Emotional Healing Through Active Imagination

Active Imagination offers a gentle way to enter into dialogue with the hidden parts of your psyche. In this practice, you will encounter the emotions, images, and inner figures that carry unresolved pain.

Rather than suppressing difficult feelings, you will listen to what they are trying to reveal.
Through presence and imagination, emotional wounds can gradually transform into insight, integration, and wholeness. Please note that this practice is not a substitute for professional mental health care.

If you enjoy this practice, you might also explore Saqib's audio course: "Intuition Training Through Active Imagination."

Transcript

I welcome you to this practice. In today's practice, We will explore an effective way to work with our emotions. One of the problems with working with emotions or emotional healing is that we cannot see emotions. We can feel emotions, Yes. But we cannot see them and that makes it challenging to work with emotions. Carl Jung devised a solution for this. He devised a method, A technique through which it becomes easier to work with these emotions because through this practice we can see these emotions and we can interact with these emotions. And this practice is called active imagination. So today we will be doing a meditation, A short meditation through which you get to know how to do this practice and you know it becomes like maybe a basic practice through which you can Work with your emotions. But let me tell you how we do this practice. There is a three-step process we follow here. The first step is formulation. The second step is interaction. And the third step is integration. Formulation Interaction. And integration. Now, What is formulation? Formulation simply means to give form to something. And so we are giving a form to this emotion and we do that through imagination. We let this emotion take any form. Visual form in our imagination. And then the second step is. Interaction. Whatever form we give. You know this form again can be anything. It can be any form of entity. It can be a human entity, Non-human entity. It can be a child. It can be an animal, Anything. Once we give it a form, We interact with it. Talk to it. We Maybe you can have a verbal interaction or a discussion or maybe you can ask questions to it. You know, Or maybe you can go on an adventure together or just play together. But this interaction leads to healing. And then the final step is integration, In which you integrate the experience. You bring this experience from the unconscious to the conscious. You become conscious of this experience. And you do that through the practice of journaling or reflection or doing some small ritual through which you honor this practice. For example, Let's say your emotion comes up and that emotion is stress and this stress is telling you that it wants you to spend more time in nature. So maybe that ritual can be just spending half an hour in nature today or an hour in nature today. Something small that can be symbolic to honor this practice. So these are the three steps. So now I invite you to join me for this short practice and through this we will work with our emotions. Let any emotion arise, Whatever dominant emotion you feel and let that arise and we will work with that. Allow yourself to be in your meditation posture. And you can gradually close your eyes. And. . . Become aware of your breath. As you breathe in, Visualize that you are breathing in white light. And as you breathe out, Visualize. That you are breathing out. Black smoke. Through this black smoke you are releasing. This emotion. An emotion be released. Whatever dominant emotion that might have been troubling you or something that you want to work with. Let it release through this black smoke. Breathing in light. Breathing out black smoke. And now gradually Imagine that this Black smoke. It's transforming. This emotion is now becoming a form, An entity, Right in front of you. Let this emotion take any form. Gradually this form is becoming visible to you. Now you can see this entity right in front of you You can now see its body language. Its colors its facial expressions. Let's take a moment here to observe this entity. And Now, It's time to interact with this entity. Let this interaction be natural, You can ask any questions you feel like maybe something like What do you represent in me? What are you trying to teach me? Or anything else. Or maybe You can have a non-verbal interaction, Just being together, Playing together. Going on an adventure together, Whatever feels right. So I will be silent for a while as you Allow yourself to have this interaction. And now taking just a few more moments to gradually complete this interaction and now gradually setting this form dissolve back into the black smoke. And letting it disappear. Into the air. As you bring your awareness back to yourself. And just taking a few more breaths here, Breathing in white light. Letting this white light heal you, Relax you fill you with healing energy. Keep breathing in white light. And whenever you feel ready then gradually in your own time start coming out of the practice And slowly, Gradually you can allow your eyes to open. As we bring this practice to its completion. I hope you found value in today's practice and I wish you all the best. Take care. Namaste.

Reviews

Thank you. The first couple of times I tried this morning, I couldn’t seem to find it. When I tried again this afternoon, I laid down on the ground, looking at the sky. There were two layers of clouds.
The first layer was a white layer covering the sun, despite its light being visible through it (your white light) and the cloud layer underneath were black storm clouds racing across the sky. But that white light would appear before that “black smoke” would cover and the. disappear from it.. I wasn’t able to find an entity, but I found so much more than I could have ever imagined. I didn’t even realize, but I needed this moment right here, just as it is. Thank you.