Introduction
The knowledge of self and others is an immense help to healthy human relationships. It will especially help in marital relationships for partners to know themselves and their temperamental dispositions for healthy and harmonious relationships. Good knowledge of ourselves and temperamental dispositions will also help us to grow spiritually, psychologically, socially, physically and morally.
Without going to many analytical definitions and explanations, I wish to give a brief exposé of different types of temperamental dispositions and their strengths and weakness. It is my pleasure that after we must have read it, we become ever more disposed to accommodate people and discover ways of dealing with them.
The choleric
A choleric is one who is easily influenced by any given situation. They do not easily or quickly forget what they saw, felt or heard. If someone annoys them, they explode at once and turn 'red'. If you amuse them, they laugh heartily and boisterously.
They are natural or born leaders. They assume command easily, instinctively and ably. They confront an emergency or an enemy fearlessly. When a choleric loves, they love intensely. When they grieve, which is rare, they grieve profusely. When they hope, they hope optimistically or audaciously.
Bad qualities
A choleric is often too proud and arrogant. They cannot understand why people will not carry out their instructions. They can also be selfish or over-confident.
Advice to the choleric
What you need to learn is to fight pride and learn humility. You can become a holy hero, a gentle genius and a lovable leader. Examples of choleric who overcame their faults and became saints are: St. Paul, St. Ignatius of Loyola.
Sanguine
The word sanguine comes from the Latin word “sanguis” which means blood. The sanguine is warm-hearted. Everybody likes their company because they have the most appealing qualities in man. Some of the qualities they have that make them endearing to people friendliness, sense of humor, candor i.e. frank and open.
They are obedient. They respond quickly to an external stimulus. They laugh heartily at your jokes, cry feelingly at your accident, and congratulate you for your success.
His weak points
In a nutshell, they tend to be lazy. They lack determination. They are unreliable. They are changeable. They talk too much. They are naïve.
With God's redeeming and refining grace, the soft sanguine can overcome their faults.
The phlegmatic
A phlegmatic individual thinks too much but says little, plans and ponders and works out their projects in minute details. They will act, and act well but only when they have calmly calculated all the possibilities in the case. They do their work painstakingly.
They are cautious and conservative. They are very practical. They are very patient. St Thomas Aquinas and St. Thomas the Apostle were to a great extent great phlegmatics.
Bad qualities
They are not sociable. They are stubborn. They are extremely cautious.
The melancholic
The melancholic individual is known for their dark, brooding, pessimistic and pensive tendencies. In short, the melancholic almost always sees the dark side of things. They frown frequently. There is hardly any smile on their face.
They dwell on difficulties and unpleasant exaggerate circumstances and them. They are prone to sadness and to despair. Like the phlegmatic, their response to stimuli is slow, sluggish and feeble. Their reactions to situations are deep and their impressions lasting.
They are good spiritual advisers. If you require advice particularly in matters spiritual, seek out melancholic individual. They will ponder on every of your problems, pray over them and then offer a prudent solution. They are also artistic and spiritual.
Their bad qualities
They are boring and unbearable. They are irresolute. They are also revengeful and resentful of others, they are proud and over-sensitive.
To grow, they should try to have little for jokes and smiles and socializing. They tend to be generous. They should try to create little time for physical exercises.
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