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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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 powerful way to promote winter wellness.  One of our patients sent an image of how she integrates the Element Wisdom Cards into her life.  She chose the card with intention and placed it in  her workspace for the week.  She reported that the Focus card was a tremendous support to anchor her mind.  The focus card may also be used on an altar or vision board to support your dreams or in your meditation space to focus your attention back to the breath, sensation or heart.  The element wisdom cards help you find your authentic and unique path to wellness – step by step.

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