The book, What Color is Your Personality?, offers an unambiguous, concise guide to know one's personality characteristics. The author, Carol Ritberger, is a renowned medical intuitive and a leader in the field of personality behavioral psychology.
She draws upon her decades of personality typology, psychoneuroimmunology knowledge and training, and uncanny skills of medical intuition to write an informative introductory guide on personality analysis.
Fundamentals of Personality Analysis - Traits and Characteristics
In What Color is Your Personality?, Ritberger mentions that personality comprises of two components - traits and characteristics. Traits are what a person is born with. Characteristics are what a person learns from his surroundings and upbringing.
Every person depending on a combination of his traits and characteristics has a default reaction to most situations. Ritberger's system of personality analysis uses the four colors - red, orange, yellow and green to refer to four personality types.
Ritberger urges that there is no good or bad personality color. She also mentions that illnesses manifest in the physical body when, instead of embracing his personality, a person tries to be someone else.
What are the Four Personality Colors?
The four colors of the Ritberger Personality Color Indicator (PCI) model are:
- Red – Down-to-earth, sensible, practical, pragmatic, realistic are some words to describe people that belong to the red personality color. They operate best within traditional power structures where everyone knows their place.
- Orange – Orange personality people are caretakers. They are kind, loving, solicitous, sensitive and concerned about the needs of other people around them.
- Yellow – People of yellow personality color are self-confident. Other words to describe them are, self-made, self-respected, self-motivated, self-starting, self-fulfilled. Yellows believe in themselves, their capabilities and intellectual abilities.
- Green – People of green personality color live in a world of hopes, dreams and emotions. They see life from a holistic perspective and possess a highly developed intuition.
Why Read the Book, What Color is Your Personality?
What Color is Your Personality is a good introductory guide to understand the basics of personality and its types. Ritberger's questionnaire to determine the personality color is comprehensive and clear. The calculation to arrive at the personality color is simple. The book is written in a style that's easily comprehensible for the lay person.
Using colors to classify personality traits and characteristics is non-invasive and non-judgmental and the author explains the correlation between one's genetic personality and illnesses, behavioral patterns and weak sites of each personality color.
What Color is Your Personality?, offers a good insight into understanding why people react the way they do. The author also mentions that leading a life of emotional stresses, chronic fears and insecurities could negatively impact the physical body in the form of various illnesses.
Overall, the book is an eye-opener to understanding personality types and ways to foster a good body-mind connection.
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Source:
- What Color is Your Personality - Red, Orange, Yellow, Green by Carol Ritberger PhD. [Hay House, 2000]
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