From Your Experience Typing Others Or Observing People Type Others, Which Types Are The Hardest To Tell

“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”

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Dalai Lama

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So I just learned something that pisses me off. Y’know quinoa? The ~magical~ health food that has become so popular in the US that a centuries-long tradition of local, sustainable, multi-crop farming is being uprooted to mass-produce it for the global market? Potentially affecting food stability and definitely effecting environmental stability across the region?

Ok, cool.

Y’know Lamb’s Quarter? A common weed throughout the continental US, tolerant of a wide variety of soil conditions including the nutrient-poor and compacted soils common in cities, to the point where it thrives in empty lots? These plants are close relatives, and produce extremely similar seeds. Lamb’s quarter could easily be grown across the US, in people’s backyard and community gardens, as a low-cost and local alternative to quinoa with no sketchy geopolitical impacts. You literally don’t have to nurture it at all, it’s a goddamn weed, it’ll be fine. Put it where your lawn was, it’ll probably grow better than the grass did. AND you can eat the leaves - they taste almost exactly like spinach. 

This just… drives home, again, that a huge part of the appeal of “superfoods” is the sense of the exotic. For whatever nutritional benefits quinoa does have, the marketing strategy is still driven by an undercurrent of orientalism. You too could eat this food, grown laboriously by farmers in the remote Andes mountains! You too could grow strong on the staple crop that has sustained them for centuries! And, y’know, destroy that stable food system in the process. Or you could eat this near-identical plant you found in your backyard. 

The smash hit of the summer.

I’m starting an Instastory Chakra series! I could probably spend over a month talking strictly chakras & mindbody. So I decided to create an chakra series. Today is about the Root Chakra: ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ How we do one thing is how we do everything,⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Our resistant patterns can show up in some funky ways,⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ One thing is they can show up as we’re doing different things⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Like when I was exploring my lack mindset⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I would find, my childhood food anxiety connected to a self worth belief,⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Which also connected to how I was paranoid on running out of food⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Then it always circled back to feeling lack of support in my life⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ If I don’t feel supported with food,⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I also don’t feel enough to support my body and my health⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ What did this translate to? Neglecting the body…thus often starving myself out of punishment for not feeling good enough. True story.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Which low and behold all connects back to the root chakra,⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Most of my childhood I was sick all the time⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ And so I grew up with a fear of sickness and neglected eatting a lot of the time due to fear of getting sick.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ While I’ve tremendously healed this story, love and know I’m enough and rarely get sick anymore bc I’ve done the deeper level work,⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ It shows me the power behind how our patterns ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Loop in our nervous system and play out in our lives⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ this is why I’m crazy in love with the chakra system⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ It carries the ability to look at our patterns⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Have a map to heal them⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ And then consciously work on empowering each center ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ To activate each chakras hidden gem 💎⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Like the root chakra is really about support and abundance,⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Which allows us to feel supported by our body, by our external world and by our authentic self. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ When we feel supported we activate abundance in our life.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ What chakra stories do you have?! I’d love to hear about them 💙💚💛💜🦄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #chakras

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MBTI: reasons to live

Okay so this is a bit more serious than my usual posts which are literally about memes and procrastination, but I thought it would be sorta nice to give each type a reason why they should stay alive. These sorts of things are important :)

INFP: there are so many books left for you to read

INFJ: you see things differently and the world needs people like that

INTP: live for that discovery you’ll make a decade from now

INTJ: you haven’t truly left your mark yet

ENFP: there are animals who need you

ENFJ: who will campaign for change without you?

ENTP: you’re gonna do something big, just wait

ENTJ: you are the one thing holding some groups/organisations together

ISTP: you haven’t visited every continent yet

ISTJ: the world needs your innovation

ISFP: there’s so many beautiful things you haven’t seen

ISFJ: trust me, your friends need you

ESFP: you brighten up the lives of everyone you meet

ESFJ: one day, you’ll be so in love that you’ll be glad you’re alive

ESTP: there are so many experiences left for you to feel

ESTJ: you may not know it, but people are relying on you

love this