Wood Element Video: Freedom, Movement & Soulful Beauty

Spring does not ask for permission – it simply rises.
Within you, the same rhythm stirs – quiet yet unstoppable.

This Wood Element exploration is a guided journey to reconnect with your inner confidence, freedom and soulful imagination this Spring. Hope and vitality is a state of being, 我们可以培养的东西.

Spring, 神奇而诱人, 最好地抓住了木质元素的精髓, it is about: awakening, 重生, renewal, movement, and freedom.

在这个视频, we will look into the Wood Element and its spiritual counterpart Hun: what they are and how they can help us reconnect with our inner hope and freedom in a simple yet profound way.

Join me for a Wood Element journey.

Spring, 最好地抓住了木质元素的精髓, 这是关于唤醒, 重生, renewal, movement, and freedom.

In Daoism (道教), each of us has five elemental guardian spirits residing in our body. Of all the five guardian spirits, the one which represents your inner-spring, 木元素, 被称为匈奴.

Like the rainbow connecting heaven and earth, our Hun acts as a bridge between our waking and transcendental states, it reflects the illumination of our divine light.

居住在我们的肠道和肝脏, the Hun is like the compass of our Soul, bringing our divine light into practical daily living.

It gifts us with our 直觉, 看得清清楚楚, and the capacity to navigate the swirls and demands in life, discern our path, 在我们的方向上保持清晰, and take a stand for what we believe in.

When we are connected with our Hun, our lives are guided and cherished by an intimate relationship with the cosmos.

Our decisions are not imposed but arrive organically and flow spontaneously. This kind of decision-making is not derived through black and white type of pros vs cons but following the logic of divine plan and timing.

The Wood Element has Yin on the inside, 杨外. Because of this unique mix, the Wood Element is about being strong, tender and supple simultaneously. Like a young life, which may look fragile, but you cannot argue with the vital energy behind it.

This energy is in you as well, 强, tender and supple all simultaneously.

Understanding what the Wood Element in us is about, we can create our own elemental therapy, connect with true nature in us, and find hope. This is deeply healing, liberating and enlightening.

Spring, the peak season of the Wood Element is about movement and freedom, 自Covid成立以来受到了极大的限制.

Despite the circumstances, the Wood Element in us, our Hun, provides us with rich imagination. We can still see our true potential.

想像

Envision

Step into your Soul’s calling.

When we get back in touch with this innate ability, we are no longer controlled by anger, confusion or frustration. 代替, we can transform these heavy emotions into something uplifting and empowering.

Simply let the energy move without judgement.

希望, vitality is a state of being. Finding the small yet profound moments in our daily life will reawaken something inside, and give ourselves a better chance to grow and glow.

CONSCIOUS MOVEMENT MEDITATION

Get grounded, imagine your roots stretching down into Earth, connect with the air and new growth around you.

感觉到你的身体, ask your intrinsic self: What types of conscious movements do I need to strengthen my inner-freedom?

• Maybe today let your hair down a bit more
• Or practise accuracy and precision.
• Perhaps loosen up your hips after sitting in front of your desk all the time.
• Or today you simply want to breathe deeper, and let that depth carry you into everything you do…

Conscious movements do not follow a rigid or consuming plan which depletes our energy, rather it helps us find our true nature. It nudges us to listen to our body.

You don’t need to force yourself to move in a certain way, 代替, you simply flow. When our body gets into flow, other aspects in us also follow.

As you are freeing your body, dancing the changing rhythm of Nature. The consciousness in you will shift too.

Sometimes we are so committed to our mind’s drama, we are missing out what is beautiful going on in the world, as well as within.

Let movement clear away our muddled thinking, help us see the bigger picture.

As you are finding the voice of your somatic wisdom, reflect and ponder on the following questions:

How can I open up my vision, my dream and my imagination in a more illuminating way?

Which parts of me still feel emotionally deprived?

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When I embark on something new, 内部感觉柔软有弹性吗, if not, 我可以给自己的日程安排带来什么样的灵活性?

VISUAL & SOULFUL BEAUTY MEDITATION

Active imagination and visualisation is the anchor of healing your wounds in the Hun realm.

我们的匈奴需要爱的养分, 自由, 验收, courage and soulful beauty in the same way that our physical Gut and Liver require food and nourishment.

On the spiritual level, Hun is deeply nourished by the awe of Nature’s beauty:

:: 在森林里洗澡, cloud watching, feeding your Soul with scenery which becomes a part of you,
:: picking up a brush or pen to engage with colours and getting positively lost in the rich world of imagination through photography, 绘画, 图纸, or therapeutic colouring;
:: giving thanks for your senses of sight, 闻, hearing, 触摸, and taste which allow you to experience the natural world on multiple levels.
:: taking time to enjoy the expansive, breezy, and sunlit heights.

And above all, dare to see yourself through the lens of divine light, and appreciate your gifts and talents even if no one else has taken the time to recognise them yet. Grow yourself like everything else in Spring, wildly and boundlessly.

 

If you’d like to explore the Wood Element and its relationship with Liver and Gut in more depth, you can read my earlier essay: The Power of Spring: Wood Element, 肠道 & Liver

✴️ This video is part of the energy field of 创意炼金术 –
where elemental wisdom meets soulful artistry and daily living.
May your inner Spring continue to rise, gently and powerfully.

有爱,

Yiye Zhang 章壹叶