Seasonal Influences: Wood Element

Today's topic is Wood Element, the influence of Spring.

Spring has arrived for most of us.  She seems to rise up out of the ground, up through the trunks of trees and through the soles of our feet.

She tiptoes in tentatively in her green and floral garments with the freshness of new life.  Speaking the language of birdsong, buzzing bee, and wind.  Her influences over the land are obvious as seeds burst through the ground, birds break free of eggs, and new life begins. 

There is a lot of movement this time of year and expansion as Spring stretches herself, spreading her influence and permeating the land.

And we feel this too, and our bodies respond, as the consciousness of Spring awakens in each of us.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, Spring is associated with the Element of Wood, which is linked to Wind, movement, expansion, birth and growth.  Those qualities express themselves within the human body in the form of the Liver, the Gallbladder, and the Eyes.  The consciousness of Wood relates to the Soul and to the storage of all experiences.

So what does that mean to you?  The Five Chinese Elements are concepts used to help us relate to what’s going on within the body.  The balance of Elements is a way of maintaining the delicate balance of energies within the body-mind complex.

In the cycle of energy associated with the 5 Elements of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Wood feeds Fire Energy and controls Earth Energy, which would relate to feeding your spirit, your joy, the deep wisdom of your heart,  while keeping you from too much worry and confusion.

Wood Energy in turn,  is fed by the Element of Water, but it is controlled by the Metal Element.

To give an example, let’s just say you have an imbalance of not enough Wood Energy.  This might affect your ability to expand your perception, or it may affect your ability to make decisions, etc.  One way to balance that might be with more Water Energy because Water feeds and nourishes Wood.  Or maybe it’s a matter of too much Metal cutting off your Wood Energy.

These imbalances can be addressed in a BodyTalk session, where your body reveals what type of an imbalance it has, in other words, whether it's a matter of too much or not enough of said Wood Element, and how we will proceed within the session.

With BodyTalk we use consciousness to find the story behind the imbalance and to shift perceptions within the body-mind, which in turn causes the body to reset itself and to make the adjustments it needs to re-establish balance.

Some Benefits to Eating Locally Grown Foods

1. It's Fresh.  Full of nutrients and living enzymes.

2. You support your local economy if you buy from local farmers/food producers.

3. Food grown locally supports biodiversity.

4. The food grown locally is more likely to contain the nutrients specific to local needs.

5. Less use of fossil fuels in transporting the food to market.  
    (Even less if you grow it yourself).

6. Locally grown food creates close community ties.


Talk to me my friends.   ♥    Do you grow your own food?  Do you buy sustainable organic food grown in your local area?

Pollen, Pollen Everywhere

Scanning Electron Microscope image of pollen grains from a variety of common plants.  --Wikipedia

And we love it!  Because that’s what our beloved bees are collecting to bring back to their hives.  And it is an inescapable fact that without pollen most of the plants which we humans make use of would not reproduce.

Nature is in a relationship with Pollen.

But maybe your body doesn't have a relationship with pollen.

Think about it for a minute.  In some people, pollen can cause irritation to eyes, nasal passages and throat.  Causing a reaction from a mild tickle in the nose or throat and itchy eyes to severe breathing difficulties.

If your body doesn't have a relationship with pollen, then when you come into contact with it you experience an immune response.  Your body reacts to pollen as if it were fighting off a full scale invasion, rather than  just giving you a little cough or sneeze to remove the particulate and you’re good to go.

A relationship allows for relating.  It’s how we make sense of things.  If your body relates to pollen, it recognizes what it is, then it deals with it appropriately, quickly and without triggering a life threatening emergency within your system, such as asthma.

Collectively, humanity is out of balance with the natural world.  Having removed ourselves from that stabilizing influence, we no longer have that relationship which allows the body to relate and recognize.  Rather than dealing with a friendly particle of pollen which accidentally got inhaled into your sinuses by simply sneezing it out, the body goes on red alert, and begins conducting a war with you as the battle field.

Hmmmm.  That really does sound like a human response doesn't it?

What can you do about it?  Well, you might go to the pharmacy and get medication designed to alleviate your symptoms. *

What’s wrong with that?  Well, you haven’t gotten to the root cause of your imbalance.  You haven’t restored your relationship within your body-mind.  But  what you have done is suppressed your immune system, and that act is teaching your body a new habit. 

Before, you had a hyper sensitive immune system.  Now you have an immune system which is being given signals via medication and the brain, that it should stop responding.

Does it sound like you've fixed the imbalance, or have you just created a new one?

Why not see if you can restore your body’s natural ability to relate? 

That’s where the BodyTalk System can help you.  BodyTalk can identify the root cause of the imbalance, restoring your body’s natural ability to function as it was meant to.

When your body is functioning as it was designed to do, it will supply you with the right chemicals in the proper amounts to suit every function.  You have your own internal pharmacy, with natural chemicals made just for you by your own body, not the synthetic ones made in a lab.

So in conclusion, we are not cursed with pollen, we are blessed with it.  It is a miraculous gift, which eventually feeds us and creates the oxygen we breath.  This could be your perception and your experience, if you will allow your body to function holistically.

If you'd like to experience a BodyTalk session, now is a great time to invest in yourself. 

*  I urge you to do a little research.  If you're taking medication, or thinking about it, even in the case of herbs or supplements, you owe it to yourself to take responsibility for your health and make an informed decision.  Your health is very precious.