The energy cycle of emotions Tutorial

Discover the fascinating link between emotions and the Chinese energy cycle in 'The Energy Cycle of Emotions'. This video explores how the five elements—fire, earth, metal, water, and wood—correlate with emotional states. Learn to navigate your feelings and enhance well-being using ancient wisdom and energy management techniques. Join us and transform how you view stress and emotions!

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they talk less about emotion but much more about energy.

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Each element fire,

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earth,

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metal,

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water,

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wood,

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corresponds to emotions.

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Enlightened by Chinese philosophy in this video,

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we will discover the five elements of energy,

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the two emotional cycles,

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and the circulation of emotions.

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First,

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the five elements and emotions.

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Instead of stress management,

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the training could just as well have been called energy management

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because it is about that too.

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I'll start by quickly laying some basics on the cycle of the seasons,

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hoping that Chinese energy specialists would forgive for the shortcuts

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before making a connection with emotions.

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Chinese philosophy and all that derives from it medicine,

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acupuncture,

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massage,

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nutrition is based on the notion of cycles linked to the five seasons.

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Summer,

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Indian summer,

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according to some translations,

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autumn,

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winter,

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and spring

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to each season corresponds colors,

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sounds,

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tastes,

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elements.

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Summer,

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the fire,

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the red color.

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Indian summer,

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the earth yellow.

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Fall,

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the metal white,

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gray.

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Winter,

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the water blue.

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Spring,

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the wood

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green.

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Acupuncture meridians attached to the organs are linked to each element.

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In the metal element we have the lungs and the large intestine.

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In the water element we have the kidneys and the bladder,

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for the element wood,

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gallbladder and liver.

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Meridians are energy lines that run through our body

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on which the main acupuncture points are inscribed.

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When the acupuncturist comes to put their needle on a point.

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They are working to allow the energy to flow

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more easily in the places where it was blocked.

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For example,

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on the kidney,

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which is located in the hollow of the clavicles.

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To each of the five elements correspond to emotions.

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Fire is joy,

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love,

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or hate.

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Earth is empathy sympathy.

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Metal in autumn is sorrow,

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guilt,

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regret.

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Water in winter is fear,

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anxiety,

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and wood in spring is anger,

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resentment.

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If you go to see a Chinese doctor,

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acupuncturist,

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masseur,

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or Chinese nutritionist.

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They can help you regulate your stress by

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improving the energy circulation in your body.

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For example,

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they will circulate energy blocked in the liver

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and gallbladder in which your anger is stuck,

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or they will nourish the heart meridian to fuel joy.

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They will make energy bridges between a meridian in

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excess of energy and one in deficit of energy.

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Now let's talk about energy cycles.

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Let us return to the diagram of the five elements to explain the notion of cycle.

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There are two types of cycle

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the generation or nurturing or mother-daughter cycle

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and the controlling or grandmother-daughter cycle.

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Let's focus on the first one,

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the mother-daughter cycle.

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In the mother-daughter cycle,

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we learn that spring breeds summer,

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which breeds Indian summer,

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which breeds autumn,

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breeds winter,

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and breeds spring.

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Just as wood nourishes,

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generates fire when burnt,

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fire nourishes,

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generates earth from ash.

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Earth nourishes,

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generates metal through ores.

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Mineral generates water,

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and water nourishes generates wood.

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This is the mother daughter generation or nurturing cycle.

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Now let's make a symbolic parallel with emotions.

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Be careful.

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Don't try too hard in your mind to achieve perfect

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Western style causal logic like a puzzle to put together.

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We are in an oriental thought more symbolic and associative than linear.

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Empathy and sympathy will bring heartache,

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guilt,

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and regret.

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When you lose that for what or for whom you had affinity,

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empathy,

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sympathy,

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you regret the departure of a friend,

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the broken gift,

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the mission over,

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the time your body was healthy,

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the love gone.

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This grief will engender fear and anxiety about living without having

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or no longer having what you want without the friend,

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the object,

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the job,

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the vacation time,

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health.

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Fear and anxiety can breed anger and resentment.

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The anger and resentment,

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like it doesn't suit me.

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It's not going to be like this.

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I'm going to react.

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It is the angry energy of a new beginning in spring,

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like the cry of a newborn baby.

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Imagine a mother in fear of her child being late for school.

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She is stressed,

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fears the worst.

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She is so anxious that when the child returns,

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she slaps them without having had time to hear them.

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Then she covers them with kisses.

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Her anxiety fed her anger,

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which expressed through shouting and slapping the found child.

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Anger itself nourished love.

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The mother ends up covering the found child with kisses.

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Yes,

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this is the last step.

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Anger generates,

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breeds love or hate.

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The anger,

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the cry of the newborn,

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must have come out in order to act.

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Whether it be in a reconstruction towards the better towards what we love,

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love,

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or to act in destruction due to rejection,

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hatred,

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so we have seen the cycle of emotional generation or the cycle of nourishment.

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The second cycle offered by Chinese

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philosophy is the grandmother granddaughter cycle.

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The wood controls its grandchild,

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the earth holding it back by the roots and avoiding landslide.

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In the same way,

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anger and resentment control empathy,

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sympathy.

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The earth controls its grandchild,

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the water,

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limiting it,

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delimiting it as empathy,

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sympathy control fear and anxiety.

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Water controls fire,

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being able to put it out,

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so fear and anxiety control joy,

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love and hate.

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Fire controls metal,

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causing it to melt.

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So joy,

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love,

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or hate controls sorrow,

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guilt,

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and regret.

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Metal controls wood by cutting it,

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so grief,

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guilt,

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and regret control anger and resentment.

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The acupuncturist,

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nutritionist,

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Chinese masseur

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will be able to act on these cycles

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of generation and control

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to regulate the circulation of energy

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and avoid blockages or imbalances in the meridians.

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They will therefore help their clients to bounce back

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when an emotion is stuck somewhere.

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To bounce back to a new season after a job loss or the departure of

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a loved one or financial bankruptcy or a move or a change of boss,

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may life and the seasons recirculate.

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Third chapter in this video.

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Allow the circulation of emotions.

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All the richness of this oriental vision lies in the

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fact of accepting the passage from one emotion to another

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as a natural cycle.

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Whereas the West tends to classify the emotions between good and bad,

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positive and negative,

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pleasant and unpleasant.

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According to the oriental vision,

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emotions are cyclical.

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They are generated,

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nourished,

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and controlled naturally.

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It is more useful to allow them

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healthy expression circulation than to self-censor them.

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A good circulation of energy therefore unblocks painful stuck emotions.

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Our western vision pushes us to fight against negative emotions.

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The eastern view places more emphasis on the

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acceptance and natural circulation of these emotions.

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There is no point in fighting against the decline

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of the seasons until the heart of winter.

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There is no point in fighting sadness,

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anxiety,

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or anger.

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To fight against these emotions is either staying blocked deeper

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in it or bringing forth another stronger surrogate emotion.

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What is a surrogate emotion?

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Our culture often prevents little boys from crying or showing fear,

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so they don't allow themselves much

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and hide their fear or grief with anger,

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a surrogate emotion.

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As for little girls,

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they are less allowed to show their anger than their grief or fear.

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Emotional repression creates imbalances and higher stress by

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holding back and repressing the expression of worry,

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sadness,

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or anger.

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Their free circulation is prevented.

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These emotions will therefore swell internally

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without possible resolution.

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Business is a place where emotions are most unwelcome.

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We limit the free flow of emotion.

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We compensate for free emotional expression.

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With excessive mentalization,

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which is not often able to resolve emotional distress,

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we compensate until the body sounds the alarm.

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If a person gets stuck in a stress of fear or sadness or anger,

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this is,

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according to eastern wisdom,

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a sign that the energy is not flowing well.

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The solution won't be to go into the minds to explore the reasons

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for the emotions and tell your relatives

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or support professionals about your problems.

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It will be more a question of restoring the circulation of energy

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by appropriate movement as tai chi,

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qigong,

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yoga,

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by massage on the associated organs in reflexology,

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for example,

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you will be massaged the parts of the

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foot corresponding to the organs associated with emotion,

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by acupuncture

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or nutrition.

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Herbal teas selected food to nourish the

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energy of the meridians affected by stress.

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Getting the body back into balance with energy flowing through all

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organs and meridians is a key to helping resolve stress issues.

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Circulate energies,

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circulate emotions.

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