The Ancient Secrets Of The Four Humours & Their Temperaments

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Deep in the midst of time, there existed in antiquity, a system, which clearly illustrated the secret to the varying emotional temperament of each human being.This system was known by all, for thousands of years, as the Four Humours. (Humors in American English).If you are interested in understanding your own personality, or anyone else's, then most personality tests, from Myers Briggs to Strengthfinder, are actually based on this ancient model. You might say the four humours and their temperaments, is the original personality test, and as it is with anything, to really understand something, it is always back to go back to the source.It goes all the way back to the wisdom of the cradle of civilisation, to the ancient Greeks, Egyptians and Mesopotamians.It was famously recorded by Hippocrates, the father of medicine, around 400 BC, from whom we get the Hippocratic Oath, to which Doctors still have to adhere to, even to this very day. These Four Humours later got expanded to include their corresponding 'temperaments', which describe the quality of a person's behaviour. What's fascinating about these temperaments is that they are connected to the classical four elements of Earth, Water, Fire and Air. Which elemental temperament do you think you are dominant in? What about your best friend, your parents, your boss, or your partner?This ancient knowledge of the Humours was universally used by the medical establishment right up until the Nineteenth Century, until the modern medicine that we recognise today, moved away from it.However, do you not think that it is highly unlikely that something that was found to be so useful, literally for Millennia, right across the world, would be without any value today at all? Like with so much of the ancient wisdom of our forebears, we have carelessly discarded such knowledge, out of a combination of arrogance and ignorance.Isn't i