Enneagram of Personality
The concept of "Taiheki" is somehow similar to the typology by Ernst Kretschmer, Enneagram of Personality and Four Temperaments. However, "Taiheki" is not only applicable to psychological aspects such as one's emotional or behavioural tendency, but also to one's physical characteristics including shape of face and body, balance of weights, and tendency seen in movement. According to him, all these aspects are correlated with state of 5 lumbar vertebrae. In Japanese, means “body”, whereas represents “habit” or "tendency". Noguchi established the concept of Taiheki through his as activity as healer and seitai teacher sometime during the early 1950s.