In Taoism Five Elements, the Wood Element connects us with soulful beauty and true freedom. Searching for soulful beauty in a challenging time is not indulgence nor denial of darkness or pain – but a way to ground and encourage ourselves so that negativity no longer controls us.
Whether we like it or not, negative bias is an inbuilt survival mechanism. It runs deep in our human DNA that negative experience is processed more thoroughly than the good, which is a helpful trait for evolution.
However, the downside is that, if not aware, we are prone to let stress build and reinforce the feedback loop.
A few years ago I read about some research which suggested that if we engage with one upsetting interaction, be it difficult news, rudeness or conflict, we’ll need 17 positive encounters to balance that negative impact in our psyche.
1:17. Quite a ratio.
Since the beginning of last year, if you feel like you are unconsciously seeking something to regain your centre but you can’t pin it down, looking for (even more) soulful beauty might be it.
Beauty can have depth too, especially when made by Nature. Understated and pure, a simple remedy for our Soul.
Searching for soulful beauty in a challenging time is not indulgence nor denial of darkness or pain – but a way to ground and encourage ourselves so that negativity no longer controls us.
And an Elemental Therapy can provide us with such fresh dimension and perspective.
The spiritual power of the elements is always here, inside you, no matter what. The elements need love, freedom, acceptance, courage and soulful beauty in the same way that our physical body requires food and nourishment.
In Taoism/Daoism 5 Element, the Wood Element connects us with soulful beauty and true freedom. The Wood Element gives us direction, plan, and structure with fluidity. It governs your nervous system. It filters toxins out of our digestive system.
If you haven’t yet, check out the Spring Edition of Guided Elemental Therapy: Finding Your Inner Freedom!
In this video, we are nurturing and cultivating our Wood Element inside.
The Wood Element in you has a unique relationship with both Yin and Yang.
A healthy Wood is instrumental in resolving tension, speaking your truth, finding your place in the world, balancing strength and delicacy, and regulating the dynamic between building momentum during the day and resting well at night.
When the Wood is working effectively in your body:
:: you excel at clear seeing and planning, bringing your goals into reality;
:: you are both assertive and flexible during confrontation and disagreement;
:: you are able to make wise decisions and express emotions including anger in a healthy way;
:: it’s natural for you to balance strength and delicacy;
:: it’s easy to spot, appreciate and fully immerse into beautiful moments in life.
If you ever suffer from indecision, frustration, unprocessed anger…nurturing your Wood, which is your inner Spring, can be very beneficial.
The spiritual counterpart of the Wood Element is called Hun.
Hun governs our vision and imagination, opens our “clear-seeing” channel, gives us our capacity to plan, discern and manifest our dreams into reality.
Despite our external circumstances influencing how we feel, Hun encourages us to see that hope and vitality is a state of being, something we can cultivate.
Conscious movement, active imagination, engaging with colours and getting positively lost in the rich world of exploration…it is all deeply healing for the Hun realm.
I hope that you’ll enjoy this video.
Let the ancient wisdom speak through your cells and veins. Via Elemental Therapy, we can clear away our muddled thinking and bask in soulful beauty that can still be found in the world as well as within.
They say that Spring moves at 2mph, so let’s move along and dance the changing rhythm of Nature. From here, life regains its zest and colour.
I’ve spent a lot time and energy to produce this video, and I do hope today’s post will contribute to an uplifting and delightful energy for you!
If, in any way, you have been suffering from trauma, feeling emotionally exhausted, I see you. Keep walking if you can, literally and figuratively.
Even if you are in a different season externally, connecting with the Wood Element – your inner Spring – is helpful to find our true potential and heal our emotional, mental and spiritual subtle bodies since we’ve been restricted in the past year.
Beyond all hardship, there is still breezy, expansive, sunlit heights for us to explore, which will carry us through and through.
With Love,
Yiye Zhang 章一叶
