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| "He who has health has hope -- and he who has hope has everything..." - proverb
Finer Points
June 2006 Quote of the month "We should strive not just to live long but to live well" Aha. It is the first of June and I am at the shore. The sun is warm, bringing nourishing and much-needed yang, the breeze, the wind, the water and the sand are soft. There is warm earth beneath my feet. Summer has finally arrived - and with it the element of Fire. Fire energy bursts upward and outward. It licks around edges of everything and everyone...June is busting out all over. Our senses are alive, our spirits, our "shens" are awake. We are alert and active. Life! According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, summer is the time of the fire - and the time of the heart. Right now it is all about the heart: our hearts. In my practice in recent weeks, suddenly all the springtime "liver" symptoms of allergies, headaches and depression have begun to drift away and early summer "heart" symptoms are , rising in people, symptoms of insomnia, anxiety, mouth sores, spicy and sweet cravings and gastric reflux. Because everyone and everything are moving up and out like flowers bursting through earth, reaching for the sun...we are all feeling at some level restless, excited, exuberant...dreamy. June is so, so dreamy. This is a great time of year to eat spicy foods, to eat foods which will cleanse the body - in a nourishing way - and a wonderful time to begin new projects. June is also the time of love. A time to love your family, your friends in an extra special way. We are better connected to each other in June - more clearly connected - and we can experience greater joy. Go out this month and enjoy your days. Gaze at the moon. Enjoy color, sound, taste. Savor every moment. Appreciate what you have. Love June. | |
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