Thread by @LORWEN108

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 notice what happens to your anxiety: 🪡

1. What you refuse to imagine 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 say:
“I want peace.”

Draw and imagine:
What you truly desire in your life.

This isn't about "positive thinking .”

It’s about using your creative brain to imagine a life your anxious mind keeps blocking.

On July 29th at 6:00 pm ET, I’m teaching a free webinar on how to use the creative brain to lower anxiety and overthinking.

Sign up here:

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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 breathe in this life?
• What does my face feel like?
• What does my chest feel like?

Because your brain learns from vivid inner imaginings and self-talk.

Walk without devices outdoors and let your mind imagine your new life.

What you truly want will begin to appear.

And your future begins to unfold in mysterious, synchronistic ways.

Most people quit here.

Because feeling your way into a new human being is disorienting.
But feeling off balance is part of growing up.

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.”

“Who do you think you are?”

But that's not truth.
That is your old 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 from the analytical mind
and begin using images, imagination, and your body
to lower anxiety from the inside out.

On July 29th at 6:00 pm ET, I’ll show you how to use your creative brain to lower anxiety and create more of what you actually want.

Sign up here:

offers.lorwenharrisnagle.com/copy-of-visual…