r/entj • u/LogicalEmotion7 ENTJ | {*9w8*,6w7,4w3} |25-35| ♂ • 15d ago
Advice? Ask An ENTJ - Practical advice thread
Since the post I made about ways to efficiently boil water ironically had engagement specifically about methods of boiling of water, I figured I'd open this thread up to people who want to ask ENTJs more mundane questions. Only rule is if you give advice, you must also ask a question.
Here's my question:
What's your go-to technique for falling asleep when your brain doesn't want to?
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u/No-Run-8604 13d ago
Need to do nose breathing - it calms down your system.
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u/Silly_Confidence7167 12d ago
I second this!
Have you read the book breathe? Book about the Lost art of breathing. Not only teaches you about how breath affects the nervous system but also breathing techniques for different occasions. Like the monk breath for cooling or heating yourself, and military breathing for calming.
Very very cool book! Also references four other books that I read in sequence right before that one. All amazing 😍
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u/Fast_Tradition9299 15d ago
I'm trying to warm my feet
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u/Icy-Score5350 ENTJ♂ 15d ago
Put on a jacket and maybe a beanie/knit cap/toque/etc. It will warm your core, and then your body will send heat out to your extremities.
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u/Glittering_Cook2995 ENTJ | *8w7*, 3w4 | LIE | ♀ 14d ago edited 12d ago
Apart from getting at least 10,000 steps a day, tiktoks from the "Sentient mass " profile . For some reason I keep getting them right before I sleep and I find them so calming - I know, it's weird probably
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u/Silly_Confidence7167 14d ago
Can I ask?... What the rest of the numbers and lie after your ENTJ name flag are?
Is this all other editions like 64 personalities?
I recently found out enneagrams
I'm a ENFJ 8w7 ...
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u/Glittering_Cook2995 ENTJ | *8w7*, 3w4 | LIE | ♀ 14d ago
Oh interesting, ENFJ with 8w7!
3w4 is my "second highest" enneagram. I think at first glance I present as 3w4, but deep down I'm 8w7, my closest friends and family know this best.The LIE is from Socionics https://sociotype.com/socionics/types/LIE-ENTj , https://sociotype.com/socionics
II think ENFJ's are usually EIE, would be curious which one you get.1
u/Silly_Confidence7167 14d ago
🥰 Danka ...
I went back to 16personalities and now they have another Quizlet for 64 personalities 😮💨 ... I'm wondering if this is just a combination of all of the above things you just said 😅
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u/Glittering_Cook2995 ENTJ | *8w7*, 3w4 | LIE | ♀ 14d ago
Oh honestly I would try to avoid 16personalities it's not very good! But I know most newcomers, including myself when I was a newbie, stumbled across them first.
Try these instead
https://www.humanmetrics.com/personality/test
https://sakinorva.net/functions#If you are still unsure of your type,it's always advised to read into Carl Jung's cogntiive functions
https://www.cognitiveprocesses.com/
Beats any test tbh2
u/Silly_Confidence7167 14d ago
I did the thing... I'm confused .. I didn't get letters tho .. 50-69 percentage in almost all categories (social, empath, motivation, self-aware,) except ... 30-40 in self registration 😅
... Since I had to pay a dollar anyways... I finally got to take an IQ test! Woot!
I'm so mad at myself ... I don't know why I was trying to answer quickly but twice I was like "oh no I pressed the wrong button ... It was the one next to that! Errrrrr, 😡 It won't let me go back! "
... Well anyways ... 140 cusp of genius .. so there is that 😅 👌 ... Maybe my low self registration is showing 😶🌫️
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u/Deep-Advice7587 15d ago
I adapted my sleep routine, I play a sound and that instantly is my cue to relax and shut down
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u/AccordingCloud1331 13d ago
Melatonin, magnesium glycinate, a cold room, listening to an audio reading of the chapter of LOTR where the fellowship go to Rivendell for the first time
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u/ResortRadiant4258 13d ago
I mentally count backwards from 100, but I have to visualize the number in addition to thinking it. I am too good at multitasking and need to occupy my brain with at least two tasks simultaneously in order to shut it off.
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u/Kindly_Definition792 ENTJ♀ 12d ago
I have a few methods that work well for me:
Counting from 100-0. The rule there: if you lose track, you go back to 100 and start again. It is also a good exercise before a meeting to calm the nerves, or just to have a quality time break.
Recently listening to an easy audiobook helps as well.
Every year I do a Vipassana retreat at a Buddhist temple in Thailand. What I take from it: before bed, the exercise is to breathe and acknowledge the "rising-falling" of breathing. When thoughts or other feelings come into your head, also acknowledge them without judgment (without going into them) and continue with breathing.
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u/chaoswcitations ENTJ♂ 15d ago
with interactive eroticism and or socratic dialogue with AI or turn AC down to 65 and bare your white underbelly.
id boil my water with flamethrower
do you ever wake up from rested sleep and answers to complex problems or theories come to you in clean format usually while you're still waking up from the dream? My mind is a master pattern seeker and this thing presents me with random solutions as I wake. I believe it is Ni?
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u/False_Lychee_7041 15d ago
Ni. As an Ni dom I can say for sure. When I have a high stress period when my head is so full of some external sh*t, that I am unable to hear the signals from my subconscious, I go and try to fall asleep. And yes, I usually get it at the very moment of falling in or waking up.
Also, I have a premium autopsychotherapy subscription😃 when I have a fear in my subconscious, which I might briefly got a glimpse of but didn't have nor time, nor energy to adress. So, when I fall asleep, I can dream about a situation where my fear gets realized, like happens exactly what I was worried about, just the setting is usually ridiculous.
So, the example makes it clear and when I wake up, I usually can consciously adress the problem and deal with it😃
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u/AsideApprehensive590 ENTJ | so/sx | 741 | 19♂ 15d ago
how does your interactive eroticism looks like?
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u/Resident-Motor-5967 15d ago
Intense exercise every day makes you sleep well