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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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