I am a Type 3. In my world that means my true nature is to be active, reactive, swift, push forward towards results, dynamic, and go for it big.
This is something my mother never new about me.
If she had known this she might have put me on a swim team when I was 6 years old so I could naturally express my very physically active, competitive nature.
Due to the dysfunction (which everyone in my age group comes from) of my home, I defaulted a lot to my secondary Energy Type, Type 4. Stillness became my dominant expression in my family environment. Quite the opposite of who I truly am!
I see signs and clues all through my childhood and teen years that I squeezed in my true expression often enough to not totally abandon it, because I believe you never can, but very rarely was it expressed around my family. I only started to shame the heck out of it, since I took on the belief as I created it being mirrored back to me that who I truly am is inappropriate. I have spent years claiming my power back from that core reference of shame.
I am on my way now! Life is good, I am living true to my nature bigger than I ever have. One way I do that is to be very active and even competitive.
Even before I had come up with the whole Type 3 thing and the 4 Energy Types, I was deeply moved to start running marathons at age 44. This was in 2001. It was the biggest physcial challenge I had ever taken on in my life. I truly believed at the time that it was impossible for me to run 26.2 miles. It was over the top crazy to think I could accomplish that feat. But, somewhere deep inside me a voice said you must try and you can. After 8 months of grueling training, experiencing life changing success along the way (like the first time I ran 14 miles), and tapping out a lot fears and I can’ts, I finished my first marathon in June 2001.
It was an epiphany for me. I literally wept the entire last mile of the race and broke down in to sobs as I crossed the finish line. Little did I know at the time was that I was beginning to tap in to the truth of who I am and how I am designed to live life.
True to my Type 3 nature to get a bit obsessed and then burn out, I went on to run 15 more marathons in the next 4 1/2 years. When I burned out, I was just done and have felt no motivation to do another one.
Eat your heart out Michael Phelps!
I still honor my very physically active nature by competing in Sprint distance triathlons. To date I have competed in 16 triathlons. I am watching myself as I know my tendency is to over do it and burn out and stop. This awareness helps me keep it in check. For example last year my goal was to do 8 triathlons between April to November, one a month. I succeeded at my goal, and had a blast doing it. This year I am doing 4 between May and Sept. I have one more to go!
Energy Profiling has been a critical key in supporting me in living my truth.
Many people who discover their true nature are realizing they have not lived in honor of it most of their life. I hear the question a lot, “Carol, now that I know I am a Type ….., how do I live true to my nature when I haven’t most of my life?”
The answer is easy, it will just happen. Don’t make it the job of your intellect to try and figure out how to just BE you. Your awareness is the key to it unfolding and expressing naturally as YOU. All you have to do in your thinking mind is notice how much you judge the heck out of it, and every time you do, feel how crappy that makes you feel, own it as your creation and now tell the truth about who you are and the gifts you bring to the human experience.
Your true nature, your natural expression is embedded deeply within you. It always has been there. Knowing your a Type 1, 2, 3, or 4 does not make you that, it was there before you had this reference. All Energy Profiling does is bring an incredible amount of clarity to your natural gifts, tendencies, behavior, personality, and physical features. Clarity to the innate nature of you.
It’s easy, it’s natural, and there is nothing to “figure” out in BEING you. Trust the process.
God Bless You,
Carol Tuttle
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August 3rd, 2009 at 2:34 am
Carol, this has been a question I too have been asking myself, I am asking it more with my children who are 5 yrs old and 4yrs old. I did an expert profile on both of them and was very surprised to find that my daughter was a type 4 but she has been living her secondary type 3. The thing is I am having a hard time finding ways to honor her type four nature as she is only showing type three energy. Any thing you can think of to help would be grateful. Also how can I help my son with his type three meltdowns. He is already five years old but I see the overreaction of his type three daily with his many meltdowns. I am trying to honor him by knowing he his active\reactive but I am seeing alot of reactive. You as a type three, what advice could you give me to honor him, because me being a type 1 I usually end up taking on the type three energy and become very reactive. Also are there going to be dressing your truth for children? thank you Tammi
August 3rd, 2009 at 7:32 pm
Tammi, Great question. Call me on my radio show next Monday night and I can give you feedback on this. It’s more than I want to Type!!
August 4th, 2009 at 6:24 am
Thanks Carol, I would love to be able to call your show, but I am in Brazil and with the time change it is around midnight and since I own a bakery and wake up at 4;30am it is not possible. I will listen to the show to hear the other callers maybe other people have the same questions Thanks I am counting down to the “dressing your truth” Tammi