The Tetrahedronics article from a couple of Fridays ago was titled, “The Five People You Need in Your Life.”\u00a0 It described the five groups one has social connections with, namely, Mentors, Students, Followers, Colleagues and a Spiritual Advisor\/Confessor.<\/p>\n
Some interesting comments were received, too, such as “You also need a health advisor,” and, “What about a coach,” to “Four of the five groups are plural, but the last one is singular.\u00a0 If that person changes, then wouldn’t that category be plural too?”<\/p>\n
After some thought that there may be more than five categories to include doctors and coaches, I came back to the five groups to look at them a little more intently.\u00a0 Mentors are those to whom one goes for advice, so doctors and coaches would fit into that category.\u00a0 They’re the people who shape us by challenging us to be better than we currently are, and can provide some type of guidance to reach those aspirations.<\/p>\n
And as for the last comment, yes, one’s spiritual advisor or confessor can change, so that last category could be “Spiritual Advisors\/Confessors,” so long as one doesn’t have multiple ones with conflicting philosophies at the same time.\u00a0 Additional people in this role could be Mentors, but there needs to be a singularity of this category at a particular time in one’s life to provide a rudder, if you will.\u00a0 A boat doesn’t have multiple rudders.\u00a0 If it did, there’s a good chance it wouldn’t go anywhere.\u00a0 At least, not where its captain wants it to go.<\/p>\n
It also became clear that all five of these categories were sociological ones.\u00a0 In that light, yes, there are more types of relationships we have in life.\u00a0 So to continue in the spirit of “The Five People You Meet in Heaven,” here are The Five Types of Relationships You Have on Earth:<\/p>\n
Intellectual\/Psychological<\/strong> – These are folks you can have intelligent discussions with, that think about things and cause you to think about things.<\/p>\n Emotional<\/strong> – From those people you like, to those people that you just can’t stand.\u00a0 Isn’t it interesting that sometimes, the people that we just can’t stand become good friends when we get to know more about them.<\/p>\n Sociological<\/strong> – Check out all those people you need in your life as described above.\u00a0 That’s a system within a system.\u00a0 These are members of your social circle, individuals with whom you interact.\u00a0 This also includes people with whom you really have no close connection, but are part of some type of society with you.\u00a0 On a grand scale, it’s every American, or every Catholic, or every inhabitant of planet earth.<\/p>\n Physical<\/strong> – From people who are in a committed monogamous relationship, to those who are just with one another in the same place at the same time.\u00a0 In a way that doesn’t readily come to mind, it’s everyone on an airplane, at the market at a particular time, or in a school.<\/p>\n Theological\/Philosophical<\/strong> – It’s that “deeper” relationship that can result from recognizing that we also have a spiritual component to our lives.\u00a0 It’s that “special something” that makes us more than the sum of our parts, to one’s search for meaning, and one’s reason for being.<\/p>\n What’s kind of interesting is that\u00a0 at the NCEA Convocation in Pittsburgh PA on April 4, 2024 in the afternoon, there was a session on educating the whole child – and these 5 “domains,” if you will, are listed as cognitive, emotional, social, physical and spiritual.\u00a0 I believe this proves that schooladvancement.com is ahead of the curve, since the thinking that launched this article was first published 11 years ago in 2015.<\/p>\n So let’s take it one step further – what about the “Familial” relationship?\u00a0 Where does one’s family fit in?\u00a0 Is it part of “Social\/Sociological?”<\/p>\n It’s really not – since “family” and “social” have different meanings.\u00a0 Community and social, it could be argued, have the same connotation, but family ties are different.<\/p>\n The fact is that “family” really doesn’t “fit in;” everything above fits into it.\u00a0 In line with systems thinking, it’s the overarching principle that results when all the elements work together systemically, since all those elements will affect the family dynamic.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Tetrahedronics article from a couple of Fridays ago was titled, “The Five People You Need in Your Life.”\u00a0 It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tetrahedronics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Tetrahedronics.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ggCS-vA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1958"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8115,"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions\/8115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archangeladvancement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}