INFJ personality types and INFP personality types frequently are labeled as too “woo-woo,” by non-intuitive types. Because of this, many INFJ personality types and INFP personality types feel like they are too weird to fit in, or like their ideas are too radical for the mainstream. INFJ personality types and INFP personality types are frequently interested in subjects like astrology, the tarot, energy work, healing with crystals, and other fringe ideas. To us, these subjects are intriguing and can help us understand the world in a deeper way, but they may be threatening to friends and family members.

In fact, many INFJ personality types and INFP personality types have friends and family members who make them feel badly about their interest in these “woo-woo” topics. We may be mocked, or our friends and family may make us feel as if we are gullible, stupid, or not thinking in a logical way, and so we end up hiding these interests, even though we are drawn to them over and over again.

When INFJ personality types and INFP personality types give themselves permission to pursue their interests on the woo side of life, we usually notice that these woo interests can help us heal ourselves, and also understand reality, events, and other people in a much more holistic way. INFJ personality types and INFP personality types tend to be naturally more woo in our thinking, and this is because we thrive when we are able to work with open possibilities and creative theories of life on a regular basis. However, it can be hard to embrace this part of our ourselves if most of our friends and family operate more on the logical side of life.

Since anything “woo” is usually outside of any official institution or organization, it’s also a known disruptor to organized religion and mainstream spirituality. This resonates with many INF people, because we are also natural disruptors of the status quo.

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