Psyche Design

Auteur(s): Meghan LeVota
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  • Résumé

  • Exploring the psyche, one spiral step at a time. Psyche Design is a podcast about all things individuation. The journey back to the Self is the process of casting light upon our shadows, over and over again. The goal is to have conversations that empower 1) stronger integrity within individuals and 2) greater solidarity between people and groups. Topics include Jungian personality theory, as well as general spirituality, philosophy, and psychology.

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  • Change, The Nature of Self Discovery, & The Transcendent Function

    Change, The Nature of Self Discovery, & The Transcendent Function
    Dec 31 2022

    Hello there and Happy New Year! Today, I recorded an episode all about Change. Change is a necessary aspect of the self-discovery journey. While many seek self-development to find more security in themselves, you may find that that through the pursuit of stability — you will also find change. In fact, change is the only constant. True security comes from the full embrace of one’s creative potential, and learning to work with that energy. Listen here, on Spotify or iTunes, or wherever you get your podcast. Or, check out the conversation on YouTube.

    Change, The Nature of Self Discovery, & The Transcendent Function:

    Currently, I am in a state of flux. I began the year with a lot of endings, and am starting this new one with new beginnings. It has felt difficult to share as often as I’d like when I’m in-between worlds. The goalposts keep moving, as new values are solidified and priorities shift. Showing up as myself has felt awkward and clunky, as I’m still in the middle of shedding old skin.

    This episode discusses change as it relates to the self-discovery process as well as Jung’s transcendent function. But on a personal level, I am in the thick of it. Change in my personal life and inconsistent surroundings has made it feel nearly impossible to show up online consistently. It feels lame to feel the need to apologize for that, but here I am. The ideas in this episode may be universally applicable to many things, but they also describe how I have been feeling about the act of content creation itself.

    That being said, I am excited to breathe new life into my creative projects in 2023. In order to do that, some things may need to die first. A lot of that “death” involves pressure I have put on myself. It involves releasing aspects of my identity that my ego has become too attached to.

    On top of that, the media landscape is changing tremendously — as well as how we interact with digital tools It’s easy for last year’s goals, or even last month’s marketing tactics, to begin to feel stale. When you combine that with interpersonal change, the whole thing can get confusing. I’m in the process of building systems that are a bit more flexible, to prevent setting goals that end up making me feel trapped in the future. As I figure out how I’d like to communicate these things, I will continue to share them here. Thanks for tagging along, even though I feel like a bit of a mess. <3



    This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit psychedesign.substack.com
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    1 h et 6 min
  • THE UNKNOWN ~ S2E3 Psyche Design

    THE UNKNOWN ~ S2E3 Psyche Design
    Oct 28 2022
    Another episode, fresh out of the oven! This one is about the unknown, and it’s a rambly one. I have the transcript below, if you prefer to read. But I’d recommend to sit back, relax, listen and reflect. Let me know how you have been handling the unknown lately by leaving a comment.Watch Psyche Design Season 2 Episode 3 on YouTube:Transcript:Hello. So today I'm going to be discussing the unknown. And one of the fun things about that topic is that I actually have no idea what I'm about to talk about. So, first of all, for those of you who follow the stars, Jupiter just went into Pisces this morning. So, I've been wanting to do this topic for a while, and I thought, why not right now? Because the energy of Pisces is a mutable water sign. So this energy now, in the collective is more focused on embracing the vastness in the chaoticness of every potential emotion that can ever be experienced is one way of putting it. When I think of Pisces, I often think about taking leaps of faith and marveling at the unknown, potentially.So my personality type pattern (most of you know this, because that's what my channel has been about) is my type preferences are ENFJ. And with that, J, the stereotype goes that, you know, the preference for judging can be a challenge for embracing the unknown, I have had such a hard time with the unknown, for as long as I can remember. In fact, I've been having some more discussions with my parents lately about what I was like, as a child, as I have been. I think it's been a year and a half ago, now that I have been diagnosed with ADHD. And I've been exploring my neurodivergent traits, reading things about that, and trying to connect some dots. Part of the reason why I've wanted to do that is because, you know, I discovered personality type theory, whatever I was 17, I'm now 28. This model of Personality Typing has been with me for over a decade now. And I definitely wouldn't be as confident as an adult and okay with myself if I didn't have it. Because so much of me even recognizing that I was an intuitive at a young age, validated a lot of the ways in which I felt outside the norm.And, anyway, I've been thinking about the ways in which I've always felt outside the norm in one of those ways. You guys are gonna just have to deal with me being rambly this time around, because I'm a little bit out of practice whenever it comes to talking to a camera. So um, for those of you who want to take the windy road with me, thank you so much. Anyway, um, what I was going to say with that is that I, my mom was, you know, sort of telling me how even as a young child, I would get into these outbursts. When things did not go according to plan. There was one time she told me about, that I was like five. And they, my mom, said that we had to leave the living room area, we were at my grandparents, because they were painting the walls and that it was going to be a different color, it was going to go from beige to peach. And apparently, whenever I got back, and I saw the colors, I freaked out and I was like, “They are not different colors! This is the same exact color as what it was before. You lied to me!” And I think that that is such a hilarious example of I think you could really see, like, the pitfalls of my psyche, even as a young child, it would be interesting to think about what things you used to have meltdowns about as a child in throw a fit about. And if you can notice any themes of how those things in a way, even if you aren't going to act out now, those things might still tell you something about your blind spots. Because in that as an example, not only was I not someone that was very aware of the differences between the colors, but I also had an idea in my mind of what I thought those colors would be. And whenever reality did not match up to what I had in my mind. It was very overwhelming for me and somy preference for Introverted Intuition as a function I think is sort of seen here. And that my default is to kind of envision an intuitive image or symbol or whatever, kind of envision something abstractly in my mind. That may or may not line up with reality. And I'm realizing that a big reason why I will try and spend the time to think about the future and envision it is because of how physically overwhelming it is, for me to make a decision on the spot, or to adjust to things not going according to plan.And I think that a lot of people who have a J in their type code, a lot of people who, who are that way, who are Js, you could say, we prefer to do that introverted perception ourselves beforehand — so that whenever life hits us in the face, it's not that much of a surprise. And I think that for the most part, doing that can save me some energy, but it also could be very draining. And so part of this has to do with having extroverted sensing as a valued but weaker function for me. Because it is very draining for me to use extroverted sensing, as much as I wish that I could use it.For ...
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    1 h et 19 min
  • A Friendly Face Toward The Shadow ~ S2E2 Psyche Design

    A Friendly Face Toward The Shadow ~ S2E2 Psyche Design
    Oct 3 2022
    Interested in a workshop all about dancing with your shadow functions? Join me on October 8: https://www.meetup.com/baaptsf/events/288338568/(I realize that this is last minute. I plan to offer similar workshops at a later date. Let me know if you’d be interested in attending something like this by leaving a comment). Watch Psyche Design Season 2 Episode 2 on YouTube: Transcript: Hello there. So today I'm going to be discussing Turning a Friendly Face Toward the Shadow. And what kind of lifestyle would that be if you were someone that genuinely had, or generally had, a friendly attitude toward your shadow. So this is a huge topic. And I'm actually going to be doing a workshop on a very similar topic that's called Dancing with the Shadow: Embracing Your Inner Paradox next Saturday, the eighth, I believe. I'll have a link for that below, if you're interested. And if you can't make it, I understand that this is last minute I want to be doing, I will be hosting similar workshops in the future on this subject. So a lot of you listening to this probably are familiar with Carl Jung's concept of the shadow. This episode is not going to be really focused on defining the shadow, I might make another episode on that, but I'm going to assume that you have a general understanding whenever I say the word shadow— which is essentially all the parts of our psyche that we're not conscious of, they might make our ego uncomfortable, we might be in denial of these things, it's a pretty general term for those contents of your psyche that you cannot see. So, um, we also want to bring up the question of — Now that you know, your personality type (assuming that you do know your personality type), now, what? How does that knowledge of your personality type shift your perception? So, I've been circling around these sorts of topics for several years now. But what I'm, what I'm coming to... like, this main point, I guess, that I feel like I'm coming to is this idea of — what is your ego's attitude toward the shadow? And I think that ,if you are familiar with your Jungian personality type pattern, that will tell you a lot about how your ego naturally functions, and your tendencies, your preferences, but it doesn't tell you what your attitude is toward the shadow. Um, there's a lot of talk out there within the personality type community, like... let's say you're not really you don't have as much background on Jung, but you have been studying personality type for a while. There's a lot of different ways of talking about things such as ...developing your shadow functions, or tapping into your Inferior Function. All of the all of that regarding developing the shadow functions is a portion of "shadow work" in a more general way, because your personality is only going to be your... your personality type is just going to be sort of a sliver of your psyche.It can kind of tell you this hero's journey that your ego might be going through. Now, one of my biggest criticisms of how people discuss personality type is, I think that the ego trap that we can get into is that once we, once we know what our personality type is, then what again, like I said, — Now, what what do we do with that information? The ego can approach this in different ways. The ego can double down on its own self-understanding and be like "yes, I am that, I am an ENFJ, I am a feeling type, I am an intuitive type, I am an extrovert." The ego could be like, yes, that is me. Now, what are the shadow sides of that?So, using myself, my ENFJ best fit type as an example. The shadow of that would be introversion. It would be sensing, it would be thinking (more specifically with my cognitive functions, Extroverted Sensing and Introverted Thinking would be the exact shadow flip side of my Dominant and Auxiliary functions). Not to mention the shadow functions that you don't prefer. All of these are parts of the shadow. And we can take the attitude of, "I'm a feeler. Therefore, none of that thinking stuff matters to me. None of that sensing stuff matters to me." Or you can take a different attitude, where you approach the shadow with curiosity with humility, with interest with openness.So that is I guess my number one reflection question for all of you is what is your attitude toward the shadow? And then, I'm going to be talking pretty generally about the attitude, and how to potentially develop an attitude toward the shadow that might be more embracing it. Because the thing is, is that...It's normal for the ego to separate things between, "that's me, and that's not me." And that can be very helpful. And, in fact, even whenever you are discovering your personality type, it can be very helpful to be able to separate me from what's not me. If you realize you're an extrovert, it might help you figure out what kind of career to go into. Knowing that I have preference for intuition and feeling, for example, can help me figure out what what sort of careers to go into, it can help me...
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    39 min

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