Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Summer, according to Chinese Medicine, is about the heart and small intestine and the element of Fire. In the 24-hour clock, the small intestine meridian becomes active after the heart meridian. When I learned this, a light turned on for me. When we know our heart’s desires, burning bright the fire that transforms the water of fear, we can make better decisions, the role of the small intestine organ energy.
First, know what is our truth, your passion … and love. Then make our choices based on that, on connection, community, care, compassion, collaboration, communion.
When we are trying to be something or someone we are not, fulfilling other people’s expectations, reacting to ancestral wounds, and living by other people’s rules, our heart and the heart energy can become injured. (Jin Shin Jyutsu Self-Help tip : hold your pinky finger whenever you feel like this or for several minutes every day.)
The Heart, in Chinese Medicine, is believed to be where the spirit resides. A peaceful and calm heart allows us to connect with the greater Spirit, for it to manifest in the right time and place. As love and joy. in our relationships.
It is easy to step out of our own natural time, when we live in a world regulated by linear and artificial time.
Yet we know and we feel that it is only a construct. We’ve all experienced an expansion of time, when we are in flow. When we are so attuned to the present moment, and absorbed in our craft, the conversation, our presence, being with someone else…
Heart Health
Hawthorn
Healing the Heart
Hawthorn is for the heart. It’s for the physical, emotional, and spiritual heart. Find out how Hawthorn helps and has been used in the East and the West.
Hugs
Here’s Why They Are Good For You
Heart Health
This is What People Aren’t Telling You about Heart Health
HeartWave
Quantum Energy Technology for Cultivating the Multi-Dimensional Heart
Heart Health | Heart Intelligence | Heart Coherence | Heart-Centered Awareness
There is compelling evidence to suggest the physical heart is coupled to a field of information not bound by the classical limits of time and space. This evidence comes from a rigorous experimental study that demonstrated the heart receives and processes information about a future event before the event actually happens.
HeartMath Institute
FIRE ELEMENT
Get Happy
Play with Fire
Agnihotra
Fire as the Answer for Your & the Environment’s Health
Open to Love
From Wrath to Fortitude
Invoking Grace
Understanding the Heart Chakra
The heart chakra is the bridge of the seven major chakras of the body. In Sanskrit, this heart chakra is anahata, meaning “unhurt and unstruck”. With a balanced heart chakra, we experience calm and serenity.
When Being Calm is Uncomfortable
Skeptical of Positive Intention?
LOVE
How to Be a Love Activist
Wisdom from Caroline Myss
Conscious Coupling
Byron Katie on Love & Our Thoughts About Love
Care for the Carer
Decoding Our Emotions
One Kind of Intelligence
Tips on Being Abundant
Self Care
Is Bubble Baths…and It’s Not
Why Gratitude?
GETTING OUTSIDE
Forest Bathing
The Benefits of Being Outside
Nature
How Much Do We Need?
Movement
Why it makes us a better person
Barefoot Therapy
How Earthing is the Free & Easy Way to Detox
How to Walk Barefoot the Right Way
Tips from Biomechanics Expert Katy Bowman
Walking barefoot has all kinds of benefits. Here are some tips from Biomechanics Expert Katy Bowman on how to prep for it in a healthy way.
Spatial Orientation for Vitality
