“Everything that appears in the physical realm is always connected with energy flow at the invisible level.” – Grand Master Lu
On a physical level, your body expresses the energetic imbalances that are happening deep within. Through studying the Five Element Framework, we begin to understand that symptoms are simply the body’s way of talking. For example, the emotion of fear as well as issues with the bones or teeth directly relate to the Kidney. Likewise, worry and overthinking are related to the Spleen and Stomach, as are food allergies, muscular problems and migraines in the center of the forehead. The Five Element theory becomes the key to decoding the body’s messages. That’s when each individual begins the difficult work of delving inward to understand the body from a different perspective—one based on an intuitive knowing, not on fear, worry or concern.
Health starts in energetic body before it manifest in the physical body.
Each of the Five Elements represents an aspect of a dynamic process, or a phase of change. These are not actual physical descriptions, but metaphors of patterns that occur in Nature. The Five Elements and their qualities are represented by:
These cycles form a feedback system, a system of checks and balances which keeps the universe, the body, and our systems in balance.
Just as a Parent element bears and nurtures the Child, the Child gains from the Parent. Sheng has several translations from Chinese, meaning to generate, create, promote, nurture, support, or enhance. Thus the Sheng cycle continually brings growth, nurturing, change and transformation to our lives. For example:
The Control Cycle (Ko or Ke)
The Grandparent comes before the Parent (two back from Child). In Chinese culture, the Grandparent often raises and disciplines a Child, controlling it to help it come into balance. The control represents an opposing force that balances the generative creation power of the Parent. For example:
The Insulting Wu cycle is the opposite of the Controlling Ko cycle. It represents an imbalance in the system. In the Insulting Wu cycle, the Child element that would normally be controlled and balanced by the Grandparent in the Ko cycle, becomes excessively imbalanced, and controls its Grandparent. It resists the control and reverses it, somewhat like a manipulative Grandchild.
For example, instead of Metal (axe) controlling Wood (tree), if Wood becomes overly excessive, it can “insult” Metal, ganging up on the Metal and overwhelming it, causing Metal to become imbalanced. This is like a rebellious child insulting or trying to discipline its Grandparent. In the insulting cycle that element which is normally controlled, harms the controller. This reversal of the normal Ko cycle can happen when the Grandparent element is deficient. For example:
Everything in the universe is broken down into the five elements.
The five elements are processes.
Fire is the only element with four organs
Each of the other has two organs.
The five elements are processes.
Fire is the only element with four organs
Each of the other has two organs.
The Chinese five elements are said to arise out of the two energies
Yin and Yang. And the five element system can be considered refinement
or outgrowth of Yin Yang Theory. It is a system that has been used for
thousands of years to describe the interactions between Yin and Yang and
phenomena in Nature.
The Five Elements or Five Phases Describe Reality.
Each of the Five Elements represents an aspect of a dynamic process, or a phase of change. These are not actual physical descriptions, but metaphors of patterns that occur in Nature. The Five Elements and their qualities are represented by:
Twelve meridians or etheric wires are represented by the five elements and connected to major organs.
These organs are divided in two groups Yin and yang.
Yin organs are those we cannot live without. Hearth kidney, pericardium liver lungs and pancreas.
We can live without yang organs
Stomach small intestine, bladder ,gallbladder bladder, large intestine.
The constructive cycles the flow from fire to earth to metal to water to wood and back to fire in a continuous flow.
Fire create earth, earth contains metal, metal condenses water, water feeds wood, wood feeds fire. So the flow of energy goes.
The organs work in harmony and maintain their equilibrium and health.
If the flow is blocked the organs in front the block accumulate an over abundance of Qi and the one behind the block receive too little.
Each of the Five Elements represents an aspect of a dynamic process, or a phase of change. These are not actual physical descriptions, but metaphors of patterns that occur in Nature. The Five Elements and their qualities are represented by:
- Wood – Rising, nurturing, beginning, development, impulse, inspiration
- Fire – Expression, manifestation, definition, action, dynamic phase
- Earth – Balancing, supporting, centering, transmutation
- Metal – Reckoning, discerning, discipline, decisions
- Water – Contemplation, calmness, accepting, forgiving, observation
Twelve meridians or etheric wires are represented by the five elements and connected to major organs.
These organs are divided in two groups Yin and yang.
Yin organs are those we cannot live without. Hearth kidney, pericardium liver lungs and pancreas.
We can live without yang organs
Stomach small intestine, bladder ,gallbladder bladder, large intestine.
The constructive cycles the flow from fire to earth to metal to water to wood and back to fire in a continuous flow.
Fire create earth, earth contains metal, metal condenses water, water feeds wood, wood feeds fire. So the flow of energy goes.
The organs work in harmony and maintain their equilibrium and health.
If the flow is blocked the organs in front the block accumulate an over abundance of Qi and the one behind the block receive too little.
On a physical level, your body expresses the energetic imbalances that are happening deep within. Through studying the Five Element Framework, we begin to understand that symptoms are simply the body’s way of talking. For example, the emotion of fear as well as issues with the bones or teeth directly relate to the Kidney. Likewise, worry and overthinking are related to the Spleen and Stomach, as are food allergies, muscular problems and migraines in the center of the forehead. The Five Element theory becomes the key to decoding the body’s messages. That’s when each individual begins the difficult work of delving inward to understand the body from a different perspective—one based on an intuitive knowing, not on fear, worry or concern.
Health starts in energetic body before it manifest in the physical body.
The Control Cycle (Ko or Ke)
The Grandparent comes before the Parent (two back from Child). In Chinese culture, the Grandparent often raises and disciplines a Child, controlling it to help it come into balance. The control represents an opposing force that balances the generative creation power of the Parent. For example:
The Five Elements or Five Phases Describe Reality.The Grandparent comes before the Parent (two back from Child). In Chinese culture, the Grandparent often raises and disciplines a Child, controlling it to help it come into balance. The control represents an opposing force that balances the generative creation power of the Parent. For example:
Each of the Five Elements represents an aspect of a dynamic process, or a phase of change. These are not actual physical descriptions, but metaphors of patterns that occur in Nature. The Five Elements and their qualities are represented by:
- Wood – Rising, nurturing, beginning, development, impulse, inspiration
- Fire – Expression, manifestation, definition, action, dynamic phase
- Earth – Balancing, supporting, centering, transmutation
- Metal – Reckoning, discerning, discipline, decisions
- Water – Contemplation, calmness, accepting, forgiving, observation
These cycles form a feedback system, a system of checks and balances which keeps the universe, the body, and our systems in balance.
- Creation cycle (Sheng)
- Controlling cycle (Ko)
- Insulting cycle (Wu)
- Overacting cycle (Cheng)
Just as a Parent element bears and nurtures the Child, the Child gains from the Parent. Sheng has several translations from Chinese, meaning to generate, create, promote, nurture, support, or enhance. Thus the Sheng cycle continually brings growth, nurturing, change and transformation to our lives. For example:
- Wood burns and thus nourishes Fire.
- Fire produces ash, creating Earth.
- Earth contains minerals which condense into Metal
- Metal heated and cooled creates condensation of Water.
- Water nourishes the growth of trees, creating wood.
The Control Cycle (Ko or Ke)
The Grandparent comes before the Parent (two back from Child). In Chinese culture, the Grandparent often raises and disciplines a Child, controlling it to help it come into balance. The control represents an opposing force that balances the generative creation power of the Parent. For example:
- Wood breaks up the Earth, as in the roots of a tree.
- Earth controls Water, as a dam or river bank.
- Water can dampen Fire, controlling its spread.
- Fire can melt Metal
- Metal can chop down Wood
The Insulting Wu cycle is the opposite of the Controlling Ko cycle. It represents an imbalance in the system. In the Insulting Wu cycle, the Child element that would normally be controlled and balanced by the Grandparent in the Ko cycle, becomes excessively imbalanced, and controls its Grandparent. It resists the control and reverses it, somewhat like a manipulative Grandchild.
For example, instead of Metal (axe) controlling Wood (tree), if Wood becomes overly excessive, it can “insult” Metal, ganging up on the Metal and overwhelming it, causing Metal to become imbalanced. This is like a rebellious child insulting or trying to discipline its Grandparent. In the insulting cycle that element which is normally controlled, harms the controller. This reversal of the normal Ko cycle can happen when the Grandparent element is deficient. For example:
- Wood can overwhelm and cover Metal. Too much Wood insults Metal.
- Metal can smother Fire. Too much Metal insults Fire
- Fire can injure or evaporates Water. Too much Fire insults Water
- Water can wash away Earth. Too much Water insults Earth
- Earth can bury Wood. Too much Earth insults Wood
The Overacting (Cheng) Cycle
Another type of imbalance can create a pattern called the Overacting (Cheng) Cycle. This can happen when the Grandparent element, instead of beneficially controlling the Child, exerts too much control and damages or smothers the Child. The Grandparent “Overacts” and hurts the Child. The control direction is exactly the same as the Ko cycle, however in the Cheng it is excessively intense, indicated by double arrows.
Another type of imbalance can create a pattern called the Overacting (Cheng) Cycle. This can happen when the Grandparent element, instead of beneficially controlling the Child, exerts too much control and damages or smothers the Child. The Grandparent “Overacts” and hurts the Child. The control direction is exactly the same as the Ko cycle, however in the Cheng it is excessively intense, indicated by double arrows.
- Wood over-exerts pressure on the Earth, totally depleting its nutrients.
- Earth over-controls Water, to smother it completely and the river disappears.
- Water extinguishes Fire altogether and there’s no more spark of enthusiasm.
- Fire over-melts Metal to the point that Metal vaporizes and disappears.
- Metal chops all the Wood, such as mankind’s machines destroy all the forests.
Bibliography
Heal Yourself with QiGong An ancient Solution to a modern problem By Silu George Picard
https://www.luminous-spaces.com/basics-of-the-five-elements/
https://fiveseasonsmedicine.com/introduction-to-the-chinese-five-element-system/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuxing_(Chinese_philosophy)
