In her book What Color Is Your Aura?, Dr. Barbara Bowers noticed that there were 14 personality patterns, each having different strengths. She grouped them into 4 families:
Physical Family
Physical (environment) Colors Red, Orange, and Magenta
Physical (body) Colors Yellow and Physical Tan
Mental Family
Mental Colors Mental Tan, Green, Nurturing Tan, and Loving Tan
Emotional Family
Emotional Colors Lavender, Blue
Spiritual Family
Spiritual Colors Violet, Indigo, Crystal
Physical Family
Red
-You prefer working at jobs that are physically demanding.
-For you, sex is physical pleasure.
-When you lose your temper, you get over it quickly.
-If you have enough money to buy the necessities, you are happy.
-When playing a team sport, you rally the team when the chips are down.
-You experience spirituality when you physically participate in the worship service.
-You want to know how and why things work the way they do.
Orange
-When faced with a dangerous task, you carefully plan how to handle any crisis that may arise.
-You meet physical challenges without fear.
-You prefer activities that allow you to demonstrate physical prowess.
-You prefer individual competition rather than team effort.
-You are not interested in organized religion or other belief systems.
-You prefer to work for a comission, or even as a freelancer, rather than for a regular, fixed salary.
-You do not need friends or social interactions to be happy.
Magenta
-You seek the unusual or avante-garde.
-You are a non-conformist.
-You are a spontaneous person.
-You are attracted to products that have unusual or unexpected design features.
-You form loose friendships that are not encumbered with bonds of expectation.
-When you see something that you like, you choose to have your fantasy now and pay later.
-You express your spirituality through your strong connection to nature.
Yellow
-You react physically (with sweaty palms, for example) before you respond to a situation mentally or emotionally.
-When you find yourself in a tense situation, you want to run away or pretend it does not exist.
-You are not cynical.
-You experience God as the physical sensation of the joy of being alive.
-You like parties.
-You lead others with enthusiasm because you enjoy being with people.
-You enjoy working in occupations that require physical activity.
Physical Tan
-You are a loner.
-You are slow to choose friends.
-You ev-You are slow to choose friends.
-You evaluate objects by how solid or substantial they feel.
-You are slow to commit to any belief system.
-You are meticulous in following instructions given to you by your supervisor.
-You believe that to be a good leader, you must first be a good follower.
-To you, money represents physical safety and stability.
Mental Family
Mental Tan
-You are methodical in your thinking.
-As a leaer, you solicit lots of detailed information from others in order to make decisions.
-You have difficulty sharing your emotions and feelings with others.
-You like social activities that combine business and pleasure.
-You prefer a spiritual belief system that relies on a foundation of laws and principles.
-To you, money is security.
-You enjoy working with mechanical devices such as computers, calculators, and stereo equipment.
Green
-You resent emotional and domestic demands made on you.
-You prefer occupations that have unlimited financial opportunity, such as sales.
-You diagnose problems by recognizing patterns.
-You see God as the "brain" that created the universe.
-You prefer a few specially chosen friends who stimulate you intellectually.
-You find great satisfaction in assisting people by giving ideas and information.
-To you, ideas are things, not mental abstractions.
Nurturing Tan
-You are not judgmental or critical of the ways in which others express their emotions or feelings.
-You organize projects by creating systems.
-You look for ways to improve your community.
-You feel that raising a well-educated child is the greatest contribution you can make to your community.
-You financially support community groups and programs that benefit society.
-You feel that spiritual principles must have practical application in the real world.
-You lead others by incorporating their feelings into the decision-making process.
Loving Tan
-When solving problems, you are able to visualize all the steps and the solution at the same time.
-You do not require emotional loyalty to effectively mentor someone.
-You are attracted to religions with strong theological structures that allow for personal interpretation.
-You eagerly seek to please those you love and care about.
-You prefer social gatherings where you have an opportunity to talk to many different people.
-You have difficulty managing money effectively.
-You have difficulty keeping track of personal possessions.
Emotional Family
Lavender
-Esoteric spiritual or political philosophies have great emotional and intellectual appeal to you.
-When you have money, you spend it; when you don't, you don't.
-You are a dreamer who likes to live in the fantasies you create.
-You express your sexuality creatively, intuitively, and experimentally.
-Your artistic pursuits often keep you indoors.
-You prefer a somewhat isolated existence rather than one in which you would have to conform to society's expectations.
-You see ideas as three-dimensional patterns.
Blue
-You cry easily.
-You have a hard time saying no when someone asks you to do them a favor.
-The experience of God's love is the spiritual force in your life.
-When looking for a job, you have difficulty asking for the salary you deserve.
-You feel more comfortable sharing the leadership by being a co-chairperson.
-You do not enjoy endurance sports such as cross-country skiing or weight-lifting.
-When making a decision, you try to find a solution that will please everyone.
Spiritual Family
Violet
-You have a strong inner desire to make your mark on the world.
-Social get-togethers such as cocktail parties bore you.
-You would rather be the theorist of a project, and leave the building of the working model to someone else.
-You are not "free and easy" when spending money on others.
-You lead by telling people what to do.
-You feel compelled to do something significant with your life.
-Possessions are important to you as stepping-stones to power and influence.
Crystal
-You are at ease in any environment where healing is the primary activity or occupation.
-You depend on other people for clues on how you should act in various social situations.
-You rarely show your deepest feeligs.
-You enjoy reading biographies and diaries that describe the lives of real people.
-Your source of personal power is your ability to mentally retreat inward.
-You prefer quiet, introspective, spiritual disciplines.
-You work best in an environment that is calm and peaceful with limited contact with othes.
Indigo
-You have no biases about sexuality--heterosexuality, bisexuality, homosexuality.
-In school, you learn most effectively in an unstructured environment.
-You lead by forcing others to rethink and reexamine old beliefs, values, and ways of doing things.
-You perceive spirituality to be in everything you do.
-You need to be awakened slowly from a sound sleep to avoid being irritable or in physical pain.
-You cannot be coerced into doing something in which you are not interested. -You are content to work with your hands.
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