Four Seasons aligned with Four Humors

The four seasons are aligned with the four humors as follows: Spring is seen to be Sanguine, Summer is seen to be Phlegmatic, Autumn is Choleric and Winter is Melancholic.

Common Spring Type Personality Traits

Positive Friendly Curious Smiles often Good humor Witty Good at conversation Optimistic Empathetic

Negative Manipulative Undecided Speaks without thinking Fails to plan ahead Too talkative Too many projects at once Rarely finishes projects

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DISC

Dominance (Type 3)

Comparatively High

Here are some traits and behaviours that describe people who are comparatively high inDominance:

• enjoy competition and challenge.
• are goal orientated and want to be recognised for their efforts.
• aim high, want authority and are generally resourceful and adaptable.
• are usually self-sufficient and individualistic.
• may lose interest in projects once the challenge has gone and they tend to be impatient and dissatisfied with minor detail.

They are usually direct and positive with people, enjoying being the centre of attraction and may take it for granted that people will think highly of them.
They may have a tendency to be rather critical of others. Consequently, other people may tend to see them as being rather domineering and overpowering.

Comparatively Low

Here are some traits and behaviours that describe people who are comparatively low inDominance:

• tend to want peace and harmony.
• prefer to let others initiate action and resolve problems.
• are quiet and indirect in their approach to most situations.
• are usually cautious and calculate risks carefully before acting.

They are generally well liked because of their mild and gentle nature. Other people will tend to see them as being patient, calm, thoughtful and a good listener.

Influence (Type 1)

Comparatively High

Here are some traits and behaviours that describe people who are comparatively high inInfluence:

• are strongly interested in meeting and being with people.
• are generally optimistic, outgoing, and socially skilled.
• are quick at establishing relationships.

Sometimes their concern for people and people's feelings may make them reluctant to disturb a favourable situation or relationship.

Comparatively Low

Here are some traits and behaviours that describe people who are comparatively low inInfluence:

• are usually socially passive.
• quite frequently have an affinity for things, machinery and equipment.
• are generally comfortable working alone.
• frequently have a tendency to be analytical and once they have sorted the facts out they communicate them in a straightforward direct way.
• tend to take little at face value.

They may well have learned and developed good social skills but they only bring these into play when logic dictates such tactics.

Steadiness (Type 2)

Comparatively High

Here are some traits and behaviours that describe people who are comparatively high inSteadiness:

• are usually patient, calm and controlled.
• have a high willingness to help others particularly those they consider as friends.

Generally they have the ability to deal with the task in hand and to do routine work with patience and care.

Comparatively Low

Here are some traits and behaviours that describe people who are comparatively low inSteadiness:

• tend to enjoy change and variety in their work and non-work life.
• are expansive by nature and tend not to like routine and repetitive work/activities.

They enjoy stretching themselves intellectually and physically.

Compliance (Type 4)

Comparatively High

Here are some traits and behaviours that describe people who are comparatively high inCompliance:

• are usually peaceful and adaptable.
• tend not to be aggressive.
• tend to be cautious rather than impulsive.
• avoid risk-taking.
• act in a tactful, diplomatic way and strive for a stable, ordered life.
• are comfortable following procedures in both their personal and business life.

They prefer sticking to methods that have proved successful in the past. They have a high acceptance of rules and regulations.

Comparatively Low

Here are some traits and behaviours that describe people who are comparatively low inCompliance:

• are independent and uninhibited.
• resent rules and restrictions.
• prefer to be measured by results and are always willing to try the untried.

Free in thought, word and deed, they long for freedom and go to great lengths to achieve it.
They feel that repetitive detail and routine work is best "delegated" or avoided.

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http://www.tonyrobbins.com/ue/disc-profile.php

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The Color Code: Red, Blue, White, Yellow

In The Color Code, Yellow is like T1, Blue is like T2, Red is like T3 and White is like T4.

https://www.colorcode.com/about/

The core motives of each color are:

Yellow fun

Blue intimacy

Red power

White peace

http://four-types.blogspot.com/2013/07/table-of-equivalents-for-personality.html

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True Colors: Blue, Orange, Gold, Green

In True Colors, orange is like T1, Blue is like T2, Gold is like T3, Green is like T4.

http://truecolorsintl.com/about-us/what-is-true-colors/

The values of the colors are:

orange freedom, spontenaity, variety

blue honesty, sincerity, compassion

gold duty, responsibility, tradition

green autonomy, creativity, accuracy

http://four-types.blogspot.com/2013/07/table-of-equivalents-for-personality.html

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The Temperaments and the Adult-Child Relationship

 I love this book by a Waldorf educator, Dr. Kristie Burns.  Waldorf schools are based on Steiner's suggestions of teaching to children according to the needs of their temperament.

The Temperaments and the Adult-Child Relationship
By Dr. Kristie Karima Burns  KINDLE  and Paperback

She shows all the possible combinations of parental and child temperaments.

Btw, Sanguine is like Spring or T1, Phlegmatic is like Summer T2, Choleric is like Autumn T3, and Melancholic is like Winter or T4.

"For teachers, parents and ALL adults that interact with children - this book is as comprehensive as a textbook but as readable as a novel. Through guides, examples, stories and lessons the reader learns how to type him/herself, family members, students, and friends and to delve into the mysteries of how the different temperaments interact with each other. Because these interactions are unique, depending on the age and relationship of the people, this book focuses only on the adult-child relationship which can differ greatly from the adult-adult relationship or the child-child relationship. However, while this book does focus on the relationships between adults and children, one can also benefit from reading the different sections and applying some of the wisdom to his/her own relationships with other adults or by extrapolating ideas from the sections to help siblings get along better."

See earlier post with several other parenting books based on four type systems.

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Four Humors - Four Elements

The Greek Humors and the Elements:
http://www.greekmedicine.net/b_p/Four_Humors.html

The elements are correlated with the humors in many ways, as previously posted.

sanguine is hot (yang) and wet (yin)
phlegmatic is cold and wet (both yin)
choleric is hot and dry (both yang)
melancholic is cold (yin) and dry (yang)
http://www.greekmedicine.net/b_p/Four_basic_qualities.html

"Blood / Sanguine Humor / Air

     Blood is Hot and Wet, or Warm and Moist.  It is the very essence of vitality and health, nutrition and growth.  Blood is perfect nourishment perfectly digested.  Its receptacle or home is in the arteries and blood vessels.  Blood carries the Vital Force and Innate Heat, which power cellular metabolism.  The essence of blood is exchange and contact, as it is the basic nutritional and metabolic currency of the organism.  Blood has an Attractive virtue, or force, since all cells, organs and tissues have an absolute need for it, and are therefore attracted to it.

Phlegm / Phlegmatic Humor / Water

     The Phlegmatic humor is Cold and Wet.  It includes not just phlegm, but all the other clear fluids of the body:  mucus, saliva, plasma, lymph, and serous and interstitial fluids.  Together, these fluids cool, moisten, nourish, lubricate, protect, and purify the organism.  The Plegmatic humor has an Expulsive virtue, or force, which flushes out impurities, transports vital nutrients, and helps eliminate wastes.  The home of the Phlegmatic humor is in the veins and lymphatics.  The Phlegmatic humor nourishes the body on a deep and fundamental level.

Yellow Bile / Choleric Humor / Fire

     The Choleric humor is Hot and Dry.  It is produced by the liver and stored in the gall bladder.  Bile has a hot, caustic nature and a Digestive virtue, or force, which gives it a strong affinity with the other digestive secretions of the middle GI tract.  Fire and bile digest and consume, metabolize and transform.  Digestively, bile powers digestion; digests, assimilates and excretes fats and cholesterol; and acts as a natural laxative to stimulate intestinal peristalsis and defecation.  It also colors the stool brown.  Systemically, Choleric residues in the bloodstream thin the blood, enabling it to penetrate through the finest capillaries; empowers the inflammatory response; and opens up the lungs and respiratory passages as a surfactant. 

Black Bile / Melancholic Humor / Earth

     Black Bile is Cold and Dry.  Healthy black bile is a normal sediment of blood, or the Sanguine humor.  Black Bile has a Retentive virtue or force, and a cooling, drying, astringing, precipitating, condensing, coagulating, solidifying effect on metabolism necessary for building the bones, teeth, and all dense, solid structural connective tissues of the body.  Digestively, Black Bile awakens the stomach and appetite, solidifies the stool, and enables the digestive organs to hold on to their contents long enough to process them properly.  Systemically, Melancholic residues in the bloodstream thicken the blood, enabling it to clot; this is vitally important in wound granulation, scar tissue formation, and all structural repair of the body.  Black Bile also governs mineral metabolism and bone formation.

The Psychological Effects of the Humors

     The Four Humors are not just gross, physical substances.  They also pervade the whole organism as subtle vapors, even affecting the mind, thoughts, and emotions.  And so, the Four Humors also have psychological effects, making them capable of affecting both body and mind:
     Blood promotes a feeling of joy, mirth, optimism, enthusiasm, affection and wellbeing.
     Phlegm induces passivity, lethargy, subjectivity, devotion, emotionalism, sensitivity and sentimentality.
     Yellow Bile provokes, excites and emboldens the passions.  Being inflammatory, irritating and caustic, it provokes anger, irritability, boldness, ambition, envy, jealousy and courage.
     Black Bile makes one pensive, melancholy and withdrawn.  It encourages prudence, caution, realism, pragmatism and pessimism.
     The Four Humors tend to have negative effects on the mind and emotions only when they're excessive or aggravated.  Otherwise, they can also strengthen positive aspects of character."

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Temperaments Chart

In Seasonal Color Analysis, we correlate Spring with Air, Summer with Water, Autumn with Fire and Winter with Earth.   Often in temperaments charts, they are correlated differently.  Here are several ways.

                         Humors              Sanguine      Melancholic      Choleric      Phlegmatic

                                                      Air                Earth                  Fire            Water

                                                    Spring          Autumn             Summer       Winter

Note that this chart correlates the seasons with the humors differently.

http://popsophia.blogspot.se/2011/10/temperaments-and-personality-types-part.html

same here

    Humors              Sanguine      Melancholic      Choleric      Phlegmatic

                                   Air                Earth                  Fire            Water

                                 Spring          Autumn             Summer       Winter

   Humors              Blood            Black Bile        Yellow Bile     Phlegm

                                   Air                Earth                  Fire            Water

                                Spring          Autumn             Summer       Winter

  Humors              Sanguine      Melancholic      Choleric      Phlegmatic

                                 Air                Earth                  Fire            Water

                              Spring          Autumn             Summer       Winter

 

Now I'm challenged to find where the correlation we tend to use in Seasonal Color Analysis came from.

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another chart

This is a chart related to aspects of the DISC system.

http://www.whamond.net/learnings/category/disc

T1 I = ENFJ, less so ENFP, INFJ, INFP

T2 S = ISFP, less so ISFJ, ESFP, ESFJ

T3 D = ENTJ, less so ENTP, INTJ, INTP

T4 C = ISTP, less so ISTJ, ESTP, ESTJ

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French Four Type System

A friend in a facebook group mentioned a book that is about weight loss by personality type, but it's in French.  I took French all the way through high school and college, because my father was Swiss, so I bought the book as a challenge.

Maigrir sans stress (Lose Weight without Stress)

Alain Golay

Here's the diagram from his book, so I googled the four types and found this:

There are four social types: promoting, facilitating, managing and analyzing.

• Promoting: -character: stimulating, energetic, enthusiastic, talking bcp, warm, creative, intuitive, assertive, future-oriented, often late, too busy, impulsive, optimistic, dynamic, passionate, active, open, overwhelmed. - basic needs: to be recognized, commended strong-points: openness, goes to the other low-points: reliability, player, not always position to meet its commitments -reactions amid tension: get angry, fight with emotion 

• Facilitating: -character: friendly, cooperative, sensitive, friendly, confident, cheerful, relaxed, submissive, cautious, often said yes, turned to the past-present-future, listening, attentive, accommodating, has time. -needs fundamental: to be loved, accepted strong-points: accepting, tolerant, accepting environment -point low: authenticity, avoids saying truths that seem to brutal -reaction amid Tension fled obstacle emotionally 

• Analyzing: -character: patient, cold, speaks little, precise, methodical, accurate, specialized, backward-looking, conscientious, reserved, down, do not take of risk posed, thoughtful analysis. -needs fundamentals: be secure, acquire knowledge strong-points: reliability, is delivering low-points: recessed opening, do not go to the other in a -reaction context of tension: the obstacle leaking "his" logic, after analysis and emotionless 

• Controlling (Managing): -character: determined, resole, conscious goal, impatient, facing the concrete / the year's profits, interesting results, efficient, busy pressed, direct, demanding, facing the present, shows, shows about. -needs fundamental: to achieve, accomplish a task strong-points : authenticity, and made ​​what he says -point low: acceptance, results, the efficiency above the emotions and feelings of others -reaction amid tension: fight with logic, not emotion (ideal soldier) 

I also found this:

 Promoting: esteem needs  : The need for esteem is the need for consideration of reputation and recognition, fame ... this one is by others or by a group of belonging. Promoting it like to be recognized and welcomed, and appreciated the congratulations and the value of its shares. The promoting will look to shine in public, to be positioned on the challenges that bring it visibility, fame or other gratuity which will highlight the eyes of others.

 Facilitating: the need to belong  : The need to belong is especially necessary to be part of a group and feel accepted by the group. Facilitating the search to be loved, accepted. It focuses on human relationships and understanding between people of his or their groups (clan), with a constant search for consensus

 Analysis: the need for security  : Security requirements are from the aspiration of each of us to be protected physically and morally. The analysis likes to be secure and acquire knowledge that reassures. It will tend to favor proven solutions and dig thoroughly different possible before engaging in one of these options.

 Control: need to accomplish  : The need for self-fulfillment is the need to achieve, to exploit and develop their personal potential in all areas of life. Controlling the search action, perform tasks efficiently and make decisions. This research effectiveness against objectives and challenge he has set, without worrying too much collateral impacts (on his image or human relations).

Now I'm trying to figure out how this relates to the DISC.

• Could Promoting be Influence? I is T1
• Could Facilitating be the Steadiness? S is T2
• Could Analyzing be Compliance/Conscientious? C is T4
• Could Controlling be Dominance? D is T3

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Four Types Parenting

Four Types Parenting 

Different Children, Different Needs: Unders... by Charles F. Boyd $11.69 Dr. Rohm's application of the DISC 4 Type model to parenting.	Nurture by Nature: Understand Your Child's ... by Barbara Barron-Tieger $20.00 Parenting by MBTI personality type. Very good book.	Children Are from Heaven: Positive Parentin... by John Gray $10.51 From Venus and Mars author, John Gray, PhD.
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