All the good nourishment Earth has produced is harvested for storage in our granaries at the end of the summer and the year turns into autumn, the season of the Metal (air) element.
Where Earth, the nurturing element, is the element of the mother, Metal(air) is that of the Father, and that transcendental manifestation of all that lies beyond and above our everyday life (the spiritual presence).
Our image of Earth is that of our feet firmly attached by gravity to the ground, and that of Metal is of our arms outstretched towards the Heaven above
The Water element of our body make the combination with other elements to form the seven emotions so as the reproductive function linked with kidney in men and kidney and liver together for women.
• Happiness
• Anger
• Worry
• Pensiveness
• Sadness
• Fear
• Anxiety
Both worry and sadness correspond to Metal, fear and anxiety correspond to Water.
Apart from the seven emotions, frustration upsets the free flowing nature of the internal organs energy system and if sustained for a long period of time causes disease.
These emotions either adversely affect the organs associated with the five elements or upset the Yin-Yang balance in the body.
• ST 44 and UB 67
• GB 34 and SI 2
• PC 3 and TW 1
• SP 5 and Liv 8
Earth, Metal(air), Water points are the root of our emotional control, where Great Acupuncture masters derive stability from the natural five elements structure
