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Metal: Honor your Grief

Dr. Elizabeth Cox, ND, LAc Posted on November 17, 2022 by Dr. Sarita CoxNovember 17, 2022

Honor Your Grief. I recently read an intriguing research article about grief entitled: Grief, poetry, and the sweet unexpected. “The sweet unexpected includes the ease with which trauma survivors engage their trauma narrative, the critical insights that emerge in poetry, the beneficial social context of sharing poetry, and the healing benefits of poetry for writers, care providers, and readers alike.” The metal organ the lung is the seat of the emotion of grief. The large intestine’s facilitates in letting go or letting go into transformation. Grief comes in waves, often magnified by the holiday season and understood to be heighted … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged autumn, death, grief, holiday, honor your grief, large intestine, let the sunshine in, lung, metal

Metal: Sweat it out

Dr. Elizabeth Cox, ND, LAc Posted on November 17, 2022 by Dr. Sarita CoxNovember 17, 2022

Sweat it out! I love my infrared heavenly heat sauna. And I am giving myself a big dose of self love today as I ready myself for a week of top performance. The metal element rules the lungs. Skin is an expression of the lung. The function of the pores to open and close depends on the balance of our internal metal. One of the best investments that I made in the last 10 years is a home sauna. I don’t choose to use public saunas for two reasons. It’s a poor use of my time to travel from home … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged autumn, fall, hydrotherapy, life coach, metal, nature cure, naturopathic doctor, sauna, seasonal wellness, self care, self-love, sweat, sweat it out

Metal: Hydrate

Dr. Elizabeth Cox, ND, LAc Posted on November 17, 2022 by Dr. Sarita CoxNovember 17, 2022

Hydrate. It is always important to stay hydrated. In the colder months it is easier to become dehydrated due to the drier air, the use of indoor heaters, and because the colder weather generally makes you desire water to quench your thirst less than the warmer months where you may use cold water to help cool you off. If you are noticing that your skin is getting drier chances are you aren’t getting enough water.   How much water should I drink? A good formulation is to divide your weight in pounds by half.  Convert that number to ounces. Notice … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged autumn, coconut oil, fall, floral waters, Hydrate, metal, skin, water

Metal: Crush it with Cranberries

Dr. Elizabeth Cox, ND, LAc Posted on November 17, 2022 by Dr. Sarita CoxDecember 9, 2022

Eat local and organic when possible, particularly thin skinned fruits and vegetables.  When not organic, soak in a ratio of 1 tsp baking soda: 2 cups purified water. Soaking 12-15 minutes is ideal. Gently scrub thick skinned fruits and vegetables. Rinse with fresh water.  1.  Cranberry-Orange Relish Cut one large, sweet orange into 1/8s.  Deseed.  Place orange (yes skin and all) into powerful blender (blend-tech, vitamix) or food processor.  Chop by pulsing blades.  Stir as required to chop ingredients.  Add honey or stevia if more sweetness is desired. 1 tablespoon of fresh ginger may be added as an extra digestive … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged cranberry, cranberry relish, cranberry tea, easy, healthy, lymph, recipe, seasonal food, simple, thanksgiving side, whole food

Metal: Top Performance

Dr. Elizabeth Cox, ND, LAc Posted on November 13, 2022 by Dr. Sarita CoxNovember 17, 2022

Mindsets and patterns dictate our actions. Our actions create our outcomes.  The fall season is the time for self-reflection and honest evaluation of our daily mental habits.  Our habits are responses or reactions to the stories that we tell ourselves.  Moment to moment awareness, returning to the breath and interrupting our mind talk with inquiry creates pause. Change begins in emptiness. Emptiness is where possibility lives.  When you are ready for transformation, learn to pause.  Come back to your breath.  Stay with your breath for 3 cycles.  Then ask yourself.  What are the other possibilities? What may also be true? … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Element Wisdom Card deck, element wisdom cards, fall, goals, metal, motivation, TCM, top performance

Metal: Shine on you crazy diamond

Dr. Elizabeth Cox, ND, LAc Posted on November 13, 2022 by Dr. Sarita CoxNovember 17, 2022

Shine on you crazy diamond! Allow your inner light to shine through as we move into days of diminishing daylight. Our moods may change with less light.  Diamonds form from elemental carbon between 237,000 – 1.3 million times atmospheric pressure deep within the earth.  Carbon is the fourth most abundant element in the universe according to mass. This makes carbon rather ‘ordinary’.  However the brilliance of the diamond is acquired from intense pressure to ordinary carbon.  Like carbon, our extraordinary-ness is derived from our ordinary-ness plus stress.  The practice of being present moment to moment helps us appreciate the extraordinary in … Continue reading →

Posted in autumn, diamond, Fall, five element, Five Elements, Metal, Metal Element, seasonal wellness, Uncategorized | Tagged autumn, carbon, diamond, Element Wisdom Card deck, element wisdom cards, fall, seasonal wellness, shine on you crazy diamond, vit d

Metal: Experience the Sunset

Dr. Elizabeth Cox, ND, LAc Posted on November 13, 2022 by Dr. Sarita CoxNovember 17, 2022

Experience the sunset.  West is the direction of the metal season and honors endings and letting go of things that no longer serve us.  Check the sunset time daily.  Today the sun sets at 4:49 pm. Watching every possible sunrise and sunset was one of the first practices that trained me into the deep transformations of seasonal wellness practices. Settle in for the show.  Feel yourself. Lovingly pause the stories and narratives of the day. Savor the magnificence now:  the beauty, the difficultly, the ordinariness, the extraordinariness.   Visit element-wisdom.com for more information about Element Wisdom Cards and how this self-care … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged autumn, daily basic, Element Wisdom Card deck, element wisdom cards, experience the sunset, metal, seasonal wellness, sunset, TCM, west

Metal: You are your most valuable asset

Dr. Elizabeth Cox, ND, LAc Posted on November 13, 2022 by Dr. Sarita CoxNovember 17, 2022

You are your most valuable asset.  So start acting like it.  Metal is associated with preciousness and value:  wealth, investments, quality stuff.  You are precious.  Take good care of yourself.  If you have not yet established a self care routine, simply start with one intentional self loving act a day. Make a list of all the ways that make you feel appreciated, loved, cared for, healthy, happy and do this for yourself.  It might be taking a sunset walk, getting a pedicure, resting at 3 o’clock instead of coffee or tea cover up the tiredness, watching the clouds, skipping stones … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged fall wellness, health care tips, metal, self care, self-affirmations, self-love, tips, you are your most valuable asset

Metal: Dry brush your skin today

Dr. Elizabeth Cox, ND, LAc Posted on November 13, 2022 by Dr. Sarita CoxNovember 17, 2022

Want a Fall wellness routine that is easy as it gets?  Dry brush you skin just before you get in the shower. Brush in long strokes from the extremities toward the chest. This helps move the lymph along it’s pathways and supports your immune system. Brush through the joints not to the joints. Lymph is concentrated in the joints, in the belly, groin, arm pits and sides of the neck. The skin is an expression of the lung. Tis the season to get brushing with a natural bristle brush. Go on…..love yourself a little more today and brush off the dead skin … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged autumn, daily basic, dry brush, Dry brush your skin today, fall, lung, metal, nature cure, seasonal wellness, self care, self-love, TCM

Metal: Mirror. Mirror.

Dr. Elizabeth Cox, ND, LAc Posted on November 13, 2022 by Dr. Sarita CoxDecember 23, 2022

In Chinese culture the circle shape is associated with the Metal/Fall season and represents oneness, unity and being fulfilled. Perhaps one of the most common circles we encounter in our daily lives are mirrors. It is in a mirror that we can physically reflect on ourselves, however it is possible to reflect without a mirror as well. Look for circles today, but more importantly, reflect on what makes you whole. One self-care practice that I invite my patients to incorporate into their daily lives is looking into their eyes in the mirror daily upon waking and speak ‘I love you’ … Continue reading →

Posted in autumn, Fall, Metal, Metal Element, TCM, Uncategorized | Tagged autumn, Element Wisdom Card deck, element wisdom cards, metal, mirror, reflection

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