Summer is the season of the year when the likelihood of health issues affecting the heart and liver increase. Heart because it is the organ most energized in summer, and liver because it’s tired out from having just finished its lead role throughout Spring, and is in need of replenishment.
Life style choices make a huge difference in your health, and need to be adjusted on a seasonal basis. For example, in summer, instead of going out for a run, or gardening in the midday sun, deciding to do it in the morning or evening can help keep your body cooler, less stressed, more comfortable and thereby healthier.
Also, if you aren’t normally prone to headaches, if your body gets too hot, more heat than your body is used to can get trapped and rise up to the head causing a headache.
Now is a good time to modify your diet to include more cooling foods to deal with summer heat.
Five Element Theory
Where Did Five Element Theory Come From?
Five Element Theory is old; it’s been around since ancient times. No one is completely sure from whom or where it exactly comes. The first documented evidence of it appears to be between 300 and 400 BC and it’s been used since then as a way of understanding and making sense of the world.
It’s a theory that says the entire universe is made up of Five Energies: Fire, Wood, Water, Earth and Metal.
Everything around us and in us is some combination of the Five Energies, and these just happen to be the names that the ancients called them.
The Five Element Theory chart focuses on how these energies manifest inside of us at the level of our organs. It also shows how they tend to interrelate.
From understanding these relationships you can learn a lot about your body and its health.
So this is a brief look at the Five Element Theory and the chart that goes with it. You’ve learned about some of its history and worked through its content, we’ll be referring back to it as we move through the rest of the course. Be sure the do the journal exercises to expand on what you’ve learned here.
A camellia falls
Spilling out
Yesterday’s rain
— Moritake
