BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES - Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie

The Extreme Mesotonic - Action
They are always ready for action, and good posture is natural to
them. They get up with plenty of energy and seem tireless. They can work
for long periods of time and both need and like to exercise. If they are
forced into inactivity they become restless and dejected.
The mesotonic tends to eat his food rapidly and somewhat
randomly, often neglecting set meal times. He sleeps the least of the three
types and sometimes contents himself with six hours. He is an active
sleeper who thrashes about. He shows insensitivity to pain and a tendency
to high blood pressure and large blood vessels.
The mesotonic has no hesitation in approaching people and
making known his wants and desires. The tendency to think with his
muscles and find exhilaration in their use leads him to enjoy taking
chances and risks, even when the actual gain is well-known to be minimal.
They can become fond of gambling and fast driving and are generally
physically fearless. They can be either difficult and argumentative, or slow
to anger, but always with the capacity to act out physically and usually
with some sort of history of having done so on special occasions.
This physical drive manifests itself on the psychological level in a
sense of competition. The mesotonic wants to win and pushes himself
forward. He tends to walk roughshod over the obstacles in his path and the
people who stand in the way of his achieving what he wants. On the
positive side this is called being practical and free from sentimentality, but
on the negative side it is called ruthlessness or obnoxious aggressiveness.
This outward energetic flow makes mesotonic generally noisy.
Their voices carry and sometimes boom out as if speech were another
form of exercise. When alcohol reduces their inhibitions, they become
more assertive and aggressive. They look older than their chronological
age. The extraversion of action that is so strong here goes together with a
lack of awareness of what is happening on the subjective level. He likes
wide-open spaces and freedom.
The female mesotonic shows the same extraversion of action, but
how this action expresses itself has a different quality. There is not the
same overt physical combativeness and competitive aggressiveness. The
action is more muted and flows in more socially acceptable channels. The
mesotonic woman should be compared not with men but with other
women, and it is in relation to other women that she shows the distinctive
mesotonic traits in a feminine way.
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