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Hey guys, welcome back.
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This week we're going to discuss anima integration and how it's going to save your life.
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These last two weeks we did mommy issues and then daddy issues last week and for these next two weeks we're going to do anima integration and the next week we'll do animus integration which is a slice of the parental issue.
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There's a lot of overlap there with parental issues and anima integration, animus integration.
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It comes down to how do you integrate parts to you that you don't perceive to be there.
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They're in your unconscious.
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And we know that they're there because when you don't integrate them properly, we'll get into it.
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They're going to come up for you and take over your life.
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And this is when you find a guy, even if he's knows a lot about women and knows a lot about relationships, you know, think of like the PUA guru guy.
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If he has not incorporated his anima, first of all, he's going to end up with a girl he doesn't really want.
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And then that girl is going to take over his life.
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And it's not like he plans it.
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It just happens when you don't pay attention to what you are.
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So first, what is the anima?
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It is the female soul residing in every male.
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It is the yin and the yang, as Lao Tzu would say.
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It's archetypal.
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And what is an archetype?
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I mean, Jung coined, yeah, he coined that archetype.
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He didn't really develop, yeah, he developed the idea.
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He didn't create the idea from scratch.
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But what is an archetype?
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It is just simply a pattern of behavior.
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I mean, there's lots of woo-woo connotations around archetype and around Jung in general, but really it's just a pattern of behavior that we're born with, which makes a lot of sense now that we've incorporated evolutionary psychology in the last half of the 20th century.
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But in the first half of the 20th century, when Jung was writing, it was a kind of a strange idea.
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But we have patterns of behavior based on who we are.
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You know, my favorite example of this is the Oedipus Complex.
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This is an archetypal way of functioning based on what a human is.
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because we are sexually dimorphic, because males, male humans are about 15, 20% larger than females.
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We're going to need to navigate our life by overcoming relationships with our father to interact with other men
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like they're not our father and overcome our relationship with our mom so we can interact with other women without our mom being there psychologically.
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And a great way to do that is through anime integration, is through integrating this feminine aspect of the male psychology.
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Like I say about prairie dogs, another great example, just to make sure that we get this.
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Another great example is prairie dogs.
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If a prairie dog had an archetype, what would it be?
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Well, they do have archetypes, but let's say if a prairie dog could create myth, what would the myth be about?
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Well, it would be about a prairie dog that could tunnel really well,
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that built a whole Prairie Dog City in less than a day or the Prairie Dog that could spot hawks really well or when the Prairie Dog did spot a hawk he had the best call to the rest of the Prairie Dog in the Prairie Dog City.
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You know the Prairie Dogs in the Prairie Dog City right?
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That's what the myth of a Prairie Dog would be about and it's not some woo-woo concept that comes out of nowhere this
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is based on what the Prairie Dog is biologically what the Prairie Dog responds to and we have this this anima part of us and kind of makes sense.
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Like you have an idea of what a woman is, right?
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Nobody had to teach you, if you're straight, nobody had to teach you to be attracted to a woman.
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In fact, in high school, you go to sex education, which is in a sense telling you to not be so attracted.
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Hey dude, chill out on the hormones.
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But this isn't a sexual thing.
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I mean, even a young boy, a five or seven year old boy, nobody teaches him to be curious about a beautiful woman.
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It's just in us.
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we have this this part of us that is a woman and a great way to incorporate it we'll get to it is to create
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a better relationship you have to create healthy relationships with another woman but there's a step before that we'll get
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to it first though is what are some symptoms of poor animal integration just in case this might be you and it probably is
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you I mean not be not that there's anything wrong with you but nobody really ever talks about this Jung talks about it but here what we
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talk about it in a very specific way again we'll get to it well the main symptom of poor
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anima integration is as jung says moodiness and just uh fluctuating moods that that come without you know much awareness they just
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come up for you take over your life i mean this is just more an indication of your unconscious coming up taking over your consciousness consciousness outside of your awareness i mean and it makes sense i mean that um a man who has not incorporated his anima
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it makes sense that he would act like what a woman who hasn't really been validated a woman whose emotions haven't been validated and that's a
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good way to think of your anima is just emotional aspects of you parts that a lot of men would typically think of as weak and it's
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not like yeah they can definitely be expressed in a weak way but what ultimately makes them weak is the
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fact that you deny their existence we're going to get to it another symptom of of poor anima
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integration is stoicism just denying the importance of emotions that doesn't matter if you think you can improve yourself by
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just simply doing one thing as opposed to doing another thing then you just have a poor anima integration now
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that's true and you can't improve yourself by being discipline and going on YouTube and watching motivational videos and creating a schedule, that's helpful, but not as a compensation for not having to integrate your enema.
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Once you integrate the enema, then all that stuff goes a lot easier.
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Another symptom of poor enema integration is the persona or projecting this false self or this idea of what you think other people want you to be.
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And this makes sense.
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Or why would you project a false self out of who you are because you interpret weakness the weakness of the animates well it's not the
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weakness of the animates the weakness of the unconscious anima it's the what makes it weak is you think that it's weak and then it's going to come out in weak ways that yeah then you're going to act moody
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right then you're going to act in an effeminate way not a feminine way then you're going to act in an effeminate way the thing that you feared most of course is going to come true when you don't acknowledge its existence.
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So what do we do?
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How do we incorporate the anima?
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How do we incorporate that softer, that feminine part of us?
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Well, what do I have here?
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Notre Dame.
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For a long time, humanity, I think a way that we did this is we went to church.
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I mean, Notre Dame.
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I mean, why are churches named after women?
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Did you get issue two of the magazine?
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Why are the first churches shaped after, I don't know, certain parts of female anatomy?
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Why would that be?
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Because we just have this instinctive archetypal way of knowing that how we grow, how we mature psychologically is, yes, we go into the church.
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We go into the mother.
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We go into our emotions.
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Now, the mouth breather, the guy who stays in his mom's basement when he's 35 and plays video games all day and argues with people on Twitter, he stays in the mother.
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He stays in the church, and I would argue people who stay in the church for that long, similar issue.
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Not that there's anything wrong with going to church, or not that there's anything wrong with connecting with the mother and living at home, but you've got to grow out of that.
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But, yeah, I mean, this is what the church represents, right?
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That's why I have this here.
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This is not a Catholic, right?
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It's really like Hugo.
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So, yeah, that's one way to incorporate the animat, which is just a short-term solution.
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It's something to go into, and what the hero does is he goes into the emotions, figures them out, overcomes them, and that's what we teach you how to do here.
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We'll get to it.
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Overcomes the emotions, integrates the emotions, understands the emotions, and then that's what the hero does.
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Another way to incorporate the anime, maybe a less than beneficial way, is just to get wrapped up in social movements.
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Jung says in paragraph 326 of volume 7 written in 1938 which is important he says essentially how we I was going to
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read it but it's kind of lying how we incorporate the anima as we get wrapped up in things that rhyme
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with isms bolshevism the world war you know so he was talking about world war one I mean are these plans do we plan to get wrapped up in tyranny
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and something that wipes out large swaths of Europe?
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No, but this happens.
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You plan to let the woman overtake your life.
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I mean, you read every texting guide, every PDF texting guide, every PDF guru guide.
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Why did you let the woman overtake your life?
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Because you didn't pay attention to what you are.
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Just like if you're a prairie dog, you pay attention to what you are and then go from there.
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You don't come up with some idea based on what you want to be true.
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Oh, I'm just going to text her this and not this.
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I'm only going to text her this amount of times that it's not going to work.
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Now that can be helpful, but only after you really learn to integrate your anima.
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So those are less than beneficial ways.
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I think those can be helpful in a certain context.
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Going into the church, it's helpful as long as you recognize what you're doing.
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You're going into the mother, that's fine.
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but if you don't want to be a mouth breather if you want to be a hero you need to in a sense overcome the mother
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you need to learn what's in the mother learn what's in your emotions learn what's in your softer feminine side and then come out of that
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with the key so to speak so another way to incorporate the anima i mean the first step really is to recognize that it's there recognize
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right if you are going to the church if you are going to the the social movement that runs with ism
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then recognize what you're doing and also look for intuitive nudges i think this is typically how men experience
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at least the first hints of the anima first hints that oh maybe there's something else going on there they get intuitive nudges now guys are notorious for feeling those intuitive nudges and then not paying attention to it oh it's no big deal
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right just say you're out with a girl and you get into a nudge maybe this isn't right what that intuitive nudge is telling you is what you're doing.
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Yeah, you're using her for your Anima integration, not yourself.
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So pay attention to intuitive nudges, follow those.
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And I want to be clear, I'm not saying your intuitive nudge is correct.
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It could lead you in the wrong direction.
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But if you pay attention to the intuitive nudge and act on it,
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and then learn the most you can from that decision that you make based on the intuitive decision,
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then you're going to further tune that intuitive nudge to reality and that's you in a sense becoming more in tune with your emotions and using them to make your life to make your life go in a better direction
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another way is to just integrate feel emotions even if they don't make any sense validate your emotions i mean this is the moody guy
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he has not validated his emotions and so they don't go away they come up in weird ways that come off as moodiness that
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come off as truly effeminate so of course it's ironic right it's paradoxical he wants to be as masculine as possible what ends up happening is moodiness and ultimately what you need to do to integrate your anima is to find it in another woman.
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You're never going to be able to integrate your anima fully on your own.
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But what's really important is to start integrating your anima first so that when a woman does come in your life, you're not relying on her to do it for you.
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And that's when a guy gets really wrapped up into another woman or he lets her take over his life, even though he's read every PDF guru guy there is on Twitter.
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I mean, like, how thirsty are you, right?
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Thirsty.
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How thirsty are you, right?
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I'm not the one who created this, using the symbolism, this metaphor.
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How thirsty are you?
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You're going to be way less thirsty if you learn to drink water yourself, as opposed to relying on a woman to come into your life and give you water.
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Now, you're never going to be able to drink all the water that you need to by yourself.
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You're going to need another woman,
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right if this analogy carries but you gotta learn at least drink some water yourself so when the woman comes into your life you don't rely on
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her and of course you wouldn't want to integrate your animal fully on your own either because that's part of the magic that's part of the fun of especially meeting a woman and realizing that she can do more for you than you could ever do on your own and that's what you can do for her we'll talk about that next week with animus integration
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It's not a 1 plus 1 equals 2 kind of relationship, a 1 plus 1 equals 11.
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She can do more for you than you could ever do on your own.
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And that's a great thing.
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That's a great feeling, obviously.
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But you don't want that to overtake your life.
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Anima integration.
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It's just amazing how these personal things that we think only we're dealing with, it's what everybody's dealing with.
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and this is um i mean essentially what i'm talking about here is yin and yang i mean this is lao
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tzu this is taoism taoism right this week we're talking about the yin the anima in the yang the animus which is your
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predominant soul if you're a guy right animus empire next week we'll talk about the yang and the yin and it's just about yeah just getting that little piece that you need from your unconscious, from your anima, that your anima, it can't use it, right?
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It can only give it to you as long as you're looking for it.
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But the consciousness, your animus, if you're a man, your predominant male soul, it can use that.
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It can use that for, you know, way more than what your own male animus soul could have used it for on its own.
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And, you know, as much as I talk about Jung, as much as I respect him,
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and he's a huge influence on me, he really never nailed down exactly how to incorporate the enema or a lot of other aspects of the unconscious.
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But that's what we do here.
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We look at emotions for exactly what they are, exactly what they must be based on what we are biologically, I would argue, and exactly how they must function based on what we are biologically.
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We take those principles and then we boil it down, okay, here's how you talk about emotions, to integrate them into your life, to become more fluid with them, to feel those intuitive urges, to learn as much as you can.
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If an intuitive urge leads you in a direction that's not so helpful.
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So the next time you make a decision based on an intuition, it's going to be more aligned with reality and then more aligned with reality again and again until you can go on and meet a woman and she's only going to be a benefit to your life
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and not a detriment.
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So that's what we do here.
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AnimusEmpire.com slash schedule.
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We do free 30-minute consultations.
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And I'll leave it there.
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Thank you for watching.
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And remember that if you don't want to be effeminate, paradoxically, you need to incorporate your own femininity.
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About This Lesson

In this lesson, learners will practice effective speaking techniques derived from a discussion on anima integration and its importance in personal relationships. By focusing on key concepts from the transcript, students will enhance their understanding of psychological archetypes, which can aid their ability to articulate complex ideas in English. As they engage with the material, they will also develop strategies to express their thoughts clearly and authentically, reflecting on the integration of feminine and masculine traits in their own experiences.

Key Vocabulary & Phrases

  • Anima: the female aspect inherent in male psychology.
  • Integration: the process of incorporating various parts of one's psyche for holistic growth.
  • Archetype: a universally recognized pattern of behavior or symbolic representation.
  • Oedipus Complex: a Freudian theory describing a child's feelings of desire for the opposite-sex parent.
  • Yin and Yang: a concept symbolizing duality and balance in nature.
  • Evolutionary psychology: a branch of psychology that examines psychological traits as evolved adaptations.
  • Pattern of behavior: a consistent way in which an individual responds to situations based on psychological constructs.
  • Healthy relationships: interactions with others that are supportive and constructive.

Practice Tips

To make the most of your speaking practice, consider using the shadowing technique. As you listen to the nuances in the speaker's tone and pacing, aim to mimic their style. Start by playing the transcript at a slower speed to capture the essential ideas before gradually increasing the pace. This will help you adapt to a more natural flow of speech, which is beneficial for IELTS speaking practice. Pay attention to how the speaker articulates complex phrases like "anima integration" and "psychological archetypes." You might find a shadowing app useful for replaying sections at your comfort level, allowing you to repeat phrases until they feel natural. Remember to practice expressing these concepts in your own words to solidify your understanding and enhance your vocabulary. With these strategies, you can effectively improve your proficiency in English while gaining insights into personal development topics.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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