| DISCOVERING YOUR HEALING TYPE |
| Your healing type is imprinted at the moment of birth by the elemental distribution of your inborn nature. Harmonizing with your personal element makeup is an excellent way both to prevent illness and to augment or restore health. The elements represent our "personal weather", both emotionally and physically. How we respond to the challenge illness presents is of utmost importance to the healing process. Focusing on your healing type will help you to restore your body to health or prevent sickness from occurring. Your type reveals much about your natural tendencies toward ill health and your attitude toward your healing process. A major factor, also influenced by type, is one's self-image and general attitude toward one's life. These fundamentally influence our constitutional and immune system reactions on the physical plane. And because they are susceptible to being changed, we possess much more healing power than we know. By mobilizing our transformative abilities through the use of the various tools and techniques now available to us, we can reach deep into the implicate order and effect far-reaching change, which will in turn spread through the total organism. There are four basic types, related to Fire, Earth, Water and, Air. You may be a single type, a mixture of two types, or a multiple type. Also, you may find emphasis on one type or another (especially if you are a mixed type) at different times of the month, day, year, or over a lifespan. You must determine your natural affinity for each of the four elements. From this information, you will derive your type. Then, tune into your basic type and learn to work its healing energy. You are now going to discover your healing type. Treat this exercise like a game .. consider it an exploration of the unknown territory of your enfolded self. From the word lists that follow, choose "only" the words that apply to you. Make four columns that rate the degree to which each word applies: always, often, rarely, or never. The idea is for you to make contact with your deep inner SELF's implicate order, or innate elemental pattern. Let the process flow from your interior self until you feel you have finished. Choose as many or as few words as you like. You don't have to work in any particular order .. go back and forth between the lists if you like. One way to approach this is to first read a list quickly and then spontaneously choose words that produce a strong emotional charge, either positive .. YES! Always! .. or negative .. NO! Never! After that, go back and choose those that fall into the "often" or "rarely" categories. |
| The Four Types: |
| Self-starting Self-confident Action-initiating Decisive Outgoing Forceful Driving Active Strong Adventurous Self-expressive Self-aware Dramatic Playful Fun-loving Powerful Impressive Enthusiastic Expansive Optimistic Generous Blunt Outdoors-orient ed Travel-oriented Careless Explosive Foolhardy Egotistical Jovial Proud Willful High-energy |
| Fire: |
| Earth: |
| Organized Serious Down-to-Earth Realistic Ambitious Hardworking Structured Disciplined Analytical Detail-oriented Methodical Sensible Businesslike Sanitary Stable Steady Reliable Productive Persistent Determined Deliberate Money-oriented Prudent Cautious Economical Self-controlled Reserved Pessimistic Factual Helpful Dutiful |
| Air: |
| Communicative Quick-witted Inquisitive Adaptable Curious Versatile Flexible Variety-seeking Cooperative Sociable Companionable Just Balanced Tolerant Impartial Intellectual Detached Friendly Innovative Independent Original Individualistic Nonconformist Charming Refined Studious Babbling Nervous Superficial Mentally- organized Expressive |
| Water: |
| Feeling Sensitive Sympathetic Nostalgic Comfort-loving Security-oriente d Domestic Food-oriented Emotional Intense Passionate Secretive Mysterious Compassionate Benevolent Sentimental Intuitive Escapist Spacey Impractical Unrealistic Artistic Inspired Receptive Moody Clinging Brooding Emotionally- perceptive Passive Instinctive Spiritual |