Reply To: [Ji II--] How do you relate to this profile?

[Ivory]

I want to add some more nuance to what I posted above. I've reflected some more on this and had a few discussions about it with @Animal.
So, overall it's an excellent draft. The one real hang-up I have is the label of "artist," or the inclination toward the artistic. I mentioned that that particular point applies more to @Animal - and to @devon, as she has pointed out - than it does to me, and both of them are Pe lead.
I have never considered myself an artist. Perhaps I am 'artistic,' as I have a good eye for color and composition, but art has never been a major interest of mine. Art is a secondary interest, really; it's something I do for fun, not for any serious uncovering of "Ji truths." It's the Pe leads in my life who seem to be more serious about art.
The emphasis I would like to add is where I had explained how my particular "Ji truths" are shaped through my mind-body philosophy. This is something I have always been very serious about, but it's difficult to put a name to it. I suppose one way to say it is that the way of Being is my primary interest.  How-to-be? How-to-be-me? I am hyper-aware of how I walk and talk. I modify how I think and experiment with different mindsets to see what results I can make manifest. Handling my body differently gives way to different outlooks. I am carving out my sense of self via absorbing and resonating with other people's emotional worlds, and discarding that which doesn't fit my vision.
In the arts, the closest to this paradigm may be method acting, except that I don't use it for play, show, or... art. I'm not an actor. It's meant as an overall fine-tuning of my experience here on earth. It's how I read people and it's how I type people. I create a phantasm of their person in my mind's eye, and I introject the imagined emotions and motivations. Then I project these out in the physical realm, via subtle changes in my movements, breathing, posture, and voice. The more I understand others, I reason, the more I understand myself. And that is ultimately what I seek: to know myself.
With that, I see why the connection to the artistic was made. But it shouldn't carry a heavier emphasis on it than the Pe descriptions. I am not an artist.