How I experience Fi and Ne...

Introverted Feeling: An internal knowing of what is right and wrong and what makes sense, particularly from what I call a "human standpoint", dealing with emotions & morals and how they work, and trying to harmonize the inconsistencies through evaluation. Things tend to resonate with me as truth immediately, and further reflection and analyzing sort of fits it into already existing beliefs, or susses out why it resonates as truth. Sometimes there is conflict with new info, and resolving it can distress me, as can resolving a strong emotionally-driven desire with my values. Most everything is personal in some sense....I have to relate it to myself to understand it on a level where I can decide if it is right or wrong. That relating and evaluating is not done in such a linear manner though. As mentioned, often I start with the feeling and work through the "why" afterwards. It's a bit holistic and exploratory, like starting with a lump of clay and shaping it until it's a form you can name - it's not an exact science, but an art.

There is also a welling up of feeling - not emotion, but just a feeling that says "this is me, or what I believe, or an idea I feel is worthwhile" and it can be felt in a mood, an image, a melody, a phrase, etc. When I come across a way to reflect that feeling externally, I will feel immediately, "this is how the feeling must be expressed".

Extroverted Intuition: Seeing patterns between seemingly unrelated things, applying the pattern in what seems to be unusual ways, considering many future possibilities. It jumps from A to C and then back to B and then to X and has a lot of fun along the way, discovering new ideas & formulating theories. It's a lot of "what if" and Fi tends to weed out what doesn't resonate as good to me.

I feel like Ne aids in creating the idealist aspect in myself. My feelings are made universal in the sense that the Fi ideas now go beyond me, a mere individual; it's looking at the Fi vision on a global scale and creating a metaphor for the feeling to have larger application, so it's no longer just about me. I also don't have to experience something to understand it, and it doesn't have to exist for me to imagine it - Ne extrapolates from feeling I do know and things which do exist.

Ne is a door that swings both ways - things go out through it and come in through it. It aids in shaping my Fi ideas/judgments by presenting possibilities, and it's an outlet for my Fi ideas/judgments.

 

I often find myself taking other peoples ideas and actualising them or making them better by creating new things. I do find that I need other peoples ideas to do this, I am not that great of creating those ideas without other people

 

Something I just posted on an INFP Facebook page which I feel sums up Fi pretty good for myself:

I thought I was an INFJ for a while but just started realizing how much Fi I have. Whenever there's something wrong emotionally, I will completely neglect the outside world (where my tendency to be messy comes from) - just putting things everywhere because I'm too busy going through the motions to worry about where they belong. And most of the time I'm not even thinking about the solution because I FEEL it - what frustrates me is not being able to put it in WORDS or just having to feel like I WANT the answer in words!!! Because I have a hard time trusting my feelings when I can't verbally comprehend them - I worry they aren't REAL. And I HATE that because those feelings are what FAITH is built on.

So when I'm just waiting there, what I guess I'm really trying to do is wait to stop being hurt. Some people say you have to know how to control your emotions. Sorry (not really) but I've never believed that - at least not in my personal life. I don't believe I can control them. I CAN try and mask them with MANMADE LOGIC, which has never done anything but hurt me more when LYING blows up in my face. I promised myself that I wouldn't lie to pretend like I understand the answer anymore, and I think that's when I came to terms with the fact that I have Fi.

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I'm still trying to understand my Ne better. The only thing I really know is that it's me verbalizing to others my internal thought process, which I feel is useful to them when they're confused about their emotions : / Basically it's like..I take any feeling I HAVE learned how to express and explain it to them hoping it clicks with them, since I think they're only going through what I was - feeling the answer but not being able to comprehend it.

 

I'm not even thinking about the solution because I FEEL it - what frustrates me is not being able to put it in WORDS or just having to feel like I WANT the answer in words!!!

I'm an INFP who went with Te very early in life (19), I'm now almost 41. I can say, if you realize the yearning for the development of your Te, your desire for a description of the feeling solution in words, and develop your Te, it will be very fulfilling. I got into computer programming out of a passion for video gaming, and I have been doing it for 22 years and in the process it rewired my brain honestly. I think much more in a Te sense, but not in a way that offends my Fi. Once I've rotely worked out something logically through Si Te, I relegate the process to my Fi Ne and it'll serve up answers in the form of aha moments and feelings. I think about it like Jarvis, the AI in the Iron man suit. Tony is the conscious part, and Jarvis is sort of the subconscious part.

This may potentially not sound like warm enough of a concept, but it's not something I keep in the foreground. The trade-offs are worth it. You have to be careful not to neglect the Fi Ne expression if you take this route.

 

Fi = feel
Ne = crazy ideas
INFP = feeling crazy ideas

 

Best way to sum it up.

 

One thing I can say about how I experience Ne is being wickedly resourceful, and to an extent, pretty inventive as well. Today I figured out how to splice a client's power cord despite never having seen it done before, which I realize also has a lot to do with Te, but it was Ne that came up with the crackpot idea in the first place (hey, it worked....) I'm able to figure out new programs by playing around with them and then using them to further whatever crazy project I've got going on. I've invented gadgets that can be used by professionals in my field (though I didn't actually *do* anything about it ha!). Just last week I invented self-cleaning windows, which I also probably won't do anything about. I find I'm exceptionally handy at fixing things without having any prior knowledge of what to do, and I'm generally able to zoom out on a specific problem and think of an ultimate solution to prevent the present problem and future occurrences of it as well. But unlike Ni, I tackle problems and projects as they come. And when they do, my eyes start wildly darting back and forth like a mad scientist on a mission. It's exhilarating, really. One of these days, my famous last words will be, "It can't be THAT hard."

When I'm using it in conjunction with Fi, I'm a mind-bending metaphor constructionist

 

Ne is connecting the dots; while Ni is filling in the blanks. Ni digs deeper into fewer subjects.

In reality, my Fi is like a compass, and Ne is the engine. I feel most happy when whatever I'm doing aligns with my values* and lets me "connect the dots". Play with concepts, see how they connect with others, see how they play with all situations.

*and by values I mean gut reactions based on a lot of observation and processing. I don't have a list of values; but if you mentioned something that turned out to be a value I would react very favorably to it.