Creative Journey Coaching

Personality Assessments

Most of us are familiar with the language of personality assessments. You’ve either taken one (or two or three) or administered one as a certified facilitator, or in some way – through reading or conversation - seen a glimpse into your psyche through a personality assessment.

 If it’s Myers Briggs, you may be an ISTJ or ENFP; if it’s DISC, you may turn out to be a D or an I, S or C.  If you’re evaluating yourself from the Herrmann Brain Dominance perspective, or HBDI, you may be assessed as analytical, interpersonal, imaginative or sequential. And so on … how many assessments are there and why do we need so many to figure out who we are and how we can all work and play nicely together?

What I’ve come to learn about these assessments, as wonderful as they are, is that they are all missing one intrinsic component; there is a missing piece and until that piece is identified, all these assessments keep us from being wholly imagined; these assessments actually keep us separate and incomplete.

So, I have a new assessment for you. It’s ground-breaking. The reason it’s unique… because there is only one question. That’s a relief, isn’t it? I remember thinking in the middle of a Myers Briggs once, holy Hannah, when will these questions end?? But don’t think for a moment because there’s only one question that it’s a trivial question. There is only one. It’s incredibly dear. No pressure.

Are you ready? Ok. Here’s your one incredibly dear question:

One Question (as opposed to question 1.) Are you here, on this planet, at this time, right now?

Answer - Circle One – (this is not an “all that apply” question for those of you who think existentially):

Yes           No

Have you answered the question to the best of your ability, without over thinking or second guessing yourself? Don’t second guess yourself now, by the way.

For those of you who said no (liar, liar, pants on fire), please know that if you’ve chosen “no”, the directions to follow are simple: please see the results for “yes” (because there are no results for no).

There is only one answer.

And since there is only one answer, there is only one outcome. No matter how you respond, or how many times you take the test, the assessment will always conclude one thing; assess you as one type: you are an SBHB; you and everyone else in the world.

How is that possible, when personality assessments are designed to create uniqueness, distinction from everyone else? How could an assessment with only one outcome possibly serve humanity and what is SBHB anyway?

SBHB stands for Spiritual Being Human Body. So, there you have it. We are all spiritual beings in a human body.  One assessment/one outcome. The distinctions we see that we may hold onto dearly aren’t nearly as important as the things we may not see that make us the same. This physical form gives us distinction, and at the center of it all, we are one.

For those of you who are still protesting or making this wrong, I’ll grant you that some of us are more connected to the spiritual and some of us are more connected to the body. So for you, there is a distinction. You may be sbHB, of this world and in this world so your spirit seems really small and not nearly as important as the things of this world. You may be SBhb, not of this world even though you are in this world and so the worldly things, including body, seem very small to you. Whether caps or lower case, we all have a spirit and we all have a body. It’s exactly like those who like Neil Diamond and those who don’t: Neil Diamond still exists.

I want to make it clear that spirit does not have a religious connotation, unless for you it does. For me, it doesn’t. So I’m writing from the pure context of spirit as our one connection to each other and the Universe.

We are spiritual beings in a human body. We are here in this human form to remember and learn how to connect; how to love. We are trapped in the confines of this tiny, human form, so our expansive souls will yearn for more.  And they do, don’t they?

 As you search for yourself, as I have, and find some comfort and distinction in personality typing, as I have, pay attention – is there still a missing piece? Is there still a yearning? If yes, remember that there is really only one question, one answer and one type. And you are it. SBHB*.

The question now is: How will you interact with others knowing this? How will you be in the world, knowing this?

*SBHB typing is a product of the Universe. All rights to reproduce belong to you as a member of the Universe. Please give credit to the author in any republishing or reuse: Linda Lombardo, Creative Journey Coaching, CPCC, Renaissance Soul certified, and SBHB.