In Practice - The Inferior Function

Meeting the Stranger Within: How the Inferior Function Reveals Itself — and What It Asks of Us

Welcome to the next instalment of ‘In Practice’—a series of posts showing workable exercises to explore and facilitate your personal growth and accompany you along the way. It’s designed for people to explore, in more depth, parts of themselves that they want to ‘sink into’ because it leads to a more felt sense of wholeness.

You can go at your own pace here, picking up any areas that interest you along the way. This work helps uncover aspects of our larger selves that may not have been so clear or visible.

If you are reading this then you are likely to have some experience of personal work. You will know that self exploration can be painful, that we tread carefully around unconscious work, and we do this as we are looking for greater depth and joy in our experience. Our egos can sometimes not like what comes up and that’s what makes it painful, but we chose to look because the sense of integration and growth is fulfilling and meaningful. Life becomes more expansive, and we move away from repeated patterns that have become unsatisfying.