on Jun 8th, 2007Back to Life….. and Death.
I was listening to a online recorded lecture on Personality, and the lecturer was talking about Carl Jung and Myers & Brigg’s MBTI personality test.
The lecturer was talking about Extroverted and Introverted Thinking types and it striked me that I’m actually a Introverted Thinking type in accordance to Jung and MBTI’s personality types.
A Introverted Thinker, is the personality of someone who “makes decisions based on logics” from a inner source. Note that it is not the conventional meaning of “Introvert” and “Thinking”. The Introverted Thinker are very passionate about what they believe in and draws more from inner sources (rather than from religion or ideas by others). The Introverted Thinker also might be clumsy in their relationships with others, since they might come off as persistant or stubborn at times, when trying to make a point.
One thing I just realised today, my mouth gets sore when I’m thinking too much. Weird isn’t it? My mouth usually get sore when I talk on the phone with my friends for many hours… but I barely spoke to anyone today.. and yet my mouth have that same sore-ness (please do not start thinking dirty…) I suspect that I *might* have unknowingly clinched my teeth during thought processing or it might be a psychosomatic reaction.
Psychosomatic illness “is an illness whose symptoms are caused by mental processes of the sufferer rather than immediate physiological causes.” (taken from wikipedia.org)
I first realised I was susceptible to such a disorder last year during my examination period. I had fever, nausea, cough, flu, restlessness, fatigue… well pretty much the typical common cold symptoms. Surprise, surprise… all these “symptoms” disappeared two days after my last paper. The doctors suggested that it was due to my stress from my examinations, but refusing to admit that my mental state was so vulnerable to stress, I insisted that I wasn’t stressed at all. This same weird “common cold” came back last month, when I was rushing to finish four assignments. This time, I’ll admit it, my mind is weak.
Of course, I’m not saying that the soreness of my mouth today is an illness. It’s just amazing how our mind-body works together. Some people (many people actually) have said that I like to “act cute”. I do not deny this. I love acting cute simply because it improves my mood. I feel happy acting like a little girl, careless about the world, ignorant about tomorrow. Is it really a bad thing to take up a persona to protect our fragile minds? I think it’s a healthy habit and it would allow me to lead a fulfilling and longer life. After all, being bad-tempered is significantly correlated to dying younger. People with temperance issues have a 30% chance of dying in any given year compared to good tempered persons (Pervin et. al., 2005).
I don’t want to die so fast leh.
Acting cute is the key for me of keeping a young and healthy life, you should find out what is your key too!
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