Comments on: Are You Earth, Air, Fire, Water? http://www.taoofprosperity.com/finding-your-element/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=finding-your-element create a non-striving business Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:30:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dunstan Bertschinger http://www.taoofprosperity.com/finding-your-element/#comment-1394 Dunstan Bertschinger Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:21:22 +0000 http://www.taoofprosperity.com/2008/finding-your-element/#comment-1394 I love this way of looking at myself and others. It seems like a much kinder and more holistic way of looking at people. More artistic in the sense that the person is a 'whole'. Sometimes other systems of classification like Visual/Auditory/Kinaesthetic and Myers Briggs leave me feeling like I'm trying to stuff different parts of myself into disjointed pidgeon holes. And the scientist inside me knows that these systems have their own uses too! Did you know that the ancient greeks named these 'Temperaments': Choleric ~ Fire Sanguine ~ Air Phlegmatic ~ Water Melancholic ~ Earth I have been through phases of strong identification and finally come to the realisation that I am Sanguine and hence able to fit into many different modes. My challenges consistency and clear boundaries and this model helps me to work with that compassionately :-) Rudolf Steiner has done a lot of work on this area and Waldorf Schools use it to better understand and support their pupils. Thanks Emma for your awesome blog. I found the link on the Oasis and am looking forward to reading my way through it and sharing with friends. Thanks Muchly, Dunstan I love this way of looking at myself and others.
It seems like a much kinder and more holistic way of looking at people.
More artistic in the sense that the person is a ‘whole’.

Sometimes other systems of classification like Visual/Auditory/Kinaesthetic and Myers Briggs leave me feeling like I’m trying to stuff different parts of myself into disjointed pidgeon holes. And the scientist inside me knows that these systems have their own uses too!

Did you know that the ancient greeks named these ‘Temperaments’:

Choleric ~ Fire
Sanguine ~ Air
Phlegmatic ~ Water
Melancholic ~ Earth

I have been through phases of strong identification and finally come to the realisation that I am Sanguine and hence able to fit into many different modes. My challenges consistency and clear boundaries and this model helps me to work with that compassionately :-)

Rudolf Steiner has done a lot of work on this area and Waldorf Schools use it to better understand and support their pupils.

Thanks Emma for your awesome blog. I found the link on the Oasis and am looking forward to reading my way through it and sharing with friends.

Thanks Muchly,

Dunstan

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