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Joined: Thu Nov 19, 2009 8:09 pm Posts: 219 Location: A World of Pure Imagination
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I've started going running in the mornings. It helps emotionally and physically.
Joined: Thu Feb 12, 2009 9:58 am Posts: 1904 Location: Halfway Down the Stairs
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crystaluniverse wrote:
How about your 6th function, Ni. Do you use it to caution others about their strategies/plans of action?
Hmm...I don't really know. I don't think so, I'm pretty sure I tend to use Te for that, pointing out the flaws in their plan by laying out logically how each one would develop ("A would lead to B, which would lead to C, see?", that kind of thing).
_________________ What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. - Gerard Manley Hopkins
Joined: Sat Jun 27, 2009 4:26 pm Posts: 16 Location: Ontario
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I use meditation, prayer, yoga, energy visualization and the advice of those I respect and love. I also use my Ne very extensively to support my Fi ... because the more I know about something, the clearer I seem to understand it. But I've learned the hard way that I can't skip over processing of my Fi feelings, because if I ignore them they just stay there and can get worse, unresolved.
I also allow myself to step away from gathering when I'm overwhelmed, and go to a quieter spot to breathe and relax and just feel alive and refresh myself ... quick meditation or breath control to release the tension that can develop in me, especially in my head, when I'm overwhelmed. Often during this it just helps to allow my thought to flow freely, and observe them uncritically while they do, without making any decisions in that moment but rather just learning what I'm feeling and why ... translating the Fi sensations / vibes into more Ne understanding of the situation. Does anyone else do this kind of thing?
Joined: Wed Jul 29, 2009 6:28 am Posts: 1761
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brightyellow wrote:
I advocate climbing trees and pouncing from the uppermost branches.
very belated -
How about fishing without really trying... This kind of fishing will make you feel like a mighty wilderness survivor in a snap. Feeling so empowered, you'll be ready to face the real wilderness that is the savage world of modern man. I think I'll try it myself next time I go to the beach.
Joined: Thu Nov 19, 2009 8:09 pm Posts: 219 Location: A World of Pure Imagination
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crystaluniverse wrote:
How about fishing without really trying... This kind of fishing will make you feel like a mighty wilderness survivor in a snap. Feeling so empowered, you'll be ready to face the real wilderness that is the savage world of modern man. I think I'll try it myself next time I go to the beach.
Joined: Wed Jul 29, 2009 6:28 am Posts: 1761
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Class: Pirate
I like my food: Delicious
I think that Native American culture can teach us INFPs a thing or two about survival in a complicated, stressful world. A week ago, a mouse trap was set in our garage - one of those fancy aluminum cages (sorry, Eylrid) with a collapsing cage door, but the marauding mouse still hasn't bitten the bait. In contrast, that simple Native American fish trap catches fish in a matter of minutes our hours. Of course it can be argued that mice are so much smarter then fish, and men are so much smarter than mice. Or maybe in our case, mice are so much smarter than men - ha! But so much for modern trappings (pun totally intended). Time to go back to the basics.
Joined: Thu Nov 19, 2009 8:09 pm Posts: 219 Location: A World of Pure Imagination
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Joined: Thu Nov 19, 2009 8:09 pm Posts: 219 Location: A World of Pure Imagination
Gender: male
MBTI type: INFP
Enneagram type: 9
Enneagram Tritype: 945
Joined: Tue Feb 03, 2009 7:20 pm Posts: 1113 Location: London
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*thread bump*
Recognise that you are just different, and that there is nothing wrong with you. INFPs march to the beat of a different drummer.
Spoiler:
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." — Henry David Thoreau
David Keirsey wrote:
If I do not want what you want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong.
Or if I believe other than you, at least pause before you correct my view.
Or if my emotion is less than yours, or more, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel more strongly or weakly.
Or yet if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, let me be.
I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up changing me into a copy of you.
I may be your spouse, your parent, your offspring, your friend, or your colleague. If you will allow me any of my own wants, or emotions, or beliefs, or actions, then you open yourself, so that some day these ways of mine might not seem so wrong, and might finally appear to you as right -- for me. To put up with me is the first step to understanding me. Not that you embrace my ways as right for you, but that you are no longer irritated or disappointed with me for my seeming waywardness. And in understanding me you might come to prize my differences from you, and, far from seeking to change me, preserve and even nurture those differences.
I was just listening to some Suzanne Vega and came across something she said that I thought was very apt (she was talking about when she was at college):
Suzanne Vega wrote:
(Back when) everyone was into punk, new wave, Bowie, Liza Minnelli, I was listening to Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. They thought I was pathetic with my long hair and guitar. ‘She’s really missed the boat,’ they’d say. But I hadn’t. I was just on a different boat.
Joined: Fri Dec 30, 2011 12:44 pm Posts: 45 Location: First Star on the right.
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I'm too busy fitting in with myself to worry about anybody else anymore. And I lol'd when I read : "How about your 6th function, Ni. Do you use it to caution others about their strategies/plans of action?" Too much Monty Python I guess, I've tended to use "Ni!" to drive off the mundane.
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