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In Your Element: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times
Unravel the secrets of who you are and discover the secrets to better health and emotional wellbeing.
Are you seeking to understand yourself and others better? If, so In Your Element can provide you with easy to understand and practical tools to aid you in that quest. It is a simple truth that people are different and the inbuilt questionnaire allows you to quickly and easily discover your type. One of the secrets to happiness is recognising and accepting that there are different personality types. Knowing what makes you tick is important, so you don’t end up being a square peg in a round hole. You can apply this knowledge to your lifestyle choices, career path and when seeking a life partner as well as for more harmonious relationships at work, home and play.
Trying to be someone you are not is stressful and a common cause of unhappiness. Taking this theme further, the authors connect personality typing with cutting edge research from the medical field that now acknowledges there is a link between emotional disharmony and disease. This is in fact ancient wisdom and forms the basis of modern naturopathic philosophy where body, mind, heart and spirit are all interwoven and relevant. Author Linn Wiggins brings this into a modern context by explaining how specific plant remedies such as flower essences can positively affect lasting change for the better in your mood and attitudes. She also reveals how various foods affect each personality type and non-restrictive, easy to understand guidelines on how to eat according to your type for an improved sense of physical and emotional well wellbeing.
Understanding others allows you to work with (not against) them and play to their inherent strengths. Authentic, harmonious relationships are based on understanding where others are coming from and being able to speak their language, not just your own. This is true in all relationships, be it with your boss, teacher, children, spouse, lover, neighbour, friends or colleagues. Rather than try to change people, this book gives you valuable insights on how to best communicate with others, and encourage and guide them towards areas where they are more likely to shine and succeed.
While the best selling book “How to win friends and influence people” appeals to extroverts, and “Quiet” by Susan Cain showcases the gifts of introverts, In Your Element explores how both extroverts and introverts operate, for a fuller picture. It also looks at other time honoured personality systems including the Myers-Briggs system and the work of David Kiersey. Author Michael White distills this complex information into four easily remembered Australian animals and their immediately recognisable personality traits in a way that appeals to beginners and experts alike.
Both authors are gifted lecturers and recognised experts in their respective fields of personality typing and natural health. By combining their experience and skills they have created an easy to understand, unique and comprehensive system that can be used every day in all relationships; business and personal; in the classroom, the boardroom, the office, the clinic and at home – for marriage, parenting, leadership, sales, human resources, mentoring, learning and healing.
Are you seeking to understand yourself and others better? If, so In Your Element can provide you with easy to understand and practical tools to aid you in that quest. It is a simple truth that people are different and the inbuilt questionnaire allows you to quickly and easily discover your type. One of the secrets to happiness is recognising and accepting that there are different personality types. Knowing what makes you tick is important, so you don’t end up being a square peg in a round hole. You can apply this knowledge to your lifestyle choices, career path and when seeking a life partner as well as for more harmonious relationships at work, home and play.
Trying to be someone you are not is stressful and a common cause of unhappiness. Taking this theme further, the authors connect personality typing with cutting edge research from the medical field that now acknowledges there is a link between emotional disharmony and disease. This is in fact ancient wisdom and forms the basis of modern naturopathic philosophy where body, mind, heart and spirit are all interwoven and relevant. Author Linn Wiggins brings this into a modern context by explaining how specific plant remedies such as flower essences can positively affect lasting change for the better in your mood and attitudes. She also reveals how various foods affect each personality type and non-restrictive, easy to understand guidelines on how to eat according to your type for an improved sense of physical and emotional well wellbeing.
Understanding others allows you to work with (not against) them and play to their inherent strengths. Authentic, harmonious relationships are based on understanding where others are coming from and being able to speak their language, not just your own. This is true in all relationships, be it with your boss, teacher, children, spouse, lover, neighbour, friends or colleagues. Rather than try to change people, this book gives you valuable insights on how to best communicate with others, and encourage and guide them towards areas where they are more likely to shine and succeed.
While the best selling book “How to win friends and influence people” appeals to extroverts, and “Quiet” by Susan Cain showcases the gifts of introverts, In Your Element explores how both extroverts and introverts operate, for a fuller picture. It also looks at other time honoured personality systems including the Myers-Briggs system and the work of David Kiersey. Author Michael White distills this complex information into four easily remembered Australian animals and their immediately recognisable personality traits in a way that appeals to beginners and experts alike.
Both authors are gifted lecturers and recognised experts in their respective fields of personality typing and natural health. By combining their experience and skills they have created an easy to understand, unique and comprehensive system that can be used every day in all relationships; business and personal; in the classroom, the boardroom, the office, the clinic and at home – for marriage, parenting, leadership, sales, human resources, mentoring, learning and healing.
- GenresSelf Help
184 pages, Paperback
First published August 7, 2013
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November 7, 2013
As an author, I love words.
I wanted to write a book that everyday people could use to take on board this simple, but nonetheless profound truth and use it in their daily lives. Deciding on a book title is a bit like naming a baby – so many choices and you have to see if the ones you like suit it.
This book pretty much named itself. My co-author Michael White and I were having a chat about the concept of linking his work in personality typing with my work in naturopathy and had discovered the same historical figures had heavily influenced both fields. These included Hippocrates, Galen, Paracelsus and Native American philosophy.
The work of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Myers-Briggs and David Keirsey all draws from the ancient four elemental types that have been used by herbalists for over 2000 years (that we know of) to determine a person’s constitutional type in terms of their health. Emotional makeup and mental attitudes play a huge role in health.
If you are true to your inherent nature, you are more likely to be content and fulfilled. This is where the expression “in your element” sprang from.
Conversely, if you try to be something you are not, or a square peg who has been shoved in a round hole, its much more likely you’ll be unhappy (not at ease within yourself). This is the literal meaning of the word “dis-ease”.
“In Your Element” had a good ring to it, sounded familiar and encapsulated what he book was about from both our perspectives.
I wanted to write a book that everyday people could use to take on board this simple, but nonetheless profound truth and use it in their daily lives. Deciding on a book title is a bit like naming a baby – so many choices and you have to see if the ones you like suit it.
This book pretty much named itself. My co-author Michael White and I were having a chat about the concept of linking his work in personality typing with my work in naturopathy and had discovered the same historical figures had heavily influenced both fields. These included Hippocrates, Galen, Paracelsus and Native American philosophy.
The work of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Myers-Briggs and David Keirsey all draws from the ancient four elemental types that have been used by herbalists for over 2000 years (that we know of) to determine a person’s constitutional type in terms of their health. Emotional makeup and mental attitudes play a huge role in health.
If you are true to your inherent nature, you are more likely to be content and fulfilled. This is where the expression “in your element” sprang from.
Conversely, if you try to be something you are not, or a square peg who has been shoved in a round hole, its much more likely you’ll be unhappy (not at ease within yourself). This is the literal meaning of the word “dis-ease”.
“In Your Element” had a good ring to it, sounded familiar and encapsulated what he book was about from both our perspectives.
December 6, 2015
The book was not at all what I expected. To me it felt like stating the obvious (except for the part on flower essences). Moreover I felt the book was used as a marketing tool for Aus Identities (developed by one of the writers).
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