INFJ personality types and INFP personality types usually have a strong need and desire to connect with intuition, but many INFJ personality types and INFP personality types are also scared of connecting with intuition. Much of the time, INFJ personality types and INFP personality types are scared that our intuition with tell us something we don’t want to know, or that we are afraid to face. We might also be scared that our intuition will push us into action we don’t feel ready to take yet in our lives.
Most of all, many INFJ personality types and INFP personality types are scared that our intuition will turn out to be wrong. We are scared that if we follow our intuition, then things will turn out badly. However, intuition is only wrong when we take the messages we receive and overthink them, because overthinking always complicates things. When we go into overthinking, we get attached to certain outcomes, and we only pay attention to what the mind believes would be the best outcome and what the ego thinks it needs in order to protect itself.
Overthinking for INFJ personality types and INFP personality types is a very big problem, because when we go into overthinking, we stop paying attention to the body. Our default reaction when we are scared is to disconnect from body and go deeper into the mind in an attempt to soothe ourselves with the thinking process, and that’s when we completely lose the ability to discern between fear and intuition, because we have no clue how to tell the difference between the two using our feeling.
I talk more about this in the video below:
I’m teaching a new class starting August 7 called Intuition and the Body, and we’ll be exploring how to move more deeply into a loving relationship with our bodies, as well as how to work with the body to open higher levels of intuition.
We’ll be covering topics like:
Releasing trauma from being raised as an intuitive child in a non-intuitive world
Working with the body as a receiver, and an ally
Cultivating higher levels of self-worth through the body
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Lauren Sapala is the author of Writing on the Intuitive Side of the Brain, The INFJ Writer, The INFJ Revolution, and the creator of Energy and Intuition for INFJs, an online course for INFJs on intuition, relationships, creativity, and more. She is also currently offering a free copy of her book Firefly Magic: Heart Powered Marketing for Highly Sensitive Writers to anyone who signs up for her newsletter. SIGN UP HERE to get your free copy.
