Fire Destroys Wood

May 8, 2018/2 Comments/in Five Elements /by Dr. Todd Stone

Fire represents our passion and desire, and our energy to survive and thrive.

The Five Elements is a structure to meet needs in acupuncture and acupressure healing practices. Sometimes, what is sprouting, the Wood energy, is a danger to surviving and thriving.

Wood energy is everything that sprouts from the Earth. Fire energy includes our defenses, when needed for survival. If war is not a necessity for survival, it destroys resources and diminishes our probability of surviving and thriving.

Sometimes, standing up to the warring leaders is the right move for survival.

This is the story of my return to street fighting, and my first ever Red Card.

In case you missed my “fighting” history, it went something like this. I would see someone

being a bully, and I’d walk over and tell him that I thought he was a dick. He would look at the small, awkward, feminine man–child in front of him, and declare war. aka. “Ima gonna kick ur ass.” lol

Most times, as soon as they saw the intensity of my anger, the war was over. They put up a tiny fight, but they were already in retreat thinking, “OMG this guy is ______.“

Recently, a female soccer coach witnessed my anger, and said, “I don’t know what kind of person you are, but you are not right!”

**YOU DECIDE…who was RIGHT!?…**

My daughter Sacred’s team was just about to come on to the field, and the two teams ahead were gathering and exiting. I watched an angry woman walk up to the refs saying “what he said was not appropriate and I want him reprimanded.”

Then I see a soft Mexican man walk up (the opposing coach). His english is not the best, but it’s clear he wants to explain his perspective. “You misunderstood, ma’am.” I could feel how soft he was from 20 feet away. And how hard this woman was. She wanted blood, and the jury was unanimous, this case is closed.

She was a bully!

The soft manly Mexican coach said, “Please, you don’t understand.” The hard womanly coach was joined by her assistant, shouting over him, “No, we heard what you said.”

I heard the intensity of attack increasing, as it got louder, but it was the intensity of how hurtful it felt that tripped my switch.

Suddenly, I was louder than everyone, “Are you kidding me…you aren’t going to let this man explain his perspective?!?” The woman coach turned her hardness toward me, shouting that there is no excuse for what he did. He said “make love” in a crowd of girl soccer players.

She even puffed her chest at me and poked her finger at my chest to claim dominance. The response she received was described as “You are not right,” but isn’t THIS “right?”

It is reasonable to consider the accused man’s perspective, right? That is the structure of Justice; but I didn’t need a trial. I could feel both coaches intentions, hers being war and his was peace.

I’ve been non-violent for 15 years, but apparently my bark is still pretty intense.

I said, “You made those words bad!” With finger pointing back, and intense intensity. lol She backed away from me and said, softly, “I don’t know what kind of person you are, but you are not right.”

Then the hairy dude in charge gave me an earful. “You are not helping, you are inflaming this situation.“

I walked away with the old familiar adrenaline rush of a street fight. Considerably less able to choke back the tears. The Mexican coach caught me and thanked me for taking the heat off him.

I was doing lunges and push up/V-ups to use up the remaining trembling energy, when I see Mexican coach walking back toward me. He has a girl with him. She is his girl, and He is her coach daddy. She walks right up to the sweaty, hairy man with the Captain America logo on his chest. “I want to thank you for standing up for my father. He is a good man. He is a minister, and coach of girls soccer, he wouldn’t hurt anyone.”

I gruffly replied, “Yeah, SHE was the bad guy.“

Mexican coach approaches the Captain. He said, “Sir, you can’t imagine being under such attack, and nobody understands the way I speak, I don’t have the best English.” With my chest puffed out, I say, “I might be able to relate.“

“Coach daddy” shared his perspective with me since nobody else would listen. The hard woman coach heard “make love” in her own head. It was not an “inappropriate joke” or “lack of healthy boundaries”…he actually didn’t even say those words. She heard him wrong. Cuz he talks funny. Lol.

They gushed a bit more, touching and thanking the Captain.

I got a yellow card from the coach after my first confrontation. When the hairy dude in charge walked by, I informed him, “I did help that situation. I protected the innocent.” He stopped and turned, loudly proclaiming how I am “not a help to this society, and I may be a danger to all we see.” I tried to explain the little girl thing. lol.

Even louder, he said “I had no place to step in to his business. He was in charge! He was handling the situation and I made it worse.“

I hit the loud notes again, **“It was not being handled until I stepped in.”**

Red Card. F@ck. Coach waved me away, and honestly, I was relieved to get away.

My Fire destroyed the sprouting hurt of an innocent man.

I’m not sure what is right, but I will take the love of the little girl, over the approval of a hairy man, every single day.

Wood Creates Fire

April 27, 2018/7 Comments/in Five Elements /by Dr. Todd Stone

Wood represents everything sprouting from the Earth.

The Five Elements is a healing philosophy used in Traditional Chinese Medicine acupressure and acupuncture practices. But everyone knows that Wood Creates Fire.

That is the beauty of the Five Elements; anyone can understand its message, because it’s based on common observations. Spring turns into summer, leading to harvest. Wood, Fire, Earth.

Autumn is Metal, and winter is Water.

In life, everything begins with the reflection of Metal. We reflect on our Results. How was last harvest? Then Metal looks forward toward this season, with inspiration, and moves forward gently as the flow of Water according to Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Water teaches us to move gently on the path of least resistance, toward your inspired vision. You move toward your vision until you see something sprouting, the Wood energy. If you lean in to whatever is sprouting with loving care, you will blossom brilliantly in summer, the Fire Element.

A healthy growing season leads to a wealthy harvest.

My vision is the softening of our culture. For Sacred Stone.

I am her daddy, and this sweet, sensitive girl has learned from our culture that she is mean. I asked her why she thinks she is mean. “Because I am honest. If someone asks me if I like their new jacket, I tell them the truth.”

Sorry baby girl. I know. Opinions are taught to be held tightly.

Feel this softness.

Imagine a world where opinions were loved. Where we felt good enough about our uniqueness that Sacred’s opinion of your jacket isn’t combative, it’s just different. A world where everyone loves their different-ness. Where people were asked for their opinions and encouraged to express their unique-ness.

Our world feels so hard.

This world fights to fit in. Difference is combative. We hurt each other for looking different, having a different opinion, or “acting weird.”

This is how our culture feels to Sacred Stone.

Bob was talking to Susan from his air conditioned condo in Florida. Susan lives in Alaska. Susan explains to Bob how cold it is outside. Bob raises his voice, “What!?” He walks over to pull open the curtain and declares “It is sunny and 90 degrees outside!” Susan insists she sees snow and feels cold. Bob declares that “Susan is obviously an idiot.”

Who is the idiot? Susan shared what she saw and felt. Bob told her she was wrong. Susan tried to share more of her perspective. Then Bob draws first blood, with “idiot.” So, Susan learned to keep her opinions and observations held tightly.

Several years ago I declared that “I know nothing. I could always be wrong.” A truth declared by the Five Elements and Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Nope, still not safe to share an opinion. Recently, because of my success with healing, a woman came to my clinic and asked for my opinion. I told her my honest opinion, and she disagreed. OK. I don’t even charge for clinic visits anymore. Just leave and pay nothing.

She didn’t stop at differing opinions though. She told the internet world that I am a danger to society. I tried to explain my perspective, which prompted a long attack of my character. I’m ok if you think 4 paragraphs is short. You have a right to your opinion. Lol.

A mutual friend defended the right to her opinion. That “Dr. Stone is a bad person.”

I’m fine with her opinion. Maybe I am a bad person! IDK… Anything.

My vision and mission is to soften our world, and do my best to heal hurting people, without expectation. If you accept my best effort, and disagree or don’t feel relief from my care, there isn’t a fee. Just honestly walk out. I’d probably thank a person for trying his best, but I expect nothing in return.

I lean toward believing that Faith, my Sunday School teacher, was right. Everyone is a gift.

Maybe Faith was sharing an ideal perspective, and the reality is that there are hurtful people.

If it’s true that there are hurtful people, are they the people sharing their honest opinion, or the people saying “you are bad because your opinion is different.”

Faith taught me to Judge Not, or you will be judged. Not sure if that was a threat of God’s judgment, or just the general idea…if you hurt someone, they will probably hurt you back.

Faith also warned of False Gods.

Traditional Chinese Medicine calls that Possession, which our culture might call obsession. And the biggest obsession appears to be profit from where I watch.

I’ve felt the trampling of people who seem to care about profit more than people. I was kicked out of insurance for healing a medical condition. And I couldn’t make that up, because I could never have imagined such a thing happening. I believed our goal as doctors was to heal sick and hurting people.

It probably wasn’t the CEO who called, but some important person from his Insurance Company called to let me know that I was a bad person. I treated a Medical Condition, Hypothyroidism. He didn’t seem a bit interested in how I helped her.

He gave me 3 months to prepare for losing the income that serving their clients provided my family. Then I was on my own. And anyone wanting the healing care of True Health would have to pay out of their pocket.

The healing care of True Health has watched a blind girl begin to see, and several terminal diseases and multiple incurable conditions resolve completely. Is healing Bad for Profit?!?

Could it be what Faith warned me about 40 years ago? A false God we call Profit?

Wood Creates Fire. The hardness of “Profit over People” is threatening existence. Wood is everything that sprouts, and the structure provided by Wood. When our structure is not based in values that support the greater good, we rationalize hurtful decisions and choices, such as corporate pollution. Our structure of values have already sprouted forth a most unfortunate circumstance we call “not enough Water for everyone.”

But just for some poor people in Michigan. The rest of us are fine.

What if we polluted enough water that there were 49 Michigan’s. And everyone feels the effects, so we run toward the leaders of our culture. What sort of Fire do you imagine that would create?

I hope we never see the day. I’m doing everything in my power to increase the Love of Mother. Earth, Nature, and our Feminine Wisdom.

48 Million people go hungry in our country. 16 Million of them are children. Donal Trump is worth 3.1 Billion. Hillary Clinton is worth 45 Million. Funny that they couldn’t find a way to protect our children AND accumulate wealth.

And I’m criticized for not voting!

I let go of profit in my Clinic to give openly to those in need. I called it Care Without Expectation. My net worth is negative 0.5 Million. Mostly in debt to our leadership as a student loan.

I an deeply sorry. I love you. Please forgive them for they have convincingly rationalized their actions in the name of Profit. Thank you for mercifully serving God and the Greater Good.

Metal Controls Wood

April 26, 2018/4 Comments/in Five Elements /by Dr. Todd Stone

Metal represents the minerals, stone, and precious metals formed by the Earth.

The Five Elements healing philosophy is a symbolic representation of the movement of energy in nature and in our bodies, used in acupressure and acupuncture healing practices.

The Metal organs are the Lung and Large Intestine. They sift through what we take in, let go of whatever we don’t need, and provide the needed inspiration (oxygen) to move forward.

Wood represents growth, sprouting, and structure. The organs of sprouting growth are the Liver and Gall Bladder. They function to digest fats, which are used to build and rebuild cell walls.

They also burn fat for energy when food is scarce.

If you store fat and have low energy, you need to care for your Wood energy.

Sometimes care means nurturing and building up. Other times Wood needs the control or shaping of Metal energy.

Think of an overgrown backyard without the tending of the sharpness of Metal. That is your body storing fat and not using it for energy. Think of all the things you can do with a nicely groomed backyard. Backyard grilling, parties, and badminton if you like. Fun!

I have seen many patients who don’t like the shape of their bodies.

Squishy women are like sensitive men, they don’t quite fit in this culture. Both versions break the rules of what our culture views as beautiful. After five babies, my wife was somewhat squishier than when we met. I loved it, and she hated it.

One time, I heard one of my wife’s friends, who is not the “right” body shape, make a critical comment about herself. I said, “What, OMG, I love my wife’s squish. I love how it feels in my arms and hands.” I would actually ask my wife to “lay on top of me.” Not kidding, I loved how she felt.

She’s worked hard to trim away the softness she didn’t care for, but I still love her. And for the first time that I can remember, I have come to love my softness.

My body is actually on the hard side, so that’s not what I’m talking about. Scleroderma taught me to accept my softness, which I think meant being a sensitive man.

If you would like to have a hard-body, it turns out I am pretty good at helping your body burn fat.

Now. I was horrible at it, before. I swear, every patient that asked me to help them get rid of their softness turned out to be a complete failure.

In the last year, I’ve helped several women achieve weight loss after a life time of failure. What changed? “Dr. Stone changed.“

Warning: Uncomfortable Honesty Ahead…

I wanted my patients to accept their softness, but I couldn’t accept mine. I hated being a sensitive man. Most of my teens and 20’s looked like a boy seeking the relief of death. The closest call was when somebody gave me a prescription pain pill at a party. At that time, I would take nearly anything that promised an escape from reality. I escaped, losing a day of my life, waking up 24 hours later.

Maybe I did die, but God said it’s not time, and gave me a second chance?

God has intervened several times to help me choose direction. Since God gifted me my first daughter Savannah, life has felt better than how I imagined death would feel. I imagined it would at least bring me from bad to nothing.

Or even better… Faith, my Sunday school teacher, told me stories of Heaven. IDK

God led me to Mother Nature with my desire to heal. He gifted me the wisdom of a healing trend through the pain of a fungal sinus infection and adrenal exhaustion. It taught me that relieving pain is escaping. Addiction. Healing pain is Love. My pain was healed by Mother Nature.

God showed me how much pain I could take and how much faith I can have in Mother Nature, with Appendicitis.

He carved 15 pounds off my already lean frame with, and sent the first visions of what I call Care Without Expectation, in the intense pain of Appendicitis.

God showed me what I needed to heal more people than I had ever imagined, with Scleroderma. Scleroderma is an autoimmune disease that attacks collagen, the softness of your body.

The Gift from God, was “Accept your softness.”

It’s considered dorky or nerdy in our culture, but I accept that too. Lol.

When I hated my softness, I wanted to help “poorly shaped women” accept their softness, but I didn’t know how. Until God gave me a nudge.

Scleroderma is fatal 40% of the time, according to medical statistics.

**The disease crawls up your arm and reaches into your chest to harden your heart. Fatal.**

God offered me a choice.

Accept your softness and heal, or accept your death and come home.

Or however the afterlife works.

I accepted staying in Wonderland, mainly because I helped create 5 of it’s people. And from a sensitive perspective, our culture doesn’t make any sense. It feels so hard.

**When I accepted my softness, I was able to feel what softness wants, including squishy women.**

I could feel their desire more loudly than what I wanted, which was for our culture to accept softness.

No more wanting or wishing, I’m going first in accepting and loving softness in our culture.

If you want a thinner or harder body, let me help. I can help you maneuver accepting where you are, and I can shift your energy forward, toward Metal energy and carving a hard body.

Softly, instead of the “battling” the bulge. We’ll love our softness together and move toward your inspiration gently.

“Try our clinic…no charge, and only give back if you’re satisfied.” Lol. Sounds like a girl.

Dr. Todd Stone

Fire Controls Metal

April 25, 2018/2 Comments/in Five Elements /by Dr. Todd Stone

Fire is Your Heart’s Desire.

Water Controls Fire, and Water is created by Metal. Metal is the hardness of stone. Water tables are created by stone deep in Mother Earth, and the minerals of the soil above filter and nourish the water. That’s how Nature creates water for us.

We can dig a well, and Water, one of our survival needs, becomes as easy as turning on the faucet.

In my personal experience, Mother Nature is broken. My family bought a brand new home in the country with a well. The water from the faucet didn’t look right. I sent it off to one of the labs we use, and they detected dangerous levels of lead. My family would be brain damaged if we trusted county inspectors and drank the cloudy orange water that came out of our faucet.

Mother Nature protects the innocent.

Momma put “iron bacteria” in the soil to turn the water orange and slimy and keep my family from drinking lead poisoned water. I love Her.

Why was there lead in our groundwater?

In 1921, scientists at General Motors added lead to gasoline. This allowed GM to produce much cheaper grades of fuel and still maintain the needed octane ratings that a car’s engine required.

They did it for profit!

Around the same time, lead became an additive in paint to brighten colors and make homes easier to sell.

They did it for appearances!?

In the 2nd century BC the Greek botanist Nicander described the colic (pain) and paralysis seen in lead-poisoned people. And, it is hypothesized that lead poisoning may have contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire.

Lead has been a known poison for over 2000 years, and GM put it in gasoline, to save money. To increase profit.

And that’s why there is toxic levels of lead in my country well.

For my families Water problem, I installed a whole house filtration system to protect my loves. The company that sold it to us said, “If you can work a screwdriver, you can install this yourself.” Lol, he assumed that the manly voice on the phone meant I was a man.

I’m not not a man. I just seem to fall on the softer side, the caretaker.

I’m definitely not a “handy-man.” I did my best to recreate the soil that once filtered water. I filled two 5′ barrels with layers of soil based minerals. I connected them with pipes, and even connected an electrical circuit. The first time I turned the power back on, my handy work arced sparks to the ceiling. The second try was a success.

I spent $2,500 and vastly stretched my manly skills, to create ten feet of clean earth, to protect my family. Ten feet of clean mineral rich soil purified our water enough to bathe in it safely. We installed a reverse osmosis purification system on the kitchen sink to achieve safe to drink.

Earth creates Metal. Metal represents the richness of life and letting go of what doesn’t serve the Greater Good.

Fire Controls Metal. The archetypes of the Fire element are the caretaker and warrior. The caretakers tend to the warriors and the future caretakers and warriors. The warriors hunt, gather, repair, and protect, if necessary. They will bleed to protect their people. Even die.

The Caretakers and Warriors control Metal, by reminding the hardness What Matters Most. Metal archetypes are the Creator and the Sage. The creator is masculine, and creates everything you see. The sage is feminine, and Her wisdom was a gift to us to guide creation toward What Matters Most.

Metal is controlled or guided, by the heart. Heart is the softness in everyone. The Yin energy. Yin is what Traditional Chinese medicine calls the feminine, and Yang is the masculine. I call it softness and hardness.

3000 years ago, in the east, the healers described the perfect balance of softness and hardness.

My education taught me that the people who hurt the innocent are hard, and that people who are willing to trample the innocent for what they want are dicks.

This Ancient Sage advice suggests that we, our culture, needs a rather large shift toward the softness of the feminine to restore balance and protect our people.

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