Working with your heart energy can help in any area of struggle because your heart is the center of your energetic core. Your heart is the biggest electrical producer in your body. Every time you exercise you are pumping that electrical energy to move through the body. And stagnant energy causes pain and illness, energy that moves feels healthy and vibrant.
To understand grounding for your body you can think of an electrical device that needs to be grounded to prevent shocks and allow excess energy to safely leave the system. Our bodies need to be grounded and connected to the electromagnetic field of the Earth so the natural energy exchange can take place. When we are grounded we can get rid of what is weighing us down, all the excess that we don't need!
As Pema Chodron writes, 'When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of the heart.' Balancing Heart Meridian in the Fire Element of Summer can bring you back to the softness of your own heart and have a great benefit to your whole system.
Summer is full of spontaneity and that flow can be exciting and fun, but not if you are feeling all kinds of symptoms from fatigue, mood swings to brain fog or irritability. It could be riding the normal ups and downs of life. But if hormonal imbalance is involved the ride can feel wild, out of control and really unpleasant! BOTH men and women deal with hormone imbalances, from stress hormones to reproductive hormones!
Energetically there are several things that can help with getting to sleep. Energy that is not grounded or all up in our head can contribute to insomnia. Also just the accumulation of energy throughout the day can impact us feeling busy and full, making it difficult to settle down and get some shut eye.
Feel like your Fire burns too much or too little sometimes? Burning the candle at both ends or tough to get the fire started? Running full steam in the Summer can cause you to feel like you are trying to 'stoke all the fires' and end up burning out.
Both Heart Meridian (joy & peace) & Small Intestine Meridian (discernment), work together in the Fire Element. Work with the energies to connect and bring balance to your body and mind. Your body is so wise and connecting these energies helps to uncover your natural flow and rhythm.
Fire and the Summer season can send energy all over the place! You can feel it as increased anxiety, overwhelm, rising panic or excessive heat in the body. The Fire Element is in charge of blood vessels and circulation, therefore blood pressure can be impacted and balanced here too!
It's all about the Heart! It has been said in Chinese medicine, 'the Heart houses the Mind', therefore balancing the energy of the heart can have a big impact on the mind.
Summer and the Fire Element are full of manifestation! The fun, freedom and abundance of summer. Summer's energy is joyfully moving out in all directions. This is wonderful, and… it can be a little much sometimes!
I am flowing with the seasons, honoring and aligning with the cycles of life. These cycles are present in nature, energy and within each of us. With each ending follows a new beginning. This is the flow of energy. For me this awareness and using Energy Medicine practices makes the ‘letting go’ part of the endings and the ‘embracing the new’ part of the beginnings process a little bit easier.
