Our gut brain (inner child) has four discernable quadrants; our head brain has four discernable quadrants. Much activity in each quadrant is sub- and unconscious. We call all this the habit body. The Inner Court is a magic mirror in which you can see your own preferred memories, habits and behaviors more clearly. Our likes-dislikes, strengths-weaknesses, functional and dysfunctional expressions come to vivid life in the four archetypes of Arthurian Legend. Insights here transfer easily to work with clients. Soul is choice! Nothing determines our personality-unless we allow it! However, we rely on Guinever, Lancelot, King Arthur & Merlin to suggest options of how to respond to the life; each of us, responding with a unique mixture of these four. Fortunately every aspect is testable with kinesiology testing, muscle testing of any kind.
The Inner Court is up close and personal with your inner child, far beyond what is possible with a unitary concept of the inner child, four times as many reference points for locating our strengths, weaknesses and issues. In our habit body they are the KEY ACTORS, acting out our habitual memories, habits, behaviors, routines and preferences. They are the "script writers," script holders, "holding court," determining our habitual memories, habits, behaviors, routines and preferences. The insights gained from use of the Inner Court easily transfer to working with clients, enabling you to locate, in 3D space, dysfunctional reactivity, memories, habits, behaviors. If you can feel it-and locate it--you can heal it!Q: How do I use this?A: Say you are feeling bad. You can ask, "What's this about? Who inside me feels unresolved? Oh, it's Guinevere! She feels rejected. Let's see why she feels that way and what she needs." Where's this come from?In the 1980s, Bertrand Babinet converged Satir family systems with the Traditional Chinese medicine constellation of elemental functions in the physical body.
Where TCM associates only sketchy and elementary psychology to each body function area, Bertrand associated Satir family systems with the four quadrants of the gut brain. The present work associates the four quadrants with the much more nuanced characters of Arthurian Legend. These permit both deeper and higher insight into the four gut brain quadrants, beyond what is possible with mundane family designations. Anything else new?The Inner Court expands and extends Bertrand's ideas about a second set of family system quadrants in the brain. The focus is creating more and better access to our subconscious and unconscious role-playing. The fact of TWO Inner Courts is the inception of the difference between self-esteem and self-concept. In the six possible relationships between the four archetypes, our personal failures, confusions and successes are expressed and can be easily diagramed towards understanding our behavior. The Inner Court makes obvious the strengths and weaknesses of many previous mysteries: - The promise of research on right and left brain is fulfilled here,- Personality typology in general is clarified,- The four brain chemicals are correlated with typology systems, - The classic Supporter, Promoter, Analyzer, Controller typologies,- MBTI ideas of how personality is formed thru preferences,- Aristotle's & Rudolf Steiner's four Temperaments,- The pioneering work of Katherine Benziger is honored, - Upgrading personality by subtracting unresolved disturbances, is made more clear.
This is NOT determinism; they do not determine our personality unless we allow or promote it! Our likes-dislikes, strengths-weaknesses, functional and dysfunctional expressions are simply easier to see in the shorthand terms of Inner Court archetypes. Once you recognize an unresolved dysfunction, it's up to you, the rational mind, the conscious self, to get busy, open your Healing Toolbox of Tools That Heal and do something about it!.