How to engage with analytical tools

HSP tests or MBTI tests.

The world is overflowing with tools for self-discovery.

I personally love looking at these self-analysis tools.
There is something interesting about the moment I slap my knee in agreement while reading the results, thinking, 'I see! That aspect is definitely true for me.'

For example, that day in the past when I felt more exhausted than anyone else, or that time I reacted too sensitively to a slight change in my surroundings.
When I look back at those moments through the lens of diagnostic results, a sense of satisfaction emerges, as if I've finally found the answer: 'Ah, perhaps that behavior or feeling came from this trait of mine.'

Vague feelings of discomfort or difficulties in life that I had within me are given a name, and I can affirm my past self, thinking, 'It was okay to be that way.'

For me, these diagnoses are like a 'guide' that helps me unravel the past and assists with future choices.

However, at times, I am made to think about how to engage with these convenient tools.

For those who have continued to blame themselves, thinking 'maybe there is something wrong with me,' being able to accept it by saying 'it can't be helped because I am this type' becomes a very important refuge to protect a wounded heart.

However, if you stay in that safe place for too long, it might eventually become a chain that unconsciously binds your potential and range of action, making you think, 'Because I am this type, I can't do anything more than this.'

Labels can serve as armor to protect yourself, but I feel it is a bit of a waste if you become so bound by them that you cannot move.

Of course, it is important to draw boundaries to protect yourself from things that are too much.
But if you squeeze yourself too much into the framework of diagnostic results by saying 'I am this kind of person,' might that not actually make life harder?

Diagnostic results do not define everything about us as human beings.

I believe they are merely a 'small part' for knowing the 'vast self' that is a human being.

'I have this tendency, so I will rest early when I am tired.'

'I tend to get anxious in these situations, so I will try to prepare a little differently.'

Treating them as tools to understand yourself in such a way and to make your daily life a little easier to live.

Instead of being manipulated by labels, use them to your advantage.

I feel that if you can maintain that stance, the journey of self-discovery will become more interesting and much freer.

By the way, I was an HSP INFJ Advocate.