Metal is the element of autumn. Theme of the season is value, worth, letting go of that which no longer serves, honoring our grief, integrity, magnetism, alchemy.

During an acupuncture session, I have a patient choose an element wisdom card or choose one for them.  Last week, I forgot to have the first patient of the day choose a card, so I sent it by text. Her card is You are Precious. I encouraged her to forward the picture to one or five of her beloveds. This is actually one of our ways to play (for 2 or more) Our element wisdom cards offer 73 daily in season affirmations, wisdoms, questions and health tips. Check our ways to play & purchase a seasonal gift today at element-wisdom.com 

I’ve been at this for more than 20 years – witnessing health in seasonal cycles, feeling pulses, giving healing treatments, guiding folks back toward their best self. I am an expert in mind, body, spirit treatment – more than 10,000 hours.

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 still murky. Reflect.

The time around the solstice will center us once again as the transition/earth season. The newness of how are choosing to live may feel, momentarily, unsettling.

We will dream up our next best life in the stillness of winter. We will rest and restore.

The spring will come, like it always does, and we will move forward anew.

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I simplify my personal meals during this mini season between gatherings, events and celebrations.  Simple whole food sides are a form of self love and sometimes a full mono meal.

I bring a simple, whole foods dishes to gatherings.  They are time savers, stress reducers and super foods! Believe it or not, it starts a lot of conversations. One of my all time favorites is Roasted Rosemary Sweet Potatoes. 

ONLY 2 main ingredients

1. Roasted Rosemary Sweet Potatoes

Ingredients

• 3 Tablespoons olive oil
• 1 small branch fresh rosemary
• 3-4 medium sweet potatoes, scrubbed and rough chopped with skins on
• Chunky sea salt, to taste

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
2. Combine oil and chopped, crushed rosemary leaves in a small bowl. Pour 2 tablespoons of rosemary oil mixture in the bottom of a 2-quart covered baking dish. Drizzle the remaining rosemary oil on the top. Toss in dish. Season generously with salt.
3. Roast for 1 hour, covered, until potatoes are tender (test with fork). Increase oven heat to 450 degrees F. Remove cover and roast another 10-15 minutes, until tops of potatoes are browned and crisp.

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When I work with my patients, we co-create wellness plans. We are dynamic and our needs change as we change. These are best modified every season. I spoke with one of  my patients this week regarding her prescription.  She was astonished that her prescription provided such an immediate change in her energy levels.  What was it? A whole foods multi-vitamin. 
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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. Suffice it to say, power comes out of enduring extreme situations. 

At our lineage ceremony marking the completion of our Chinese Medicine program at NUNM, each student was gifted a jade circle.  We completed a very intense cycle; we were forever changed.  I wrapped my stone with green threads and continue to wear it to this day, two decades later. This power stone embodies all the teachings, the struggles, the lesson, the ease, the delight. It is a treasure.

Next time you are feeling pressured.  Take a few deep breaths. 

Then ask yourself:  how can this experience transform me, transmute me, shift me, change me?

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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 during the autumn according to Chinese Medicine.

Experiencing the full spectrum of human emotions is living optimally.  When we are stuck in one emotion or cyclically vacillate between emotions, we are imbalanced.

Therapies like poetry, positive affect journaling, dance, yoga, qi gong can be directed to help us transmute the grief so we do not become only stuck in the emotion of loss.

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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 to sweat everyday. And I am, by nature, not a renter when it comes to value. I own my wellness.

Regular saunas (4-7/week) dramatically reduce heart disease, dementia, hypertension according to recent studies. No wonder it is a traditional wisdom! It detoxifies our cells and improves our immune function.

In naturopathic medicine and nature cure, saunas are considered hydrotherapy.  Ideally, a sweat is followed by a cold plunge or shower.  Then a rest period and UV sunlight exposure.  We prescribe three rounds of hot, cold, rest, sun.

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How much water should I drink?

A good formulation is to divide your weight in pounds by half.  Convert that number to ounces.

Notice the liquid measurement of your favorite water bottle or glass.  How many times a day do you need to refill it to meet your personal total?

For example, my favorite water bottle is yellow stainless steel with honey bees. It contains 15 ounces.  my formulation is 115/50 = 57.5 oz.  My daily water intake goal is 4 containers a day.  I always fill a bottle up before I drive in my car.  I refill the bottle at my destination if possible.  I keep a 32 ounce stainless bottle in my car at all times.  

Adding mineral once a day to water can help with absorption.  My favorite minerals are in liquid form from the great salt lake. 

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Oils, food grade lotions and water spritzes are helpful in combating the drier air, hydration even for your skin begins on the inside (after all your skin is just another organ). I love coconut oil, shea butter and floral waters.  

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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.

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Experience the sunset. 

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