The Market as a Call for Personality Integration:
The Application of Shadow Work to Investing

~ Vail ~

We often experience stress and doubt when we are investing or trading. When we consciously integrate the internal cause of that emotional trigger, we may step into a new perspective. This in turns often facilitates the decision-making process. Markets are a reflection of mass psychology. That hive mind is reactive in nature, just like us when we are reacting to repressed emotional wounds. According to Jung, each individual’s unconscious mind is a fractal of a collective unconscious. Does the integration of any experienced reactivity then have a positive influence on the way we manage our assets?