DO YOU KNOW YOUR TEMPERAMENTS?

THE FOUR TEMPERAMENTS

Introduction:

I really do love talking about the Four Temperaments because it reminds me of me and we are doing this again based on popular demand. The Four Temperaments are a relatively simple but powerful way of classifying personalities. The Temperaments are a ways of classifying peoples’ emotional attitudes and the foundations of their personality This is who we are.

Personality and Temperament are not similar. Temperaments are merely one of the facets of a person’s Overall Personality. Two people may have identical temperament but completely different in every other way.

If you know more about temperaments talking with someone for about ten minutes, you should be able to have a close identify to their temperaments.

As humans, we all have access to a wide range of different emotions: we all get Angry, Happy, Sad, Peaceful etc. we sometimes wish to be around people and sometimes to be alone. Our temperaments are determined by the balance of these Emotions.

 Study the pictures below describing these temperaments: 

The Sanguine (Popular)  

The Choleric (Powerful)   

The Melancholic (Perfect)     

The Phlegmatic (Peaceful)

The Choleric temperament is more prone to ANGER than the other temperaments. If you are angry easily and frequently, THAT is properly a sign that you are choleric. Choleric might start a fight when teased as they are BOLD, DOMINEERING, PROUD and AGGRESSIVE because of these traits they are referred to as THE POWERFUL ONES.

While a Phlegmatic might hold back within them and cry when teased because they are SHY, SENSITIVE and SUBMISSIVE because of these traits they are referred to as THE PEACEFUL ONES.

A Melancholic person is very SENSITIVE, REVENGEFUL and a PERFECTIONIST because of these traits they are called the PERFECT ONES.

A Sanguine is SOCIABLE, FORGETFUL and a TALKER because of these traits they are called the POPULAR ONES.

The Temperament Blend

The blend consists of a PRIMARY and SECONDARY Temperaments e.g: Melancholic-Phlegmatic (MelPhl) or Sanguine-Choleric (SangChol). You must note that the order of appearance is important, a Melancholic-Phlegmatic is very different from a Phlegmatic-Melancholic. This applies to the rest of the temperament blend.

The primary temperament describes the most obvious part of a person’s personality, while the secondary one just serves as a compliment in fetching out more details. You can never half 50/50 blend, but a 70/30 blend.

Temperaments are not passing moods or phases in our attitudes. They stay constant in our life because they are the foundation of our emotional natures from birth till death, though every other area of our personality may change.

SO DO YOU KNOW YOUR TEMPERAMENTS NOW?

I will talk more about who to marry based on your temperaments next week.