(03-15-2013 8:17 AM)PhoenixOnFyre119 Wrote: Hi Dexter, I'm new here but would like to contribute to this (as it sparked my interest from the heading).
"Not tonight, I have a headache." It could mean one of a couple things:
"The pheromones you are putting out today are weak and they aren't revving me up enough to be interested in sex with you... so I am going to fake a headache to get out of it"
or
"I am in such a bad mood that my chemical signals are blocking out your pheromones from having a good effect on me, so I not only have a 'bad mood' headache but definitely don't want to have sex."
Let me know what you think 
~Nix
Sounds good Nix, sounds good.
After reading one of my new favorite books
"Survival Games Personalities Play" by Eve Delunas Ph.D., I picked up some more info, although not directly related to 'mones, it relates to
the unseen link between motives and actions.
I've seen even more of this in my life. Here is an example from this week that happened to me.
Watching TV late at night with my wife, then go to bed together, start the motions of getting it on, but then she starts being all mean, rude, and grouchy and
starts ripping me a new hole over everything I've ever done wrong in my life. Well, in Delunas book, there is a
defense mechanism she calls Complain-Nag. She says that Complain-Nag is a defense mechanism that correlates to the xSxJ personality type in the MBTI (Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator). I'm an ENFP and my wife is an ESTJ, and the Complain:Nag game is definitely a pattern she follows, only after reading the book did
I realize the method behind the madness though. The book talks about how
stress levels in life, whether physical, emotional, or situational can
trigger defense mechanisms when they build up and reach a high enough level. The neat part of the info in the book is that it explains how the reaction to the stress (
the defense mechanism) doesn't relate to the stress, or the person causing the stress, or does it solve the stress problem in a direct way. The defense mechanism, in this case "Complain-Nag" is relates to my wife's personality type. So
no matter what stresses her, she
will go back to her usual defense mechanism that she has used since I met her.
So on this particular night, I took a step back and said, hmm... this is a Complain-Nag defense mechanism in play. And then I said, out loud,
"Something is stressing you out, lets talk about it..." and we did, and I kept asking questions and it turns out that she was twisting and wrenching inside from about 6 different stressful things that she kept thinking about from earlier in the day. So we talked about each individual stress topic and I tried to talk her down from the ledge on each one. It worked, she
reduces her stress level and then didn't need to use the Complain-Nag defense mechanism, and since I was the only one around, it wasn't being used "ON ME!"
So to say it more clearly, and not thru a story like I did above,
"What they say/do doesn't always relate to what is stressing them out." The fact is that they feel stress, and when the stress burden gets high enough, then they
use a defense mechanism to divert their attention away from the stress, to avoid thinking about the actual stressful stuff for awhile. It is a
diversion tactic that the unconscious mind uses for
defending beliefs.
S
ome beliefs can be:
I am a good person
I am always right
My way of doing "x" is the best
I am in control
I am respected
I am nice
I am strong
These are simple thoughts that the unconscious mind can handle and
when these beliefs are threatened the defense mechanisms come in and
divert attention away from the situation that is threatening the belief.
I was able to lower my wife's stress and after doing so, she felt relieved of the threat to her belief that she was
"Able to do everything" and
"Be in control." So then she didn't need to use the defense mechanism anymore.
Then she was sweet and nice and we
got it on!
There are other defense mechanism that are used, not everyone uses this one like my wife.
Delunas says there are 4 "Games" each is related to a MBTI type,
there are 4 games and 6 variants to each game talked about in the book. There may be more than 4 games, there may be more than 6 variants each, but the book only has 4 and 6. The games are not limited to the personality types they are associated with, but are more statistically likely for them. Everybody is a mix of strengths, so any single person could "play" any or all of the survival games.
They are:
MBTI type (label) Defense Mechanism "Game" ["Object" of game]
6 varieties of each game (sorry I sure didn't remember them all)
_S_P (Artisan) Blackmail []
Shock / Delinquency / Binge / Outrage / Con Artist / 6
[pg. 266- Drunks, Drugs & Debits: How to Recognize Addicts and Avoid Financial Abuse By Doug Thorburn have some "Blackmail" game stuff
google books, drunks drugs debits ]
_S_J (Guardian) Complain []
Nag / Doormat / Worried / Invalid / Poor Me / Depressed
_NF_ (Idealist) Masquerade [Deceive]
Forget / Paralysis / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6
_NT_ (Rational) Robot [Distract]
Haunted / That's Illogical / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6
http://pherotruth.org/Thread-Personality...ity?page=2
(02-20-2013 2:46 PM)dexter Wrote: I just read a new book on MBTI Personality Types. It is super awesome and gave me more insights into myself and others.
It is called:
Survival Games Personalities Play
by Eve Delunas Ph.D.
http://www.amazon.com/Survival-Games-Per...1450513468
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The author worked with Kiersey for 10 years and Milton Erickson for 4, both of whom I have a great amount of respect for from their works.
It goes a step beyond the MBTI and talks about the sub-concious defense mechanisms that different types use. It is really interesting to see how I fit into so many of them. It also gives case studies of how people were able to get over using these sometimes destructive defense mechanisms thru different types of actions.
As far as how this can relate to pheromones, it can help you identify and understand stress reactions in people, thus being able to see if there is a change due to pheromone exposure. If you can see another variable that used to be hidden, and then monitor it, you can see more clearly how pheromones effect yourself and others.
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