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Ok, so I've been doing some research and talking with the 2 INTPs I know to work out how to make INTPs happier. I know some of you don't think that you want to be happy, that's ok, but really now 
! So
The first way to make INTPs happier is siliness. INTPs always seem to get caught up in these huge mazes in their minds, and sometimes they hit a rough spot and think that the entire everything results upon them solving the problemm in their mind. Well I've had that a few times in my life as well (but probably not as much as most of you) and the best way to solve it is to not take it so seriously! I know there are loads of books around implying that hapiness is impossible, btu that's because happy people don't write the kind of books that unhappy ones read! They all take it so seriously! Look, we're all just floating around in the sky without much idea of what's going on with anything, so we migth as well ligthen up and realise that we can have fun while we do it! I think that most wars and things depend from people taking everything too seriously and not having had enough fun and kindness and play. So whenever you get caught up in a maze or big problem in your mind, just let your attention drift off into play or fun. Use your beatiful Ne (I use mine all the time and I'm usually happy... it works
).
OK the second way which is kind of the same is to work on being friendly and knowing about small talk and social nicities. It's like a dance, see. Most INTPs want to skip all the middle steps and just dance the last move. That's kind of silly for people who are so good at logic
. You need to do the little steps and be friendly and put on a face first before you get to the big ones and have really good and understanding friends to support you! I know loads of INTPs have hardened themselves against this... and I understand why.... but any of you can really have a lot more fun if you just learn to dance the first steps before the last ones 
.
Ok the third way is a kind of yoga I learned about when I was in China. I got to know this girl whose father was a martial artist, and she taught me how to do it. It can take a lot of effort, but it actually instantly makes you feel good. I know you migth think that you would know about it already if it worked but it actually does work... of course it won't keep you happy the whole day all the time... but it makesyou more happy most of the time and always loving and happy and sexy while you're doing it. Ok I'll try and describe it the best I can:
Her'e some general info...
It's about remembring intense moments of emotion, than feelign what the physical feeling is of those emotions, then moving that feeling all around your body. She said it was tantra but there's no sex... although if you and somebody of the other sex or the sex you're attracted to do it at the same time things will probably happen. You remember the intense emotion and then let go of the memory but keep the emotion and then move the feeling aroudn your whole body as you breathe. Once you've been doing it for a week or so it feels so blissful ritght from the beginning to the end .
Here's detailed info...
There are 7 emotions. Do 3 or more breaths in and out for each emotion. It's best to do it while sitting in half-lotus or whatever sitting position is comfortable for you. The emotions (some of them aren't really emotions, they're a little different) are:
1. Relaxation
2. Pride in an achievment
3. Side-splitting laughter
4. Love
5. Deep gratitude
6. ''sexual ecstasy''... like the most amazing sexual experience you've had. It doesn't have to be sex... it can be a beatiful kiss or orgasm or any memory that brings up the good feeling.
7. Complete awe at the universe.
For the first one... Clench your toes really really tight. Then relax. Then clench them really really tight. Then relax. Finally clench them so tight they hurt. Then relax. Now you feel that feeling of relaxation and freedom from tension in your toes? Good. Take a deep breath and move that feeling up through your leg (I know this might sound funny, but it really works). Feel it relax every muscle as it moves up through your calvs and thighs and then waist and then stomach and then chest and then shoulders... and then let it flow down into your arms and then back up into your head. As it goes up to your head, feel it flow over the back of your head and then over the top to your face. And then feel it relaxing the muscles of your forehead deeply and then your cheeks and chin. Then mix the feeling with your saliva (don't try to understand it, just do it) and swallow it down into your stomach and move it around inside your body.
That's the breath in. I know it seems like a lot to do in one breath but you get used to doing it quickly with time.
Then you breath out and feel the feeling slowly moving back down to your feet. The top of your body will be more relaxed than it was before, but slightly less relaxed than the bits where you're moving the feeling to. The feeling can either be in only one bit of your body or in your whole body at once... don't think about it too much, just get used to it and play with it. The feeling will end up at the soles of your feet.
That's one breath. Do 3 for each of the 7 emotions.
Relaxation is a bit different than the others. With the others you do this:
Vividly remember some time you felt that emotion (or the closest thing you've had to it) really strongly. Make the pictures and sounds big and bright, and feel where the emotion is physically in your body. This may seem a little hard at first, but you'll get sensitive to it if you practice. Ok, now make it as big and bright and strong as you possibly can. Fill your body and mind wiht it.... when I do this I sometimes cry from the overwhelming joy of it.... then let go of the memory and just keep the feeling. Keep the feeling without the memory....
then move the feeling down to your toes. Now take your first breath in and move it up and around your body like you did with relaxation... when it reaches your face, feel the smile on your face grow big and wide. Remember that you smile real smiles with the cheek muscles just below you eyes, not with your mouth and teeth. Smiling will actually make the feeling stronger. Once you've moved it all around and swallowed it down, breath out and let it go back down to your toes. Do this 3 times with all of the feelings.
A few more things... when you breath in, try to take as big a breath as possible and push your belly out. This helps the feeling to move according to my Chinese friend. When you breath out, let our stomach come really far in so it's like you're squeezing all the air out and squeezing the feeling down to your feet. It might not seem like you have enough breath to move the feeling around your whole body during one breath at first, but just do the best you can and it will come with time.
Now INTPs. If you learn how to do that, you can use it whenever you get serious and depressed. It won't make everything perfect, but it will stop you feeling bad and let you be a more happy and loving person. Don't try to argue with it because it just works and you'll see that if you try it for a while. The first two or three times are always the hardest, and it just gets better and better every time you do it after that.
Anyway no matter if you take my advice or not, you're all awesome people anwyay. I feel so priveliged to have a forum with so many geniuses just a click away. Please don't be too harsh with me if you disagree... I'm just trying to help and make people happy and I really can't argue as well as you.
All I can say is that I and some people who I know and wanted to help do this every day (I do it twice actually) and it makes us way more happier and friendly and loving. You just kind of glow when you're doing this all the time, and people just seem to like you way more! I have no idea how it works
! SoThe first way to make INTPs happier is siliness. INTPs always seem to get caught up in these huge mazes in their minds, and sometimes they hit a rough spot and think that the entire everything results upon them solving the problemm in their mind. Well I've had that a few times in my life as well (but probably not as much as most of you) and the best way to solve it is to not take it so seriously! I know there are loads of books around implying that hapiness is impossible, btu that's because happy people don't write the kind of books that unhappy ones read! They all take it so seriously! Look, we're all just floating around in the sky without much idea of what's going on with anything, so we migth as well ligthen up and realise that we can have fun while we do it! I think that most wars and things depend from people taking everything too seriously and not having had enough fun and kindness and play. So whenever you get caught up in a maze or big problem in your mind, just let your attention drift off into play or fun. Use your beatiful Ne (I use mine all the time and I'm usually happy... it works
). OK the second way which is kind of the same is to work on being friendly and knowing about small talk and social nicities. It's like a dance, see. Most INTPs want to skip all the middle steps and just dance the last move. That's kind of silly for people who are so good at logic
. You need to do the little steps and be friendly and put on a face first before you get to the big ones and have really good and understanding friends to support you! I know loads of INTPs have hardened themselves against this... and I understand why.... but any of you can really have a lot more fun if you just learn to dance the first steps before the last ones .Ok the third way is a kind of yoga I learned about when I was in China. I got to know this girl whose father was a martial artist, and she taught me how to do it. It can take a lot of effort, but it actually instantly makes you feel good. I know you migth think that you would know about it already if it worked but it actually does work... of course it won't keep you happy the whole day all the time... but it makesyou more happy most of the time and always loving and happy and sexy while you're doing it. Ok I'll try and describe it the best I can:
Her'e some general info...
It's about remembring intense moments of emotion, than feelign what the physical feeling is of those emotions, then moving that feeling all around your body. She said it was tantra but there's no sex... although if you and somebody of the other sex or the sex you're attracted to do it at the same time things will probably happen
. You remember the intense emotion and then let go of the memory but keep the emotion and then move the feeling aroudn your whole body as you breathe. Once you've been doing it for a week or so it feels so blissful ritght from the beginning to the end .Here's detailed info...
There are 7 emotions. Do 3 or more breaths in and out for each emotion. It's best to do it while sitting in half-lotus or whatever sitting position is comfortable for you. The emotions (some of them aren't really emotions, they're a little different) are:
1. Relaxation
2. Pride in an achievment
3. Side-splitting laughter
4. Love
5. Deep gratitude
6. ''sexual ecstasy''... like the most amazing sexual experience you've had. It doesn't have to be sex... it can be a beatiful kiss or orgasm or any memory that brings up the good feeling.
7. Complete awe at the universe.
For the first one... Clench your toes really really tight. Then relax. Then clench them really really tight. Then relax. Finally clench them so tight they hurt. Then relax. Now you feel that feeling of relaxation and freedom from tension in your toes? Good. Take a deep breath and move that feeling up through your leg (I know this might sound funny, but it really works). Feel it relax every muscle as it moves up through your calvs and thighs and then waist and then stomach and then chest and then shoulders... and then let it flow down into your arms and then back up into your head. As it goes up to your head, feel it flow over the back of your head and then over the top to your face. And then feel it relaxing the muscles of your forehead deeply and then your cheeks and chin. Then mix the feeling with your saliva (don't try to understand it, just do it
) and swallow it down into your stomach and move it around inside your body.That's the breath in. I know it seems like a lot to do in one breath but you get used to doing it quickly with time.
Then you breath out and feel the feeling slowly moving back down to your feet. The top of your body will be more relaxed than it was before, but slightly less relaxed than the bits where you're moving the feeling to. The feeling can either be in only one bit of your body or in your whole body at once... don't think about it too much, just get used to it and play with it. The feeling will end up at the soles of your feet.
That's one breath. Do 3 for each of the 7 emotions.
Relaxation is a bit different than the others. With the others you do this:
Vividly remember some time you felt that emotion (or the closest thing you've had to it) really strongly. Make the pictures and sounds big and bright, and feel where the emotion is physically in your body. This may seem a little hard at first, but you'll get sensitive to it if you practice. Ok, now make it as big and bright and strong as you possibly can. Fill your body and mind wiht it.... when I do this I sometimes cry from the overwhelming joy of it.... then let go of the memory and just keep the feeling. Keep the feeling without the memory....
then move the feeling down to your toes. Now take your first breath in and move it up and around your body like you did with relaxation... when it reaches your face, feel the smile on your face grow big and wide. Remember that you smile real smiles with the cheek muscles just below you eyes, not with your mouth and teeth. Smiling will actually make the feeling stronger. Once you've moved it all around and swallowed it down, breath out and let it go back down to your toes. Do this 3 times with all of the feelings.
A few more things... when you breath in, try to take as big a breath as possible and push your belly out. This helps the feeling to move according to my Chinese friend
. When you breath out, let our stomach come really far in so it's like you're squeezing all the air out and squeezing the feeling down to your feet. It might not seem like you have enough breath to move the feeling around your whole body during one breath at first, but just do the best you can and it will come with time.Now INTPs
. If you learn how to do that, you can use it whenever you get serious and depressed. It won't make everything perfect, but it will stop you feeling bad and let you be a more happy and loving person. Don't try to argue with it because it just works and you'll see that if you try it for a while. The first two or three times are always the hardest, and it just gets better and better every time you do it after that.Anyway no matter if you take my advice or not, you're all awesome people anwyay. I feel so priveliged to have a forum with so many geniuses just a click away
. Please don't be too harsh with me if you disagree... I'm just trying to help and make people happy and I really can't argue as well as you.All I can say is that I and some people who I know and wanted to help do this every day (I do it twice actually) and it makes us way more happier and friendly and loving. You just kind of glow when you're doing this all the time, and people just seem to like you way more! I have no idea how it works
