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You Must Outgrow Limerence, Not ‘Fight’ It

Here’s a fantastic quote from Carl Jung, which illustrates how painful psychological conundrums (like limerence) can’t be ‘solved’ by the same type of thinking that created them.

“The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble…. They can never be solved, but only outgrown…. This ‘outgrowing’, as I formerly called it, on further experience was seen to consist in a new level of consciousness. Some higher or wider interest arose on the person’s horizon, and through this widening of view, the insoluble problem lost its urgency. It was not solved logically in its own terms, but faded out when confronted with a new and stronger life-tendency.”

Recovering from limerence is all about becoming a stronger, more energised version of yourself that cannot be driven limerent, because s/he already experiences interesting emotions on his/her own.

Never forget this truth. Never fall into erroneously thinking that you need to ‘fight’ limerence head-on, or focus on your LO more than you’re already doing. What you really need to do is rise above the whole topic of limerence.

And, the only way to achieve this is through subconscious reprogramming, since it is what targets the emotional underpinnings of limerence with laser precision.