Health - Mental

This is how an INFJ can end up a virtual encyclopedia on random subjects, and it’s the same reason they can become paralyzed when trying their own hand at the subject they hold most dear. In the case of writing, we are either so emotionally moved by a work that we find it impossible to articulate why we feel the way we do, or we’ve so thoroughly

Like traumatic memories that keep intruding until they are laid to rest, traumatic adaptations continue until the human organism feels safe and integrates all the parts of itself that are stuck in fighting or warding off the trauma.

While the smoke detector is usually pretty good at picking up danger clues, trauma increases the risk of misinterpreting whether a particular situation is dangerous or safe.

There is seven types of rest:

1-Physical Rest: naps, sleep, yoga, streching…

2-Sensory Rest: reducing the inputs that you take, dimming the lights etc…

3-Mental Rest: using methods like pomodoro to reduce mental overload

4-Emotional Rest: Talking to a terapist, journaling…

5-Creative Rest: crafting, writing, creating things in general…

6-Social Rest: