Re: Health levels- any truth?

Posted by Hal on September 21, 1999 at 15:59:03:

In Reply to: Health levels- any truth? posted by Gigi on September 16, 1999 at 03:29:56:

> Does Riso say we fit into a health level? I myself don't. Also the people around me whom I watch closely don't.
> For example, inner-directed, goal-oriented, motivator, persistent, practical, hard-working, into self-development, ambitious, competitive, controlling, highly adaptable, comparing, sometimes will strike back if image is challenged, afraid to show and share real feelings, too much image-surveillance, etc.
> Looking at myself I find I travel between average and healthy traits, sometimes using unhealthy ones if I lose myself. So I cannot put myself in any one of the 9 levels. I watch myself using 6 traits too (healthy, unhealthy, such as, being the devil's advocate). Maybe I am f...ed up!
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> So much for Riso's levels! Only good for a list of healthy and unhealthy traits.

> This subject was brought to my mind when Perceiver said a few posts back that he is 6w7, Level 3.

As I see it, people are always changing, both along a general trend as we grow (hopefully and upward trend), and with many smaller (and larger) fluctuations in response to external events. You could argue that your level of health is defined by how well you respond to these difficult events, but for me, I can't see people as being fixed at a specific level of emotional health. More than anything, I find it ridiculous to try to compartmentalize and quantify these levels to such a degree. How much difference is there between level 5 and level 6 anyway, for example, and what do we really gain by assigning this number to ourselves? And please don't anyone take this as an invitation to say that we shouldn't assign any numbers to people, like, say, enneatypes... :-)

- Hal -

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