How To Balance Energy Of The Four Elements For Optimal Health & Wellness
Your wellness is worth making changes in your life, and it is never too late to commit to balancing.
by Omid Armin on Unsplash In order to truly embrace self-care and protect your mental health, it's important to learn how to balance the "four elements" in your life every day.
Your wellness is important, and knowing how to care for yourself spiritually as well as physically is a key element of true self-care and energy healing.For instance, my husband graciously surprised me with a spa day after we'd moved. I love massages and facials and all the good smells and just being taken care of. This is my love language!
One of the skincare providers asked if we were completely settled in our new life. She wondered if we had favorite stores, doctors, and dentists.
This caused me to pause. We'd been there for several months at that point and were beginning to feel settled.
But I shared that my health plan or wellness plan is focused on prevention and self-care, like massages and hikes, rather than going to a doctor.
This question reminded me that a large part of society is caught up in traditional health care and requires physicians to be a very big part of your life.
I’m thankful for modern medicine, but it's just a small piece in the big picture of wellness.
Balancing the four elements.
My approach is the balance of elements. Many ancient spiritual belief systems, like Ayurveda and astrology, honor the elements of earth, air, fire, and water.
Earlier civilizations used a wellness plan of balancing elements, and only when needed would a healer become involved. The healer would also use the elements as part of their practice. This is what feels good and true to me.
This mindset allows every individual to take control of their wellness.
We are collectors of elemental energies.
Your lifestyle, where you live, your activities, and what you eat, bring in all of these elements. A healthy balance of each element is needed for optimal wellness.
When your body or mind begins getting heavy or overloaded in one area, symptoms of imbalance or disease will show up.
A classic example in busy society is too much "fire."
Think of the person working over 40 hours a week, caring for a family and home. The job is filled with stress and possibly even flared tempers. It's easy to see how this can lead to literal burnout.
The answer to balance is bringing in more of the calm, steady, slow energy of earth. This can be easily achieved by spending time in nature, sitting on the ground.
Animals, like gentle horses and dogs, are good in their ability to pull you back and slow you down.
Meditating on the floor, gardening, or anything where you are playing with the earth will help with burnout.
Cool down by spending time in or near water. Pause and listen to what your body and mind need.
Earth foods, whole grains, root vegetables, and dark leafy vegetables are important, too. Many foods and activities will be found overlapping in the elements.
Think about the person with limited meaningful conversation. Maybe they play video games, use their phone, or social media for large amounts of the day.
This can lead to an air imbalance, out of control thoughts, and lacking connection to something solid.
Bringing in earth, fire, and a little water would be great! This person needs to move (fire), to do something with the earth, and bring in the water element.
A very easy way to bring in water is connecting on an emotional, heartfelt level with other people.
This can be done easily by volunteering somewhere. You can even volunteer at an animal shelter and enjoy the feel-good, watery emotions.
What about the person drowning in emotions all the time? They take on friends, family, and coworkers' baggage and don’t know who they are anymore. That is a lot of water.
Get outside, hike, and meditate. Meditation is key, because you will begin to recognize what you feel like and let go of what is not yours.
Feel the sun on your skin, get a massage, and eat all the colorful fruits and vegetables.
A person that lives a very slow-moving, sedentary lifestyle has a lot of earth energy.
When you lack movement, your ability to experience easily flowing energy decreases. This is an easy fix: Move, be creative, listen to music, eat lots of fruits and vegetables, and drink water. This brings in all the elements.
These are oversimplified examples, but they are very real examples of lifestyles in our society.
Balance equals health and wellness.
It's easy to see how chronic illness and autoimmune disease comes into your life without balance.
Your wellness is worth making changes in your life, and it's never too late to commit to balancing your energetic makeup.
Intuitively, each of us knows what we need for good health. You also know what needs to be released.
In addition to water, earth, air, and fire, light needs to be in your life. This comes in the form of being in the sun, eating fruits, vegetables, whole grains, laughter, loving relationships, and most importantly, spiritual awareness.
Light in your life means you recognize and cultivate your connection to a higher power.
My journey in this life has gifted me with opportunities to seek balance and wellness after my health greatly suffered. I eventually moved to a different climate and state for my health. This was not prescribed by a doctor, but by my intuitive knowing what I needed to thrive.
Here's an easy guide to determine the balance in your life...
Make sure that you have moments in every day that fit these words:
- Calm
- Curious
- Grateful
- Meditative
- Creative
- Courageous
- Movement
- Disciplined
- Listening
- Community
- Sharing
- Receiving
- Compassion
- Restorative
- Nature
And be sure the following whole foods are incorporated into your everyday diet:
- Fruits
- Whole grains
- Vegetables
- Water
This quick guide brings in the energy of all the elements.
Even if it’s two minutes a day that you explore your creative side, and another two minutes of meditation or gratitude, your life will begin to feel better.
There is a great deal of information available on how to use foods, music, crystals, yoga, and meditations that are designed to help balance our bodies and minds. Most importantly, enjoy your wellness journey!
You're here to become the version of yourself that can slip away unnoticed, only to reappear as a greater field of energy. You bring back the stars, wind, and cosmic fire to earth. You shift in and out of lives.
Each time you reappear, you share an awareness of love, light, and all that is... We work through you.
The wisdom that is finely cultivated with each moment of graciousness spreads through the stars and is shared by all that listen to their hearts.
Your ability to reach into what some call the unknown is endless. Your presence is always with you guiding you deeper into the place of inspiration, the place thoughts become filled with life.
See yourself as having no limits and no expiration date.
Breathe in deeply and experience the next level of your awareness. Allow the deep exhale to expose and release the fear and pain that has been hiding inside.
You are whole.
Polly Wirum is an intuitive, life coach, and writer who wants to empower and inspire you. For more information about how she can help you, visit her website.