“In the spring, however,
the grief, or fear, or joy
is overtaken and colored
by the sheer force
of optimism and vitality
which the season inspires.”
~Dr. J.R. Worsley
How is your Wood element doing today? Are you feeling your aliveness? Is your liver and gallbladder planning and making decisions to move forward in your life? How are your trunks, roots, twigs and branches? Are you grounded in the earth and moving upward and out? Are you flexible enough to withstand any wind or even a storm? Are you having writer’s block or a creative block as an artist or musician? Feeling frustration?
The energetic movement of wood gives structure, purpose, and justice if you will. There is an organizational itch to move toward efficiency, light, and growth in the name of benevolence.
What better times are these, to bring forth our humanity, charity, creativity, and love in a rebirth toward hope and a vision for a future with togetherness.
The spirit of Wood is the hun in Chinese medicine, the ethereal soul or spiritual aspect of a person.
“The hun are more like a shadow depending on an object moving under light. They are some sort of escort. The shen (spirit of the heart) go up, they want to go back to heaven, then in myself, a part of my animation which is called the hun is on the verge of leaving my body. My family will try to call back my hun so that I will not be a dead person. For myself, if I want to save my life then I am recalling myself my hun. And if you are lacking energy because you are too weak, or you have been ill for too long then you have no more strength, no voice strong enough to call back your hun. Then you die.”
-Father Claude Larre and Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallee
It has been written that the hun reside in our mental processes, our visions, dreams, and imaginations. It enters the body at birth and leaves after death back to the heavenly realms. Unlike the shen, which is an infinite, absolute light, the hun is heavily influenced by our earthly consciousness. It guides us toward clarity of direction, pauses, and turns. It can facilitate a capacity for justice. It has an ability to foster emotional equilibrium in an ever-changing world, the one constant in life.
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Miha Kim, PT, Acupuncture Physician, LLC 