Type Fours

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They are expected to number the pages of their homework assignments in that fashion (4/5 means page four out of five). –

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What happens to Enneagram 4 under stress? According to the Enneagram, each type moves in the direction of integration or growth when they are healthy and happy, or in the direction of disintegration when they’re under stress. The normally reserved Four under stress tends to move in the direction of an unhealthy Two.

Relating to Fours Appreciate their emotional sensitivity, creativity and idealism. Reveal your own feelings and reactions; avoid being overly rational. When they are upset, don’t take everything they say too literally since they may be expressing a momentary feeling.

Enneagram Four Friendship Needs

1. Encourage them to do something they believe in.
2. Help them to feel safe when they express negative feelings.
3. Understand that they crave independence and autonomy.
4. Don’t try to lighten them up when they are in the midst of their dark moods.

Type Four in Brief Fours are self-aware, sensitive, and reserved. They are emotionally honest, creative, and personal, but can also be moody and self-conscious. Withholding themselves from others due to feeling vulnerable and defective, they can also feel disdainful and exempt from ordinary ways of living.

Enneagram Fours have the motivational need to express their uniqueness and be authentic. Fours value individualism and as a result, feelings, self-expression and purpose will be important to them. They are quite romantic at heart and appreciate beauty and creating meaning for themselves and for others.

Yes, Enneagram 4s can be happy when they are at their best. 4s are the most creative and intuitive personality types, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise because it is really easy for them to become happy. They often try to enjoy the little things and look for beauty in everything.

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4s help 2s to notice their interior and to pay attention to their needs. 4s natural selfishness can, in health, help 2s to take better care of themselves, taking time for their own needs. 4s sense of beauty and aesthetic will inspire the 2 moving them toward 4 in health.

Carried to an extreme, this personality becomes narcissistic and grandiose. Enneagram type 4 when healthy is compassionate and introspective but carried to an extreme becomes depressed. When pathological, this personality is avoidant.

Type 4s experience deep emotions, but when they are unhealthy, they almost want to be frustrated. They kind of like how it makes them feel. This drives an Enneagram type 4 to feel constantly dissatisfied with their live and also with other people. Then, they become judgmental and nitpicky.

Signs of an Unhealthy Five: Eccentric and obsessive. Provocative and antagonizing. Reclusive and greedy of their time and energy. Physically neglectful of themselves.

Stress point – Type 5 moves in the direction of Type 7 when under pressure or feeling stress. The characteristics at this point could appear to be: Abundant thoughts and ideas that may not be followed through. Humour used as a protective device.

Difficulty trusting their own thoughts and decisions. Type 6s often struggle to trust themselves. They might appear confident, but they’re actually extremely insecure on the inside and because of that, they struggle to know if it’s the right or wrong choice. That anxiety can paralyze them.

An unhealthy Ne user is that person who will have 2 hours discussions with you, that are usually more monologues and yet they never seem to make a point. They get excited about everything and anything, only to never offer you follow-ups.

The unhealthy ISFP is often overly emotional, and becomes upset or offended rather easily. They can struggle to understand logical patterns, and are far too overwhelmed by their emotions. ISFPs who are unhealthy can become rather intense about their own personal morals, and will likely push them onto others.

The INFP auxiliary or secondary function is their extraverted intuition or Ne. This is a function which is very focused on patterns and ideas and is part of what makes the INFP so creative. While this is not their dominant function, it is still very important to how they see and respond to the world around them.

To develop Ne you need to take any spontaneous idea or urge for novelty and run with it for a while. Expand your horizons, get aquainted with new concepts and ideas. Spend some time to write down your thought and ideas, even if they seem silly and insignificant.

Extraverted Intuition (Ne) serves as the dominant function for the ENFP and ENTP, as well as the auxiliary function for the INFP and INTP personality types.

If you are a Ne-dom, you should be able to “run with it” quickly. + Know intuitively how to fix situations that are going wrong or use your hunches to resolve things and make them better, as opposed to worsening the problem. (High Ne reads patterns fairly accurately, which means it should be a good trouble-shooter.

The other judging functions are: Extraverted Thinking, Extraverted Feeling, and Introverted Feeling. People whose dominant function is Ti are known for being very analytical, very logical and very objective. Their brains are wired to for that.

Ti is concerned about how and why things work. Its end-goal is where it takes it. It seeks logical solutions that are more exploratory. Te, on the other hand, is more effective than exploratory, being concerned about the end-goal.

Introverted Feeling is constantly taking in the world around them. They filter it out through a lens of “good/bad” or “this is me/this isn’t me.” An introverted feeler is very self aware of who they are and their place in the world.

Introverted thinking, or Ti, is one of the eight cognitive functions….Play logic games.

1. Get a book of logic puzzles and brain teasers and do them for fun.
2. Play strategy-based games such as chess, Settlers of Catan, Go, and Battleship.
3. Now, see if you can approach life like a logic game.

People who use introverted thinking (Ti) match up to the TP personality types (ENTP, ESTP, INTP, ISTP) whereas people who value extraverted thinking (Te) match up to the TJ personality types (ENTJ, ESTJ, INTJ, ISTJ). FJs also use Ti, but they consider extraverted feeling (Fe) before they consider Ti in many cases.

INFJs are sensitive, compassionate people who care about other people’s feelings and want to make the world a better place. But they are also deep thinkers with a clear sense of logic and, often, a love of science.

Ti-users essentially seek to understand and really dig into the core of a subject matter. As natural skeptics, Ti-users are constantly in their heads, questioning and analyzing (and let’s face it: overthinking).