Listen and wait. Winter is the most yin time of the year – the most receptive season. Practice reserve. Spring has not yet come. We are still dreaming our dreams. Practice listening to the stillness. Practice waiting in the void. Join our email for seasonal retreats, nature connects https://follow.it/drsaritaelizabeth?action=followPub
Continue reading →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 →
You are precious is one of the messages that I speak to my patients during the fall season. Outside of the clinic, I love to remind friends or strangers how valuable they are. Try it and notice how it makes you feel. It immediately moves me into heart space. I delight in seeing the sparkle in their eyes or their body relax into goodness. What an easy way to make the world a better place. 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, … Continue reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Focus Each season has a corresponding set of organs that reach their energetic peak during the 73 day period. Water rules the winter season. The bladder, kidney and adrenals are expressions of the water element in the landscape of the human body. In addition to the organs and the yin/yang organ pair (kidney = yin & bladder = yang). The water element manifests as the physical organs, their energetic pathways (meridians), the hair, teeth, bones, brain and spinal cord. You can learn more about simple, harmonious ways to support the water element here. Supporting the practice of focus is one … Continue reading →
We have just crossed into the Water (Winter) season in the beginning of January. Didn’t winter start on the solstice (21st)? Actually the solstice marks the midpoint of 18 transitional days ruled by the Earth (Transition) season. So use those Earth (Transition) Card Decks 4 times a year for seasonal support. On my first clinic of the season, I opened a deck Water/Winter element wisdom cards and choose this card to start off our season. I chose the card – You are resilient. After a year like 2020, I happily receive this affirmation. Last year, I completed the Element Wisdom … Continue reading →
