Fire Needs Wood

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Wood Symptoms and Conditions

Wood Element is the home of the Liver and Gall Bladder.  These organs detoxify and digest fats, breaking them down and building them back up as cell walls.  Interesting, right??  The walls of all cells are made from a fluid, flexible fat that is receptive to listening to the direction of hormones.  You are built to be a listening being.

Wood conditions have to do with becoming too rigid and breaking or falling apart.  When our brain falls apart we call it dementia or brain fog on a smaller scale.  When our blood transporting vessels break, we call it heart attack or stroke.  When our bones fall apart, we call it Osteoporosis.  When we lack flexibility in our joints, we call it Arthritis.

Wood energy is our structures, boundaries, and rules for life, which involves our beliefs.

A healthy Wood energy allows healthy boundaries and flexibility, to have and hold a clear inspired vision, and have the patience and tenacity to watch it unfold.  Just keep doing your best and tending your sprouts!

Wood energy develops from a clear structure, boundaries, rules and rituals that allow you to be successful.  Wood is hurt by a lack of boundaries, and rules that make it impossible to win.  Punishment without teaching, first.

You should have known better!

If I should have known better, than TALK TO MY TEACHERS.

When we cannot figure out how to win, we become focused on pleasing people.  People pleaser!?  Blech!!

A people pleaser tends to attract overbearing and bossy relationships, leading to disrespectful or abusive.

Wood controls Earth, and if Earth has nothing sprouting, it tends to fly away like a sand storm.  Overwhelm.

If you can relate to any of that, here is how to balance your energy and Wood attributes.

Massage all these points on the left side, then the right side, doing the Conception vessel point as a connector for both sides.

ST-40 Beautiful Bulge: This point is the most important point to relieve phlegm, a heavy, sticky mess.  Like a lack of clear boundaries and structure for success.  I can’t win!

GB-40 Hill of Ruins: Disaster teaches decision making and clarity.  This point improves decision making and clarity.  So we can let go of the anger of being told that you are wrong or bad.

TH = TW = TE (Triple Heater/Warmer/Energizer)

SI-3 Back Ravine; TH-3 Central Islet: SI-3 has a significant effect on the whole spine and often used for upper back pain.  TH-3 has been called the “warm joy” point.  Strength and happiness, to heal the muddled confusion of “doing it right.”

LV-3 Great Surge: This point cleans the liver, detoxifying and cleansing.  “Controlling” a person is the fear of failure and our culture clearly teaches that battle is how you get what you want.  The great surge is influence.  Teach that person how what you want is to their benefit.  If it is not, and you still want it, then you are a controlling hurtful man.  Even if you are a woman.

HT-9 Lesser Surge; CX-9 Central Hub: Trying to control the fear of failure needs faith.  Faith needs trust and reassurance.  These points bring faith and fill the heart. You will feel a slowing down when you approach what matters to the heart.

HT-5 Penetrating the Interior; CX-6 Inner Pass: When you are heart centered, you can be authentic.  These points penetrate a hardened exterior and the masks we hide behind.  Abuse gifts us compassion and a strong contrast to help find what we do want.  CX-6 has been called the “Perfect Love” point.

CV-11 Strengthen the Interior:  This point pushes through the heaviness and gives an appetite for living.  Loving.  Serving.  The Lover archetype is the connector of hearts, the healer of hearts.  The Jester archetype brings laughter and joy, and influences with his humor and wit.

CV 11 is one below CV12

LU-11 Lesser Shang:  This point clears the throat, softens the voice.  Love your voice, share your value.

KI-1 Gushing Spring: This point cleanses and calms.  Relaxes.  Even helps drift off to sleep if your heart is fiery.  It cools the heart, but never says no to heart desire.  Be your value.

 

 

 

Wood Needs Water

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Water Symptoms and Conditions

Water organs, of course, are the kidneys and bladder.  Water conditions are pressure and flow problems.  Swelling, edema, and high blood pressure.  Pressure causing pinched nerves, and inability to move from awake to asleep, aka insomnia.

A healthy Water energy allows healthy fluid and pressure regulation and moving into sleep with ease.  Water gives us the flexibility to flow with the changes.  It allows you to assess risk and benefits, and use good judgment in making decisions.

Water energy develops through encouragement and reassurance in the face of fear or doubt.  Without encouragement to keep moving, or worse, being told you are wrong in trying, or to discourage trying, freezes water in fear, which our culture calls paralysis by analysis.

A wounded Water energy is afraid of abandonment, so will hold no boundaries, and be walked on like a doormat.  So every relationship feels like dirty shoes, and ends in disappointment or betrayal.

In our culture, if a doormat stands up to care for herself, she is called selfish.

Water controls Fire, so a healthy use of Water energy is to absorb love and stretch, bend and flex to express and protect heart desire in yourself and your loves.   Nobody desires being a doormat.

If you can relate to any of that, here is how to balance your energy and Water Element.

Massage all these points on the left side, then the right side, doing the Conception vessel point as a connector for both sides.

TH-5 Outer Pass; SI-7 Branch to the Correct/Upright: This point is known for bringing warmth to a cold heart or body.  Warmth to un-freeze your forward movement, and forgive your caretakers for not encouraging it in the first place. (TH is aka SJ)

BL-64 Capital Bone: This point is used as a first aid point for bee stings on the face or neck.  It stings to teach you to doubt your instincts and intuition, you were just following your heart.  This point soothes the fear of making a bad choice, or God forbid, a mistake.  We learn from mistakes, so start making more.

GB-43 Clamped Ravine: Helps cool down anger and resentment, and teaches us that the purpose of anger is to make a change, or cross a ravine.  This point makes that change easier!

KI-3 Supreme Stream: The most powerful point to strengthen the Yin, or feminine.  Yin allows you to see all perspectives, even hurtful ones!  Desperate.  Scared.  This point expands your ability to see why people take, control and hurt.

LV-8 Spring at the Bend:  This point helps relieve dampness (fluid, phlegm, heaviness) in the “lower burner” from the belly button to genitals.  Discouragement is kinda like a kick in the gonads, and this point helps relieve that pain.

LV-5 Wormwood Canal:  I’ve not ever checked, but this point is credited with affecting penis length.  The benefit of a dick is pleasure and reproduction.  The benefit of hurt is strength.  Heal yourself and own your strength.

CV-3 Central Pole: This point is indicated for water retention, especially if you warm the point with Moxa.  Moxa is a plant that is wrapped into a stick and burned to warm the skin and acu-points.  Excess water feels heavy, and frozen water feels afraid.  You have now warmed up and let go of the heaviness, and ready to be your value!

The value of Water is the Ruler, a masculine archetype that holds the boundaries of feminine value, and the Innocent, the feminine archetype teaching the values and principles of femininity.  Nobody Left Behind.  The Greater Good.  Make Love not War.

SP-21 Great Lou; SP-9 Yin Mound Spring: Lou kinda means hug, to love all parts and balance the feminine and masculine.  Love only hurts to protect survival.  Yin Mound Spring helps release the heaviness in the lower burner and use your gonads to be brave!

LU-5 Cubit Marsh: The water point on Lung channel, this point cleanses and purifies, blowing off toxicity and breathing in your inspired vision for your life!

 

Water Needs Metal

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Metal Symptoms and Conditions

Lung and Large Intestine are the organs in the Metal Element, so any conditions affecting those organs may benefit from this protocol.  Constipation, shortness of breath, Inflammatory Bowel conditions (IBS, IBD), plus Anxiety/Depression,  AutoImmune diseases and Cancer are linked to needing to strengthen your Metal.

Metal Emotions include feeling stuck, grief or sadness.

Metal is the reflective energy, looking back at your harvest (results) in reflection, and looking forward to create an inspired vision.  If your vision is inspiring, it makes letting go of anything holding you back so much easier, but it is still work.  The Large Intestine teaches us how to let go of what doesn’t serve us moving forward.  Our culture calls it feces, poop, or shit.  If you lack an inspired vision, you will desperately hang on to shit.

A healthy Metal Energy assists with this process of letting go and moving on, and helps stay focused on What Matters Most in life, which is the next best step toward your inspired vision.

Metal energy develops through validation, and the father relationship.  A father who protects feminine values protects innocence, and assures that you are OK just as you are.  Metal is hurt by punishment, control, and intimidation, which says, “you are not OK as you are.”  You must be different.

I am entirely against punishment of any kind, for the damage it does to our precious metal, the gift of God in each child.  And if children were validated, they would share their gift, not break a law.

Invalidation leads to seeking approval, and trying to fix everything for everyone, leaving you surrounded by infants.  Helpless people.

Metal controls Wood.  We use Metal Energy to keep control of what is sprouting in life, just like a lawnmower blade cuts tall grass.  It is the energy of pulling weeds that do not provide nourishment, the weeds that take as much as they can, but do not give back.  If you relate to any of that, here is how to balance your energy and heal your Metal.

Metal is your preciousness, your richness, and your What Matters Most.

Massage all these points on the left side, then the right side, doing the Conception Vessel (CV) point as a connector for both sides.

GB-37 Bright Light: A good point for bringing stability, and seeing more clearly.  It helps let go of the anger and resentment of being pushed around and controlled, even punished, instead of being taught how to follow your heart desire with clear boundaries for safety.  Instead of “you can do anything you want, let me help you get what you want.”  Honoring healthy boundaries.  “You are a pain and a problem, and I will punish you if you don’t do things my way.”  Ouch.  Then let it go.

LI-4 Union Valley:  This point has been called the opium point for its ability to relieve pain and loss and is the strongest letting go point.  It helps us process the grief of our loss of significance, which punishment and control takes from us.  The significance of being a gift from God.  Let go of what doesn’t serve your vision, and hang on to being a gift from God.

BL-67 Reaching Yin: This point reaches the connection of feminine strength and wisdom.  The courage needed to endure the pain of birthing a baby.  This point is used to turn a breech baby, to “align things” for the greatest ease and comfort possible.  And it relieves the fear that it might be true, that you are not important.  Significant.  What else needs alignment?

LU-9 Great Abyss: The most important point for lung conditions, which provide our inspiration.  Gives the vision to see into the distance and find inspiration.  It helps bridge the gap to see different perspectives.  Perhaps even the value of experiencing control, and at least the perspective of people doing their best with the resources they have.

KI-7 Recover Flow:  This point regulates fluids… blood, sweat, and tears.  And urine of course, as a kidney point.  In life, it helps to get moving again, bringing flexibility into our structure (Wood energy)  to see the positive intention behind control.  “Oh, they wanted me to be something special, and instead of allowing it and protecting it, they tried to control it.”

KI-4 Great Goblet: This point relieves psychological blocks to seeing your true beauty.  And to see that you needed “control” to spark your Creator or Sage energy.  To build or guide to something special.  Drink deeply from the goblet of Truth!

The Creator is the masculine builder or maker of things.  The Sage is the feminine wisdom that can see into the future and guide where we are heading!

CV-17 Chest Center:  Conception Vessel is the feminine Regulation, aka God connection.  In your heart lies the connection to your Creator and your Feminine Wisdom.

HT-4 Spirit Pathway; CX-5 Messenger Between: Both are very important for mental stability.  Heart 4 helps you find your way, and the Messenger Between brings peace and warmth…hope.  The only way you will know, is if you massage these points and see how you feel.

SP-5 Shang Hill:  The Metal point on the Spleen channel, the feminine half of Earth, our caretaker.  This point is calming and nourishing, increasing assimilation of trace minerals, the foot soldiers of regulation.  They keep all systems running.  Metal carves our boundaries, healthy, feminine boundaries.  Nobody left behind, the greater good, no hurting others unless innocence needs protection, and nobody will control me again…are now forged in steel.  You can be proud of who you are.  

 

 

Metal Needs Earth

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Earth Symptoms and Conditions

Spleen, Stomach and Pancreas are the Western organ equivalent to the Eastern Earth Element, so any conditions of these organs may benefit from this acupressure protocol.  Heartburn, Ulcers, Diabetes, Hypoglycemia, weak blood aka Anemia, and immune sensitivity, such as allergies.

Earth emotions include feeling low, not good enough, unimportant, insignificant, unwanted, or feeling sorry for yourself or others.

A healthy Earth Energy allows balanced blood sugar and energy, digestion and assimilation of nutrients, and resilience to stress, which in Nature means seasonal changes, pollen and dust in the air, temperature changes, and lack of food or water.  Our culture rarely experiences LACK, except those in poverty, so your Earth Energy just stores and stores potential energy as fat, if you consume more calories than you use.  So you might use this protocol for weight loss, along with lowering calories and increasing movement.

A healthy Earth Energy allows us to give and receive support and nurturing, like a good Mother, in every kind of relationship, and share your value with others.  And yes, we all have the ability to be a good, protective, loving Mother.  Even Dad can nurture.

The Earth Energy develops from the safety and nurturing care of the primary caretaker.  It is hurt by a lack of nurturing or separation from the primary caretaker.  Lack of a nurturing caretaker leads to Mother-seeking as an adult.  And like an infant, the strategy to get Mom to notice is to complain loudly.  Complaining can turn into helplessness if you don’t heal your Earth Energy, and people will begin to avoid you, so your evidence of this need would be feeling alone.

Earth is your value, and your nurturing care for others.  Do this protocol to increase your Nurturing Value!

Massage all these points on the left side, then the right side, doing the Conception vessel point as a connector for both sides.

BL-58  Taking Flight:  Also called the “tirelessness” point, it brings up well-being and vitality, strengthening the body and mind.  It gives you the flexibility to forgive your caretakers for the way they hurt you, let go and move on.

ST-36 Leg Three Mile: This point is known for its ability to treat all conditions, and it gives the strength to keep going, when you are exhausted but have three more miles to go.  Even abused, abandoned and alone, we have to keep going.  This is a powerful point, and helps heal you by giving you the love of a nurturing mother.  Feel the encouraging and uplifting!?

LI-11 Pool at the Bend: This is the tonification point of LI, which means it calls for nourishment from its Mother, Earth.  It brings the power of loving nurturing and care into Metal, helping to mourn the loss, forgive and move on.

SP-3 Supreme White: Spleen is the Yin organ of Earth, so we go back and power up the feminine, the ability to see all perspectives.  To see that everyone is doing the best they can with the resources they had.  To see that pain ignites growth, if we heal and keep going.  To see the divine in everything is the true harvest of life.

SP-18 Celestial Ravine: This point helps to restore human kindness and empathy.

LU-7 Broken Sequence; LU-9 Great Abyss:  In a masculine world, we hurt to teach and hold boundaries.  That is the masculine fear of losing control or being wrong.  That is wrong.  Teaching should be gentle and nurturing.  This point heals and strengthens feminine values and boundaries.  Nurturing and Protecting Innocence.

CV-8 Spirit Gateway: Conception Vessel is the feminine Regulation, aka God connection.  This point is the connection to Mother in the womb, which we call the belly button.  Feel this connection to Mother and God and nourish your spirit to be your True Self.  (Just massage your bellybutton!)

LV-3 Great Surge: The Earth point of Liver, it nourishes and cleanses, and is known as a very relaxing point.  “I have the strength, clarity, and confidence to be me, authentically!”  The Everywoman archetype leaves nobody behind.  The Revolutionary archetype leads by sharing value, not hurting, taking, or criticizing.

HT-7 Spirit Gate; CX-7 Great Mound:  Your heart connection to spirit and ancestral wisdom, those buried before us.  These points “cool” your spirit and your heart.  Like taking a breath to reflect on your results, look forward with an inspired heart vision, bury any doubt, and just do your best, authentically.