Module 11 Personalised Lifestyle – Health Promotion

Learning Outcomes:

• Health promotion is based on a Personalized Lifestyle Programme, designed according to an individual’s temperamental combination and who do not have any chronic illness conditions.
• The programme is to ensure that healthy individuals become even healthier and delay the onset of chronic illness conditions.
• Your Personalised Lifestyle Programme will be finalised in a consultation with a Tibb doctor.

In this video, learn about your Personalized Lifestyle Programmes, in Health Promotion for your unique temperament, delaying chronic illness condition/s, with an improved Quality of Life.

Introduction
In this link, on Health Promotion, details of Personalised Lifestyle Programmes for the different temperamental combinations are listed based on the Tibb principles of Temperament, Humours,
Lifestyle Factors and Physis – therefore identifying your temperamental combination as well as an understanding of the Tibb Lifestyle Factors are essential.

To recap, in Module 6, the Tibb principle of
Temperament, it was highlighted that each individual has a temperamental combination of a dominant and sub-dominant temperament with an overall qualitative state of one dominant quality less of the two adjacent qualities and the least amount of an opposite quality.

In Module 7, on Humours it was mentioned that each person also has a unique humoral balance, and health will only be maintained if the overall quality of the humours are the same as the overall quality associated with an individual’s temperamental combination. Unfortunately, this ideal humoral balance is constantly changing from the qualitative effect of the Lifestyle Factors.

Rationale that underpins Health Promotion
Health promotion is based on assisting physis in ensuring that the overall qualities of humours is the same as the overall qualities of the individual’s temperament and being aware that increasing this dominant quality from the lifestyle factors will be detrimental. The rule to remember is
AN INCREASE IN THE DOMINANT QUALITY ASSOCIATED WITH AN INDIVIDUAL’S TEMPERAMENTAL COMBINATION FROM LIFESTYLE FACTORS, WILL HAVE A NEGATIVE EFFECT.

Also mentioned previously, health promotion, within the context of an individual’s temperamental combination is best achieved in the early years whilst being young and healthy to become even healthier. In fact, implementing the Tibb Personalised Lifestyle Programme early in life, will most certainly delay the onset of chronic conditions for at least 10-20 years.

Eight Personalized Lifestyle Programmes
Listed below are eight (8) Personalised Lifestyle Programmes in Health Promotion based on temperamental combinations of a dominant and sub-dominant temperament.

1. Dominant Sanguinous sub-dominant Bilious
2. Dominant Bilious sub-dominant Sanguinous
3. Dominant Sanguinous sub-dominant Phlegmatic
4. Dominant Phlegmatic sub-dominant Sanguinous
5. Dominant Phlegmatic sub-dominant Melancholic
6. Dominant Melancholic sub-dominant Phlegmatic
7. Dominant Melancholic sub-dominant Bilious
8. Dominant Bilious sub-dominant Melancholic

Each lifestyle programme includes:

• The dominant quality associated with the temperamental combination,
• Examples of the different lifestyle factors that can increase this quality,
• The various illnesses that each temperamental combination is prone to.
• Guidelines on health promotion and maintenance through lifestyle factors for eachtemperamental combination.

Whilst all eight Personalised Lifestyle Programmes are available at the end of this document for download, in the video an overview of one of the Personalised Lifestyle Programmes (Dominant Sanguinous sub-dominant Bilious temperamental combination), is discussed – without going into each of the exercises and additional advice which is included in the eight Personalised Lifestyle Programmes as listed below.

Implementing your Personalized Lifestyle Programme
After viewing the video and reading through the lifestyle programme suited to your temperament, you should now have a better understanding of how lifestyle factors may be altered according to your unique temperament.

Following these guidelines will certainly lead to a healthier life. If consistently adhered to, the lifestyle changes cause physis to function as efficiently as possible so that your body and mind are able to withstand challenges that may otherwise cause illness.

For additional information to achieve optimum health you can download the Institute’s books on the Library link “4 Temperaments 6 Lifestyle Factors” and also the “Cooking for your Body Type”, which includes recipes of the four diet charts.

Finally, there can be no doubt that the information provided in these modules as well as your consultation with a Tibb doctor on your Personalized Lifestyle Programme, will allow you to live your best life possible.

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References

1. Bhikha, R. (2006). 4 Temperaments 6 Lifestyle Factors. Ibn Sina Institute of Tibb, South Africa.
2. Vallee, N. and Bhikha, R. (2003). Cooking for your Body Type. Ibn Sina Institute of Tibb, South Africa.
3. Bhikha, R. and Dube, A. (2018), Impact of Tibb Lifestyle Factors in Health Promotion and Illness Management. Inernational Journal of Recent Scientific Research. Vol. 9, Issue, 7(C), pp. 27914-27918, July 2018. DOI: 10.24327/IJRSR. http://www.tibb.co.za/wp- content/uploads/2018/12/Impact-of-Tibb-LF-in-HP-and-M.pdf