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MBTI And Enneagram Personality Test

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In my research to connect my MBTI and Enneagram personality types to spirituality, I gained a greater understanding of spirituality as a whole and a better understanding of myself and how my personality influences how spiritual I am. Personality may affect how I practice faith or how spiritual of a person I am in my everyday life and the actions I do towards me or towards other people. During my research for connections between my spirituality and my MBTI and Enneagram personality types, I have learned how my personality affects my spirituality on a deeper level and how it impacts my everyday life.
After I completed the MBTI and Enneagram Personality Tests, I was able to identify my key personality traits and tendencies and how they might affect …show more content…

However, I do not fully agree with this test; I do not perceive myself as an alert individual. This affects how open I am to seeing signs from God on how I should live my spiritual life. I do agree with the statement that I am an insightful person because I tend to understand new concepts fairly well. This allows me to grasps new spiritual concepts and stigmas, allowing me to learn more about religion. Desiring to know the “why” in situations allows me to question religion and spirituality, which has good and bad consequences. One of the good consequences is that I am a free thinker and am questioning the church and its teachings. However, that can, in turn, become negative because I am not relying on faith as much as I should be, and therefore, I am not as spiritual or religious of a person than I should be. According to the MBTI personality test, my personality type is ISTJ, which is an initialism for introverted, observant, thinking, and judging . I agree with these traits because I see these traits in myself whenever I ponder who I am as a person. Also, I believe others see me with these traits because I tend to keep to myself on most matters. Being introverted can be …show more content…

And I have tendencies to keep everything to myself, or just keep it inside of my head . I become very analytical about my surroundings and situations. I keep my opinions and feelings to myself, which prevents others from feeling like I am bombarding them with my personal issues and problems. This can become problematic though because this causes me to bottle up my emotions and feelings about a lot of things, causing my personal problems to constantly pile up and become very problematic in the future. Whenever I am around others, I do not tend to be emotional around them or with them. I do not feel like others should be involved in my personal affairs that I feel do not affect them. This however, causes my peers and other people to think that I lack emotion, and I tend to bottle them up which can become problematic in the future. I am not an outspoken person, and approach all of my relationships, family or friend, in a rather reserved way. In life, I would much rather prefer fewer, more personal relationships with those I am very close with than having many loose acquaintances whom I am not very close with. In relationships, I perceive myself as the more selfish one, or taker. As much as I do not want to admit this, I rarely am the one who frees up time or makes time for those I am close with. I run on my own clock the majority of the time, and that is not good if I desire

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