The Sixth Sense of INFJ Individuals

Happy Monday everyone! It's time to turn the page and start a new week. I have been amazed at how quickly summer has been going by and the fact that next week is August already. Very soon kids will be starting school again, the countdown to Fall will be on, and better yet Halloween decor and costumes will make their presence known even more in stores across the country! It truly is the best time of year and Halloween is the best holiday of them all. 

In today's blog, the focus is going to surround the sixth sense of INFJ individuals. The reason being is because I have been thinking a lot about the five senses a lot lately in the Cognitive Psychology course that I'm enrolled in. In that course, the focus has been on learning about memory retention and reconstruction, regions of the brain involved in memory such as the hippocampus and frontal regions, and taking into account how the five senses can make some memories more vivid than others. 

Something fun that I learned this past week is that information inside the brain travels at 268 miles per hour! That is incredible when you step back and think about it. Working with the neurons throughout the communication pathways, there are about 1 quadrillion neuron connections present in each region of the mind. Furthermore, speaking of neurons, the average human mind has about 86 million of them! Sorry to go off on this tangent, the brain truly is fascinating and Neuropsychology/Cognitive Psychology has always been one of the more fascinating areas to study, in my opinion. 

Switching back to today's focus, have you ever been in a situation where you are interacting with a stranger or someone else and feel as though they might not have the best intentions? For example, you might strike up a conversation at a coffee shop with a stranger and inside you have a gut feeling that the person might not be out for your best intentions. As such, you begin to develop feelings of fear and potential dread, your mind might start to wander away from the context of the conversation questioning the reasoning behind the conversation, and you might look for a quick escape route from it all. 

While the average person is likely to experience all of those feelings and potentially more in that situation, an INFJ individual starts to rely on their sixth sense as a means of giving them guidance and judgment about how to handle everything. For an INFJ, the sixth sense is the definition of a sense that allows all of us to be able to pick up on certain patterns and behaviors of other individuals, get a vibe of any room that we walk into, and identify any hidden motives and desires that someone else might have. All of that can apply to this situation and nearly everything else that exists in life. 

 

Have you ever heard the expression that someone is able to quietly read a room full of other individuals without expressing any of the thoughts their having inside of their mind? That is exactly how this sixth sense can be summed up for someone that identifies as an INFJ. Through personality analysis and relying on previous experiences as well as memories, an INFJ is able to get a better understanding of someone and attempt to develop a greater reasoning of the intentions of that individual. While this might be a good and bad thing, often times it is more of a good thing because individuals of this personality type might be more open to friendships than individuals who identify with another personality type. Those that might typically be shunned away from other personality types, might have a true chance of a long lasting friendship with an INFJ individual.

However, it can also be contradicting especially speaking personally because there is this constant battle between good and evil. A battle in trying to understand whose intentions are good and whose intentions might be bad, while trying to focus on the human aspect and ensure that the classic personality traits of an INFJ continue to shine. There have been situations in life where as an individual, I have been deceived by someone else who had bad intentions, but at the surface level it appeared as though that person wanted to join my cause and help further it. 

Over time though, as those situations happen, an INFJ quickly learns a lot of lessons and becomes much more aware of their own interpersonal feelings as well as how the judgments can get fogged within the mind. Additionally, there have been situations where the patterns and behaviors of someone else become so predictable that when something major happens involving that person, it might surprise others but it certainly doesn't surprise the typical INFJ. In fact, the behavior that led to the major event might have been something that all of us were able to pinpoint well before it reached the matrix compared to other personality types.

In saying all of this, the goal is not to make you scared or fearful of interacting with an INFJ. Rather, it is to give perspective and awareness about yet another unique personality characteristic that exists for individuals of this personality type. As they say, an INFJ is the best friend you will ever have and the greatest person you will ever meet because we all care so deeply about the world around us, will go above and beyond for those we care about, and have an enormous amount of empathy for others. If you get an opportunity to interact with an INFJ and become lifelong friends with them, do it because you will not regret it!

Otherwise, the main takeaway might be to analyze how you read individuals during certain situations and use both your personal judgment as well as memory processes to analyze the situation. Some individuals can tend to be more gullible than others in everyday life and that is perfectly fine because of atypical human nature patterns. However, there are instances where all of us might let our guard down so much that we end up getting hurt in the end. So take a moment to reflect on those situations that you might have experienced in the past and identify ways that you might be able to improve upon those experiences in the future. 

Besides that, have a tremendous beginning of the week until we talk next time and remember to always find a way to help someone else out! The world needs it more than ever right now and as they say it takes a village to make positive change sometimes. Keep shining bright everyone!