Exploring Life through the lenses of Jung and IFS offers a powerful pathway to Self-understanding and healing.
IFS Self Check-In
Introduction:
As you move through the questions, allow yourself to be relaxed and present with each one.
There are no right or wrong answers—only your truth in this moment.
Take your time, breathe slowly, deeply, and be willing to see yourself with new eyes.
1. The Observer’s Perspective
Take a moment to sit quietly.
Notice your thoughts as they arise. Now, ask yourself: Who is observing these thoughts?
Write about the distinction between your thoughts, and the awareness that notices them.
2. Your Internal Family
Identify three distinct “parts” of yourself that show up in your daily life
(e.g., The Achiever, The Critic, The Caretaker).
For each part: What does this part want for you?
What is it afraid might happen if it didn’t perform its role?
How old were you when this part first appeared?
3. The Moment of Truth
Describe a situation where you felt completely stuck between conflicting desires or needs.
Now, complete this sentence:
“What’s true, even though I don’t want it to be true, is…
4. The Exile’s Story
Think of an aspect of yourself that you typically hide, suppress, or feel ashamed of.
If this exiled part could speak freely:
What would it say it needs most from you?
What memory or experience is it still carrying for you?
What might become possible if you fully welcomed this part?
5. The Space Between Stimulus and Response
Recall a recent situation where you reacted automatically.
Now imagine inserting a pause between the trigger and your response:
What sensations would you notice in your body?
What beliefs were operating in that moment?
What choice might become available in that space?
6. The Transformation Inquiry
Complete these sentences without censoring yourself:
“I am responsible for…
“I am not responsible for…
“The story I’ve been telling myself is…
“What’s actually true is…
“What I’m ready to let go of is…
7. Integration and Possibility
Imagine waking up tomorrow having integrated all parts of yourself in perfect harmony:
How would you move through your day differently?
What would you stop doing?
What would become effortless?
What new possibilities would open up for you?
Reflection
After completing all questions, sit quietly for 2-3 minutes.
Notice any shifts in your perception, emotions, or physical sensations.
What feels different now compared to when you started this journey?
Commitment
Based on what you’ve discovered, what is one small action you commit to taking in the next 24 hours that honors this new awareness?
Note: For deepest impact, consider revisiting this survey in 30 days to notice how your responses evolve over time.
IFS Self Check-In
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” Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of people who are oppressing them.
We Think We Listen, but that might be a thought!
https://empathymatters.org/now/active-listening-carl-rogers/
“The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the seed of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is already dead.
~Albert Einstein
..::”For me the Jewish religion, like all others, is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions… And the Jewish people… have no different quality for me than all other people”. He explicitly stated he could not see anything “chosen” about them. ~ Albert Einstein
Einstein viewed the “cult of individuals” as unjustified and often in bad taste, noting that it was unfair to select a few for “boundless admiration” while ignoring everyone else.
”Refusing humility traps you in delusion.♡ Love Albert Einstein … Only a comic book bible would suggest a cultish behavior to genoc~~ everyone else, but some special chosen ones?~ OMG
Imagine living on the only known planet in the infinite universe, where the mortified rich get richer by colonizing the people to follow debunked dogma, repeating an ancient doctrine of war, projected onto innocent children, again and again, the rich get richer, and the children inherit a brutal indoctrination instead of Living Sacred Life. https://empathymatters.org/armageddon/
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