Re: Enneatype: Defense Mechanism?


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Posted by Andy on July 02, 1998 at 14:13:31:

In Reply to: Re: Enneatype: Defense Mechanism? posted by Christy on July 02, 1998 at 09:37:57:

: I was going to take a summer class at Loyola Univ about NLP/Enneagram, but I found out about it too late to register. Maybe next summer. I wish I knew more about NLP. I've taken left-brain, right brain tests and scored very left brained. Only missed 2 on the left brain IQ test. Visual? I can't remember faces, auditory? I can't remember names either. But I can rehash the whole event as to what I felt, what other's reactions were, why they reacted that way, and tear the whole situation down for you.
: My husband - he's more detail oriented over all and can remember faces better than I can as well as names.

: After thought ----- I have a strange habit of losing color swatches for the paints I've used in redecorating my house. Then I have to go to the store with absolutely nothing - just with an idea of what color it is, and I always pick out the same exact color in a different brand. I think that's an intuitive function though. The process of visualization is hidden and more connected to the feelings that color gave me. I know that in order for me to learn or remember anything I have to "see" it written.
: I guess I am visual - but more in a linguistic way.


If not, you are kinestic.

Then you would remeber more in slow motion, remembering what you fysically
have done.( I first went down to the shop, walked towards the meat disk,
then moved towards the milk and so on....
You would also learn by experience.

I can name you the different eye-directions the different functios are supposed
to be located in NLP.

Down to left Audective digital (my though is that this is jungian IT)
Down to right Kinestic
Middle to left Audective remembered
Middle to right Audective created (talking right brain here)
Up to left Visually remembered
Up to right Visually created

To make an example here. If a kinestic person should create a visual picture
iside their head, they will probably first use their main function going
down to right, and then go up to right to create the picture. It's
natural that we uses our main function before using the others.
Ex, a thinker (audective digital, I belive) would go down to left, before
the other functions, but I am not saying it needs to be like this, but I
guess I am into something there.

My faith in NLP is low, but if it should work it should be something like
described above (talking of recognicing eye-movement's). There is of course
peoples that just look's away from you when talking, whitout doing anything
spesial with their eyes, and it's my guess that they then are using an
exstroverted function.

I have noticed that fours or introverted intuitives in general tend to move the eyes
mutch in bouth the audective and visual (most usual) directions. Espesially
when talking to me. Or when I ask a question and they are figuring out something.

Can anyone confirm this ?

If you are an INFJ or INFP I can't see why you scored left-brained.

Some of what you wrote looks INFP to me, meaning your visuality is connected to your feeling.
Could this be right, meaning IF is your first function. However I can't
figure out why you scored so left-brained, because, it is my impression that
four's are about the most intuitive ones, and intuision is connected with
creativity and the right part of the brain.

If this is so my hunch would go more in the direction of ISFP (the composer)and
kinestic and after what I understand there are quite a lot ISFP
fours. If you are kinestic you should be good at trowing some trash in
the trash-tank from long distance. If you are an ISFP (or INFP) you could have been
saying too your husband that you are to tired to think many times.
Your abilety to choose the right color whitout map sounds like a
sensing function to me, that could be combined with an introverted
intuision that would be your 3 function if you are an ISFP.
Or IF combined with EN as a second function if you are an INFP.

If your mate is an ISTJ and you have top compabillety as a couple, you
should be eighter ENFJ, INFP or ESTP.

That he is an ISTJ nearly rules out the possebillety that you are an
INFJ because that's horrible compabillety, meaning constant misunderstandings.

Then on the other hand ESTJ and INFJ is just as good match as
INFP and ISTJ, exellent.

Hope I doesn't confuse you...

About the music thing, I wasnt asked, but I am very found of
heavy rock, techno (fun to listen to), and rock in general.
For me it's the mood the music creates and not the material that's
important. Of course the material is important then...But I guess
you get's my point.

Classic music get's to slow and boring for me. Choping get's to
uncomfortable for me.



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