Yin and Yang in Relationships - (Anima and Animus Integration and Barriers to Intimacy)

Yin and Yang in Relationships (Part 1) - Anima and Animus Integration and Barriers to Intimacy

This is a collaboration video featuring Michael Jones, a fellow Life-Coach who is also an MD.

This video is the first part in a series of clips about Yin and Yang in relationships. And in this clip we talk about the differences between Anima integration in men and Animus integration in women, from the vantage point of our own experiences with integrating our inner opposites.

We also talk about how to grow together with a romantic partner and have a sense of intimacy in a relationship through working through those barriers and misunderstandings that stem from unconsciousness and trauma.

Michael is also a life coach. For anyone interested in his services, here is the link to sign up...

He also has written a book detailing a framework to understand relationships called "Conflict and Connection: Anatomy of Mind and Emotion". If you're interested, check out the link...

[TheDiamondNet]

He has also written a book, "Conflict and Connection: Anatomy of Mind Emotion", which is linked below...

[ThomasMegabezemboy]

Projecting on potential partners is something I see a lot, in my own experience but also in people around me. It's a fickle beast to deal with when someone's wearing the rose coloured lenses

[curseword]

Complimentarys and negatives.... legit!!!
Since starting the work on myself trying to heal the Animus....I've actually been gravitating to the various Anima in people and seeing how projected emotional responses (good and bad)... are literally coming thick and fast....
I've learned ALOT about myself by becoming aware, accepting... being UTTERLY (almost brutally) HONEST and now trying my hardest to integrate ...
I just want to be comfortable being.... and I'm enjoying this process FREAKING MUCH!

You guys rock 🙏👽🖤
Thank you so much

[Sharkuterie]

This is an interesting topic, thank you. As a heterosexual woman, I have gravitated towards men with a feminine quality to their expression and women with masculine qualities... while being completely repelled by men and women that act hyper-masculine or feminine, regardless of gender. I have never analyzed that very deeply, but you’re inspiring me that perhaps I should, haha.

[jonathanvee]

Its the acknowledgement of feelings like resentment that will help in finding solutions for problems with your partner. In my experience, I am a very agreeable person. And because of that, I never really got to express my masculine side. Which caused me to repress my true feelings of what I really wanted to say. And once I did, I asked the same for my girlfriend. Ever since then we have been working on our communication since we both tend to be too agreeable, with not sharing our true feelings about things that could bother us.

[nepotiums]

Very true. In the deep recess of the minds of both the female and male counterparts, we have elements of the respective personalities, for example, an adult man with idiosyncrasies of a woman or an adult woman with idiosyncrasies of a man. However, what makes the emotional bonding in a relationship is filling in the space of need, love and respect.

[ninasun]

I love your ideas and I think you do a great job articulating a lot of things I have been struggling in my personal life :) I'm a psychology and therapy student and I've always valued connections and emotions a lot, but at the same time I am also aware that I have an easily triggered defense mechanism when too much emotions arise (which lead to more risk of getting hurt). I know I have my walls to break down to, but I find it very difficult to do that when my partner has an even bigger wall and I don't know how to approach this. I have been feeling very stagnant with this relationship and with myself. There isn't much conflict going on between us, but I also never brought up things that bothered me, such as his lack of sharing emotions and vulnerability. I don't want to push him, but I also now have a lot of doubt if he's the right person for me at all. Also in a "casual relationships" world we live in today, I feel like a lot of times people only want the good parts of a relationship, but run away the second when there's any conflict. How do you suggest to further break down these walls between partners?

[Kirkjubejarklaustur]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience, as always

[LB]

This video came right in time, thanks!

[aajulie]

Is there more videos in this series ? I just watched and enjoyed this one

[elvergreen]

Wow you really use your hands alot to explain thing... 😄

[PersonS]

I absolutely love your insights and watched many videos of yours since I found your channel. With this one I found it difficult to concentrate on what you were saying because you both use the word 'like' way too much it got a little annoying to be honest. Maybe watch that next time?

Or maybe I should just learn to not let that get in the way of enjoying a video... anyway keep making these! Learning a lot from you

[daedalusdreamjournal]

Thanks for the vid!! By the way, on the subject of most people (myself included I am afraid) not really being taught or having learn about how to deal with relationship, would keeping the following quote from "Altered Carbon" be something appropriate in this? :


"Assume Nothing! It's the only way you'll be ready for anything."


Good day to you both and everyone else here :)

[edgarfranco]

Please never go back to the fake backgrounds.