Musing Thoughts
Continued from Healthy from the Inside Out Blog Post
30-Day Renewing and Cleanse Plan
Phase 1: Activate (10days)
- DigestZen TerraZyme — Take one right when you wake up,...
How It Can Assist YOU with Exercise Plans and even Weight-Loss
During Chinese medicine’s energetic Spring (February 5 to April 17), we focus on the Wood element and the...
Though the weather may still feel like Winter because of the remnants of the Water energy of Winter according to traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), the new energy of Wood since February 5, is...
Spring energy is a time for the element of Wood when the energy of arterial circulation, blood flow and the movement of vital energy are all at their peak. Wood is the structure and what...
“Qi energy moves like a dancer and cannot abide a cluttered stage.” –Chinese sage
In a previous blog post, it reminded us that we’ve entered the season of energetic...
The heart is the quintessential symbol of Valentine’s Day and green is the color associated with the energetic season of Spring (Wood energy) according to traditional Chinese...
When to Switch from Water to Earth?
Clarifying the Effect of the Energetic Seasons on Your Skincare Regime:
January 17 was the end of the energetic season of the Water element associated with the...
In the Chinese Five Element Theory, springtime is considered the best time to do a liver/gallbladder cleanse, as it is in the spring that the energies to the liver and gallbladder are highlighted....
The Earth element in Chinese medicine corresponds to what we might think of as the ending of each season and is related to the concept of transformation. Although the Earth element is often...
Chinese medicine’s health “encyclopedia,” the Neijing Suwen, translated as ”The Medical Classic of the Yellow Emperor,” says that the corresponding relationship among...
Energetic Winter
The Kidneys are the Root of Life, Regeneration and Vitality
During the winter months all things in nature wither, hide, return home, and enter a resting period, just as lakes and...
Along the trail’s edge
beside a sparkling river
in the willow shade,
I lingered to take a nap—
lingered, and I’m still here.
—A Japanese Zen Poem, translated by Sam Hamill
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