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Looxa is a fresh platform which utilizes creative potential and offers pragmatic eco-friendly products supporting Ashtanga Yoga practitioners’ lifestyle

What do we do in this life? We tell, listen to and create stories. We are story tellers and our primary mission in this brief carnal existence is to surpass just our bodily form and learn and develop talents and skills we have been blessed with. No one exists as just a monomer, alone or detached from beauty and knowledge surrounding him, but we achieve our full purpose by becoming a part of the whole, sharing what we have been given and becoming just one thread in the tapestry of society and humanity that built it. Not so long ago one of the fore mentioned stories started under the name Looxa as a platform to utilize creative potential and raise good and helpful tools from an idea into their manifestation in material form. Everything surrounding us was once an idea. Ideas can change lives and shape futures, so we decided to provide essential products for those who wish to take the journey of yoga practicing. All of our products are created based on our own experience and are born out of pragmatic necessity for their existence. We have no desire to function within a corporate mentality anchored in financial affluence or creating our market before the product. We aim to produce functional pragmatic tools which would allow for grater immersion into the real purpose of yoga practicing. Products are simple, unadorned and straight forward, purified to suit their function without unnecessary distractions and are conceived with the utmost respect for Mother Nature and eco-friendly. No progress should ever take sustainability as a hostage or dismiss it as collateral damage.

04/03/2021

*** EVER HEARD THAT ONE - DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER? ***

Well, this is not a book but a workbook, and judging before trying isn’t something we’re that fond of.

If you already have your copy of the workbook we invite you to go through the notes you've already jotted down and see what has changed - are you stagnating, advancing, have you grown, learned something new? Maybe you've just neglected the practice, got stuck in a mind-frame, or don’t know how to move on. For those who still haven't got their copy, we're stocked up. You're welcome to try.

Personally, what always helps to break back open with your chest and soul facing all of the beautiful things this world has to offer is to start your day with a couple of Surya namaskars and feel the difference in your mind and body. Ease into it again, return gently back to where you left off. The entire day will flow better, and even if it turns slightly off-road, it doesn't matter. Scenic routes are where you see more and nothing can take away the fact that you've greeted the day by doing something good for yourself.

The clean minimalistic covers of LOOXA Yoga Workbooks hide infinite worlds you'll create. So no judgment of the surface of things, just breathe and dive in.

Happy pre-spring!

26/02/2021

*** BIG PRE-SPRING COLLAB! ***

After taking some downtime and slow-pacing the beginning of 2021, we decided to roll up those sleeves and hit back the pandemic fear with the coolest new project.

So we’ve paired up with the wonderful people of Wanderlust TV, the avid life travelers and wanderers always hungry for better solutions, finding a simpler, kinder way to be, nurture and enjoy life.

This is a sneak peek at our fresh pre-spring collab where we did the step-by-step illustrated sequence of one of WanderlustTV's yoga classes, taught by the wonderful Beau Campbell.

If you still haven’t met the Wanderlust crowd, do go, explore and subscribe to this mecca of all things yoga and the people we’re proud to call friends.

Check out more about the collab on the link in the comments below.

Stay cool, stay hungry, stay curious!

Beau Campbell-Health & Movement

31/12/2020

*** HOPE & HUMILITY OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MIDNIGHT***

Every single year since we were old enough to make a decision and (sort of) stick to them, we've gone all up in our business and played the tyrant to the Self with huge New Year resolutions.
Designed with care, and quite a bit of totalitarianism, these decisions are supposed to shake the tectonics of our lives and completely change what we're not satisfied with. There’s nothing wrong with dreaming big, more power to you if you do, but dreams remain just that if there is no (long-term) behavior change. Small changes accumulate and this is where we miss the target - we presume it has to be one huge thing, one big demonstrative bridge-burning festival to mark the transition. Two weeks in, that showpiece of throwing out all of the junk food from the cupboard and fridge is long gone and you're snacking on crisps, growing roots on the couch… again.

Big gestures of "I'm going to transform my life", "New Year, new me" don't work because the bit is just too big to not make you choke. It is not possible to adhere to a large and demanding self-disciplinary task if you don’t have the mechanics of the small things surrounding it down. Sure, sheer will power and self-torture can pull a small percentage of people through and make the decision stick, but there is a whole structure to why it worked (mostly because there was a bigger "why" or a place they’re terrified of if the old habit continues as-is). Yet, the majority of decisions fail. How to change this? A bit of humility, as the psychologically most important midnight of the year, draws near. Why humility? Because you will need to have a serious talk with yourself about your resolution and be humble enough to admit how laughably small the first steps have to be for you to adhere to them. It is kind of embarrassing to admit to oneself how deep we have to dig for such a tiny improvement. But 20 little things that are an everyday habit transformed for the better are going to be infinitely more valuable in a year's time than one large step you'll give up on because you still haven’t the mechanisms to stick to it.

Humility to know when you're beaten when you need help when you need to adjust course is a source of hope because hope always sees what could be. And if you keep an open mind, and don’t presume you know and can do everything right now, if you acknowledge that there is a learning curve and adopt a mindset of someone willing to be taught and helped, then that future is far more viable. Hope is the same as faith. It is predicated upon having no hard proof a thing will work but understanding that playing the odds demands you to get better, to inch a bit closer to the ideal. Imagine what just one evening of disciplined care for the body a week will do in a year. That’s 52 days you gave yourself time to replenish something inside. Imagine just being kinder in situations where you know you’re buttons will be pushed. What will a gentler approach achieve here in a few months? Not because you’ve decided you'll never be mean or snappy again (sometimes you might have to be to set boundaries), but just by consciously switching into "going to do this thing differently" as the moment presents itself.

None of us change in huge swooshes which make everything different. It's a slow work in progress and it takes a lot of tiny lessons and repetitions to change a habit. Once you do, no matter how small a thing may be to the observer, you did a huge thing you can be proud of.

We hope this year to come will be kinder to us all. We hope you will be kinder to yourself. We hope for enough humility to admit when we don't know and when we need to break the trajectory down into almost absurdly small steps. We hope you’ll choose small improvements that accumulate through time and we hope that hope always stays here, showing us a world that could be and giving us something to strive for. Happy transitions! See you on the flipside.

24/12/2020

*** GAME THEORY & PLAYING WELL ***

We play games as soon as we open our eyes and up to the moment we leave this place. That's what we do. The games may vary from a simple peek a boo or hide and go seek to large games as setting up the board for later years of life, but we can't help but play. We'll get sucked into games no matter what because we're a part of society and the games are a part of its fabric on purpose because they keep things balanced.

Anything we do, any interaction with others, any relationship, personal or professional goal, or contact with the outside world is a sort of a game, no matter how clear or fuzzy the rules are. This is also why we love to watch movies, read stories, play board games, follow sports, hear about how others achieved something or why they failed. Because all of these things are useful and help us unconsciously pick up the rules of the games we observe and play. The obvious goal of any game you play would be to win, right? It is, to an extent. But the goal is also to play fair as a good sportsman would, so you can get invited to play again and to get continuously better and more sophisticated in the games you play no matter the win-loss ratio. It is not just about opposed dipoles of victory and defeat. These are just smaller games nestled within an overarching game, the goal of which is to keep on playing indefinitely.

You can pretty much win and get what you want with all sorts of below the belt moves, but this way of playing the game is not sustainable. You might win, once or a couple of times, but as soon as there is a whiff of foul play, you won’t be invited into the game anymore and will have to move on from the current social structure to find a new clump of suckers to play with, until they figure out you're not playing well or reciprocally as well. Depleting this social resource and breaking the contract of logical social rules, you'll need to move once again as a parasite would, killing the host and itself in the process. This might very well be your end game - to get what you need and then move on. It might work splendidly in short term with a different rule set than longer games. But the ultimate objective of life is to learn how to play well continuously through a series of varying games, to see the big picture and get the best possible compounded score, even if it meant losing here and there or sacrificing things along the way, going one step backward to jump three ahead, or forfeiting the small stuff for the sake of being able to play a much greater stakes game later.

Although most situations in life seem different, as separate individual games, it's possible to clump them up together into groups within the same cloud of logic. This is what game theory does. It is the study of strategically independent behavior that tries to outline the games we play, and make you better at them by understanding the objectives and how to get to them in the most efficient and sustaining way, with the best possible outcome for you and/or all players, depending on the nature of the game.
It could be about winning or losing for sure, but it mostly isn't. It's about playing smart on various boards and in various arenas and managing your resources. Understanding game theory will help get a better overview of seemingly different situations, draw parallels and notice the differences and will help us think on our feet as well as see the situation objectively and plot out all possible viable moves.

Game theory is pretty much mathematicizing the decision-making process. It applies to a large variety of areas in life and presumes that the "players" are rational decision-makers, meaning that they know what they want, that they will use expected variables or their sets to model uncertainty present in any system, and that they will choose the optimal expected outcome for themselves out of all available options. This would mean that game theory will most likely help you navigate any quantifiable and measurable action. It is the basis of logical lateral or up movement through life which pertains to humans, animals, and computer models alike. Sometimes we act according to our feelings and gut instinct, but sometimes we need to roll up our sleeves, put our logic caps on and calculate out the best possible move in the numbers game. So if you've been looking for a 2021 personal development project, taking a peek at game theory might be just what you need to streamline the New Year ahead.

19/12/2020

***PAY NO ATTENTION TO THAT MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN ***

So there was our girl Dorothy, all prim and proper Kansas girl, who got tornadoed away from her aunt's and uncle’s home and kerplunked right in the middle of the weird Land of Oz

Oz is a strange magical land filled with witches and wizards where Dorothy finds a few new companions along the way, all of whom are searching for something. The Lion needs courage, the Tinman needs a heart, and the Scarecrow a brain, while Dorothy needs to find her way back home. So the Good witch of the North sends her to look for the grand wizard of Oz and the possy takes a walk down the Yellow Brick Road to Emerald City, hoping the Wizard of Oz can grant them their wishes.

We all at times believe there is someone out there who can grant us what we want, someone who knows better. When we are very young, and pretty much helpless to navigate the world alone, parents and caregivers serve as that omniscient and omnipotent gateway. They always know the answer and grant wishes we have no means of fulfilling by ourselves yet. And then we grow up and are able to do more and more for ourselves, but sometimes get stuck in seeking the wizard to grant out wish, expecting things to come from the outside before we're ready to put in the work. We expect that love, respect, success, opportunity, answers… need to be given from some external entity. Even Jung spoke of the Good father archetype, the one who knows all the answers, provides, and watches over us. But it has the underscoring opposite meaning you're a beneficiary of all this goodness only as you stay compliant and do as you’re told, so the other side of the all-knowing is tyrannical.

So failure to grow up is to constantly seek help and protection from a magical wizard that's going to make it all better and grant you your wish. Growing up is finding out that there is no wizard, that there is only a man behind the curtain pulling levers and trying to figure things out, just as you are. The all-powerful facade is smoke and mirrors, a semblance of power dependant on the point of view it's viewed from. It's a hard thing to figure out and truly emotionally understand because even a man behind the curtain will tell you to “pay no attention to that man behind the curtain” and will direct your gaze at the illusion.

The world is full of curtains and people twiddling the buttons behind them to present an alternate reality. We all do it to an extent. But when the jig is up, it’s liberating. No one knows best and the things we value most are those we yearn for most aka we believe we don’t still have them and speak from a place of lack. Most of these things are immaterial and are not possible to be possessed and for them to be bestowed upon you. They are cultivated and grown. The lion, tinman, and scarecrow didn’t need to be given courage, a heart, and a brain; they just needed the quest to be challenged enough so these traits can come to the forefront.

Do pay attention to the illusionist, know he's there, but take the quest, journey, experience anyway. You may just find a mousy little man, just as scared, confused, and clueless as you are at the end of the Yellow Brick Road and Emerald City may be an illusion, but at least you will have taken the journey, gotten some new friends and experiences along the way, and discover what you're made of. You can try, seek, find, slay witches, and click away your kick-ass shoes to get you back home when needed.

Pay attention to that man behind the curtain and create your own magic.

05/12/2020

*** VALUE STRUCTURES & WHAT WE SEE ***

What we see is not what we get. We get much more, but don’t need more than we see. Things are complex beyond belief, even the ones we perceive as simple or take for granted, especially those because if we can take them for granted it means that all the previous work, effort, knowledge and time invested was so grand that it eliminated the wild cards from it for the most part and we can safely ignore them.

We don’t see most of our surroundings and it's impossible to know and see all. Physically impossible, as we operate on the principle of pragmatics and not objective sight. Useful things are the best use of our cognitive resources and the brain doesn’t like to waste them. Even in the sciences that are the most objective models of looking at the world. It takes years and years to train a scientist to try and take as much of himself, his presumptions, biases and expectations out of the thing he's looking at, and it still often fails because we’ve evolved to see what we had to and in line with what we find valuable. Current usefulness determines which information gets through. You will not remember the wall colour of most rooms you've been in, the tile pattern or all daily interactions, you won't see the most obvious things right in front of you if you're focused on something else, because these other things are not useful aka have no value for your task at the moment.

We're effectively blind for a large chunk of our surroundings and locked into a tunnel vision by what we need to get as actionable information. It makes no difference which colours the cars around you are at the stoplight. The colour of the traffic light is all you need to successfully navigate the intersection. A bunch of us could witness the same event unfold, let’s say a play including a couple in a heated discussion. Depending on your mood, experience with relationships, background, what happened to you today or yesterday, your occupation and stress or chill levels, expectations of the play we'd get completely different things out of it. You may focus on the relationship, feel anxious seeing the spat you've had with your partner this morning replayed, you might focus on the lighting if you're a light designer, or scenery of you're an interior designer, you may listen only to the words and the way they are delivered while closing your eyes or focus more on body language if you're kinaesthetically inclined, you may be bored and look at the people watching the show because you're an extrovert ore interested I real people…

That's the thing about art and why it is so captivating, there is no one single interpretation because there is no one single value system. It may be on occasionally possible to step out of yourself and stop analysing the world through the prism of the persona you've acquired but, it is not possible to see all. You would go mad overloaded by unnecessary data that makes no difference in survival. No one of us is all-seeing or all-powerful. Even the wizard of Oz was just an old man behind the curtain putting on a show, and even Dorothy and the gang saw only what they wanted in their fear until Toot, unconsumed by human worries, opened the screen. Whenever you miss something don't feel bad, 50% of us didn’t see the gorilla walking right mid-screen and beating its chest in a psychological experiment. Because it didn't matter and there was a more important task to focus on.

Values make all the difference in viewing the world. The utility of the observed is king and rightfully so. We would be paralyzed with processing nonsense otherwise as every single thing we look at has infinite variations. One object alone can change and vary due to conditions ad infinitum. A kitchen chair in the first rays of morning light is not the same chair as the one at midnight, but for you it is. Its utility stays constant. Unless it changes psychologically – someone who used to sit there all the time moved and now it’s more than a chair, it’s a symbol of loss.

We miss most things, and that’s all right. What matters will reveal itself and attention to important details beats data overload every time.

28/11/2020

*** THE ORIENTING REFLEX ***

It's midnight. Everyone is sleeping and all is still. There are only the usual sounds of your home, the fridge is lightly buzzing, the dishwasher is sloshing around, the leaves are rustling outside on this windy night... You're just finishing up something and preparing for a blissful night's slumber and, lost in thought, you don't even notice the regular sounds you're so used to, they are simply not there for you. Suddenly there is a loud thump.

That shouldn't have happened in your model of a calm evening in a space you know so well. The already sleepy brain snaps awake and listens. Now that's one of the biggest discoveries in psychophysiology - the orienting reflex. It's here to keep you alive and make you aware of dangerous things that don't fit into the model of the environment you've created inside. For the brain the known is safe. It conserves energy and automates anything it can into a habit, or just tunes out all that is unchangeable. Things that stay the same are no threat, while an anomaly is the unknown, the chaos that seeped in and has a much higher chance of being potentially dangerous. We like to believe we can objectively see objects, patterns, and situations, but we can't. We've been designed to survive and what we see is not a thing in itself, but its usefulness to our existence.

As Jordan Peterson explains, the orienting reflex is a strong built-in mechanism that orients us towards things we don’t understand. Were you to be exposed to the same tone droning on for a while you'd just tune it out after a while and go about your business because it is safe to assume that a constant is safe. But as soon as the tone volume or pitch changes, you notice it, you're alert. It's an instinctual thing, inbuilt to help you make sense of your surroundings and it works on a precognitive level, initially bypassing the higher brain structures. So you'd first pull your hand away from the hot stove than think about the implications of getting burned or would first jump away if something peeps through the bushes in the woods, rather than contemplate if it is a baby deer or a mama bear. First, we get startled and, if the source of the change is not obvious or easily and conclusive identifiable immediately, the initial fright soon escalated into fear and panic. The whole body goes into a physiological reaction, followed by an emotional reaction in which the higher brain regions go back on-line to rationalize, assess... and explore. This applies to simple things as frights when something goes bump in the night, as well as life-changing events in which the current mind schema you've created about your world is shattered, such as betrayal, deceit, getting cheated on, finding out that someone is not who you thought they were. It could take weeks, months, and years to process before the psychophysiology comes back to neutral.

The idea of chaos and order reverberating from the Yin-Yang symbols is echoed in our hemispheric brain adaptation. The left hemisphere is (in most people) dedicated to the explored territory and the known. It's a space in which we can accurately assess which actions are going to have which effects in reality. The right hemisphere, on the other hand, is the exploratory one that thinks in metaphors and is the root of imagination. If you were to get startled by a midnight thump, the right hemisphere would quickly jump into making elaborate scenarios on what it could have been. We like to know because what we're able to conjure up in presumptions if we don't know is often far wilder than reality, which mostly takes the "simplest solution is usually right" route.

As usual, truth and meaning are to be found in the middle. The left needs to allow the possibility that it cannot fully map the environment because things change all the time. The right hemisphere needs to allow a regulatory impulse from the left hemisphere not to go into the stratosphere with the ideas and concepts not grounded in reality. One foot in known and other in unknown - that’s when you're truly alive, stable enough to be able to plan some things long term, and challenged enough to grow and adapt to the changes occurring all the time so you could course correct and act according to the most real thing you can see.

18/11/2020

*** "NO" WILL KEEP YOU FROM DYING ***

Not forever, of course. You can scream "NOOOO!" into death's face, which comes for all living things, until the cows come home and it will, eventually turn a deaf ear and take you. Death is an unavoidable part of the process, a price for having had the chance to live. Yet, saying "No" when you really mean and being, what those used to your agreeableness and constant availability, will call "selfish „is necessary to keep a whole myriad of diseases that can cut your life short or significantly damage it's quality at bay.

The connection of emotions, trauma, not speaking your mind, repressing emotions, needs and desires aka stress that could have been avoided, recognized and resolved and degenerative illness was investigated in depth by Dr. Gabor Maté in his book "When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress". For decades, as a physician he watched those who got seriously sick and found connections in their temperament, demeanour, behaviour and choices. This does not mean that a sick person is to blame for their disease, as we are rarely aware of what we’re doing, but that these things could have been avoided in the large majority of cases.

The people who got sick the most were those who took care of others so much that they neglected taking care of themselves. As Dr Gabor said the saying is not just a random old wives tale but “The good really do die young”. The telomeres, caps at the end of chromosomes that determine when the helix will deteriorate and take you with it, were significantly shorter in long-term caregivers, aging them over 10 years more than their chronological age and leaving them opened to senescence of cells and deterioration, meaning early onset of old age. The chronic stress of caregiving while suppressing their own needs aged them rapidly.

Serving and supporting is one of the noblest things a human can do, but how will you do it if the cup is empty and you're parched? If you don't ask for support, help or connection when it gets too hard or hopeless? Being all ego is seriously bad, but having no ego is equally disastrous. Saying “No”, being able to summon righteous productive anger when your boundaries are crossed, and needs ignored is healthy. Having personal boundaries is what makes us capable of true deep empathy, not giving support out of pity or duty. We need support. We need to express our truth no matter how uncomfortable. If you don't, things fester and rot inside. Unexpressed unhappiness, trauma or dissatisfaction makes you four times more likely to die young. Not rolling over and complying, not sacrificing all your desires, need for alone time, time to recharge, process and be able to express, will keep you sane AND healthy deep into old age.

Everything in your life is connected, the past, present, future, the mind and body, gut and brain, the hormones, tissues and immune system. It’s a balancing act. Say "No" when you need to and mean it. The world will manage if you sit one out here and there.

14/11/2020

*** DON'T THINK ***

Pay attention instead. By no means do we mean to not think things through, analyse situations and look at them from all angles to find the closest suitable semblance of objective truth. Of course you should be able to think, break things down and synthesise new information so you can make intelligent choices and move through life with a clear beacon of where you want to go, what you want to accomplish and who you want to be.

The point is that we overthink things, lacking the input of others (which is unavoidable as we are social to the bone). We come to conclusions or settle on the “one and only way” to do something and then pretend it's the only possible reality and course of action, and proceed to overthink further in order to manipulate things to go our way. We eliminate the "pay attention" part from the equation as we are too lost within our thoughts on the matter. We get stuck and detached from the ever-changing landscape of the matter. So please do think but, when interacting with others, put paying attention into the driver’s seat. If you're don’t, then it's not a dialogue you’re having. It’s just an agenda and an exercise in manipulation to get what you think you came here to get, which is mostly convincing the other person(s) you're right.

All of the old myths and stories value thought but put attention - as the ability to truly see, react, and adapt - at the top of their values. ". Horus is the deification of attention and is symbolized by the eye, meaning that which is not blind, which sees the world. The moment of paying attention and seeing is so much more important than thought that it is sacred, because it means you are not isolated but connected to all the outside circumstances. You can be the smartest person in the room, you may even have the best solution, but by no means do you know everything there is to know or is your solution the only (right) one. You have blind spots and the data you were operating with has most likely changed or could be updated. Even if it hasn’t and the blind spots are minimal, you'll get nowhere with your cause if you ignore the feedback and can’t read the room.

Pay attention. The formulation of “paying” is right on the money here since it is very energy consuming to deeply listen and see, with no judgements, no agendas. It's far more energetically expensive than walled-in private "thinking”. The better you see, the better you can act in reality. Do think and say what you think, but pay attention before you do because what you think may not be the fact or truth. Order is established by spoken truths and the only way to know what the truth is is to pay attention to the world. Being more intelligent will make you see better, but it works the other way around as well. Being present and alert trumps mental lockdowns into one’s own rigid "facts".

You’ll get infinitely more from an hour of paying attention to the person(s) you’re interacting with than from an hour of just speaking what you think and ignoring the subtleties of now. Things develop where personal truths intersect, and most will burn off as dead wood. More brains are actually better than one because each one has a piece of the puzzle needed for the whole picture. If you don’t pay attention you’ll miss the picture and be left holding your own little blue cut-out of the sky, so you can’t see the picture and others are left with an incomplete puzzle. Pay attention!

07/11/2020

*** ENANTIODROMEA***
You know the old one: "Road to hell is paved with good intentions". It's far more than an effort to explain why things can go bad in a million different ways, even if the intention behind them was good. But, if this is true, its opposite is also true: We have no idea where tiles of not such good intentions may subsequently pave the way to when accumulated. All things seem to be zig-zagging back and forth between good and bad trying to find balance. Having been alive for a while now, you're pretty much familiar with the eternal struggle for homeostasis that consists of madly overshooting and going into overkills on either side of the good-bad dipole.

Enantiodromea is a concept that one of the best and most in depth psychiatrists of all time, Carl Jung, spent quite a bit of time on. Coming from the fusion of Greek worlds enantiosis – opposite and drums – running course, a road, path, it would translate as something like "running counter to". The meaning behind it is that, sooner or later, anything led to its extreme will transmute into its opposite, the thing it defines itself against. The concept harks back all the way to the ancient cornerstone philosophers such as Plato who said "Everything arises in this way, opposites from their opposites" and Heraclitus who displayed this principle repeatedly in his characteristic deep riddles and statements on life and reality, where opposition and conflict were reoccurring themes. Jung credits Heraclitus for discovering "the most marvellous of all psychological laws: the regulative function of opposites. He called it enantiodromia, a running contrariwise, by which he meant that sooner or later everything runs into its opposite." Jung himself was of course more concerned with the reflections of this universal law on the human psyche and spoke of enantiodromia as the psyche's own search for equilibrium and „the emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time. This characteristic phenomenon practically always occurs when an extreme, one-sided tendency dominates conscious life; in time an equally powerful counter position is built up which first inhibits the conscious performance and subsequently breaks through the conscious control." Extremist tendencies in any direction have a way of getting flipped into the very things they were running from. Things that get locked into their own too narrow domain over time develop a powerful counterforce, a shadow entity that wants to break through in a desperate attempt to level out, as this is most conducive to mental health and the condition of life which tatters between the opposites as well. It's a concept very similar to the truths that I Ching speaks of where yang in its extreme form morphs into yin and vice versa.

In Jung's case enantiodromia is a sort of battle ground within an individual, a war, the constant tug of war between conscious and unconscious. The conscious things are under our control, they are privy for introspection and acting upon, but the unconscious makes up the most of the psyche. It's deeper down and often unavailable to us to rummage through, although it finds a way to peek through the conscious via emotions, strange faux pas for which we have no idea where they came from, idiosyncrasies, compulsions, slips of the tongue... He believes that when the conscious has built up something into an extreme, the shadow of that starts growing in the unconscious, until it swells up enough to break through. The thing is not to deny the show once you taste its existence and it enters the realm of knowable. Jung states that the only way to reach the state of internal completion, to feel whole in oneself and complete what he calls "the path of individuation", is to incorporate the opposing archetype within your psyche. To not run for the dark parts but acknowledge and accept. This is the only way to not appear and act in the world in a fragmentary way, always running from something and it is also a stellar moral achievement of a good psychoanalyst, who can’t tackle the darkness of others if he hadn’t accepted and incorporated his own.

Seemingly good paths can often lead to hells. Seemingly hellish circumstances and battles are often the necessary conduits to good and wholeness. Avoidance breeds neurosis and splits and the only way out is through. Judgement is the opposite of acceptance. Only at the point where we can imagine ourselves in the shoes of anyone in any possible circumstance, are we free of judgement and complete. After all, a playwright Terence wrote, many many dawns ago: "I am human, and nothing human is alien to me."

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