Building Blocks of the Archetype Model

Learning about our inner family archetypes is the first step towards understanding ourselves, transforming our relationships and working positive change in our lives. Archetypes are universal symbols that mean the same thing in every culture. The inner family archetypes use the symbols of father, mother, boy, and girl.

These four archetypes are the facets of our soul, the building blocks of our personality, and the image we project onto others. They affect every area of our lives. They are the filters through which we express ourselves. They influence how we think, how we feel, what we like or don't like, and what we aspire to. And they deeply impact all of our relationships by governing how we react to people and to situations.

The Archetypes as Tools

Our archetypes are like a toolbox. We can draw upon the best archetype for every situation and person we come in contact with. This makes us more competent. It dramatically transforms how we come across to others and also influences how they relate to us.

How the Archetypes Work Together

The four archetypes work together within us in loving and unloving ways that become our automatic response patterns to situations. The loving patterns help us to become true to ourselves and to others so we can accelerate our personal growth and build intimate, loving relationships. The unloving patterns sabotage us, undermine our relationships and prevent us from reaching our full potential.

  

As we start to define which archetype is up to bat in each circumstance and relationship that plays out in our life, we can become more competent by substituting loving archetypal patterns for unloving ones.

Each of our four inner family archetypes dominates one of our four levels of self–the superconscious mind, which focuses our spiritual connection; the conscious mind, which brings forth our ability to think; the subconscious mind, which accesses our emotions, and the unconscious mind which relates to our rejected self. Where each archetype falls says a lot about us and about our outlook on life. It determines our archetypal pattern and influences our personality.

The more you learn about your own inner family archetypes, the more you will discover new practical ways to transform your life and relationships and experience renewed vitality, wholeness, and joy.

Become acquainted with your own inner family archetypes here.

Interested in learning more about the inner family archetypes? Why We Do What We Do: four pathways to your authentic self by Caroline Hantske, Brian Emmanuel Grey, and Therese Emmanuel Grey, provides a complete description of the four inner family archetypes and explains how these archetypes influence the superconscious, conscious, subconscious, and unconscious mind. The book aids you in assessing your own spiritual, thinking, feeling, sabotaging, and socializing archetypes so you can understand your archetypal patterns of behavior.