Inner Work 220: How to deflect when someone tries to project their stuff onto you
Inner Work: A Spiritual Growth Podcast
Josephine Hardman
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Projection is a defense mechanism where someone displaces their own unresolved feelings or thoughts onto another person or group. It's a way for people to cope with emotional discomfort and conflict without acknowledging their own emotions.
We've all projected our stuff unconsciously onto others at times... and we've also been the recipients of others' projections.
In the world we're living in today, there's SO much projection going on. As lightworkers and spiritually awake people, we need a strategy to (1) protect ourselves from others' projections and (2) be conscious and mindful enough so WE don't project our stuff onto others, either.
Join me for this episode where I discuss:
- why projection is such a common human reaction (and coping mechanism)
- what it really means to project -- and to be projected onto
- how to shift your mindset and internal attitude so that others' projections don't affect you as much
- how to set inner and outer boundaries so you can protect your space, energy, and sanity... without allowing others to project onto you
- developing a more confident, fierce, self-respecting, and assertive persona so you can stand your ground when needed
- how to become a MASTER DEFLECTOR - someone who can see through others' projections and not automatically react or take them personally
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| 0:00.0 | This is Inner Work, a spiritual growth podcast, a sanctuary for healers, lightworkers, and spiritual |
| 0:12.5 | practitioners here to raise consciousness on this planet. You've come to the right place to heal |
| 0:19.7 | yourself and fully awaken your unique gifts, |
| 0:23.8 | so you can show up to serve others as powerfully and purposefully as possible. |
| 0:30.0 | I am your host, Josephine Hartman, a certified intuitive healer and Akashik Records Master Teacher. |
| 0:42.8 | I'm honored you're here and delighted to walk with you on your path for a little while. |
| 0:50.2 | To connect with me and explore ways of working together, please head over to josephinehartman.com. |
| 1:12.8 | Hello and welcome to the podcast. Before diving into today's episode, I'd love to invite you to join my email community, which is free and gives you access to my Akashik Records mini-course and weekly newsletter. You can join any time by clicking the link in the show notes. |
| 1:21.3 | So I've been thinking about this episode and the topic for this episode for a few months now. It has been bubbling up and it feels important to put this out now because I've been noticing more and more and hearing |
| 1:30.2 | from other people how there is a lot of projection going on out in the world, just humans who are |
| 1:40.0 | projecting their stuff onto others, maybe onto you. |
| 1:44.8 | So we need to talk about this openly, and we need some kind of strategy or approach |
| 1:50.8 | to, first of all, protect ourselves from others' projections, and second of all, to be |
| 1:59.3 | conscious and mindful enough and taking personal responsibility. |
| 2:05.4 | So we ourselves don't project our stuff onto others either. |
| 2:11.0 | Because of course, we want to be part of the solution here. |
| 2:14.8 | So let's start with what is projection. So we can get on the same page with what these |
| 2:20.6 | terms really mean. Psychological projection is a defense mechanism where someone displaces their |
| 2:29.4 | own feelings or emotions onto another person or group. It's a way for people to cope with emotional |
| 2:38.1 | discomfort and conflict without really having to acknowledge their own feelings. When we project onto |
| 2:47.5 | someone else, think of it as literally projecting a movie or an image onto a blank |
| 2:55.4 | screen. So in other words, we are projecting our own movie, the movie of our minds, our emotional |
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