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Originally Posted by heart
1) When you talk about feelings/emotions, how do you experience them? My heart is almost always on fire but I don't show too much of that outwards. People who don't know me often accuse me of being cold. Feeling can run so high it is like religious type ecstasy. I don't need drugs or alcohol to get high!
Everything in life inspires a feeling or a different nuance, color or tone in my emotinal world, everything affects me at a personal level and this is hard in an impersonal world.
2) Do you always go on your feelings? Do you feel that your emotions are "trustworthy?" Do you ever feel like your view of a situation is clouded by your personal feelings?
My Feelings to me when making decisions are my personal values. My thoughts are allowed a voice always, but thought needs to remain the servant not the master. When thinking gets the upper hand, I usually behave badly. Thinking can be a trickester in a way and I need to slow down when that happens and listen to feeling to make sure I am on track, acting out of my heart.
As long as thinking follows feeling, and not allowed its own way without supervision by feeling, I do much better and make far better decisions. Thinking is the support for feeling.
Edited to add: I used to believe that being a feeler was somehow bad or unfavorable, but now I am making peace with it. I realize that in my earlier attempts to squealsh feeling I only prevented myself from being what I am best at and I often get way off track. I can only be what I am. The key to perspective as feeler is to allow thinking a voice but to always realize that it is servant to the master, it should never be given the keys and allowed to drive, it is inferior for the feeler, a naughty, rebel teen when allowed full reign without feeling keeping it in its place. Of course this is not true for thinking in the thinker and they may not understand such a comment being made by a feeler.
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I think I almost had it and then lost it. First, I respectfully, want to say don't ever wish you weren't as you are. Some of my favorite people appear to be "F"... I admire them... why else would I want to understand? Its not just idle curiosity.
Now, to what you wrote:
Aren't your values formed with thought? So when you go with those I don't understand where the feelings are. How is thought a "trickster?" When you're "listeing to feeling" what is the process? What are you listening too? Are you experiencing something physical or mental? By feeling, do you mean this is something you have, previously, thought out and are keying into it without thinking.. as in "programmed?"
Okay... here's the INTP apology... I'm sorry if I've said anything offensive. I would never intentionally offend. If I have, please consider it simply my failure with the language. Thanks.