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Kalarhythms & Interpersonal Style Basic Principles

Triadic Energies are at play we use our body, heart and mind. When we focus more on one than the others, Physical, Emotional and Intellectual energies influence our behavior. This alters our methods, how we interact with others, and even our life decisions. Physical, Emotional and Intellectual energies, and their combinations, give us our interpersonal styles.

Physical styles of behavior are active driving force, assertive or even forceful. Material gain and acquisition are important as is finding creative ways of winning the game. Physical styles may be territorial, prone to fence building, and in quest of a challenge. They are their bodies and see the physical world as the true reality. Often they are mesomorphs

Emotional styles of behavior lead with the "heart." They are fluidic, expressive and quick to react. They are warm, outgoing and social as they form personal relationships and subjective positions. Emotional styles may be righteous, judgemental, and compassionate. Often they are endomorphs

Intellectual styles of behavior are technical, analytical and specific in their approach. Intellectuals build on facts and data for objective analysis and their search for truth. Often they are ectomorphs.

Combinations of styles result as we base ourselves in more than just one of the polarites. Many of us balance between somewhere between the classic examples of personality styles by combining the traits of each.

Physo-Emotional styles are subjective in their goals and creative in facilitating them.
Physo-Intellecutal styles organize practical setups for objectives.
Emo-Intellectual styles are amiable and reasoning.

Together this give us six styles with consistent tendancies and comfort zones of behavior. How they relate to each other is the subject of this work.

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Physical, Emotional and Intellectual aspects are individuated and interconnected in living systems. The triad of energies replicates itself universally. In a person they are body, heart and mind. In a nation, they can be production, faith and education. In the global arena they can bring the Industrial Revolution, the Romantic Era and the Baroque Era of elaborate innovation, respectively. The triad continues.

Whether we are more Physical, Emotional or Intellectual will change how we perceive things. If we are more Physical, we tend to be more action oriented and see things based on what one can do, and what one cannot. This gives us a win / loose polarity in our estimations. If, on the other other hand, we are more Emotional, we tend to judge things by how we feel and weigh them on their moral basis with a right / wrong polarity. And if we are more Intellectual, we tend to be more analytical than active or judgemental. This perspective has us view things on the basis of a true / false polarity. All three elements can be found to varying degrees in everyone's style. It is the interplay of the triad.

Not only does our emphasis on these polarities change with different styles, but so does our perception of them. Below is a list of these they may be viewed from different perscpectives:

Physical is: Creative Emotional is: Subjective Intellectual is: Objective Perceptions of polarities from 3 points of view: POLE PHY. EMO. INT. WIN LOSE  is  Succeed Fail  or  Accept Reject  or   Discover   Disprove  RIGHT WRONG  is  Effective  Ineffective   or  Just Unjust  or  Fact Fiction TRUE FALSE  is  Tangible  Intangible   or  Sincere  Insincere   or  Correct  Incorrect

The great triad manifests in human form as with a body, heart and mind that give us our three Cycles; the Physical Cycle, Emotional Cycle and Intellectual Cycle. To symbolize our underlying energies in geometrical form, we could a use an upward triangle, or, the male trikona of Hindu mythology that symbolizes Shiva. To symbolize cominations of our underlying energies, we could use a downward triangle, or, the female trikona of Hindu mythology that symbolizes Shakti:

Energies Combined produce sytles in themselves as they blend elements from the triad of energies and form distinct patterns of behavior.

A simple geometrical model allows us to identify the elements of energy and how they may combine.

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The Kala Cube is for the basis the model used to identify behavioral types Chapter 2. The Six Styles.