Stop Talking Through Your Archetypes

You are not your archetypes. In an ideal inner world, your personality archetypes are gathered around the edges of your soul waiting to assist you—in your true, Sacred Self state—as your divine attendant spirits. However, inner life tends to go more like this:

Your Sacred Self is in the heart of your soul, around which your personality archetypes are grouped. Some archetypes have become your divine attendant spirits. Others are in transition as they wait for you to heal them. Many of these archetypes are broken, so bits and pieces of each one are clinging your body, soul, or spirit as they feed off your precious life force, aka your spirit. Physical pain and discomfort are signs that indicate a broken archetype has attached itself to your body. Emotional and mental stress, strain, pain or overwhelm indicates a broken archetype is clutching deeper into your psyche, or soul. All of which will deplete the life of your spirit, exhausting your physical energy. It a vicious cycle. To make matters worse, rejecting, banishing, or exiling a personal archetype into the shadows of your soul will only add to it.

But. 

There is an antidote. 

You need to start talking to your archetypes so you, from the perspective of your true, Sacred Self, can talk about them instead.

Here’s what I mean: 

Your Sacred Self doesn’t get angry. Your Sacred Self is a state of being where you choose to experience, for example, at least one of the following: compassion, kindness, clarity, empathy, creativity, love, courage, confidence, calm, connection, authenticity. You get the idea. Outside of high-level experiences like these, you are simply talking through your broken or rejected (and therefore projected) archetypes instead of your true, Sacred Self. 

Your Sacred Self doesn’t say, “I’m angry with you”. But it could be that a few of your archetypes are angry. Now, at this point, let me say that it’s not okay to blame your archetypes. That’s not where I’m headed here. Archetypes are patterns of behaviour. If there is no concept of a true, Sacred Self as the state of being in charge of the different parts of your personality, then it is harder to separate the behaviour from your Sacred Self and theirs. Here’s how this can work: 

To shift your perspective, you might pause and think to yourself, “There’s a part of me that’s angry with a part of you. Which one of my archetypes is angry with which one of your archetypes?” 

You, leading from the heart of your Sacred Self, just like a kind but firm parent, are meant to connect with and collaborate with all of your archetypes. Those that are healed, those that are not yet healed, and those you have thrown out of your inner world, which of course transforms them into projectiles as the qualities of those archetypes, good, bad and ugly are projected onto others. You are meant to build and maintain a strong relationship with your personal archetypes. You are meant to dialogue with them.¹ You are meant to look after, care for, and supervise your personal archetypes. Bring them in from the cold. Bring them back home where they belong. Your archetypes just want to be seen and heard. 

Instead of talking through your archetypes, start talking to them. Then watch something good happen. 

Footnote:

1. You can learn to do this in my book (2010) A Dialogue with the Soul: Using Personality Archetypes to Access Inner Wisdom. ↩︎