Your Guardian Element

In Traditional Five Element Acupuncture diagnostics, we all have an element that is our Guardian element, how we relate to the world. We all have the Five Elements functioning in our system; however, one is most prominent. This element affects the balance of the Five Elements and your health and well-being. Understanding your element helps you understand yourself and how you react to the world around you. Helping you cope with your strengths and challenges. For more about the Five Elements in you, see – https://www.southwellacupuncture.co.uk/acupuncture-five-elements/. –

The Earth Element

Let’s talk about the Earth Element as it is the season of Late Summer, which relates to the Earth Element.

Earth represents the centre of gravity, a point of reference to which all other aspects of character and structure align to.

The Earth Element in Balance

Within a person with this element in balance can be a compassionate person; they may be the peacemaker. Embodying friendship, nourishment, caring and recognition. Negotiating peace for its own sake, a balancer and stabiliser and preserver of families and society.

The Earth Element Strengths and Challenges

When your Earth element is strong, you nourish yourself and find balance in your world and those around you. The Earth element helps you find your centre and your home.

Understanding the Earth Type

• Need to be involved and wanted
• Likes to in charge but not in the spotlight
• Agreeable and accommodating
• Wanting to be all things for all people
• Seeks harmony and togetherness
• Needs loyalty, security and predictability
• Mother figure

Difficulties with Earth Element Types

• Worry, Obsession and Self-Doubt
• Take on too much, overwhelm or do nothing
• Lethargy
• Indigestion and changeable, uncontrolled appetite
• Water retention
• Muscle tenderness
• Unrealistic expectations and disappointment when expectations fail
• Rejecting self and others
• Needy

Balancing your Earth Element

The Power of Earth element types comes from the capacity to link, nurture, and sustain.

Earth types need to balance their devotion to relationships with solitude, self-expression, developing self-reliance and building community.

The need to be alone to rebuild and to be with people to nourished.

Treatment with traditional Five Element Acupuncture can help you find your way forward to finding the balance in your life.

The Stomach and Spleen

The Stomach and Spleen are the organs of Earth

The organs function on a physical and emotional level. To digest and assimilate foods and thoughts.

The Spleen receives and shares solid and liquid into perceptions and ideas.

The Stomach incorporates food and experience into the substance of who we are.

Caring for your Earth Element

• Be kind to yourself, find a space in each day that you give yourself some peace, this could be some time in your garden or nature
• Meditation is different with each person, and life situations 5 minutes focusing on your breath, a class with sound and calm, Yoga Nidra and deep restful meditation, a walking meditation, yoga movement with breath, yin yoga, still deep poses, Qi-gong movement and stillness.
• Eat a balanced diet, not overindulging in sugars and heavy foods such as meats and dairy, which puts strain on the digestion. Feast and Famine eat regular meals, but rest your digestion between. Much is said nowadays about fasting – your natural long fast is the night – do not eat late into the evening, let your digestion rest overnight
• Move finding flow. This may be yoga, but can be walking in the hills or swimming, not pushing to extremes, else you may become depleted, slowly get stronger, finding your limits and balance.
• Having Traditional Five Element Acupuncture Treatment to look after your Earth Element

Acupuncture Treatment

For more information or to book a treatment, contact Hannah Charles at https://www.southwellacupuncture.co.uk/contact/

Hannah Charles is a founder member of the British Acupuncture Council (BAcC)

The BAcC is an advocate for traditional acupuncture professionals and maintains the highest professional standards to protect the general public. BAcC members belong to an accredited register, regulated and approved by the Professional Standards Authority for Health & Social Care (PSA). For More information, see the website https://acupuncture.org.uk/

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