Taiheki
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Taiheki (体癖、たいへき) is a concept which explain one's tendency in sensitivity, temperament, movement and personality. The concept was established by Haruchika Noguchi（野口 晴哉、のぐち はるちか）, who was the founder and a great teacher of seitai in Japan. Noguchi said that man's tendency of sensitivity can be divided into 12 types of taiheki[1][2]. The 12 types are like pure colors in color, and they are usually mixed up with each other in one person (this is called complex taiheki). The concept of taiheki is somehow similar to the typology by Ernst Kretschmer, Enneagram of Personality and Four Temperaments. However, taiheki is not only applicable to psychological aspects such as one's emotional or behavioural tendency, but also to one's physical characteristics including shape of face and body, balance of weights, and tendency seen in movement[1][2]. According to him, all these aspects are correlated with state of 5 lumbar vertebrae[1][2].
| taiheki | key lumbar vertebrate in movement |
sensitive to | key organ in sensitivity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Up-Down type taiheki type 1 & type 2 |
L1 | honour-shame | brain |
| Left-Right type taiheki type 3 & type 4 |
L2 | Like-Dislike | digestive organs |
| Forth-Back type taiheki type 5 & type 6 |
L5 | Merits-Demerits | respiratory organs |
| Screw type taiheki type 7 & type 8 |
L3 | Win-Lose | Urinary organs |
| Open-Close type taiheki type 9 & type 10 |
L4 | Love-Hate | genitals |
| Fast-Slow type taiheki type 11 & type 12 |
type 11 Fast &・type 12 Slow | ||
| Release-requiring taiheki | type 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 | ||
| Attention-requiring taiheki | type 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 | ||
See also
References
- ^ a b c
Haruchika Noguchi“Taiheki”, volume I and II, Zensei, 1979 (in Japanese) - ^ a b c
Haruchika Noguchi “Scolding and praising”, Zensei, Japan, 1991 (English Translation)