The Inner Court; Close-up of the Habit Body

The Inner Family or Inner Court is a view of the inner child, four times more precise and nuanced. Using a simple quadrant system, it provides a close-up view of our “habit body,” the better, more timely, more accessible model of our unconscious.

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The Inner Family or Inner Court is a view of the inner child that is four times more precise and nuanced. It uses a simple quadrant system, providing a close-up view of our “habit body,” the better, more timely, more accessible model of our unconscious.

Functional and dysfunctional memories, habits and behaviors, can be more precisely located and addressed with self-muscle-testing, kinesiology of any kind and all persuasions.

Bertrand Babinet Inner Family (Babinetics.com) showed us our inner child and gut brain has four discernible quadrants. Each quadrant has a distinct and discernible character: Mother, Child, Grandparent, Father.

This more nuanced view of the inner child is shown to be origin of Satir stress-response-stances, Satir's Family Systems wisdom. It transposes nicely to Arthurian Legend too.

The four-fold Inner Court is up close and personal with your inner child, beyond what is possible with a unitary concept of the inner child. Strengths, weaknesses and issues are four times easier to locate.

Activity and relative strength of each quadrant can easily be assessed and measured with kinesiology testing, muscle testing, of any kind.

Further, our second brain, our cerebral brain, has its own four discernible quadrants; but, in different order and in a higher frequency, so to speak.

Before puberty, the the four in the gut rule the four in the head. After puberty, the four in the head rule the four in the in the gut.

The activity and relative strength of each quadrant can easily be assessed and measured with kinesiology testing, muscle testing, of any kind.

The goal for each set of four is LOVING. This too can be measured in any relationship of any two characters.

The relative activity and interaction of these eight quadrants models our personality and is suggested as the subconscious backdrop and origin of distinctions made in MBTI and virtually all other personality typology systems. Connections, similarities and differences of these systems become immediately more clear thru the lens of the Inner Court.

More poetically, the Inner Court is a magic mirror reflecting your preferred memories, habits and behaviors more clearly. In our habit body they are the KEY ACTORS, acting out our habitual memories, habits, behaviors, routines and preferences. They are the “script writers,” script holders, “holding court,” determining our habitual memories, habits, behaviors, routines and preferences.

Our likes-dislikes, strengths-weaknesses, functional-dysfunctional expressions, stuck places and addictions come to life in your unique expression fo each of these archetypes in you: body image, body posture, attire, accessories and so on.

These insights have been tested by the author in client sessions since 2001.

Soul is choice; nothing determines our personality—unless we allow it! However, we rely on the acquired habits of our Inner Court to suggest how to respond to life situations. If we do not change how we respond, we WILL respond in the habitual ways our Inner Court knows to respond.

Say you are feeling bad. You can ask, "What's this about? Who inside me feels unresolved? Oh, it’s Guinevere! She feels rejected. Let’s see why she feels that way and what she needs."

The present work associates the four quadrants with the much more nuanced characters of Arthurian Legend. These permit both deeper and higher insight into the four gut brain quadrants, beyond what is possible with mundane family designations.

TWO Inner Courts is the inception of the difference between self-esteem and self-concept, between Conception Vessel and Governing Vessel.

In the six possible relationships between the four archetypes, our personal failures, confusions and successes are expressed and can be easily diagramed towards understanding our behavior.

The Inner Court makes obvious the strengths and weaknesses of many previous mysteries:

- The promise of research on right and left brain is fulfilled here,
- Personality typology in general is clarified,
- The four brain chemicals correlate with typology systems,
- The classic Supporter, Promoter, Analyzer, Controller typologies,
- MBTI ideas of how personality is formed thru preferences,
- Aristotle’s & Rudol