to organize around.
Every morning for 10 days, close your eyes and enter the image you've drawn.
Not as a fantasy.
As a body-based feeling
Ask:
• How do I walk?
• How do I speak?
• How do I breathe in this life?
• What does my face feel like?
• What does my chest feel like?
Because your brain learns from vivid inner imagining and self-talk.
Walk without devices outdoors and let your mind imagine your new life.
Your walking helps your mind imagine future opportunities and places you can inhabit.
What you truly want will begin to appear.
And your future starts unfold in a mysterious, synchronistic way.
Most people quit here.
Because acting like a new self feels awkward.
But awkwardness is not failure.
It is the nervous system leaving an old identity.
Of course it feels strange to:
• Stop abandoning yourself
• Stop shrinking
• Stop living as if fear is the wisest part of you
The old self will say:
“This is fake.”
“This won’t work.”
“Who do you think you are?”
But that's not truth.
That is protection.
Jung warned:
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
Spend 2 minutes inside your new life every morning for the next 10 days.
Name it clearly.
Give it an image.
Then, draw it.
This method does not summon miracles.
It reveals the inner contradictions.
One part of you wants the life.
Another part fears the cost.
This is what Jung understood:
The life you are seeking is not just built through discipline.
It is first imagined.
Made real inside the psyche before it becomes real in the world.
This is what I want to show you in the webinar:
how to stop living only from the analytical mind
and begin using image, imagination, and the body
to lower anxiety from the inside out.
On May 26th at 7:30 PM EST, I’ll show you how to use your creative brain to lower anxiety and create more of what you actually want.
To bring the shadow into the light.
To imagine a different you.
Sign up here:
offers.lorwenharrisnagle.com/visual-anxiety…
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