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Knowing your Element is the key to deep levels of self-understanding and self-acceptance. If you have seen some of my other videos, you will know that in Chinese Medicine we have the Five Elements – Fire, Earth, Metal, Water and Wood…

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As they are in nature, they are also reflected in our bodies – if they are in balance, we have health on every level,but if they are unbalanced or out of flow, we get illness, stress, blocks, stagnation, and dis-ease…

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But in traditional Five Element acupuncture we take that one step further by realising that everyone has a resonance to one particular Element out of the Five – the one that is like our default setting, the one that shows itself the most in everything we do – our emotions, behaviours and patterns in life…

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And in THIS video I want to explain why this ancient Chinese Medicine theory, and personality type framework, REALLY is the KEY part, the key Element (if you’ll pardon the pun!), to self acceptance and deep understanding of self… it is the reason my chapter in the book our co-authored book, “The Pay it Forward Series: Notes to my Younger Self – Volume 1”, has this title…

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In it I talk about my journey with the Five Elements up to now, and tell my 14 year old self how all the challenges and emotions and fears she faces have their basis in the Water Element – the themes she has in her life at 14, the questions that she has no answers to, the difficulties she has in accepting and LOVING her true self… Everything is, or was, and STILL is (for me), BASED in the Water Element, and the fact I am a Water Element personality type, it is my constitutional energy, it is the one Element I resonate most with out of the Five (with Fire being my close second!), and the one that shows itself the most in my life…

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Understanding YOURSELF on this deeper level allows us to let go of being super hard on ourselves, allows us to let go of the inner critic, allows us to SEE more clearly WHY certain themes keep repeating themselves in our lives… The Five Elements allows us to see that there is NOTHING wrong with us, we are not freaks or weirdos for feeling certain things, or struggling with certain things, or being DIFFERENT from other people – it is ALL just in our Element and that is ok…

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Your Element gives you PERMISSION to ACCEPT your true self, and BE your true self… Your Element is the KEY to self-acceptance – it is the key that will unlock it, or HELP to unlock a deeper compassion and understanding and gentleness for yourself, so that you can embrace ALL of you… deepening the connection you have with ALL parts of you, and absolutely UNLOCKING the power of EMBRACING your Element, embracing who you REALLY are – and doesn’t that sound like something we ALL could do with in our lives?

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If your answer is yes, and you don’t know what Element you are yet, download my FREE ebook, or check out the Five Element Life Collection for a larger selection of online wellness and coaching courses… The links are below + do get in touch if you have any questions, I look forward to hearing from you – bye for now…

R xxx

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Watch Video 1 – WHAT ARE THE CHINESE FIVE ELEMENTS + HOW ARE THEY DIFFERENT TO OTHER ELEMENT MODELS?

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Watch Video 2 – WHY SHOULD I CARE WHAT ELEMENT I AM? HOW WILL IT BENEFIT ME?

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Watch Video 3 – YOU DON’T NEED FIXING: HEALING BLOCKS, STORIES, WOUNDS + TRIGGERS

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Watch Video 4 – UNDERSTANDING THE ELEMENT BRAIN + HOW IT MIGHT BE RUNNING THE SHOW

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And if you don’t know what Element YOU are yet, make sure to download the FREE ebook here – http://goo.gl/VymvnU
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Join my transformational coaching course, “Embrace Your Element – 9 Weeks to Life Changing Self Acceptance” – http://goo.gl/zAsghB
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Seasonal Wellness Courses can be found here – http://goo.gl/HHbgbN
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Read about me as a Water Element type, in my co-authored book “Notes to my Younger Self” – http://goo.gl/yavVZM
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As I mentioned in a previous video, much of how we show up in the world – our dominant emotions, patterns of behaviour, reoccurring thoughts, the things that cause is pain, the things we need – they are ALL based in our particular Element… the one Element that is OUR type, out of the Chinese Five Elements… whether that is Fire, Earth, Metal, Water or Wood…

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Generally I always say, that as an acupuncturist, I view the world through “five-element-tinted-glasses”, and have done for well over a decade now – it has offered me a beautiful and insightful way of seeing people and nature and emotions and behaviours and ways of being, that is different to any other model, paradigm or system I have come across…

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But we can also take this “tinted glasses” concept one step further, by saying that actually EACH of the individual Elements view the world through their own tinted glasses, and through each lens, the world looks slightly different…

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So if we see the world though the lens of our particular Element, how we perceive things, and how we view our own stuff, is coloured by that, and it affects how we TRANSLATE or interpret things, creating what I like to call our Element Brain…

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Even more interestingly our Element Brain will collect “evidence” to support what it believes or perceives (through it’s tinted glasses) is true… so a Fire Element person might collect “evidence” through situations, encounters, past experiences, to “prove” the fact and confirm the perception they have about themselves that they are unlovable… which in actual case, this is not true!

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So wouldn’t it be helpful to FINALLY understand WHY you might experience the world in the way you do, WHY it might be or FEEL different to those other people around you in your life…?? Well the WHY comes from understanding yourself from the space of your Element… wouldn’t it feel nice to take away all the blame, the wrongness, the feeling like you SHOULD be different, the thought that you need to be fixed? And just so you know, you REALLY don’t need to be “fixed”, it’s just your Element brain and that is ok…

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But THIS is the kind of powerful and magical stuff that comes from delving into the Five Elements – we can see if your Element Brain has been running the show and taking over, giving you false or incorrect perceptions on things… and we can start to re-wire our Element brains, so that we can look at the GIFTS of OUR Element, and celebrate those gifts, embrace them – celebrate and embrace OURSELVES – enabling us to feel happier and more balanced in our lives!

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And if you don’t know what Element YOU are yet, make sure to download the FREE ebook here – http://goo.gl/VymvnU

Join my transformational coaching course, “Embrace Your Element – 9 Weeks to Life Changing Self Acceptance” – http://goo.gl/zAsghB

Seasonal Wellness Courses can be found here – http://goo.gl/HHbgbN

Read about me as a Water Element type, in my co-authored book “Notes to my Younger Self” – http://goo.gl/yavVZM

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See the other videos in this mini-series of Five Element Vlogs:

Video 1 – What are the Chinese Five Elements + How are they Different?

Video 2 – Why Should I Care What Element I am + How will it Benefit me?

Video 3 – You Don’t Need Fixing: Healing Pain, Stories, Wounds + Triggers

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So we know there are Five Elements in Chinese Medicine – Fire, Earth, Metal, Water and Wood – the ancient theory states that they are all within each of us, reflecting wider world in nature… but in Traditional Five Element acupuncture, we also recognise that we all have ONE particular Element (out of the five) that we are most aligned to, the one that influences us the most, the one that is like our default setting… It is like a “personality type” if you like – but as I have said before, and I will say it again, it really is SO much more than just that…

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BUT why should you care? Why should you want to know more about this ancient stuff? It is really relevant to us in our modern day lives? I know I’m pretty biased, but oh my goodness, we need this ancient wisdom in our modern lives now more than ever!

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It allows us to have a model through which we can really understand ourselves more deeply, accept ourselves truly as we are, be kinder to ourselves, have more compassion for ourselves, understand why we have (or have had) difficulties with certain themes or aspects of our lives, and so on…

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Looking at ourselves from the space of our Element, and the Five Element framework, really is a holistic process… it really allows us to see ourselves as WHOLE beings, where nothing is lacking, or wrong… nothing is broken or in need of “fixing”…

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So whilst this means that we don’t need to change who we are (we really don’t, we are our Element & that is ok), but it does provide us with a place to reflect, nurture, grow and perhaps even challenge ourselves for our highest good. Understanding yourself at this deeper level (of your Element) gives you choices…

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Understanding who you are, why you behave in certain ways / feel certain things / crave particular things to feed your soul, and nourish your heart, gives you permission to be your true self, honouring your truest self… It is a special space in which to understand and to HEAL ourselves…

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So, is your relationship with your Element / who you are, currently positive or negative? Are you getting what you and your Element NEED from life?

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If you and your Element need reassurance, but someone gives you sympathy, there is an energetic mismatch there, so you will continue to seek reassurance elsewhere, and not feel good… Understanding what exactly it is that we need in any given situation, allows us to get back into balance (and health) more quickly…

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Or if your true innate energetic make-up needs a lot of quiet alone time to rest and reflect, yet you’re living your life at 100 miles an hour, always surrounded by heaps of people – because that’s what your job requires of you, or that’s what society has deemed as the “acceptable norm” – it is very likely that, at some point, it will lead to physical illness, mental-emotional challenges, or a lack of alignment and not being on your path, not fulfilling your destiny on a spiritual-soul level…

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So you can see, knowing what Element you are, its energetic blueprint, what it needs, what it’s challenges, gifts and patterns are – it can affect our lives in BIG ways and on every level – our decisions and actions (+ whether they are aligned or in resistance to our own particular Element) move us more towards, or away from, better balance, and better health in our lives… And the Five Elements are ALL about being in balance… If we work with our Element energy, we can live happier, healthier lives that are in flow… and that is why you need to know about them!

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And if you don’t know what Element YOU are yet, make sure to download the FREE ebook here – http://goo.gl/VymvnU

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Join my transformational coaching course, “Embrace Your Element – 9 Weeks to Life Changing Self Acceptance” – http://goo.gl/zAsghB

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Seasonal Wellness Courses can be found here – http://goo.gl/HHbgbN

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Read about me as a Water Element type, in my co-authored book “Notes to my Younger Self” – http://goo.gl/yavVZM

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See Video 1 – What are the Chinese Five Elements + How are they Different? – http://goo.gl/J2Jrrb

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