Things We Are

It would be best if I could think of something that consisted of five things all mixed and blended together, maybe like some sort of fruit salad or like a concrete or like a recipe of five colors of clay thoroughly mixed together.

In this Five Element Acupuncture perspective, we are just that, a well-blended mixture of the ten thousand things, or at least the five things we can conceptualize. When we are very well in balance, these five energies come together seamlessly and it’s difficult to separate out which one predominates. When one thing dominates our mind, when we’re really angry or grieving or fearful, then we are in the throes of that energy.

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And if the earthly no longer knows your name, whisper to the silent earth: I’m flowing. to the flashing water, say: I am.- Rainer Maria Rilke