Healing Thoughts
HARMONIZING WATER IN WINTER
In Taoism and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), winter is associated with the Water element, which is the most yin of all the Five Elements. Understanding its qualities and supporting your body and mind during this season are key to maintaining balance and health.
Fall Food for Thought
In Taoist medicine, Autumn is associated with the METAL element. The organs associated with Metal are the Lungs and Colon.
Lungs Protect and the Colon Lets Go ;
THE METAL ELEMENT IS BOTH OUR ARMOR AND OUR SWORD.
Here are ways to STRENGTHEN YOUR METAL this Fall…
Summer Synchronization ; FIRE
The three months of summer, they denote opulence and blossoming.
The qi of heaven and earth interact and the myriad beings bloom and bear fruit.
Go to rest late at night and rise early.
Never get enough of the sun.
Let the mind have no anger.
Stimulate beauty and have your elegance perfected.
Cause the qi to flow away,
as if that what you loved were located outside.
This is correspondence with the qi of summer and it is the Way to nourish growth.
Opposing it harms the heart.
Spring Integration Checklist
Some Things I Been Thinking To Myself On How to Integrate My Mind/Body/Spirit With Spring And What That Might Mean
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