Tailoring One's Wellness Routine with Personality Knowledge
CBD Topicals: Tailoring Your Wellness Routine with Personality in Mind
As your wellness advocate, I’m dedicated to sharing ways to make your self-care routine more potent and effective. These are taken from my own modalities, experiences, and research. Today, let’s talk about CBD topicals—creams, balms, and salves—and how a deeper understanding of your own needs can help you select the perfect product.
The best use of any wellness tool is rooted in self-knowledge. I often look to personality frameworks, like the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), to understand how we process the world. While the MBTI is a popular assessment tool, I find that understanding its core dimensions—like Introversion vs. Extroversion or Sensing vs. Intuition—offers a powerful lens for maximizing your personal wellness. Here's a Myers-Briggs Indicator test for those new to the framework. For those new to MBTI but aware of personality assessments from work/HR or therapeutic settings I want to address the school of thought which renders MBTI meaningless or even tawdry.
Personally I am a Jungian practitioner in my own inner work. Myers-Briggs is inspired by Carl Jung's ideas on personality and psychological types. Jungian work by the individual is devised to bring about individuation. Understanding psychological types gives a deeper understanding of one's consciousness and unconscious mind prompting resolution of inner conflict. My understanding of individuation really matured with reading all of Jung's works and I believe that both Man and His Symbols as well as The Undiscovered Self are the most generous tools.
The Right CBD Topical for Your Personal Style
CBD topicals are favored because they allow for targeted relief exactly where you need it, supporting recovery, soothing skin, and easing localized discomfort. But beyond the product itself, the application ritual can be tailored to match your daily habits and psychological needs:
CBD: A Tool for Sublimating Stress
Your personality type often reveals how you deal with stress—whether that's through constant planning, emotional processing, physical activity, or creative exploration. By consciously choosing to apply a CBD topical at a point of stress, you are engaging in a practice of sublimation—taking a negative impulse and channeling that energy into a positive, tangible action. I want to point out that I personally was only abl to successfully sublimate after taking a real inventory of my stressors and processing the emotions. For instance I often found that my anger was rooted in the anger from childhood which itself upon careful inspection flourished because I was a latch - key kid and constantly neglected.
For example, instead of spiraling into a colossal mess of worry or procrastination, because of a nagging sense of doubt or deeper anxiety the simple act of taking a moment to rub a CBD cream into your tense neck or shoulders provides a sobering, grounding effect. It anchors you to the present moment and gives you a non-destructive physical outlet for stress. This simple, purposeful ritual helps redirect that energy into self-care, strengthening your resilience against daily ailments.
The goal isn't to change who you are, but to use high-quality CBD topicals to support your best self. By understanding your unique needs, you can transform a simple product into a powerful and strategic component of your personal growth and wellness journey. As you know none of this is medical advice. This is simply a crib sheet for practical management of your emotional, physical upkeep in today's world.