Jung On Purpose Podcast by CreativeMind

Feeling a lack of meaning after success and are asking the deep questions? An identity crisis happens when the identity we built from family roles, career and society’s expectations stops fitting. Jung and Eastern philosophy show us that the ego, the “I” we think we are, is a function rather than the whole of who we are, and that the Self lies beyond it. A career change, a breakup, a milestone birthday or simply the speed of change in the world can leave us asking, “Who am I, really?” In this...

Did you ever get excited about something new but then hit a wall? When you experience a setback, it could be your ego guarding its comfort zone, while a true redirection comes from a deeper place, and the way to tell them apart is to ask who is asking the question. In this episode, we explore one of the most common questions our clients bring us: when nothing seems to work, is the universe telling us to change course, or are we simply afraid? We look at how the brain works as a prediction mac...

How can you rein in your mind to create the life you want? Your life follows your state of mind, and the Bhagavad Gita names three of those states: tamas (inertia), rajas (restless activity) and sattva (clarity). In this episode, we explore the three gunas, an idea that goes back thousands of years and still describes the modern mind remarkably well. We look at why most of us bounce between being stuck and being overdriven, and why the overachiever is often running from the person on the couc...

Do you know why zebras don't get ulcers? They drop a threat the moment it passes, while we keep replaying the story long after it's over. That replay is what turns ordinary stress into chronic suffering, and the way out is learning to step back into the witness mind, the part of you that observes the story without becoming it. In this episode, we explore stress as a kind of trance and what it takes to wake up from it, rather than simply coping with it. We look at why a little stress sharpens ...

Nearly half of US adults say they feel more anxious about world events than they did a year ago. So what do we do with that anxiety? In the final episode of our series on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, we explore why outer success and even self-actualization can leave us feeling that something is missing, and how the path forward begins within. Most people know Maslow's famous pyramid, but few know that he later added a level beyond self-actualization: self-transcendence. We connect this lesser...