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The Four Temperaments: A Rediscovery of the Ancient Way of Understanding Health and Character Paperback – September 5, 2002

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4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
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The system of the four temperaments, or humors -- melancholic, choleric, sanguine, and phlegmatic -- has been used to analyze personality and health for over two thousand years, since the philosophical insights of Aristotle and the healing arts of Hippocrates. It has been the basis of Western medicine and character portraits ever since. Now The Four Temperaments offers an introduction and overview of this ancient knowledge, providing readers a clear picture of all the humors have to offer. Randy Rolfe shows how to identify one's own temperament and how to dramatically improve health, relationships, career, and happiness with a basic understanding of the four temperaments. Since the author has been studying, applying, and teaching the wisdom of the temperaments for over thirty years, she is able to link these four ancient personality and health types with the findings of modern medical researchers. She guides readers to finding the proper balance between temperaments and using their strengths to overcome their vulnerabilities. Illustrations are included.
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These two books are based on the ancient Greek concept of the four temperaments (sanguine, melancholic, phlegmatic, and choleric). First-time author Maddron refers to them as colors-orange, gold, green, and blue, respectively. Each has a "ruling sign" (air, earth, water, and fire) and is typified by physicality, high standards, intellectualism, and sensitivity respectively. Chapters cover the characteristics of each personality type as well as various combinations, and the author includes an instrument for self-analysis. Particularly intriguing is Maddron's discussion of how colors complement one another in functional society and the importance of understanding and appreciating the strengths and limitations of each. Despite the risks inherent in oversimplifying people and society, Maddron's treatment is nonetheless very thoughtful. Rolfe's passionate examination of the role and function of the four temperaments in life translates into half handbook, half treatise. Like Maddron, Rolfe (The 7 Secrets of Successful Parents) describes the traits and characteristics typical of each humor and accounts for the blending of multiple humors. Reasonable and encouraging in tone, the book emphasizes that "the humors can only add to and not detract from your deepest understanding as your life unfolds." Rolfe uses a holistic and ambitious approach that sometimes meets with uneven results. Discussing all the humors at once is often confusing, and the nutritional suggestions feel incomplete. While neither author tries to pigeonhole people, both present "a set of lenses for looking at the world" and its inhabitants. Both are recommended; Maddron's narrower scope results in a clear, entertaining read, while Rolfe is for readers seeking a serious treatment.
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I strongly recommend this...book to those who would like a unique and penetrating journey into their inner being. -- Locke Rush, psychotherapist, author of The True Marriage

You will never look at life the same way again.... An easy-to-read roadmap to a more fulfilled life! -- Ted Pollard, President, Health911.com

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Da Capo Lifelong Books (September 5, 2002)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1569245622
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1569245620
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.5 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.58 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 69 ratings

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Randy Colton Rolfe is a world ambassador for family. Her many books, popular seminars, and radio and TV appearances have helped thousands of families to be healthier and happier. She traveled in 29 countries before the age of 20 with her physician father and sociologist mother, which gave her a unique insight into what all families world wide have in common. She became a lawyer, theologian, nutritionist, and family therapist, all to bring together the tools families need to thrive in today's complex world. Randy's books and workshops are down to earth, instructive, loving, respectful, and fun! She and her husband have a grown son and daughter and they enjoy a bi-coastal life, living in both the Philadelphia area and Bay Area California. If you enjoy her books, please write a quick review! And listen in to her weekly online radio show, Family First, at www.voiceamerica.com, on the Health and Wellness channel. Join her weekly email news update too, by going to www.randyrolfe.com.

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I loved this book. It was highly informative and covered just about every major branch of the four temperaments. It was one of the first books I read on the subject of the temperaments and I am highly grateful for that! Randy goes deep! The most helpful and fascinating part of the book to me was how our temperaments are related to our physical appearance. That blew my mind! All in all, I think that this book is the best all around book on the four temperaments. I take the four temperaments just as seriously as I take my faith. That’s how much this subject means to me. I hope this review helps at least one person!
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I loved this book. It was highly informative and covered just about every major branch of the four temperaments. It was one of the first books I read on the subject of the temperaments and I am highly grateful for that! Randy goes deep! The most helpful and fascinating part of the book to me was how our temperaments are related to our physical appearance. That blew my mind! All in all, I think that this book is the best all around book on the four temperaments. I take the four temperaments just as seriously as I take my faith. That’s how much this subject means to me. I hope this review helps at least one person!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Best All-Around Book on the Four Temperaments
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2021
I loved this book. It was highly informative and covered just about every major branch of the four temperaments. It was one of the first books I read on the subject of the temperaments and I am highly grateful for that! Randy goes deep! The most helpful and fascinating part of the book to me was how our temperaments are related to our physical appearance. That blew my mind! All in all, I think that this book is the best all around book on the four temperaments. I take the four temperaments just as seriously as I take my faith. That’s how much this subject means to me. I hope this review helps at least one person!
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5.0 out of 5 stars This book will help you to improve the relationships in your life
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This book is a must have - if you would like to understand why you and the people around you react in a certain way. You will learn to understand that people are born with a certain character / temperament and that they just do things the way they do them because it is in their nature. You will learn how to treat each person according to their temperament which will help you to improve all relationships in your life.
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I found this book very helpful on a personal level. It helped me understand that I had an underdeveloped Earth function. I had been contemptuous of many things relating to this aspect: the so-called "real" world, "earthy" people, ordinary jobs and finances, etc. But once I came to understand this pattern, and that developing myself in these areas would help my overall development as a person, I was able to move forward positively and become more well-rounded, and understand myself better. Thanks Ms. Rolfe!
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Amy
3.0 out of 5 stars Pluses and minuses
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I give the book a plus on giving a quiz to find out what temperament a person has; but a big minus in not researching black bile and incorrectly assuming it is stool. Since I bought the book to research black bile more than what I have learned I was very disappointed with the book.
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4.0 out of 5 stars An essential read for an expanded understanding of the temperaments
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Probably by far the most informative and extensive book, one can access in the realm of modern literature, on the ancient humorologic study, of the 4 temperaments. About 8 years ago, I was introduced to what was universal knowledge for tens of centuries, of a science that has suffered the unfortunate fate, to be undermined into obscurity, by the most rascalous ignoramuses of recent times. It was orally presented to me in brief fragments, to a limited extent, by a friend. Upon it's very introduction, it left an indelible mark on me. Ever since I have but found it fascinating, and undeniable, furthering myself in the pursuit, to advance my understanding of it. Unlike this book, a vast majority of them that focus on the subject, hardly cover it. Brilliant insights, and a thorough outline of the four temperaments, furnishing the reader in precise detail of their respective properties, and their complimentary relations, within the temperamental order of one other, inundated with basic illustrations, that so well coincide with each temperaments distinctive character, along with a series of eye opening factuations, is what this book will not fail to easily provide you with. One's tendencies and inclinations cannot be defined any swifter, or explained any better, than by a humorologist. If one wishes to truly make it their business to advance themselves in the REAL study of human behavior, furnished by more evident observations, while remotely preceding any other study of it’s class, they will, with minimal discretion, wisely undertake this read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars outstanding
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2015
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I have read four books on this subject. I have found it to be clear and precise . I finely have a very good understanding of my temperament.thank you very much.
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Angela Ayers
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for health care workers
Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2019
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Great expression of the temperaments woth easy read and explanations
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Avis
2.0 out of 5 stars Part of it is unreadable in Kindle
Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2019
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I purchased this book for my Kindle as required reading for a college herbal class. After a few days, I discovered that there are many parts that cannot be expanded enough to read...apparently they are images. Some of the text was huge and the type size had to be constantly adjusted. My biggest problem was that typed information in the images were totally unreadable so the what I needed to read for the class was not available anyway.
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Broceliande
4.0 out of 5 stars Gran libro
Reviewed in Spain on August 10, 2019
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Un libro excelente y muy práctico. Convierte un tema tan arduo en accesible para todo el mundo. Pedagógico y claro
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Describes up on Four humoural theory, the basic concepts of Unani System Of Medicine formerly known as Greek medicine.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Introduction
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Harder to identify ones type and apply it than the books suggests but interesting introduction. Ties in historical perspective to show how it has shaped our western culture.
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