About Carl Greer
Carl Greer, PhD, PsyD, is a retired clinical psychologist and Jungian analyst, a businessman, and shamanic practitioner, author, and a philanthropist, funding over 60 charities and more than 1,600 past and current Greer Scholars. He has taught at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago and been on staff at the Replogle Center for Counseling and Well-Being. He received his PhD from Columbia University and was on their faculty teaching finance and management in their graduate school of business.
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When You Have Unfinished Business
If you were to take stock of your life, would you be uncomfortable with the amount of unfinished business you ...
Read More Tidying Up Your Bucket List
Many people have a bucket list, a list of things they want to make sure they experience in this life. ...
Read More What Roles Do You Play in the Story of Your Life?
We all have a story about who we are and why we experience what we do. What is your story? ...
Read More Rewrite the Story That Has Held You Back
What’s your story? Is it working for you? Some people would say their story is “I guess I wasn’t born ...
Read More The Suddenlies That Change Your Life
I have often led workshops for people who want to learn techniques for gaining insights and momentum that will help ...
Read More Engage Nature’s Healing Energies
When we get in touch with nature, we may find that we feel a deep sense of calm and well-being. ...
Read More The Last Moment
The last moment before the sun sets. The last moment before a seed leaves the dandelion, taken away on the ...
Read More One Healthy Change Leads to Another
Are you resisting a change you know you should make? Making changes in one area of your life might help ...
Read More When Hidden Fear Is Keeping You Stuck in Your Story
Your biggest stumbling block to personal transformation might be fear—and that fear might be hidden in your unconscious. Even if ...
Read More Stalled Out on the Way to Your Goal?
Facing the possibility of failure can be daunting. Too often, our default is to cling to the familiar even if ...
Read More The Mysterious Beauty of a Synchronicity
My friend was walking in the woods thinking about his father, who had recently died, when a huge buck emerged ...
Read More Initiation and Your Spiritual Essence
Have you experienced a spiritual initiation? To become aware of your spiritual essence is to experience an initiation. Sometimes called ...
Read More Free Yourself from the Familiar
Our stories are often reflected in what we say to others when they ask how we are. You might tell ...
Read More From Fractured to Whole: Individuation and the Ouroboros
In some ways, all of us are fractured, a collection of selves that can be at odds with each other. The ...
Read More When Conflicts Are Giving You a Headache
The emotional stress of being in conflict with others can take its toll on you, even causing headaches or other ...
Read More Let Nature Help You Heal
Did you know that natural sounds such as the wind swooshing through trees and water softly sloshing against the shore ...
Read More Is It Possible to Change the Past?
In each person’s life story are unchangeable elements. Past events become part of the story of a person’s life, and ...
Read More Good-bye to Robotic Ways, Hello to Vitality
Once when on a shamanic journey, I encountered Harlequin-like figures who weren’t friendly. I paid attention to my emotional response ...
Read More Symbols That Appear in Dreams and Shamanic Journeys
Symbols that appear in dreams and on shamanic journeys can offer us insights and energies helpful in our quest for ...
Read More Power Animals and Energetic Allies
A frightening figure or animal encountered on a dream or shamanic journey may have invaluable insights for you. Have you ...
Read More The Secret to Why You Might Feel Tired
One of the most common complaints people share with physicians and therapists is that they feel tired and run down. ...
Read More Feeling Grateful, Feeling Connected to Source
Do you sometimes find it hard to be thankful for all that you have in your life? Gratitude starts with ...
Read More When Not To Be Present in the Moment
Learning to be present in the moment is an admirable goal. When we’re fully focused on what is happening in ...
Read More Overcome Self-Doubt and Perfectionism
Striving for excellence can lead to very satisfying achievements, but when is enough enough? Do you really need more money, ...
Read More Nature Videos for Easing Stress and Aggression
Feeling angry and stressed out by what is going on in the world and your life? Simply watching nature videos ...
Read More The Secret to Why Your Behavior Is Inconsistent
Is your behavior inconsistent with your goals? If so, it could be keeping you from living the life you say ...
Read More A Balance Between Battling Toxins and Building Immunity
Determined to live long and healthy lives, we go to war against germs and viruses that can jeopardize our health ...
Read More Are You Experiencing an Anniversary Reaction?
A man finds he is irritable for no particular reason and suddenly realizes that it has been two years to ...
Read More 4 Ways to Change the Story of Your Health
It’s easy to become overwhelmed by all the conflicting information about what you ought to eat, how often you should ...
Read More Your Genes Don’t Have to Determine Your Health Story
Discovering that you have a “bad” gene might frighten or upset you, but you are the storyteller and you don’t ...
Read More Moving on from Losses
The celebrations of All Saints Day, Day of the Dead, and Halloween (derived from the European pagan holiday of Samhain) ...
Read More Dance for Health, Dance for Healing
Dancing has many health benefits, from potentially preventing dementia to improving balance—and of course, it is a form of healthy ...
Read More Change Your Health Story Using Forest Bathing
Walk through a forest and your body and mind will soon reflect that you are free of electronics, artificial light, ...
Read More Agape Love and Spirituality
Imagine a loving Spirit who is compassionate and forgiving to all, possessing the quality of agape love, the love for all ...
Read More Let Go of the Energy of Anxiety
Thinking about the problem of managing it can actually make you anxious. Anxiety is like a snake devouring its own ...
Read More A Healing Message from Nature
Spending time in nature offers many health benefits. It reduces your amount of stress hormones, bathes you in sunlight that ...
Read More Energy Healing and Nature
Many different wisdom traditions have recognized that natural spaces can affect people’s energy in particular ways. Are you sensitive enough ...
Read More You Can Change the Story of Your Health
Our stories are the way we understand our experiences. Just as you have a story of your life, you have ...
Read More Ayni and Spirit
In the Quechua language, there is a word, ayni, which means reciprocity. Having ayni with Spirit, the creative force that ...
Read More When Your Spending Habits Aren’t Working for You
The beginning of a new year holds the promise of reinvention, retooling, and rejuvenation, and we eagerly anticipate that this ...
Read More 7 Keys to Dream Interpretation
Have you ever wondered what a dream means, or are you worried that a frightening dream could be a warning ...
Read More A Time to Imagine
Is it a time to imagine what you might create for yourself? When planning, planting, and cultivating something new—such as a ...
Read More How I Think About Giving on the Street
When it comes to our stories, most of us want to think of ourselves as people who are supportive of ...
Read More Writing a New Story of Health: A Review of Breast Cancer, A Soul Journey by Patricia Greer
Cancer comes unbidden, an intrusion that evokes fear and brings disruption. How do we coexist with it? Even if it ...
Read More Change the Story of Your Health
A physician may have the persona of a wise healer, all-knowing about what to do to be healthy. Yet, the ...
Read More Integrating Transpersonal Experiences Into Your Everyday Life
Shamanic and Jungian practices allow you to engage energies that can fuel personal transformation. However, too often, inertia begins to ...
Read More Romance, Relationships, and Risk
Did you ever send a valentine and feel a twinge of fear that you wouldn’t receive one in return? I ...
Read More Working with the Archetypal Energy of Endings—The Death Principle
If you are resisting change, and you would like to overcome that resistance, you may benefit from using shamanic and ...
Read More The Gift of Letting Go of Perfectionism
The song “We Three Kings” and the image of the three wise men captured my imagination when I was a ...
Read More When You Feel Like a Leaf In the Wind: Writing a New Story
Have you ever felt like a leaf in the wind, blown about by powers beyond your control? Does it seem ...
Read More The Secret of Sublime Living
When was the last time you watched the sunrise over the horizon or observed the changing colors of the clouds ...
Read More Your Journey Inward: A Review of The Inner Camino by Sara Hollwey and Jill Brierley
The overlaps between Jungian and shamanic ideas and principles are numerous. As a Jungian analyst and shamanic practitioner, I am ...
Read More Stop Micromanaging People and Write a New Story Using Archetypal Energies
Once upon a time, there was a leader who couldn’t stop micromanaging people. This story is familiar to all of ...
Read More Yearning for Something Else
How much of your story has involved yearning for something else, versus working with what you have? When I was ...
Read More The Power of Storytelling for Individual and Organizational Change
Many say casually, “You could write a book about what I’ve been through!” But how much time do we spend ...
Read More Breaking Through Obstacles So You Can Write a New Story
What is your story? There’s a story that you’d like other people to see, and the story you’d like it ...
Read More Healing from Within
Therapy patients are more likely to have successful outcomes when they see therapy as a tool for self-healing. Good physicians ...
Read More Regaining Your Confidence
Do you lose confidence after a loss or failure? If it’s a particularly big loss or failure, or part of ...
Read More My Story: Archetypal Themes, Plot Twists, and Becoming the Storyteller
Like many stories, my story has archetypal themes and plot twists that led me to my current story. When I was ...
Read More Time to Write and Bring to Life a New Story
You can have many incentives to change your life: for example, recognizing that you need to change your financial situation, ...
Read More New Year, New Theme: Getting Unstuck from Old Habits
Archetypes are patterns infused with energy. When you look at your patterns, that is, your habits of mind or behavior, ...
Read More Thanksgiving Prayers and Gratitude
Thanksgiving is a day dedicated to giving thanks for the blessings received during the year. It can also be a ...
Read More Is Gossip Destructive or Productive?
We live in a world where gossip can quickly go viral. In the past, true and untrue stories told about ...
Read More After the Honeymoon: Idealization and Disillusionment
A while back, I read that the honeymoon phase of most relationships is about 16 months. In that first 16 ...
Read More The Longest Journey Starts with One Step: Getting Started with Making Changes
It’s said that the longest journey starts with one step, but sometimes, that step seems so big that we talk ...
Read More Bearing the Tension of Being Betwixt and Between
Often, when we are anxiously betwixt and between an old and a new way of being, we feel an inner ...
Read More Your Ideals and Choices: Questioning Your Beliefs
Your ideas about right and wrong have immense influence over the decisions you make. But how deeply have you examined ...
Read More Expand the Boundaries of Your Life
Each of us has a story, but it’s not always a satisfying one. To change your story, you have to ...
Read More Service and Cookies: Balance Your Needs with Your Desire to Serve Others
If you’re not able to attend to your livelihood and take care of your basic needs, you won’t have enough energy ...
Read More Using Your Energy Wisely: Reexamine Your To-Do List!
It’s easier than we think to go through life on autopilot without being truly aware of what we’re doing. I’ve ...
Read More Seize Your Opportunities for Greater Fulfillment
Often, tragic events remind us of the fragility of life. If you knew for sure when you would die, what ...
Read More The Collective Unconscious: The Birthplace of All Ideas, Stories, and Myths
The collective unconscious contains the prototypes of all ideas, stories, and myths, including that of the sage who offers wisdom ...
Read More Running Goodwill Deficits
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and ...
Read More Ayni and Shamanic Work: Achieving Balance and Harmony Within Ourselves and With Our Environment
Some years ago, I was working with fire as part of a shamanic ritual, and the fire had died down. ...
Read More New Year, New Story
Most of us don’t take enough time to reflect on our stories and consciously create new ones. Instead, we get ...
Read More Archetypal Energies Influence Your Unconscious
Understanding archetypal energies helps us to better understand the momentum of our lives and to plan for ways to bring ...
Read More The Purpose and Nature of Shamanism and Shamanic Practices
Shamans are healers who use specific techniques to alter their consciousness and journey to other energetic realms. There, they gain ...
Read More The Art of Listening
Hitchhiking across the U.S. as a young man, spending countless hours in strangers’ cars, I began to develop my listening ...
Read More Reflecting on The Necktie and The Jaguar
What is the value of self-reflection? I have thought a lot about that lately as I’ve completed and just published ...
Read More Listening to the Call of the Jaguar
Each of us has a life about which a story can be told. When coming up with the title for ...
Read More Connecting to Spirit in Nature
When I was not yet old enough for kindergarten, I would often leave behind my baby brother, who was still ...
Read More Tap into Transformative Power
To be practical and win others' approval, many people put aside their dreams and set new priorities that are out ...
Read More Your New Story of Happiness Starts Today
“I really should call my old friend.” “I forgot how much I enjoyed this!” “What took me so long to ...
Read More Treating a Spiritual Illness
Whatever your state of health and well-being, however hard you strive for greater wellness, you might not realize that you're ...
Read More Playing with Metaphors to Help You with Transformation
Is your story not working for you? Does it seem to be influencing what you’re experiencing and causing you unhappiness? ...
Read More Reclaim Your Vitality by Going into Nature
Being in nature reminds us that vitality involves creativity and change. In the woods or on a beach, you become ...
Read More The Potential for Change in One Short Pause
One short pause might hold potential for a big transformation. By not instantly reacting to a situation and instead, taking ...
Read More Happier Life, Happier Ending
If the story of your life were to be told someday many years from now, what would it be and ...
Read More Practice the Art of Listening Well
In working as an analyst and as a clinical psychologist, I’ve learned that it’s best to listen, listen, listen, and ...
Read More Resolve Conflicts Using the Martial Arts Wisdom of Kime and Ma
We all experience conflicts, and two principles from the martial arts, kime and ma, can help us resolve them and avoid feeling that ...
Read More The Poem of Your Life
In ancient times, aging poets in Japan would craft a death poem in acknowledgment that their time on earth was ...
Read More Stop Self-Sabotaging When on the Brink of Success
Some people always seem to complete their projects and reach their goals. Others have a pattern of quitting or even ...
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