{"id":18647,"date":"2014-10-07T15:13:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T22:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/\/new\/\/?p=18647"},"modified":"2015-06-08T11:40:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T18:40:06","slug":"reinventing-yourself-carl-greer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/reinventing-yourself-carl-greer\/","title":{"rendered":"Reinventing yourself:  When Shamanism and Jungian psychology intersect? (Carl Greer)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/reinventing-yourself-carl-greer\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18683\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/reinvent-yourself-Carl-greer-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Pensive man trying to relax on sofa during psychological therapy\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Is it time for a version upgrade yet? \u00a0Are you still at Version 1.0? \u00a0Learn how to reinvent yourself using the magic elixir of psychology and Shamanism. \u00a0Join CJ as she interviews Carl Greer author of &#8220;Change your Story, Change your Life&#8221; on using Shamanic and Jungian Tools to Achieve personal transformation.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>\u00a0YouTube and Radio Interview with Carl Greer &#8211; Change your Story, Change your Life<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Reinventing yourself: When Shamanism and Jungian psychology intersect?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nkR9Plw0UHw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/widget\/?showId=25229902&amp;episodeId=27063741\" width=\"398\" height=\"224\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>Healing from Within by Carl Greer, PhD, PsyD<\/h2>\n<h2>Using Jungian or Shamanic Techniques for Accessing the Unconscious Mind<\/h2>\n<p>Written by Carl Greer, Source:\u00a0http:\/\/carlgreer.com\/blog23\/<\/p>\n<p>Therapy patients are more likely to have successful outcomes when they see therapy as a tool for self-healing. Good physicians will ask their patients about their habits of mind and body and guide them to heal themselves through better lifestyle choices. Still, many of us continue to look outside ourselves for healing. We don\u2019t trust in our abilities to access the power or wisdom we need to cure what ails us. As Shakespeare wrote in <i>All\u2019s Well That Ends Well<\/i>, \u201cOur remedies oft in ourselves do lie\/Which we ascribe to Heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Why do we resist the idea that we might have the capacity to heal ourselves? Why are we quick to look outside ourselves for someone to rescue us or fix us?<\/p>\n<p>In New Age thinking, affirmations are considered powerful because they change thoughts and sometimes, deeply held beliefs, making them more positive and productive. Saying affirmations may be a way to heal ourselves, but when they work, it\u2019s because we are accessing healing energy in the form of emotions such as confidence, joy, and gratitude. As a clinical psychologist, Jungian analyst, and shamanic practitioner, I know there are many techniques for accessing energies that can help us reprogram our mindsets, emotional patterns, and even perhaps our cells. Research shows that emotional stress causes biological changes, and a sense of well-being boosts immunity and lowers levels of the stress hormone cortisol. But how can we work with energies that have powerful healing qualities?<\/p>\n<p>Healers such as analysts, therapists, shamans, acupuncturists, and physicians don\u2019t have magical abilities. What they have is skills for helping people to help themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Often, people who use Jungian or shamanic techniques for accessing the unconscious mind realize that the insights they\u2019ve gained were ones the conscious mind may not have been aware of, yet they weren\u2019t completely unaware of these insights either. When we\u2019re uncomfortable with a truth about ourselves and our lives, we tend to push that knowledge out of the conscious mind, but it remains in the unconscious, where it can be accessed. The unconscious mind nudges us by bringing us messages in dreams and symbols that may come to us when we choose to stop thinking about how to solve our problems and instead sit quietly in a state of openness. The remedy that lies within may push us to make changes that are scary or uncomfortable. However, if we truly want to change our stories, free ourselves of chronic worry or discontent, and feel a sense of control over our lives, we have to be willing to face that discomfort and trust that we know more than we think we know. It\u2019s deeply satisfying to me to guide a client into claiming what she knows already, and helping her to see that I\u2019m merely an assistant in her healing process.We have the capacity to heal ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>Where do these insights we find within ourselves originate? Maybe it\u2019s our own, individual consciousness that plants the seeds, tends to the sprouts, and offers us a harvest of wisdom. Maybe individual consciousness is, as Carl Jung suggested, always connected to a collective unconsciousness filled with wisdom and insights as well as archetypal energies that can affect us in good ways and in not-so-good ways\u2014energies we can work with in order to create better outcomes for ourselves and heal what\u2019s causing us to suffer. Whatever you believe, think about a time when you realized that someone else was telling you what you already knew deep down. Why is it that you\u2019re reluctant to trust your own ability to go within and find the remedies you need?<\/p>\n<h2>Carl Greer &#8211; A Jungian analyst, Shamanic Practitioner, and Clinical Psychologist<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-516\" src=\"http:\/\/test.carlgreer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/CarlGreer2-SM.jpg\" alt=\"CarlGreer2-SM\" width=\"230\" height=\"344\" \/><strong>Carl Greer, PhD, PsyD<\/strong> is a practicing clinical psychologist, Jungian analyst, and shamanic practitioner. He received his PhD from Columbia University and was on their faculty teaching finance and management in their graduate school of business. He moved to Chicago to work for an oil company and, after focusing on business for many years, he earned a doctorate in clinical psychology, and then became a Jungian analyst.<\/p>\n<p>The shamanic work he does is drawn from a blend of North American and South American indigenous trainings and is influenced by Jungian analytical psychology. He has trained with Peruvian shamans and through Dr. Alberto Villoldo\u2019s Healing the Light Body School, where he has been on staff. He has worked with shamans in South America, the United States, Canada, Australia, Ethiopia, and Outer Mongolia. Carl Greer is involved in various businesses and charities, teaches at the Jung Institute in Chicago, is on the staff of the Lorene Replogle Counseling Center, and holds workshops on Jungian and shamanic topics.<\/p>\n<p>#\u00a0carl greer,\u00a0jungian psychology,\u00a0jungian analysis,\u00a0what is dialog,\u00a0dialoguing, reinventing yourself,what is the purpose of life purpose of life, communicating, What is interpersonal communication skills, life purpose<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it time for a version upgrade yet? \u00a0Are you still at Version 1.0? \u00a0Learn how to reinvent yourself using the magic elixir of psychology and Shamanism. \u00a0Join CJ as she interviews Carl Greer author of &#8220;Change your Story, Change your Life&#8221; on using Shamanic and Jungian Tools to Achieve personal transformation. &nbsp; &nbsp; \u00a0YouTube<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[458,490,64,471,56,464],"tags":[421,422,411,423,126,424,425,92,416,426,147,427,152,428,429,419,430],"yst_prominent_words":[5949,5951,1296,5953,5954,5943,5946,5956,5944,5955,1306,5950,5942,5947,5957,5941,5948,5952,5945,5958],"class_list":["post-18647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-emotional-intelligence-and-psychology","category-purpose-driven-life","category-self-awareness","category-shamanism","category-show-archives","category-who-am-i-happiness","tag-carl-greer","tag-change","tag-communicating","tag-dialoguing","tag-emotional-intelligence","tag-jungian-analysis","tag-jungian-psychology","tag-letting-go","tag-life-purpose","tag-psyche","tag-purpose","tag-reinventing-yourself","tag-spirituality","tag-transformation","tag-what-is-dialog","tag-what-is-interpersonal-communication-skills","tag-what-is-the-purpose-of-life-purpose-of-life"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bigstock-Pensive-man-trying-to-relax-on-49604558-compressed.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18647"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21570,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18647\/revisions\/21570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18647"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=18647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}