Five Elements & Emotions
I Love Emotions
I have worked with people and their emotional health ever since I was a massage therapist and reflexologist over 25 years ago. I knew very little about the connection of emotional and physical health at the time but I was able to feel, see and help release blocked emotional energy, leaving clients relieved, at ease and usually in a puddle of tears.
It all became really clear once I studied acupuncture and the five elements, a 2500 year old philosophy captured in Chinese Medicine gave me the language to what I had observed and worked with for over ten years.
It still continues to be a huge part of my work today as a face reader and five element acupuncturist, I find it consistently fascinating and incredible effective way of healing too. If you are interested in how emotions flow, the five elements and how emotional blockages are observed in a face reading, then this is the blog for you. Enjoy!
The Energetic Structure Of Emotions
Emotions are energy in motion, feelings flow and with any luck they arrive and leave smoothly. As a five element acupuncturist I observe a persons energy by noticing the colour of their skin, the sound of their voice, their delicate odour and their emotional flow. The corrospondance of a particular colour, sound, odour and emotion resonates to a pairing of yin and yang organs and one of the five elements.
I’m able to discern colour and sound quite easily, my sense of smell is not as strong but my emotional empathic radar is. To understand how the elements and the emotions flow, I often describe the flow of Yin and Yang in nature and how this resonates to the energetic quality of each season.
Elements, Seasons & Emotions
Water - Winter - Fear | Wood - Spring - Anger | Fire - Summer - Joy | Earth - Late Summer - Worry | Metal - Autumn - Grief
Winter is yin in nature, 21st December is ultimate yin. Its quality is quiet, cold, dark and still and the landscape is bare and barren. It’s a season that awakens our determination for survival, as winter is seen as a death due to very little living plant life. Winter evokes rest for restorative cleansing and manifestation for renewal. Fear and the ability to take risks appropriately dominates this season and the water element.
Spring starts the ascension of yang energy. It’s a season all about dynamic growth and change. Green shoots and tendrils push through solid boundaries to birth new life, which can be seen and heard with vibrancy. This is an activating energy asking for action. Anger and the ability to grow and assert appropriately dominate this season and the wood element.
Summer is yang in nature, 21st June is ultimate yang. It’s hot, bright, colourful and all plant life is blooming in full display. This is a season that we feel the ease and joy of life naturally, it’s about love and opening to show more of our vulnerable selves. Joy and the ability to give and receive love appropriately dominate this season and the fire element.
Late Summer is a balance of yin and yang energies and is felt in July and August. There is a humidity and heat to this season but the days start to shorten, plant life is ripe and abundant with gifts from the earth, food for all to nurture and nourish. We start to turn our energy inwards to prepare for the colder months. Worry and the ability to nourish ourself and others appropriately dominate this season and the earth element
Autumn starts the descent of yin energy. The cooler, sharper days leaves less light for plant life to continue, we see magnificent transformation of colour with dying plant life and the wonder of them letting go. As we observe more space, we accept what is. This is a time to go inwards and reflect and release that which no longer serves. Grief and the ability to let go and take in what’s precious appropriately dominate this season and the metal element.
The Structure of Emotional Flow
A well respected five element acupuncturist Nora Frangalan taught me to think of the emotional energy of each element in a vertical line as opposed to the circular diagram from above.
A bubbly client will have energy rising upwards with the higher tones of love and joy and an out look that is all about relationships, are they liked or loved. A client whose energy feels hidden and still may sit in the lower tones of a sense of determination and survival and feelings of fear.
Emotionally we have the energy to bloom with love, push to create change with anger, care for ourselves and others with worry, let go in grief and survive in the face of fear.
The emotions labelled in the five elements are just headlines for many, many variations. Perhaps we don’t necessarily think we are angry but perhaps we suffer with constant frustration, irritation or resentment that impacts us and others or perhaps we constantly feel a sense of nostalgia, a sadness of time passing or a lack of connection to ourself and others but not necessarily think you are grieving.
It’s these consistent themes that are important to notice. It shows the lack of emotional flow and where you are blocked. For all of us there is usually one or two emotions that over our life time will continue to trip us up. They upset our emotional wellbeing, leaving us with the same recurrent themes that lead to limiting beliefs and eventually affect our physical health.
Your Face Shows Blocked Emotions
These same emotions will tend to show on the face as lines, wrinkles and indentations. As a face reader, I observe, share and ask questions in regard to these latent, stuck or repressed emotions.
These emotions are unable to flow smoothly and leads to overusing the same facial
muscles time and again, each time creasing the skin and eventually creating these markings. This is the powerful effect of face reading, having never met you I am immediately able to observe those emotional blockages that have kept your stuck from flowing with your true nature. I am able to highlight these blockages to you, ask pertinent questions regarding your emotional tone, giving you space to let go of the emotional charge and release the story and pattern from your life. These sessions can go deep very quickly as I actively listen and sensitively ask questions about old behavioural and emotional patterns.
Emotional blockages can release instantly with a face reading, I see and show you the shift that takes place with the softening of lines and wrinkles as your youthful glow returns. Sometimes its after your reading as practices and tools given are implemented that help with this incredible release, leaving you feeling more like you and younger because of it.
Emotions that are blocked have a lot to answer for, if you or anyone else you know of are struggling emotionally and would like clarity and relief from their discomfort, then get in touch.