Archive for ‘Energy Medicine’

March 21, 2012

Spring Wood Element

Spring is here!

In the Chinese Five Elements the Liver / Gallbladder rules the wood element and the season is spring. The cycle of spring rules the wood element because of the tree’s ability to shoot its seedlings through the earth in springtime. The climate is wind like the breath of fresh air we need at this time. The colour is green and green foods nourish and cleanse the liver.

WOOD ELEMENT

SEASON: Spring
CLIMATE: Wind
ORGANS: Liver, gallbladder
GLAND: Pineal
COLOUR: Green
FLAVOUR: Sour
FLUID: Tears, Bile
SENSE: Sight
TISSUES: Nerves
EMOTION: Assertiveness into anger
SOUND: Shouting

 

Wood Spring Theme: Expansion 

Meridian/Organ systems: Liver, gallbladder

Yang organ is the gallbladder.

Yin organ is the liver.

 

Gallbladder meridian imbalances:

temple migraines, ear weakness,

neck tension, asthma, pain in shoulder,

hip, knee, fourth toe

 

Liver meridian imbalances:

psychological, big toe, gout, corns,

shinbone pain, inner knee pain

 

People in this spring/wood rhythm may have imbalances in the liver and gallbladder.

The liver gets stimulated by sour taste that is why lemon, lime or citrus in water helps to detoxify. Bitter sour herbs stimulate the liver, gallbladder, glands and digestion.  

Sour action tightens, stimulates, decongests and is astringent. 

The gland in this rhythm is the pineal gland which responds to liver detoxification.

 

Emotion: Assertiveness turns into anger, irritability, impatience, annoyance, resentment, bitterness, frustration, rage, fury. 

The positive emotion in this cycle is assertiveness. This helps to forge our way, grow and survive. When we become assertive about our intentions for too long the frustration can lead to infuriating anger. The sound that alleviates anger is shouting. 

Spring/ Wood Element: Stay calm and assertive instead of becoming angry, and stand up for yourself, without the rage. Be kind and do not judge yourself and others harshly. Allow growth and expansion.

 

“Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” Buddha

 

March 20, 2012

The Chinese Five Elements

The Chinese Five Elements created by Traditional Chinese Medical (TCM) practitioner’s around 3000 B.C. show a more physical nature consisting of:

Water, Earth, Fire, and replacing Air and Ether are the more tangible material elements Wood and Metal. 

The Chinese Five Elements are known as WU XING in Chinese and roughly translates into English as the five movements, the five phases or the five steps/walks/stages of change.

This model serves as a diagnostic tool basis for acupuncture, reflexology and other medical, philosophical and energetic foundations. It is the basis of all energy work. Acupuncture uses needles, and Acupressure uses hands to follow the meridians, which are energy system pathways with ancient roots in natural healing. 

The Five Elements show nature and the changing seasons, and matches it to different phases of life that everything travels through.

These principles have intricate complex associations and form dynamic relationships with one another. 

Each element associates with a variety of principles including:

body organs/ meridians, emotions, seasons, climate, sense organs, glands, taste flavours, colours, sound, senses. 

Each element carries with it a positive and a negative emotion. Everyone experiences these different emotions, which have their function and their purpose.  

All of us have a main element, rhythm or season that we resonate with and are born into, but we travel through all the cycles of seasons at various times in our lives. 

We are different elements at different times or a combination displaying productive or destructive qualities.

These seasonal, energetic, emotional states vibrate and relate to health, personality, and physical attributes even manifesting in the way we walk and talk. Use this tool to decipher what element or rhythm you are now in.

There are themes, symbols, cycles, shapes and other categories relating to each element. People and martial art styles also fit into these categories.

The primary destructive emotions that follow the five seasons and elements are:

Fear/winter/water,

Anger/spring/wood,

Panic/summer/fire,

Worry/equinox/earth,

Grief/autumn/metal

The positive constructive emotions are:

Water/courage,

Wood/assertiveness/kindness,

Fire/joy/passion,

Earth/compassion,

Metal/reflection/wisdom

March 20, 2012

The Classical Elements

Classical elements are ancient groupings of elements created thousands of years ago by many cultures. The classical element grouping usually consists of five elements, and mirrors the natural rhythms and cycles of nature and relates them with different phases of life.  

The 5 Classical Elements serve their purpose by being used as a tool to decipher emotional, physical, spiritual, mental, philosophical, and medical states of being. The philosophy has also been incorporated into cooking, Feng Shui, interior design, martial arts, astrology, music, military manoeuvres and all aspects of life and creation. 

The elements connect in a cyclical interaction of generation and destruction, which balances life. 

The ancient Greece Classical Elements are:

Earth, Fire, Water, Air, and Ether/Spirit. 

This combination of elements form special relationships that are also reflected in Hindu philosophy known as the five great elements, with the only exception being the name for Ether/sky is Akasha, water is Ap, Earth is Prithu, air is Vayu, and fire is Agni. 

Labelled with different names the Buddhist, Tibetan and Japanese Classical Elements have the same meanings. The only exception being that the name for Ether is Sky/Void /Space/Heaven, which gives further insight into the meaning of the illusive element Ether.  

The energy of life is known by different names in various cultures. The Japanese refer to it as ki, pronounced “key,” Hindus refer to it as prana, and the Chinese refer to it as qi, pronounced “chi.”

 

 

Elemental Painting by Colleen Chafe

 

 

 

 

February 4, 2012

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