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Metal: Visualize white light filling your lungs now

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Visualize white light filling your lungs now.    ‘Tis the season of lung support. The metal organ network reaches it’s energetic peak in autumn.  Sound and light resonate the paired organs lung & large intestine. Healing our physical lungs also shifts us from criticalness, blame and distrust toward deep integrity.    Physical breathing practices like pranayama (yogic breath control) strength our immunity by exercising our lungs and oxygenating our cells.    Before any action there is an ideation and a mental impression (visual or words).    The color white & the sound shhhhh balances the lung.    Close your eyes.  … Continue reading →

Metal: Is it black and white?

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Now more than ever, we are aware of quantum possibility. Lean in. When emotions run high, pause. Ask yourself, where is the grey in this situation? When you feel unhinged, pause. Where do you feel this in your body? When the mind chatters, pause. Is this the story of your best life? your highest self? If no, re-write it or seek the script authored by the great spirit/goddess/god. When you don’t understand. Stop assuming. Be curious. Allow possibility. Acknowledge the options. Invite a dialogue with these parts of yourself. Remember you are whole. You are sacred.

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Metal: Let go of that which no longer serves

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Let go of that which no longer serves. Autumn is the season of metal in Chinese Medicine. The energy is exacting, precise, cutting, reflective and alchemical. Just as the trees drop their leaves, we too are to let go of the old. This is the natural rhythm of the season. Many of us have outgrown jobs, relationships, locations. With integrity, now is the time to cut loose that which no longer serves you. Sometimes these decisions come in a brilliant flash. The action required is crystal clear. At times, we are reconsidering change year after year. The action required is … Continue reading →

Metal: Pressure forms the gemstone

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Diamonds form from elemental carbon between 237,000 – 1.3 million times atmospheric pressure deep within the earth. Just like us, rocks and minerals are in a constant state of change. Life gives us both expected and unexpected pressure. Are you able to utilize these stressors to transform yourself? What gems are you creating in your life? your community? your family? Jade is considered a healing power stone in Asian medicine. 15-75 miles below the earths surface in zones where the tectonic plates collide, extreme temperatures of 480–1110°F and extreme pressures of 87,000–507,500 pounds per square inch metamorphic rock, dolomite, transforms. … Continue reading →

Metal: Honor your Grief

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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 →

Metal: Sweat it out

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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 →

Metal: Hydrate

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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 →

Metal: Shine on you crazy diamond

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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 →

Metal: Experience the Sunset

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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 →

Metal: Dry brush your skin today

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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 →