INDIVIDUATION and the applied Trilogos Method

Dear Trilogos friends,

Individuation is an inner process that is triggered, deepened and tested again and again through the interface with the outside. Through our ability to perceive, to communicate and in the confrontation with others, we get to know our own patterns and thus experience where our limits, our strengths and weaknesses lie.

Individuation as a lifelong path of development and growth happens one way or another, and completely without our intervention. This begs the question of why we should actively intervene in that process.

There are two main reasons for this:

The first is that you’re most likely experiencing a deficiency of sorts in one or more areas of your life. In other words, you may have health problems, be struggling with relationships, or face financial problems or career and workplace challenges. When such obstacles become visible, we generally begin to look for relief and healing.

You may already have a long process of searching and many years of therapy behind you without having found a lasting solution. If that is the case, you may have reached the point where you’re ready to embark on a search for actual root causes of your problem, aware that many of these issues are quite difficult to get at. It may feel like a leap into the unknown, seeing that you’ll most likely feel a diffuse sense of foreboding, a hint of fear within you that you can’t quite pinpoint. Your inner being, however, your self, is one step ahead of you. It knows what you’re up to and will show you—provided you listen inwardly and stay brave.

Alternatively, you may decide, motivated by your inner drive, to work on overcoming your obstacles and integrating your shadow parts even if your path thus far hasn’t been particularly arduous or daunting. In that case, you’re actively developing your personality. By engaging in this type of development, which is more preemptive, may be spared some minor and major failures or symptoms and their associated rocky learning curve. Read more...

In doing so, you develop the qualities and abilities that are still dormant in you, such as: the ability to love, compassion, understanding, willingness to accept, healing power and spiritual openness.

This can be likened to the inner and outer talent of a musician who is not only aware of his gift and his abilities but who cultivates them in order to bring forth an ever more perfect sound through constant practice, and to in this way enrich and bring beauty to his own life and those of his fellow human beings.