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Sick since last night or early this morning again, feverish, and a few other symptoms I will not disclose for the sake of propriety. I doubt it is the flu, too chronically reoccurring. Resembles something from my past, but I am trying to ignore it – maybe it will go away.
But, consequently, I slept nearly all day and much of the evening and therefore I am not tired or sleepy or even remotely capable of returning to bed, so I watched two DVDs, The Grudge 2, and Ten Nights of Dreams, non-coincidentally both within the tradition of J Horror (Japanese horror) and both directed by Takashi Shimizu. Incidentally, neither is responsible in any way for my sleeplessness either, although I enjoyed The Grudge 2 immensely, but then again, I prefer that type of horror over against almost everything within the American genre.
Restless tonight, feel confined even though I have a good reason to be inside. Obviously, at 11:49 pm I am not going for a walk or anything either, so I guess I must resign myself for an inner walk. I’ve mentioned personality type-casting before, enneagram, Myers-Briggs, even numerology and astrology and Jungian archetype psychology for example. It is one of my life-long fascinations. I should offer disclaimers and all that, but this is just my way of putting words to what I see when I look in the mirror, and they aren’t even my words … I am exploring the types as presented by Don Riso and Russ Hudson as they apply to my own results after taking their RHETI test. The online free ones are usually confusing and most often inconclusive by the way, but I purchased their books which offer the full test. Anyway … this is me …
(Discovering Your Personality Type from which all of this material is excerpted)
Type Four: The Individualist
intuitive, sensitive, impressionable, quiet, introspective, passionate, romantic, elegant, witty, imaginative, and self-expressive, creative, inspired, honest with themselves, emotionally strong, humane, self-aware, discreet, and self-renewing. Negatively, they can also be moody, emotionally demanding, self-absorbed, withholding, temperamental, dramatic, pretentious, and self-indulgent.
They exemplify the desire to be themselves, to be known for who they are, and to know the depths of their own heart. They are aware of their own emotional states. They pay attention to their changing emotions and try to determine what their feelings are telling them about themselves, about others, and about the world around them. This attunement allows them to discover deep truths about human nature, to bear compassionate witness to the sufferings of others, and to be profoundly honest with themselves about their motives. They can also become lost within their own feelings, preoccupied with emotional reactions, memories, and fantasies, both negative and positive.
They can be subtle and expressive, putting words to feelings and states that others may recognize, but could not have expressed so eloquently. By being emotionally honest they encourage others to look more deeply into their own feelings and selves.
Even if they are not artistically creative themselves, they often are involved with those who are, seeking out other poets, painters, musicians, and photographers. They often dress in such a manner as to express outwardly, what they feel inwardly, and are not ones to simply follow the trends and fashion sense of others. They tend to emphasize all of the ways in which they are unlike others, wanting to distinguish themselves from others and be unique. They deeply want to know who they are and to show themselves as being special. Driven by this need, they can feel alone and misunderstood, becoming creative ‘outsiders’ and they are proud of this.
Consequently, they often struggle with alienation, sadness, and melancholy. They focus on their real and honest feelings, perhaps more than other personality types, which tends to actually foster and prolong these feelings within themselves.
They want to express themselves and their individuality, to create, to maintain certain moods and feelings, to withdraw and protect their vulnerabilities, to take care of emotional needs before attending to anything else, and to attract a ‘rescuer’ who will understand them. They do not want to lose touch with their feelings or to feel ordinary, to have their uniqueness and individuality go unrecognized, to have their taste in anything questioned, to be required in social settings, to blindly follow impersonal rules and procedures, or to spend time with people they perceive as lacking taste or emotional depth.
They seem to suffer from chronic self-doubt and extreme sensitivity to others’ reactions to them. They often hold a secret, inner image of who they think they could be. They sometimes believe that if they could somehow become different from who they are they would be seen and loved. There is a constant comparison between their idealized secret self and who they know themselves to actually be. They do not appreciate many of their true qualities because they cannot see them or accept them when compared to the fantasy.
They can be highly sensitive to others, almost empathic, and enjoy any kind of genuine sharing with another. They are excellent listeners, genuinely caring about what another is trying to share, but they can also get caught up in their own emotional reactions and become deaf and blind to objective truth as shared by another. It isn’t that they do not care, but more that their own feelings and reactions overwhelm their abilities and they become self-absorbed in their own cycles and thoughts and emotions. They tend to idealize others, becoming disappointed when they get to know the reality more honestly. They also project their own expectations onto others quite easily, again, often leading to disappointment, rejection, and devaluation. Their moodiness can be very difficult to handle and unintentionally and sometimes even unconsciously they ‘make’ others walk on eggshells. They commonly withhold attention and affection, punishing the other. They can also be touchy and hypersensitive to even the least slight.
At some level, they believe they are missing something that other people seem to have, that something is wrong with them. It is difficult for them to feel good about themselves or to appreciate the good things in their world. They are correct in perceiving that there is something inadequate or incomplete about the ego self, but they incorrectly assume that they alone suffer from this problem. They habitually compare themselves to others, concluding they got the ‘short end of the stick’. They expend much energy on this concept, thinking they have been singled out by fate for bad treatment, bad luck, unsatisfying relationships, bad parenting, and broken, unfulfilled dreams.
They need to see how they perpetuate their own suffering by continually focusing on old wounds rather than truly processing those hurts and letting go of them in a way that would allow them to heal.
They strive to be true to themselves. They are emotionally honest and are not afraid to reveal themselves to others “warts and all”. They are highly intuitive and creative. They treat others with gentleness. They can be wonderfully expressive with an ironic, witty view of life and themselves, often finding humor in their own foibles and contradictions. They are in touch with the ever-changing nature of reality, observing more than others, paying attention to those things many of us never notice at all.
They attempt to defend their hurt feelings (and gain attention) by withdrawing from people and withholding their own affection and attention. They usually recognize that this very action or attitude drives others away. They then usually overcompensate to re-establish their connections and solidify their relationships. Since they usually react out of stress, they can become manipulative, creating dependencies, trying to win others over again. They are masterful at talking about relationship, at making themselves more needed. At at an extreme, they could become more similar to an unhealthy Type Two, becoming possessive.
In another unhealthy pattern, they may become more controlling or critical of others, more in the manner of a Type One personality. They can become impatient and critical, demanding others to meet their own high, idealistic and often unreachable standards they hold for themselves. This idealization of the other person often quickly disintegrates into irritations, annoyances, devaluing, and even resentment. Ironically, they are usually also aware, acutely, of what they are thinking and feeling towards this other and inwardly, the self-torture recycles on itself in a seemingly endless loop. They know what they are doing, they just can’t seem to escape the pattern.
If they can allow themselves to objectively observe themselves, there is an increased chance for integration, movement towards a healthier Type One. If they can see themselves, see their patterns and behaviors and accept them more readily rather than wasting so much energy on focusing on those unhealthy traits and patterns, they can escape the emotional turbulence and their need to maintain an emotional crisis, just for the sake of the crisis moment. They can become more practical, grounded, realistic, and objective. Generally, this involves stepping beyond themselves, becoming involved on some level with others outside of themselves. For the Type Four, this is a defining moment, an investment in someone else in some manner or something else even.
(note: I have not fully concluded which “Instinct” I fall into in Riso-Hudson’s enneagram system, but I seem to mostly FIT the ‘Sexual Instinct’ so I have related that as follows)
They focus their envy and hypersensitivity in their intimate relationships. They are emotionally intense, which is both their gift and their curse. They possess both a capacity and a desire for profound intimacy and they are incredibly insightful when it comes to human nature and the ups and downs of relationships. They have a sultry, sullen quality which can be attractive and mysterious or viewed as snobbery and distancing if misunderstood. They quickly and wholeheartedly pour their energy into the object of their affection, easily becoming infatuated or even seemingly obsessed from another’s point of view, sometimes irrationally and immediately. They are unconsciously drawn to people who possess qualities and talents they believe they lack. They seek to complete themselves by associating with or merging with the other. Of course, this almost never works, which leads to the disintegration of the idealized other and they can even blame the other for reminding them of what they feel they are missing within themselves. To say they are often on a roller coaster ride of emotions, from one extreme to the other is an understatement. Again, Type Fours almost always are aware of their own feelings, even these dark ones, and they are also often prone to expressing them in self-destructive ways, believing they are inadequate, faulty, missing something, etc.
Life lessons for a Type Four would include: recognizing that all the hurts and losses of the past are real, but there isn’t a need to keep revisiting them. This process keeps them imprisoned in their past, not living in this present moment, the one time and place in which their real feelings and their true identity can be found and experienced. They need to recognize that living in the past moves them further away from their most authentic self and their truest self-expression.
(note: there are 3 or 4 other books written by these authors exploring more and more about each personality type and their website also offers more in-depth information if anyone is curious. enneagraminstitute.com)
Sick since last night or early this morning again, feverish, and a few other symptoms I will not disclose for the sake of propriety. I doubt it is the flu, too chronically reoccurring. Resembles something from my past, but I am trying to ignore it – maybe it will go away.
But, consequently, I slept nearly all day and much of the evening and therefore I am not tired or sleepy or even remotely capable of returning to bed, so I watched two DVDs, The Grudge 2, and Ten Nights of Dreams, non-coincidentally both within the tradition of J Horror (Japanese horror) and both directed by Takashi Shimizu. Incidentally, neither is responsible in any way for my sleeplessness either, although I enjoyed The Grudge 2 immensely, but then again, I prefer that type of horror over against almost everything within the American genre.
Restless tonight, feel confined even though I have a good reason to be inside. Obviously, at 11:49 pm I am not going for a walk or anything either, so I guess I must resign myself for an inner walk. I’ve mentioned personality type-casting before, enneagram, Myers-Briggs, even numerology and astrology and Jungian archetype psychology for example. It is one of my life-long fascinations. I should offer disclaimers and all that, but this is just my way of putting words to what I see when I look in the mirror, and they aren’t even my words … I am exploring the types as presented by Don Riso and Russ Hudson as they apply to my own results after taking their RHETI test. The online free ones are usually confusing and most often inconclusive by the way, but I purchased their books which offer the full test. Anyway … this is me …
(Discovering Your Personality Type from which all of this material is excerpted)
Type Four: The Individualist
intuitive, sensitive, impressionable, quiet, introspective, passionate, romantic, elegant, witty, imaginative, and self-expressive, creative, inspired, honest with themselves, emotionally strong, humane, self-aware, discreet, and self-renewing. Negatively, they can also be moody, emotionally demanding, self-absorbed, withholding, temperamental, dramatic, pretentious, and self-indulgent.
They exemplify the desire to be themselves, to be known for who they are, and to know the depths of their own heart. They are aware of their own emotional states. They pay attention to their changing emotions and try to determine what their feelings are telling them about themselves, about others, and about the world around them. This attunement allows them to discover deep truths about human nature, to bear compassionate witness to the sufferings of others, and to be profoundly honest with themselves about their motives. They can also become lost within their own feelings, preoccupied with emotional reactions, memories, and fantasies, both negative and positive.
They can be subtle and expressive, putting words to feelings and states that others may recognize, but could not have expressed so eloquently. By being emotionally honest they encourage others to look more deeply into their own feelings and selves.
Even if they are not artistically creative themselves, they often are involved with those who are, seeking out other poets, painters, musicians, and photographers. They often dress in such a manner as to express outwardly, what they feel inwardly, and are not ones to simply follow the trends and fashion sense of others. They tend to emphasize all of the ways in which they are unlike others, wanting to distinguish themselves from others and be unique. They deeply want to know who they are and to show themselves as being special. Driven by this need, they can feel alone and misunderstood, becoming creative ‘outsiders’ and they are proud of this.
Consequently, they often struggle with alienation, sadness, and melancholy. They focus on their real and honest feelings, perhaps more than other personality types, which tends to actually foster and prolong these feelings within themselves.
They want to express themselves and their individuality, to create, to maintain certain moods and feelings, to withdraw and protect their vulnerabilities, to take care of emotional needs before attending to anything else, and to attract a ‘rescuer’ who will understand them. They do not want to lose touch with their feelings or to feel ordinary, to have their uniqueness and individuality go unrecognized, to have their taste in anything questioned, to be required in social settings, to blindly follow impersonal rules and procedures, or to spend time with people they perceive as lacking taste or emotional depth.
They seem to suffer from chronic self-doubt and extreme sensitivity to others’ reactions to them. They often hold a secret, inner image of who they think they could be. They sometimes believe that if they could somehow become different from who they are they would be seen and loved. There is a constant comparison between their idealized secret self and who they know themselves to actually be. They do not appreciate many of their true qualities because they cannot see them or accept them when compared to the fantasy.
They can be highly sensitive to others, almost empathic, and enjoy any kind of genuine sharing with another. They are excellent listeners, genuinely caring about what another is trying to share, but they can also get caught up in their own emotional reactions and become deaf and blind to objective truth as shared by another. It isn’t that they do not care, but more that their own feelings and reactions overwhelm their abilities and they become self-absorbed in their own cycles and thoughts and emotions. They tend to idealize others, becoming disappointed when they get to know the reality more honestly. They also project their own expectations onto others quite easily, again, often leading to disappointment, rejection, and devaluation. Their moodiness can be very difficult to handle and unintentionally and sometimes even unconsciously they ‘make’ others walk on eggshells. They commonly withhold attention and affection, punishing the other. They can also be touchy and hypersensitive to even the least slight.
At some level, they believe they are missing something that other people seem to have, that something is wrong with them. It is difficult for them to feel good about themselves or to appreciate the good things in their world. They are correct in perceiving that there is something inadequate or incomplete about the ego self, but they incorrectly assume that they alone suffer from this problem. They habitually compare themselves to others, concluding they got the ‘short end of the stick’. They expend much energy on this concept, thinking they have been singled out by fate for bad treatment, bad luck, unsatisfying relationships, bad parenting, and broken, unfulfilled dreams.
They need to see how they perpetuate their own suffering by continually focusing on old wounds rather than truly processing those hurts and letting go of them in a way that would allow them to heal.
They strive to be true to themselves. They are emotionally honest and are not afraid to reveal themselves to others “warts and all”. They are highly intuitive and creative. They treat others with gentleness. They can be wonderfully expressive with an ironic, witty view of life and themselves, often finding humor in their own foibles and contradictions. They are in touch with the ever-changing nature of reality, observing more than others, paying attention to those things many of us never notice at all.
They attempt to defend their hurt feelings (and gain attention) by withdrawing from people and withholding their own affection and attention. They usually recognize that this very action or attitude drives others away. They then usually overcompensate to re-establish their connections and solidify their relationships. Since they usually react out of stress, they can become manipulative, creating dependencies, trying to win others over again. They are masterful at talking about relationship, at making themselves more needed. At at an extreme, they could become more similar to an unhealthy Type Two, becoming possessive.
In another unhealthy pattern, they may become more controlling or critical of others, more in the manner of a Type One personality. They can become impatient and critical, demanding others to meet their own high, idealistic and often unreachable standards they hold for themselves. This idealization of the other person often quickly disintegrates into irritations, annoyances, devaluing, and even resentment. Ironically, they are usually also aware, acutely, of what they are thinking and feeling towards this other and inwardly, the self-torture recycles on itself in a seemingly endless loop. They know what they are doing, they just can’t seem to escape the pattern.
If they can allow themselves to objectively observe themselves, there is an increased chance for integration, movement towards a healthier Type One. If they can see themselves, see their patterns and behaviors and accept them more readily rather than wasting so much energy on focusing on those unhealthy traits and patterns, they can escape the emotional turbulence and their need to maintain an emotional crisis, just for the sake of the crisis moment. They can become more practical, grounded, realistic, and objective. Generally, this involves stepping beyond themselves, becoming involved on some level with others outside of themselves. For the Type Four, this is a defining moment, an investment in someone else in some manner or something else even.
(note: I have not fully concluded which “Instinct” I fall into in Riso-Hudson’s enneagram system, but I seem to mostly FIT the ‘Sexual Instinct’ so I have related that as follows)
They focus their envy and hypersensitivity in their intimate relationships. They are emotionally intense, which is both their gift and their curse. They possess both a capacity and a desire for profound intimacy and they are incredibly insightful when it comes to human nature and the ups and downs of relationships. They have a sultry, sullen quality which can be attractive and mysterious or viewed as snobbery and distancing if misunderstood. They quickly and wholeheartedly pour their energy into the object of their affection, easily becoming infatuated or even seemingly obsessed from another’s point of view, sometimes irrationally and immediately. They are unconsciously drawn to people who possess qualities and talents they believe they lack. They seek to complete themselves by associating with or merging with the other. Of course, this almost never works, which leads to the disintegration of the idealized other and they can even blame the other for reminding them of what they feel they are missing within themselves. To say they are often on a roller coaster ride of emotions, from one extreme to the other is an understatement. Again, Type Fours almost always are aware of their own feelings, even these dark ones, and they are also often prone to expressing them in self-destructive ways, believing they are inadequate, faulty, missing something, etc.
Life lessons for a Type Four would include: recognizing that all the hurts and losses of the past are real, but there isn’t a need to keep revisiting them. This process keeps them imprisoned in their past, not living in this present moment, the one time and place in which their real feelings and their true identity can be found and experienced. They need to recognize that living in the past moves them further away from their most authentic self and their truest self-expression.
(note: there are 3 or 4 other books written by these authors exploring more and more about each personality type and their website also offers more in-depth information if anyone is curious. enneagraminstitute.com)
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