Feeling Palettes

I’ve been exploring feeling palettes for a few weeks on twitter and thought I might give a broader explanation of what I’m doing with these three words experiments.

In Jungian typology each person has a highly developed function (thinking, feeling, sensation or intuition).  It is their strength and the function they most interact in the world with.  On the wheel of these functions, thinking and feeling form one axis, while sensation and intuition form the other axis.  The main function is balanced by the inferior function at the other end of it’s axis.  The two functions that form the other axis act as secondary functions.

Jung taught that feeling is not simply the emotions, but that ability of the ego that grasps and orders the world of values.  Feelings are the ego’s participation in the instinctual emotive responses.  It sees tonally, like music and color, and it is intimately tied to our ability to discern moral realities.  It is one thing to think of an unjust scenario and another to feel an injustice.

I’m intuitive.  I engage the world primarily seeing the possibilities.

Thinking and feeling are both functions that can grow or strengthen in my personality.  To aid my grasp of the feeling function I’ve been attempting a few times a day to render my feeling state in three words.  I keep a list of nearly a thousand words handy to aid the process.

Most recently…

Feeling palette: delighted, sharp, inventive

So, what have you been feeling?

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