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This series of eight counseling exercises helps you think more clearly, reduces anxiety and depression and motivates you to dig deeper into your potential for happiness as you evolve into higher consciousness. It includes the spiritual psychology of Dr. Carl Gustav Jung, the Buddhist practices of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, and classic mythological wisdom.

1.  Your Mind Map
You will be amazed at how the different parts of your conscious and unconscious mind combine to make you who you are. Using Dr. C.G. Jung’s map of the psyche as a template, you can create your own and discover powers you didn’t know you had.

2.  Bringing Out Your Hidden Potential
Everyone has dreams and talents they haven’t done anything about. By naming and acting on these potentials, you can develop self-confidence and increase your self-esteem.

3.  Living the Buddha’s 4 Noble Truths and the 8-Fold Path
Buddhist counseling shows you how to let go of your obsessive need to control people, places and things that always make you suffer. Buddha’s formula for living in the present moment will help you stop worrying and start enjoying what you have.

4. Making Friends with Your Archetypes
Think of archetypes as movie characters that live in your unconscious mind and cause you to think and act like them. For example, your Hero archetype makes you brave, and your Victim archetype makes you feel and act helpless. Learning to identify and use your archetypes to your advantage speeds your personal growth.

5.  Confronting Fears
Fear can stop you from taking action to make your life better. The skill of paradoxical intention empowers you to take courageous steps even when you are afraid. Paradoxical actions can make permanent, positive changes in your life.

6.  Your Hero’s Journey
Heroes leave behind old people, places, and situations that keep them from growing.  They travel into unfamiliar physical, emotional, and spiritual territory, slay dragons and fight against their own greatest fears. Heroes gain great wisdom on the journey and return to share it with others. As you write your own Hero’s Journey story, you will discover what stage of the journey you are at now and what you need to do to keep the adventure going.

7.   Dreamwork
Dreams are messages from your unconscious mind about some life situation you need to handle.  The actions and images of a dream reveal possible solutions you wouldn’t normally think of.  All dream images are highly personal, specific only to the dreamer, and learning to decipher your dream messages is both intriguing and helpful.

8.  Using Your Imagination
Dr. Jung’s active imagination technique creates a problem-solving dialogue between your conscious thinking mind and your unconscious mind where there are possible solutions beyond usual thinking. The dialogue actually opens up the unconscious and reveals these solutions. The process gives you clues about what may be “the right thing to do” in a situation that frustrates you.

9.  Practicing Acceptance and Gratitude
The Rolling Stones said it, “You can’t always get what you want, but you get what you need.” To be truly happy, you have to stop unrealistic expectations and learn to deeply appreciate what you have. This acceptance exercise will help ground you in gratitude and enjoyment of your real life circumstances.

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