Republished from 2016:
HOW PERSONALITY TESTS CAN HELP YOU MEASURE YOUR SRT COUNSELING PROGRESS
In a recent webinar, I made comments about personality tests that may be difficult to understand without some background data. At least one person who downloaded the audio recording felt I was “making fun” of the Myers-Briggs test when I suggested that SRT could change the test results.
I referenced the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the Big Five Personality Test because they are widely known and respected ways to describe personalities. They are descriptive, but they do not seem to offer ways to actually change undesirable personality traits.
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a non-judgmental description of how people perceive the world and make decisions. A lot of work has gone into validating the results against real-life situations.
Both the MBTI and the Big Five Personality traits are descriptions of personality. I feel they both provide good benchmarks of where a person is at any particular time. However, I have seen no mention of how they can be used to modify personality or any mention that personality can be changed.
SRT allows a person to change their personality IF THEY WISH and so far the results have been uniformly positive. People are finding themselves less nervous and more outgoing and less judgmental to name just a few of the observed changes.
For those clients who would like to measure their changes using a recognized testing methodology, I have recommended using the MTBI or the Big Five to see how SRT changes personality over time. I have also recommended using the self-actualization test based on Abraham Maslow’s research to get another view of the results of their SRT counseling.
I have not done serious client testing at this point (2016), but I was an ESTJ for many years and I took the test today (2016) for this article and I am now an ENTP. I was comfortable as an ESTJ and I am now comfortable as an ENTP, so I feel the test results were valid in both cases.
***In 2021, I am now an ENFP and am comfortable as an ENFP***
The important point, in my opinion, is that SRT processing has changed the way I perceive the world and I am happier and more productive than before and these factors are not measured by the MBTI.
I need to make it clear that your MTBI “labels” do not need to be handled. It is the underlying personality traits and the beings who cause them who can be handled if the person feels they are detrimental.
We are still refining our model of how entities affect our overall personality, but it has become apparent that the being who owns and runs the body, the one you call “I” or “Me”, is affected by all of the entities surrounding him and the overall behavior and perceptions (the personality) is affected to some degree by the actions of these entities.
Spotting entities with negative attitudes and handling them to restore peace may seem a long and tedious process, but we are continually improving our methods so that we can locate and help entities who need help even when they do not signal their distress. Entities who are sunk into apathy are not ordinarily visible, but our new SRT procedures enable us to use newly rescued beings to locate these distressed beings.
Until now, we have not been making use of the knowledge that our spiritual companions have of other beings to assist other beings who are in distress. Using this knowledge has now enabled us to accelerate the rescue of beings who were formerly invisible to us.
We are still communicating with spiritual beings, but now we are using their knowledge to aid other beings we would otherwise never see.
In closing, your personality is affected by all of the beings who surround you, not just the spiritual partners you communicate with daily. If you want to operate at your highest potential, it is probably a good idea to look after all of the beings who surround you. If they are all doing well, you will notice the difference.
David St Lawrence