How to Eliminate Inner Conflict like a Man

The Masculine Archetypes (King, Warrior, Magician, Lover) are primal forces that everybody has inside them. I wrote this for a an audience of men. I imagine women can get something out of this too.

You can think of the King, Warrior, Magician and Lover as internal characters, aspects of your personality, who are concerned with different facets of your awareness as a man.

Ideally they work together to help you get outcomes that you want. At worst, they are in conflict or pursuing outcomes that don’t serve you. This can look like self-sabotage or procrastination among other things. This is usually an indicator that you have a struggling King who needs your support. Helping the King identify his core virtues and elevating him to a position of leadership is critical.

To take a deep dive on the King himself, see my other article “The King is in Your Head, Long Live the King”

To commune with the archetypes you need to understand each of them and how they relate to each other. Each has a different domain within your psyche, and ideally they work together as an alliance. However, each has their own aims, preferences and shadows so they often have dysfunctional dynamics just…