Myers Briggs Profile

How can we learn more about our personality and our relationships?  What is my true path to wholeness and holiness?  How can my psychological dynamics connect to my spiritual healing?  What causes my stress and anxiety levels to increase?  These questions and more can be answered through the Myers Briggs Type Indicator Instrument.

Katherine Myers and Isabel Briggs worked with Carl Jung in the development of a personality profile assessment instrument that identifies our psychological makeup.  They developed a 4 letter combination profile from worldly energy levels, ways to take in information, methods on making decisions, and attitudes about the world.  They can be summarized as follows:

1.  extraversion versus introversion

2.  sensing versus intuition

3.  thinking versus feeling

4.  judgement versus perception

Using these pairs of personality instruments, Myers Briggs developed a 4 letter combination that describes our personality and psychological dynamics.

If one's letters are INFJ, the individual is energized in a reflective world (introversion), takes in information by looking at the possibilities (intuition), makes a decision with their heart (feeling), and lives a very planned life-style (judgement).  There are 15 other combinations that form rooms that we can visit, but we need to return to our own room for comfort.

At Body Naturals, our holistic wellness team will help you understand this instrument in a detailed way, explaining this profile and how it may help in your life journey.

WHAT FOODS AFFECT ACNE ROSACEA?

Rosacea is a chronic, lifelong skin condition that affects (most often) the face.  The disease is common; approximately 1 in every 20 Americans has rosacea.  Women are affected more often in the early stages (flushing and erythrosos), but more men progress to the advanced stages and rhinophyma is seen almost exclusively in men over 40 years of age.

Rosacea is characterized by various skin disorders and sufferers must contend discoloration of the skin, permanent enlargement of small blood vessels, small, red raised bumps, or a swollen mose.

The exact cause of rosacea has not been determined, but here are many theories.  Exposure to the sun may be one factor.  Another possible cause is skin mites.  These tiny insects usually live at the base of hair follicles.  They are often found on the faces of people with rosacea, and it has been suggested that they may initiate an inflammatory reaction.  It may also damage the blood vessels, causing them to be permanently dilated.  There may also be genetic defects in the vasculature of the skin that causes them to become easily and permanently dilated.

The signs and symptoms of rosacea are not dangerous, but they can be uncomfortable, unsightly, and disfiguring.  Yet although there is no cure for rosacea, the disease can be managed.  Topical medication, oral medications and laser therapy can all be used to control flushing and to remove some of the skin blemishes, swollen blood vessels and discoloration.  It is well known that there are certain factors - sunlight, stress, heat - that trigger rosacea and food has been identified as a trigger.

What foods have been implicated as causes of rosacea?  the list is long and there is obviously individual variations in susceptibility:  high doses of B6 and B12, chocolate, tomatoes, hot beverages, hot sausage, red pepper, black pepper, vinegar, paprika, white pepper, garlic, wine, hard liquor, beer, cheese, yogurt, sour cream, milk, citrous fruits, eggplants, avocadoes, spinach, raisins, figs, bananas, and marinated meat.

Why do these foods exacerbate rosacea?  No one knows for sure, and given the fact that the exact cause of rosacea hasn't been clearly determined, that's not surprising.  However a look at the pathophysiology of rosacea may provide some clues.

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