Podcast - Episode 0387 - Integrating The Weak Side Of Your Cognitive Functions - Part 1

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In this episode, Joel and Antonia begin a two-part series about integrating your cognitive functions. In this episode they discuss the perceiving functions and how to integrate the weak side of each in your personality.

• Why do we prefer to talk about cognitive functions in terms of how they work in polarities?
• Check out our article on Car Model to learn about your functions and their polarity opposites.
• We can’t fully understand one function without understanding its opposite -why is this the case and how does this show up?
  • An example of how this works.
• What is the key purpose of integrating functions?
• How can we integrate the polarity opposite of our Driver and Copilot?
• What happens if we don’t consciously work on integration?
• How to see the limitations of your backseat functions – even if you’ve developed skill there.
• What does it look like when we purposefully use our backseat functions to support our stronger functions?
  • What happens if we don’t use them to support our strengths?
• How to integrate your weaker perceiving functions – and the difference in how they show up when they are integrated and unintegrated:
• xNxPs – integrating Memory (Si) to support Exploration (Ne)
  • How Si helps you to learn your lessons with the gift of wisdom
  • Why you need templates – the concept of “blank page syndrome”
  • What happens if you don’t build on your past?
  • How you can prevent bad habits
• xSxJs – integrating Exploration (Ne) to support Memory (Si):
  • What’s the main purpose of Ne if you have Si in the front seat?
  • How to move forward when there isn’t an existing template
  • How can unintegrated Ne make you more closed off to new experiences?
  • How integrated Ne benefits your past reflection
• xNxJs – integrating Sensation (Se) to support Perspectives (Ni):
  • What happens to your Perspectives process if you don’t check in with reality?
  • How integrated Se enhances your inner world
  • What happens to your mind if you don’t look after your body?
  • Thinking of your body as a part of you
• xSxPs – integrating Perspectives (Ni) to support Sensation (Se):
  • Ni helps Se perform better in the moment- an example
  • How unintegrated Ni can trick you into living in a fantasy world
  • How lazy and avoidant behaviours can creep in
  • What can you gain from using Ni to understand future implications?
• “Courage isn’t the opposite of fear” – how this idea fits into integrating the opposite polarity function.
• Remember – the same function may be integrated in some areas of your life, but not others.

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