IFS seems to me a genre of what Jung called active imagination—just one of many possible ways to set the stage to let the unconscious come to expression in something like a waking dream.
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IFS is a style of Active Imagination, the “parts” are Jungian complexes. They basically just changed the names and marketed better—which hey, whatever gets people doing the thing.
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I don’t often see people overlapping their IFS practice with paying attention to their dreams. Do people do this and I just don’t see it, or are folks just leaving that on the table?
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not IFS specifically but one indication i look for that i'm making "real progress" (whatever that means) on emotional / therapy stuff generally is that i start having more dreams and that the dreams have new content that hasn't been in my dreams before, so i do track that
So paying attention to dreams for broad change in patterns: yes
Noting if characters/situations in the dreams are ‘flavored’ with a particular Part: no
yeah, I’mma retweet this later and see if anyone’s doing the latter.
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