What are some of your personal transformations you have gone through in "hermit mode"?
@francisjudge9 ай бұрын
I found God, quit drinking and drugs after 2 decades of use, recovered from what doctors assured me would be a crippling automobile accident without the recommended surgery, wrote a novel, started another one, and I am moving into a cabin come the new year.
@avikchatterjee19459 ай бұрын
The most important transformation is an entrance into indomitable self-belief, dear Wen.
@infjmale919 ай бұрын
Hermit mode is so ignorant. I call it "Mind Masturbation" instead.
@francisjudge9 ай бұрын
Curious, why is it ignorant? @@infjmale91
@TheWisdomOfTheAges_PsyM_Revd9 ай бұрын
I falsely thought that I was to self destruct. But no, I am surviving.
@williambrown11729 ай бұрын
Just thinking about how scary this concept would sound to a non INFJ vs how totally comforting it is to an INFJ. As a matured INFJ I know how important hermit mode is and practicing it regularly makes me the best me I can be.
@angepack19 ай бұрын
I actually go on silent retreats so I can just focus on me and my growth. I look forward to them every year!
@msmanager27759 ай бұрын
@@angepack1is this the 10 day Vipassana ?
@kalinadesseaux80119 ай бұрын
💯 exactly. Comforting and valid, even necessary to infj. But nightmare fuel for others types.
@angepack19 ай бұрын
@@msmanager2775 no, it’s the spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. This includes meditation and prayer
@msmanager27759 ай бұрын
@@angepack1 how lovely , I’m going to a meditation total silent retreat too in a fortnight so will miss you guys and Wenzes for about 10 days. This is my first time of this kind so wish me luck I can survive it without Wenzes content 🤣
@corporaterobotslave4009 ай бұрын
I've been in hermit mode for several years now. It's actually totally awesome sauce. Building my better life, my better self. Try it. Warning: you can only do this if you learn to not care what anyone else says or thinks about you, and you have to ignore the gossiping haters; realize they're just Jealous Little Britches [JLBs] who couldn't do what you do in a million years. You have to run your life your way without any regard for what others are doing. It's not lonely if you keep a tight relationship with God, and once you do that there's no going back because no one can hold a candle to having God as your best friend. Keep firing.
@jemz45559 ай бұрын
I agree 100%! This describes my situation these past few months. I've become someone I'm way more comfortable with and proud to be. And like you said, there's no going back, I don't want to and it wouldn't make sense to
@miriammahusay85149 ай бұрын
Amen. I agree. With God all things are possible.
@miriammahusay85149 ай бұрын
Yes, God is my best friend. Also, I have enjoyed being alone, away from the talkative. It makes me read a lot and plan for the next step /season/ stage in my life... always praying for God's direction and slowly working it out... and a lot more.
@TrulyTaurus889 ай бұрын
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@Ruthparrenas17559 ай бұрын
Relate best feeling ever being who you are in everything 😂 not mess your self in anyone. I'm alone but not lonely I have God and I am truly happy 😊 34 years old no boyfriend since birth. I have peace of mind that I can't bargain in anything in this worlds. I love freedom, peace of mind is everything to me
@lrwiersum9 ай бұрын
The pandemic showed me that it was totally ok to stop pushing myself to socialize. It’s stressful, it’s never not stressful. Even time spent with loved ones requires recovery time, lots of it.
@christinemccoy44718 ай бұрын
@empaths up charge alone, extroverts up charge around others. Are they suck8ng energy from others. Hmmm
@CrystalMouse19 ай бұрын
Before I was a senior in hs I was always in my hermit world with one or two friends who connected with me. And I was happy there. Then when I was getting ready to graduate, all my special Ed teachers were pushing me to be social, networking, sell myself and do a lot of public speaking. I got the notion that what I wanted wasn't going to be enough. They'd ask what I wanted to do with my future and I said "be a sleepy-town bookstore worker or a Shaman who comes to town occasionally." they told me that was impossible. This was awful. I let way too many people lead. Now I'm finding my way back to myself again. The Shamanic bookkeeper
@christenw.17269 ай бұрын
Sounds so wonderful ❤ I am so happy for you.
@danasima86599 ай бұрын
Nice to hear that👌💓🎶, said the musical book- dragon 🤓...
@Maxinator11-119 ай бұрын
Yea
@shawndouglas96059 ай бұрын
LOL, took the long way to only arrive back on the path you KNEW was yours from the beginning. Same, friend same 😂😂
@shawndouglas96059 ай бұрын
Lol shamanic bookeeper be like "THE SACRED TEXT!"
@BoudicasRevenge9 ай бұрын
Been in hermit mode for almost a year and I'm totally good with being here and actually prefer it!
@MoosemanR9 ай бұрын
I would totally enjoy having a conversation with INFJ female you want to talk?😊
@renlerose79649 ай бұрын
INFJ are like shonen anime character, every time they lose battle they get power ups and come back stronger
@jemz45559 ай бұрын
This is so true! I'm just now going through this/went through it. I've always been the type to want to interact with people (a small group of close friends/family) to feel like I belong and I'm loved and to pass the time away. Well, I tore my achilles a few months back and I was forced to spend a few months ALONE while I recovered. At first it was depressing, none of the family I spent time with were really there for me and it got me really down...but then something shifted in my perception. I realized that the people I was around didn't add anything to my life but only zapped me of my energy. I embraced the solitude, and actually began to enjoy the time to myself. I was able to reflect on many things, heal from a lot of trauma that I always ignored by staying distracted and I grew/matured a lot mentally and emotionally. I've become way more comfortable and okay with being alone, it's allowed me to understand myself much better and to evolve into someone I'm more proud of being. My injury went from being a curse to a blessing
@NewSkiwi9 ай бұрын
I could just as easily have written this post @jemz4555, except I fractured my shoulder, and 6 mo later my wrist, and another 6 months later, I was in a crash, and fractured my sternum = 3 x time alonefor recovery. maybe I just had too much growing and healing to catch up on ...lol.
@elizaveta24079 ай бұрын
That's interesting as I was also "forced" into a period of solitude when I injured my leg a few months ago and couldn't walk properly for a while. I used this time to take good rest (I slept A LOT), reassessed my life and recalculated my path. So I can clearly see a pattern here.:)
@looperbirhinger70439 ай бұрын
Currently in my hermit mode. LOVE IT.
@Dodgerzden9 ай бұрын
It's a cliche, but it really is true that it gets easier as you get older. When you're young and some old relative asks, "Why aren't you married yet?", you feel a little uncomfortable. But when you get older it becomes humorous and you might answer with something like, "Why aren't you divorced yet?" Another one is when you sit somewhere by yourself at work or whatever and a co-worker says, "Sitting with all your friends?", the appropriate answer is, "Sitting with everyone that deserves to be my friend".
@cassielee11149 ай бұрын
I came out of a long hermit mode for a bit. It was interesting for a while but I genuinely got bored and went back to hermit mode. There doesn’t seem to be much for me out there compared to what I can get into at home. I’m in a small town and in my 40 years here have rarely met anyone I don’t have to act basic for.. I need a lot of novelty and I can create that for myself. It’s Groundhog Day out there!
@ChanceBerryman9 ай бұрын
This is real I think about interacting with other people but my expectation is always so much more enjoyable than reality
@user-sl3xo6bt6e9 ай бұрын
i want to leave my current place and live in seclusion. Help
@cassielee11149 ай бұрын
@@user-sl3xo6bt6e step one, make money.
@SC-gw8np6 ай бұрын
I get that. Can't stand the banal conversations.
@FinalEyes7779 ай бұрын
You really are on the money. Over and over again. It's wild. Very impressive.
@helentaylor63759 ай бұрын
I feel like I’m starting to come out of ‘hermit mode’ now, so this video is timely. Your videos have and continue to be so helpful and I’m so grateful for them.. I know this doesn’t answer your question but wanted to let it be known 🙂
@mehitablestorm88779 ай бұрын
Considering how crazy the world is now, hermit mode seems to be the only practical, sane way to live.
@professorchaos99 ай бұрын
I had an awakening experience while I was on hermit mode. Found god. Still in hermit mode in process of transformation.
@auntylinda76402 күн бұрын
Me too. Through the love of my soulmate, I awoke to who I truely am. ❤🙏❤
@jerrimenard30929 ай бұрын
My void is filling. I am able to project myself and it attracts a lot of other people. This is fun.
@koylejeune43329 ай бұрын
Enjoy the process, and take off those blinders for unhealthy individuals you make attract.
@meganmck14739 ай бұрын
Where do I begin...emerging from a hermit period right now. I'm so excited about what's to come... Your videos have been a part of the journey, process😉thank you!
@irodirod46799 ай бұрын
Absolutely! If this presentation were a book it would be considered a page turner that you couldn’t put down. Wenzes incisiveness causes one to contemplate their INFJ “reality”. Truly a gifted individual. 🙏👏
@msmanager27759 ай бұрын
I’ve come up in life and achieved so much of the western dream as a foreigner while doing a hermit mode most of the time. I grow by picking who I want to socialise with and when I want to and listening to my body and emotion. The people that I have picked in my circle understand and don’t get offended if I bail on a meet up. I tried to be honest and tell them I don’t feel like coming and nothing to do about them. I need my hermit mode in these past few days. I don’t just turn up to invitations just to please people or just to be social. I pick my activities and I invite people who appreciates so much when I do. I used to just go to places and see People I don’t like just to please ( ie those born agains who uses uber friendly and guilt tripping to attend church). I choose how my world run, what I want to go to , when I want to. I have old flings trying to reconnect and I realised I’m not excited by this anymore. I know the person they were and I feel that they haven’t really changed the things that made the interaction go nowhere through their approach currently. I figure I can’t my energy. I’ve done this over the years now that sometimes I wonder if I’ll ever end up with a lifelong partner when I don’t see the incentive of being with someone. Unless a man in useful I don’t see the reward of expending any energy. Of course I need many things that a man can help but I can do them myself or pay someone to do it. This is the other side of growing and expanding so much that I feel everyone hasn’t really caught up with the realisation and wisdom I have gained from life. I feel I know so much and no one can relate. Including how law of attraction and grateful living has done wonders for me tangibly. I feel so abundant that sometimes I feel I finally learned the secret of manifesting, Trying to help others how they can achieved these too but most of the time they aren’t ready to hear it yet. Under as you can see we are cerebral. I love my comfortable dwellings and routines alone.
@edwardstrain44709 ай бұрын
This is one of the best resource material I found on KZbin. You're like a live version of Carl Jung
@avanellehansen45256 ай бұрын
Hey, someone has to be the lighthouse keeper!
@auntylinda76402 күн бұрын
😂
@auntylinda76402 күн бұрын
I would loooovvvveeee to live in a lighthouse❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@user-gn3ps7df5s9 ай бұрын
I feel like I’ve been in hermit mode my whole life. I gotta learn how to get out of it!
@terrijamison91549 ай бұрын
I had a wonderful period of hermit mode this summer when my estp husband was on a month long trip. It was the longest amount of personal time I have ever had and I absolutely LOVED it! I did everything I wanted to do at my own pace and learned a lot about myself in the process. 😊
@LeAnne-uw3wp9 ай бұрын
I can do it! I'm loving hermit mode right now. Spending time with myself is important. For the first time I'm doing me
@gabrielle95639 ай бұрын
I know , i discovered what I love, everything , what I like to do, and I like to be alone, I need to be alone , but I also feel crave to be there for the people that I love....
@OneThousandHomoDJs9 ай бұрын
7:10 -- besides, if we usually let others make those kinds of recreational decisions, it's likely that, at some point, the other person really WILL want us to choose, but the good news is that we can still do them the kindness by taking the lead, and by knowing when it's appropriate/wanted to do that. It's like when you're at a 4-way stop, and SOMEONE has to go first. Inevitably, the person who takes the initiative to go so that the others can follow is the most courteous driver among the group.
@Evilmindy129 ай бұрын
I love my own company ❤, and embrace hermit mode whole heartedly. I’ve discovered so many things about myself and the world around me during that time.
@warlocktony12 ай бұрын
Am happy when am in hermit mode ... learned to bake bread, straight method bread and sourdough bread, i draw, write pieces ,play piano flute recorder .. have time for my coin collections .. ❤ the best time to read research.. satusfy my hunger for knowledge. Have to time to 😊create new dishesfor my restaurant .. thank you so much wenzes ... And when am out they always say i look younger.
@lindsey29309 ай бұрын
I recently spent 2 days in hermet mode. I am now refreshed! I can be involved in the social settings I am expected to participate in this weekend.
@user-fs6ou3fk9p3 ай бұрын
I feel so good liking me. I love my hermit self. At 64, therapy has freed me. Healing is a process that never ends. What I've found is that I'm much better letting go of others' opinions. My in-laws don't like it and have twisted my words creating lies and then judging. At first this upset me a great deal and I wanted to confront them. After hermit mode I am letting it go putting into practice my two years of therapy. Hermit mode comes and goes in my life and I love it!
@prabhakaraa.n7863 ай бұрын
How come by watching only two videos of you, I feel that you are so close and we know each other from decades??
@auroracoriolis9 ай бұрын
Thank you so much! 💓 This is so true... and I feel so much relieved. Your video gave me huge comfort. I am not alone in this. And now I can see how I can improve my life more clearly. Thanks again. xo
@zoomvii36499 ай бұрын
I noticed who I am and what I can become. Helped me take control over my life. And then I stopped and figured out that it’s very much necessary for us to do that or things will start to get difficult in certain areas of life.
@zoomvii36499 ай бұрын
At the end of the day you will reclaim your power over time and it won’t be so bad because once you find what your looking for and you can bounce from your introverted side that associates with the hermit side and your extroverted side
@user-cn4ko4ui1t9 ай бұрын
I am addicted to hermit mode the pay out is unbelievable 😊
@katherinebrumley77943 ай бұрын
I have found my peace in hermit mode and now I am stronger and willing to take care of myself. I am still learning how to say No, and how to quit being a target for narcissist.
@stephenfegely9 ай бұрын
Queen 👸🏻 #INFJ
@raft1159 ай бұрын
Hermit is a person who can see no solution for problems and he sets out to the desert alone
@RunningNotStopping7 ай бұрын
Under the Joy section (actually my middle name too) -- this is why i think we are the type to enjoy travel. Experiencing and truly enjoying other ways of life. And in so doing grow within ourselves.
@almasakic11489 ай бұрын
For me it's when I realize that people want me to 'parent' them and I set boundaries and say no. Hermit mode doesn't always mean being totally alone for me, but I do things like sit in silence to reflect for a long time, study for school, take care of my physical body with massages or hygiene, make a healthy meal. For me a lot of it is doing things with deliberation rather than just rushing to please others before myself.
@jerome65729 ай бұрын
Wenze's I concur with your thoughts.Wenze's I love your brains and beauty.Wenze's I'm like the David Bowie video "Loving the alien" or "The Man who fell to Earth" he was in the movie you'd like.Wenze's I'm in the box,go through the box and outside the box.I'm a being of logic,reason,time.Wenze's I'm learning from your guidance.Thank you.Jerome❤❤❤
@user-gj3eb8qd6p5 ай бұрын
This is so true. When I line up a date w a friend to go do something it is always accompanied by an inner voice saying see? I'm normal--I have a healthy social life...look I have friends! There is something deeply defensive going on---as though underneath I have got the message: you are not normal and you cannot sustain normal healthy relationships. Acknowledging that I socialize defensively--to create an impression--helps me pull back from setting myself up. I realize when I do this I generally do it w acquaintances who seem to me to be hyper normal as tho I could assume their normality by standing next to them--not a good instinct.
@avikchatterjee19459 ай бұрын
I've been in hermitage for the last two years. It's not narcissistic. It's necessary for my creativity...my writing and reading and singing and playing guitar in various modes. Walter Benjamin and Maurice Blanchot, these two philosophers taught me this.
@Jinxy11999 ай бұрын
You have to somehow develop control bipolar disorder(and many shades between) and level it up to a fungi web and make it your tool amongst everything else the universe has to offer if needed.
@Jinxy11999 ай бұрын
I feel all the emotions multiple times a day without a issue and analyze it as it goes and laugh at me doing it follows😂 sometimes is tiring sometimes is boring sometimes is bliss but is always what you make of it in the end and as we are learning addicts😅 what can go wrong? ❤
@drlarrymitchell9 ай бұрын
"But I've always kinda been partial to calling myself up on the phone and asking myself out, you know? Oh yeah, you call yourself up too huh? Yeah, well one thing about it, your always around. Yeah I know, yeah you ask yourself out, you know, some class joint somewhere. The Burrito King or something, you know. Well I ain't cheap you know. Take yourself out for a couple of drinks maybe. Then there'd be some provocative conversation on the way home. Park in front of the house you know. Oh yeah, you smoothly put a little nice music on, Maybe you put on like uh, you know, like shopping music, Something that's not too interruptive you know and then uh slide over real nice and say 'Oh I think you have something in your eye'. Well maybe it's not that romantic with you but Christ I don't know, you know I get into it you know. Take myself up to the porch, take myself inside or maybe uh, Or may get a little something, a brandy snifter or something. 'Would like you like to listen to some of my back records? I got something here' Uh Well usually about 2.30 in the morning you've ended up taking advantage of yourself. There ain't no way around that you know. Yeah, making a scene with a magazine, there ain't no way around. I'll confess you know, I'm no different you know. I'm not weird about it or anything, I don't tie myself up first. I just kinda spend a little time with myself..." -TOM WAITS
@the_diamond_frequency9 ай бұрын
Wenzes, you’re just amazing! I just noticed that, at the moment I’m typing this, you have 77,7K followers and within 15 hours of posting your video, you have 7,5K views and 700 likes. That’s impressive to me, just saying. Hehe 😊 This just shows that 10% of your followers watch your content immediately and 10% of that likes your video. Probably because your content is so amazing! 😉 😊 thank you for helping to understand ourselves better. ❤
@natalieburger1113 ай бұрын
I am now in Hermit mode😮
@Ohwome9 ай бұрын
Being a march 9th Pisces and INFJ-T my tarot card in personology profile is The Hermit. And yeah I've pretty much mastered that one and find my peace there always. And it's just I've got to do it and I know I don't need people but I'd like to have one of my select few people who love me and know me and I love somewhere within reach.. like able to be there if I just spiral. I've learned that always helps. I'm always alone but I try to be never alone. Idk how else to explain that. Like leave me be. Stay away. But don't go far. I'll let you know if I do need you. 💯
@Ohwome9 ай бұрын
I just wanted to add that as I just wondered if the rest of us did that during hermit mode. ?¿
@marinamayer69209 ай бұрын
Sowly started this hermit mode journey a few weeks ago, it is hard but I think I'll be O.K. Dreading the Holidays though.
@christenw.17269 ай бұрын
Find a favorite movie for each holiday. Find a favorite drink or food or book that you only read or watch or drink/eat during those holidays. Make it special for yourself. Do you write?
@marinamayer69209 ай бұрын
@@christenw.1726 Thanks I was considering some plan like that, like read in the tub😁. I do write!
@christenw.17269 ай бұрын
@@marinamayer6920 That's great! I mean I realized I have done that over the years and it's helped me. But just because it helps me doesn't necessarily mean it helps others. So if it does (in any way) then I'm glad I mentioned it. I write too. I mean when I can that is. Poetry to novel stuff.
@quintonlarking44629 ай бұрын
I like your purpose your energy and you're pretty . I no idea there were other people that think and feel and see things like I do. I did the personality test and didn't think I would see something like this
@michealcherrington65319 ай бұрын
totally great conformation to hear your videos about what I developed by 15. Got something me for me though?
@davidrahman38928 күн бұрын
Very well said, again thank you!!!!!
@RandyMoe9 ай бұрын
Never lonely
@avanellehansen45256 ай бұрын
And not suffocated! 😊
@alexadellastella52478 ай бұрын
Basically I am bored with people who have no depth capacity and so either I am alone or I need to exchange with a person who has a similar capacity as mine, that is to say an authentic exchange without constantly projecting onto me their insecurities cos I don't fit in what they expect of me or people in general. BUT I have never met later in life people with real depth, this is too complicated to find such a person in real life so I am alone and I like it but I will always miss deep connections between two free individuals, cos this is my need as an INFJ full stop
@kathleenmiedema68949 ай бұрын
I wished i had learned this lesson mant years ago.
@MareikeHuisinga9 ай бұрын
I love you, Wenzes! Thanks so much for providing all of this knowledge. It´s so true what you are sharing with us!! ❤
@xxxfire_leonxxx8 ай бұрын
Planning to hermit again soon, worked on style last time now im working on body
@kikitaube-hansen8 ай бұрын
Thanks for this great video. I feel understood the first time.
@drusillialeavel75332 ай бұрын
Wenzes their is something I don't know if it's common to all INFJ'S. I'm an accomplished INFJ, but it is like I have many personalities; for me it's not the case. I just feel like I'm like a rubric cub and have many facets. But for many people it is like for them my personality changes and I'm not the same person. And I'm talking about people who are trying to manipulate me, like for example narcs, who want to find a way to mimic me, or find my weak points. No. I'm talking about people who I helped in the past, and who have the impression I am not the same person, then few months later notice to me, that I am my old self again. For me I don't change, but it is true, I adapting myself to the situation I'm in. Is it the same for all the INFJS' you are meeting?
@agnes4669 ай бұрын
I really needed this video. Thank You.
@swaymbho9 ай бұрын
Thank you 💐❤
@TroyDeFrates-jh8fc9 ай бұрын
I found this while researching the Sigma Male hierarchy concept. Same as the INFJ's.
@carolinenavarro48249 ай бұрын
Sounds so nice and what I should do.
@LordYeshuaHamashiach4 ай бұрын
love your videos
@user-rc2xs5ti2w9 ай бұрын
Loved your content!
@supersonicholsters45883 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@ga72614 ай бұрын
I’m fine being solo ❤
@tommih865 ай бұрын
How do you all this shit? Thanks for giving me new perspective and new things to process 🙏
@derya80929 ай бұрын
I know it is hard to be an infj in this world. And Wensez helps a lot to figure out what is really going on in our minds. I would like to mention another lovely channel here that means a lot to me: m.youtube.com/@CrappyChildhoodFairy It’s always a discussion if infj is born or made but I believe that Some of the issues with being an infj may be resulting from childhood traumas. Hope it helps to you!
@dallasstorey9 ай бұрын
Great video thank you.
@SR-mv2mf9 ай бұрын
Am ready for my glow up 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
@thewanderer50839 ай бұрын
Thank you...
@akreation9 ай бұрын
Saturn in Virgo is the hermit 1979
@MrsWanderingWife9 ай бұрын
🔥🔥🔥
@drewford32059 ай бұрын
❤
@jessmason21129 ай бұрын
💯 6:09
@geoffcarlson-kw4wl9 ай бұрын
hello everyone
@user-kc3my2mx6b9 ай бұрын
infj vs anxiety video?
@user-zc3yo6dk3q2 ай бұрын
🦊
@melissaswartz29659 ай бұрын
So if you already in the infj boot camp do we need to register again?
@user-hn9tn9ef2k9 ай бұрын
Can I join the boot camp on Monday 6th November?
@Wenzes9 ай бұрын
Yes!
@mariaisabelmendiola96709 ай бұрын
brainwashed ...why is this learning mechanisms on that channel.. deeper
@user-zb8xp2zc4v9 ай бұрын
Once a philosopher said "i think God overestimated himself when he created mankind" i wonder then what God was attempting when he created the INFJ?
@fl36409 ай бұрын
That "philosopher" overestimated his men-tal cap-acity. Arr-ogant ign-orance.