This is the most Yang/active and expansive time of year. We want to be outside taking in the sun while relishing time with the people we love and enjoy.
Sharing good times. Feeling joy and happiness.
This energy is about connection, relationships and trust.
A healthy fire wants to laugh, play, be silly and feel the warmth of others and the sun. This energy is about spontaneity and being in the moment. It isn't so much about thinking it out first, but about being excited and going with it.
To do this, one must be emotionally open and vulnerable, which can be a challenge for many of us. Somewhere along our way to adulthood, many of us unknowingly became guarded and/or uncomfortable being silly and playful. We may have become worried about how others might understand or judge us.
Summer is the time to relax these concerns: let your guard down and relearn how to be playful and trusting.
Let the fire energy feed our spirit, allowing us to connect with ourselves and others more freely and fully.
An excerpt exemplifying Fire
"Mana is a term originally used in Polynesian and Melanesian cultures to describe an extraordinary power or force residing in a person or an object, a sort of spiritual electricity that charges anyone who touches it. Carl Jung later defined the term as "the unconscious influence of one being on another." What Jung speaks to is the fact that the energy of being real has more power than outright persuasion, debate, or force of will. He suggests that being who we are always releases an extraordinary power that, without intent or design, affects the people who come in contact with such realness.
The beautiful and simple truth of this can be seen in looking at the sun. The sun, without intent or will or plan or sense principle, just shines, thoroughly and constantly. By being itself, the sun warms with its light, never withholding or warming only certain things of the Earth. Rather, the sun emanates in all directions all the time, and things grow. In the same way, when we are authentic, expressing our warmth and light in all directions, we cause things around us to grow. When our souls, like little suns, express the light of who we are, we emanate what Jesus called love and what Buddha called compassion, and the roots of community lengthen." - Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening
Welcome to Summer! I hope you enjoy my newsletter. It's intent is to provide insight into the ancient art of acupuncture, as well as to encourage you to create balance in your life. I would appreciate any feedback and would love to help you along your path. lisa@lisaporad.com