Which of the 8 functions is related to physical body awareness?

[LOLZ9000]

Is it Si, Fi, Se? Si seems like it would be a candidate, but then again, body awareness in the present has practically nothing to do with "relating sensations to past experiences" at all.

Thanks.

 

[Infinitatis]

I'm not entirely sure that there is a function that specifically gives rise to the awareness of one's body, but if I had to give an educated guess, I would say that Si (introverted sensing) is most relevant. Si, as you have stated, is the relation of sensations to past experiences. Those with the Si function are often observant (mostly subconsciously) of how things affect them, so they can utilize that information to evaluate the future. INTPs, with Si as their tertiary function, do something that's rather interesting. Rather than actually processing emotions, INTPs tend to literally feel emotions – physically. I've noticed this to be very true for myself. For instance, I do not process sadness, per se. I feel it physically. I feel heartache or a lump in my throat. I do not process anger. I feel a headache. I do not process happiness. I feel upbeat or relaxed. I feel This particular experience could very well be an inferior Fe thing, so that is why I remain unsure about Si and the awareness of one's body. Someone else probably has a better answer, but there's something for you to go on for now.

 

[Alias]

Body awareness as in watching your weight, exercise, etc.?

Might be a Se thing, but I wouldn't consider it type exclusive.

Welcome to the forum!

 

[Yellow]

I'd say it's not particularly related to any one function. Sensation-seeking is Se, noticing something is a little "off" is Si, and being in touch with your own wants/feelings is Fi. Beyond that, we all have body awareness to some degree, unless we're significantly impaired in some way.

 

[LOLZ9000]

Thank you for your replies and welcome.

Alias, to clarify, I am not talking about things like "losing weight" but rather things like "I am aware of my body in this moment, I am conscious of every part of my body, I can feel the energy in my body". It is, in a way, the opposite of a cerebral focus.

I will likely make another thread on this topic, but what triggered this question is that as an INTP I often feel like Ti and Ne dominate my mode of operation. However, under the influence of marijuana, if doing it alone and staying present/undistracted, I notice that my Si and Fe come out. I become extremely aware of my body and my sensations, whereas these are usually buried out of consciousness during sober hours. Similarly, I become extremely warm/affectionate/compassionate, which I am definitely not at all while sober.

I found that very interesting - that the tertiary and inferior functions were magnified under the influence of marijuana. As part of digging deeper into that phenomenon, I wanted to confirm that Si was indeed what was responsible for greater body consciousness.

 

[Reluctantly]

Sensing, it's the most readily present in the concrete world. Intuitive is space-cadety; the other functions judge the surroundings, but don't necessarily deal with them directly.

 

[nanook]

in so far the body or in fact all of concrete reality is understood as consisting of qualities, this understanding is generated by sensation. understanding of movements and processes is generated by intuition. introversion and extroversion a probably mainly associative processes, meaning how attention wanders through the territory of, in this case, sensation or intuition. in the case of extroversion the mind studies the relationships between internal and external qualities or processes. in the case of introversion it studies the intrinsic preferences (S) or flows (N). another aspect of introversion and extroversion may be summarizing of complexities into whole pictures. it results from associative experience. for instance, if seen through Si, you perceive as your own that which is fairly constant about you (intrinsic preferences) and whatever changes may be interpreted as influence of the environment, through Ne. whereas in the case of Ni+Se, there is a scanning for familiar (in that sense relatively constant) processes and these are perceived as your own being and static aspects of physical reality are associated with the objective world. to put it in less analytic language, the Ne&Si types might formulate: my body is a lump of various organic qualities of clay, all animated by the world's winds of change. and Ni&Se types might formulate: my being is the living energy of the source, manifesting the body and the world as a mere image of itself. you can see why the former would have a tendency to become askets trying to transcend the body and enter a dream like, fully animated, liberated, reality of noself, while the latter would obsess about kundalini or the likes and becoming one with some intimate principle of higher order, the "SELF", or manifestation. in either case intuition/process is associated with pure life, at least from the POF of intuitive philosophers or gurus, but sensation is an integral aspect of it, there cannot be life without the experience of qualities. only the mind is dissecting reality into it's aspect. of course true awakening transcends the illusion of such separations, but most people are just in the process of awakening, hence philosophies and spiritual teachings reflect those typological biasses.

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