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APRIL, 2005

“Shift your goal from worldly achievement to inner peace and you will wake up one morning to find that you have both.” - Alan Cohen

HOLISTIC HEALING THROUGH FENG SHUI

According to Feng Shui, our whole existence is determined by the five Elements present in our environment as well as our bodies. The five Elements are Earth, Water, Fire, Wood, and Metal and all have to be balanced equally in order for us to experience good health. The Earth element is present in the mind and acts as a grounding point for all experience. Our adaptability is in the Water Element and our perception and its capacities are in the Fire Element. Our continuous reproduction is Air and our unlimited strength is Metal. From the mind, the physical body develops and becomes filled with these elemental characteristics; thus forming the world’s oldest medical traditions. Today, we have a popular resurgence in Oriental medicine, thanks to interest in Holistic medicine. The Oriental origins date back to the seventh and eighth centuries. When all five elements are balanced, within the body, the body is healthy and happy. In the same way as an excess of Metal energy in your environment will depress you, an excess of Fire energy in your body causes illness.

The Oriental medical system indicates that one of the five elements represents each organ of the body. Our eye site is formed from Fire; breathe from Wood and blood from Water, etc. so that the complete human body becomes elemental philharmonic with each Element interacting with other Elements to create harmony that is living and breathing in conscious life.

Feng Shui perceived the body as a psychophysical system, consisting of a dynamic network of channels. The central channel or channel of life begin as the sexual organs, and rises up to a point between the eyebrows, running to key points; the sex organs; the naval, the heart, the throat and the head. These points are what we call the charkas In Oriental medicine there is no such thing as an isolated illness. The mingling of both physical and psychological factors causes disturbance of the body’s inner elemental harmony. What affects the mind, affects the body and visa-versa.

Disturbance of Wood Elements incites mental disorder, nervousness and depression, an imbalance of Fire Element affects the skin, liver and headaches. Earth and Water Elements incite diseases such as colds, flues and classic diseases. Oriental doctors are trained in all the arts of healing, from pulse diagnosis and prescriptions of herbs to acupuncture and moxibustion, (a process where herbs are burned directly above the skin. Oriental doctors are also trained to recognize the emotional and psychological disorders that often manifest in physical illnesses. A properly trained physician is able to diagnose 90 % of illness through the reading of the pulse. In administering a cure, a re-balancing of the five elements is essential. Acupuncture along the meridian points unblocks the clogged energies and recommends herbs and sometimes-constructive changes to lifestyles.
If you have any health problems and are interested in being well be sure to consult with a good acupuncturist and I am sure they will be able to help you. You need to find one who is understands Feng Shui with the five elements in the body.

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