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What are the most helpful things you have discovered about psychology?
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I'll get my course book out and stick some stuff out of that tomorrow.
Again, like anger, my teenage daughter is a 'creation' depending on my state of mind.
If I can remember that, so when I see my rowdy teenage daughter as unpleasant, I can realise the problem is on my side, and it helps me to be more mindful I don't react negatively.
I'm an ENFP myself, and believe me, I know your pain. Your type is the rarest and imo the closest one to buddhahood lol
I will check out the enneagram.
Psychology is a science by itself with many many subfields, MBTI and Enneagram are just two among the hundreds. And lately psychology and neuroscience seems to be merging. There are many very helpful things for Buddhist study and meditation. But if you really want only one advise, mine would be:
There are many different systems running in your brain at any one time, for example
- some are totally beyond your knowledge (e.g. reticular formation in brain stem that controls your modes of say sleep, search, fight),
- some you can only feel the effects but dun know how they arrive at that (e.g. basic emotional systems like fear, lust, play and seeking),
- some tell you about the world but is not 100% faithful (e.g. visual processing),
- some would make up story that you take as real (e.g. the left brain interpreter and long term episodic memory),
- some hardwire your social life subconsciously (e.g. attachment model and neuroception).
To make it worse you can only be mindful of one of them at anytime, some you can never be mindful of. All these systems often fire at the same time and influence one another, what you think as a simple decision, e.g if you should reply to me, is the result of one system overpowering others. When you meditate and look inside, realize that its like a zoo, some sections are even out-of-bound, and your awareness is the only manager there. You have to study each part and learn its language to understand the whole thing.
Shantideva wrote:
Where would I possibly find enough leather
With which to cover the surface of the earth?
But (just) leather on the soles of my shoes
Is equivalent to covering the earth with it
Likewise it is not possible for me
To restrain the external course of things
But should I restrain this mind of mine
What would be the need to restrain all else?
Sees much but shares little
link: http://changingminds.org/explanations/preferences/mbti.htm
I still much admit that I REALLY struggle with my place in this world. INFJ's crave strong relationships but then it is difficult for us being in a small group. I have often had this vision of being the 'wise woman' at the edge of the community where I could do my own things (one week art, the next gardening, the next a novel, ya know) but be a respected part of the community. As I get older I am finding that my long term friends and family DO really want to be around me because of the person I am. As we go into the holiday season I am hearing that peole want to make sure I am at certain celebrations before they decide which one to go to (after a few decades as the black sheep it feels good).
"Letting go" in the spiritual sense can mean passing over, in some cases I think. Those who are expert in letting go should not be reactive or rigid, should they?
I am a textbook Type 9 with a 1 wing (Tritype 9-2-7) Instinctual stacking: sp/sx
I have been at my healthy range (like a healthy 3) and have been in my unhealthy range (like an average to unhealthy 6) and can confirm that the Direction of Disintegration (stress) and the Direction of Integration (Growth) are very accurate for at least type 9. I am currently in an average range coming up recently from an unhealthy range.
As a 9 I can confirm that its emotional center is anger/rage (coincidentally I originally introduced myself to this forum with a thread post about anger that I was having difficulty understanding where the anger was coming from and my inability to control it.) Mind you, as a 9, if you were to know me at the time, you may not have realized I was always angry as it is an internal process for 9's that they only in their most unhealthy states allow to be shown to others (allow is not correct, they just lose the ability to keep it hidden from others)
My MBTI is ISFP (Introversion, Sensing, Feeling, Perception)
I later came to discover that the Correlation Data Between MBTI and Enneagram Typologies indicates that Type 9 and ISFP are comparative.
I would recommend looking into enneagram types, especially, and INFP types to help explain behaviors in yourself that you do not understand.
I used to have a lot of negative thoughts. Through months of telling myself to not think that way whenever those thoughts arise, I was able to stop it. It wasn't some kind of blunt force reprogramming either. I didn't want to have anything repressed. Each time a negative thought arose, I would logically explain to myself why I shouldn't think that way. I would explore where those negative thoughts were coming from and whether that was valid.
It was hard work, but I slayed most of my demons. Now, I feel really good most of the time.
I think our personality type is largely a result of childhood traumas. Each of us has experiences several traumas after the first one of being separated from the womb (actually you can be traumatized in the womb too. Like my grandmother tripped and fell down some stairs when she was pregnant with my mother.)
I heard that those who are c-sectioned from their mothers tend to be more intuitive. This is probably because being in the womb is a very introverted feeling state.
Also, there are different blood types. Supposedly those of a (RH) negative type also tend to have greater intuitive development.
According to Howard Gardner there are multiple types of intelligences.
Spatial
Linguistic
Logical-mathematical
Bodily-kinesthetic
Musical
Interpersonal
Intrapersonal
Naturalistic
As far as personality types, I find the Five Factor Model...
But back to the trauma thing, I think everyone is basically a traumatized amnesiac. Not remembering their origin, afraid to to look into it because it means ego death.
The egotistical state is not bad... its just outdated software. The software is a program of survival. Its primitively based on the theory that what is pleasurable is good, and what is unpleasurable is bad. Babies are entirely selfish and pleasure driven. Its fine at the time. Eventually one is to learn that there is being born again as an adult with a new way of functioning in the world. One uses higher technology like the mind to make decisions instead of only biological instinct. One realizes one is not the body or the false self that resulted from trauma and societal conditioning.
I'm also learning some stuff about psychology from sociology I'm taking now.
Here is about statuses.
People have ascribed status which comes from how society labels a person because of their race, birth-place, class, etc. There is also achieved status one gets from working up the ladder. There is also a "master status" which is based on a persons most "significant" role in society. People have role conflict when they have conflicting roles with opposing duties/values.