Character Traits

The purpose of body analysis is to give guidance to those seeking self-knowledge, by understanding one’s character traits, which determine thoughts, and behaviours and affect relationships.

Developing emotional intelligence through character traits enables us to make better choices, build stronger relationships and live a lighter life.

Before discussing character traits, we need to understand the process that gives rise to the formation of each one. This process is called Myelinization.

To put it simply, imagine your spinal cord as an electric wire.

The wire has the copper part that conducts electricity and the plastic cover - which protects the copper part - so that the electricity and energy don’t dissipate.

This is exactly how our spinal cord works. Our mind controls the body through a neural network with billions of neurons that connect to each other through “electrical wires”.

It begins to encase itself, to myelinate itself in stages, from top to bottom, starting in the womb and brain, descending through the spinal cord and branching out throughout the body, only ending at around five years of age.

As this network is formed in your body during early childhood, it creates “survival mechanisms” for each type of experience you have lived through at that time. The physical shape of the body becomes a reflection of all this formation.

In this process of myelinisation, in each of these five phases, our characters are formed, giving both our mind and body a certain shape.

The information and sensations have been imprinted on your mind and have made you exactly who you are.

And so, our story begins.

We begin our story in our mother’s womb, when we are in intrauterine life our body and mind begin to form along with our perception of the world.

Our body wasn’t just formed by genetic material, in the process of myelinization our nervous system forms the 5 character traits that shape both the way our mind works and the physical shape of our body.

WARNING

The names of the traits have no association with any kind of pathology or disorder. These are just the names of which they are presented in the scientific literature.

The First Character Trait

SCHIZOID

The process of myelinisation begins in the brain and in the first period of life.

The child’s world is the mother’s womb.

Depending on the emotions and anxiety experienced by the mother, the womb can become cold and stiff. The child’s perception is that it has been rejected.

In the sensation of rejection, the child doesn’t move and stays still, concentrating all its energy in its head, creating an imaginary world, forming a thin body, a forehead and protruding eyes, apparent joints and a feeling of not wanting to exist. Their pain is rejection and their resource is creativity and logical reasoning.

The second character trait

ORAL

Here, the myelinization is already descending into the spinal cord, at the level of the cervical spine, and an explosion of new sensations or sensory perceptions is taking place.

Sensations become more acute and the child begins to gain control and understand their needs. If their needs are not met as expected (too much or too little), the child realises that they have been abandoned.

This contributes to the formation of their features, so they communicate through crying to attract the attention of their mum or carer, thus forming a rounded body, soft skin and the feeling of a child’s face.

The Third Character Trait

PSYCHOPATH

Myelination is taking place in the thoracic region, so at this point, the child already has control and sensitivity of their torso, shoulders, arms, hands and fingers. The child’s desire is to explore and dominate everything new and to make fun.

However, the child begins to realise that they only receive attention and value when they make fun and that they are being manipulated.

Thus developing a strategic mind to understand what they needed to do to get the attention and value they wanted, with the ability to articulate, lead, delegate and coordinate.

People with the Psychopath trait have an inverted triangle-shaped body, a pointed chin, shoulders wider than their hips and very thin shins in relation to their thighs.

⠀The Fourth Character Trait

MASOCHIST

The myelinization of the nervous system reached the lumbar spine, and in the potty training phase, the child still didn’t have sphincter control.

The child then felt the urge to poo, but couldn’t identify the moment, so they did it and got scolded this bothered a lot because they knew that people expected them to be able to hold it in.

In order not to feel guilty about pooing, the child would push its bottom and tense the whole body to make sure it didn’t do anything wrong so as not to feel humiliated.

The child developed the ability to endure difficult things, consolidation and endurance, and a square-shaped body. The muscle tone is denser, the skin feels as hard as armour.

The Fifth Character Trait

RIGID

When the process of myelinisation reaches the lumbar spine, between the ages of 4 and 5, at the beginning of sexuality, the child’s conscious realised that the world is formed in pairs.

That was the moment when the girl looked at her father (or the image she had created of her father) and the boy looked at his mother (or the image he had created of his mother) and thought, he/she is my ideal partner. The child was around the age of 4 or 5 at that time.

Because this pair already exists, the child feels betrayed and forms a triangle, where they feel left out, excluded and betrayed by their great love.

The perception was very intense, and her mind began to mould her body into a unique harmonious and curvaceous shape (guitar shape). they skin is firm and shows the outline of her muscles. In order not to be the weak end of the triangle, she/he has the following resources: agility, competitiveness and perfectionism.

How many of these traits do you relate to? Let me know.

Can you imagine how much better your life could be if you could identify the percentage of each trait and use the resources to your benefit?

Take a moment to consider which area of your life needs this clarity, and let’s work together to enhance it.

Big hug!

Nina Macedo