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The King and Queen of all quizzes!
What do you get when you merge:
Japanese psychology, the Rorschach inkblot test, a sprinkle of Jungian psychology, and the Tarot all together?
Well … you’ll find out! (But I can guarantee that it’s probably one of the weirdest tests you’ll ever take.)
What Type of Inner Work Do You Need?
There are many routes we can take to get us through the depths of our unconscious. Which path should you take?
Subconscious Mind Test
This test isn’t meant to diagnose you, just point out the most likely possibility when it comes to what’s buried within your subconscious. As with any quiz, accuracy can’t be 100% guaranteed (but we’ve tried our best!). Enjoy!
What is the Subconscious Mind?
Your subconscious mind can be compared to an inner basement in which all of the material not currently inhabiting your conscious awareness is stored.
Every memory, skill, experience, feeling, thought, and forgotten or subliminal piece of information is housed in your subconscious mind. It is this powerful part of your brain that carries out actions on autopilot, delivers intuitive and instinctual information, and predetermines how you will act in any given situation.
Your subconscious mind is also where unresolved or suppressed feelings, desires, and ideas dwell, and is therefore where your shadow self (or the rejected parts of yourself) can lurk. For this reason, shadow work is one of the most powerful inner work tools in exploring your subconscious mind and freeing it of any weight it may be carrying. You can explore this hidden part of you with the Shadow Work Journal.
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
The subconscious mind for most people is a total mystery. Yet science has proven that a large percentage of our feelings, thoughts, and major life decisions are based on the impulses arising from this strange realm.
Your subconscious mind influences everything from the partner you choose, to the jobs you take on, personas you adopt, addictions you develop, and aspirations you have in life. The craziest thing is that often we aren’t even aware of the impact that our subconscious mind has on us.
As I pointed out above, there is also another darker side to the subconscious mind: it is the place where we often hide or suppress the emotions that we don’t want to face.
Mind you, not everything buried in the subconscious mind is negative – there can be brilliantly creative and joyful elements within it as well – but some of what the subconscious contains can feel quite strange or confronting.
In this test, you’re presented with the possibility to learn either positive or negative qualities about yourself, and receiving either is neither right nor wrong, it just is.
What result did you get?
Share your results below!
Isolation. But I see I am not alone in that :). Felt very true to me. The Holy longing part in particular.
It’s Love also. I wonder if the test is broken or if most people who feel like completing the test have the same predisposition to choose the same answers…
Love. Hmm… well some of us have been so manipulated you don’t dare fully
express it anymore. More on that some other time. Good test.
Curious what you guys think about the term subconscious. We hear subconscious,
unconscious, collective unconscious… Are they interchangeable? Are there nuances
to the different terms? And where does this reside? Also, did people actually use
these terms before Jung and Freud?
Thanks so much.
Will 1:49 Chicago time :)
Love
So relived. I tought thet there is something wrong with me. Feel so diferent, too deep, too sensitive, too cerring and so sad that when i put my boundaeies up, people who i give love, are mad at me. I tought that i was not good enough, but now i realized that i was manipulated and used. But it is hard for me to set boundaries. I hurt when people i love are not happy with my desizions. I wish their eyes would allways shine, i wish them not to suffer or feel negative emotions and i blame myself for their response, that i was not good enough or thet i am doing something wrong. I am a people pleaser and it is hard for me to change this pattern. I can feel in advance, before even acting to set boundaries, the reactions of my close ones. So i don’t do it, to avoid negative reactions. And when i forget on myself completly, i usualy snap becouse my supressed unease with going beyond myself to please others. And this snap of mine gives me the reason to blame myself that i deserve not to be loved. Hard ending circle.
Thank you for your writings. You help me so so much. Thank you, thank you, .
Wish you all the light and happiness. I love your work. So real and spiritual at the same time. Perfect for me
Great tests eem accurate mostly
It was a very good experience one I needed, I had asked this question for years,and it totally took me to it. Now I can learn how to work on it. Thank highly recommend, definitely sharing with everyone. XOXO summer
It was spot on, eerie even. But very helpfull, although confronting.
really i felt so happy to gone through the the test..felt happy for the results
Absolutely loved it…Will definitely promote this site/page to as many as I possibly can…Thank you so much for your work…
LOVE
Courage
Very accurate for me.
Impressive =)