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Organs associated: Lung & Large Intestine
For: Grief, Letting Go, Shortness of breath, Immunity
Essential Oils & Herbs: Eucalyptus, Frankincense, Peppermint
Eucalyptus – The Breath of Renewal
Eucalyptus is widely celebrated for its refreshing and purifying properties:
Physical Benefits: Clears the respiratory system, alleviating congestion, sinus issues, and shortness of breath. Its antimicrobial properties help combat infections and boost immunity.
Emotional/Mental Benefits: Reduces mental fatigue, enhances focus, and refreshes the mind, making it easier to release stagnant thoughts.
Spiritual Benefits: Eucalyptus is linked to clarity and renewal. It clears energetic blockages, promotes emotional release, and helps create space for new energy and ideas to flow.
Its invigorating aroma aligns with the Metal element, supporting the lungs and fostering the release of grief while encouraging fresh perspectives and emotional balance.
Frankincense Essential Oil – The Sacred Healer
Frankincense essential oil is revered for its grounding, purifying, and spiritually uplifting properties:
Physical Benefits: Supports respiratory health, reduces inflammation, and strengthens immunity. It soothes tension and promotes overall vitality.
Emotional/Mental Benefits: Calms the mind, reduces stress and anxiety, and enhances emotional stability, fostering inner peace.
Spiritual Benefits: Known as the "oil of truth," Frankincense deepens meditation, clears negative energy, and strengthens the connection to higher consciousness. It fosters a sense of renewal and helps release emotional burdens.
Aligned with the Metal element, Frankincense aids in the process of letting go, bringing clarity and a sense of peace, and supporting the transformative power of grief.
Peppermint Essential Oil – The Energizing Freshness
Peppermint essential oil is celebrated for its invigorating and revitalizing properties:
Physical Benefits: Relieves headaches, clears sinuses, and soothes digestive discomfort. Its cooling effect helps reduce muscle tension and inflammation.
Emotional/Mental Benefits: Refreshes the mind, enhances focus, and alleviates stress and mental fatigue.
Spiritual Benefits: Peppermint clears stagnant energy, sharpens intuition, and encourages a sense of renewal and clarity. It inspires forward movement and helps release lingering emotional heaviness.
Perfectly aligned with the Metal element, peppermint supports emotional release, clears the mind, and creates space for fresh energy and new perspectives.
Acupressure Points:
Lung 1 - Middle Palace
As the entry point of the Lung Channel and a Window of the Sky point, Lung 1 (Middle Palace) is a powerful gateway for renewal and emotional release, deeply connected to the Metal element.
Physical Benefits: Revives breath, regulates lung function, eases coughing, asthma, and chest pain, supporting the body's vital Qi.
Emotional/Mental Benefits: Calms and soothes grief, helping to move through tears and emotional pain. It allows the heart to receive praise and respect, fostering self-worth and emotional healing.
Spiritual Benefits: Lung 1 reconnects us with our spirit, bringing inspiration and restoring a sense of higher purpose. It helps us rediscover beauty in the world and within ourselves, guiding us to embrace life with renewed clarity and connection.
This point serves as a gentle reminder of the Metal element’s transformative power—helping us release grief and create space for inspiration and renewal.
Large Intestine 4 - Joining of the Valleys
Known as the "let it go" point, Large Intestine 4 empowers release on every level, helping us let go of what no longer serves.
Physical: Relieves headaches, sinus congestion, colds, flu, and allergies. Eases pain in the throat, jaw, teeth, and face, and addresses constipation and digestive upsets.
Emotional/Mental: Calms grief, reduces mental tension, and promotes emotional clarity.
Spiritual: Creates spaciousness by releasing emotional and energetic blockages, restoring balance and flow.
This Yuan-Source point of the Metal element is a powerful ally for transformation and renewal.
Mantra:
for Immunity: "My body is strong, resilient, and protected. With each breath, I fortify my immune system and release all that weakens me. I am balanced, clear, and full of vitality."
for Grief: "I honor my emotions and allow myself to feel and release. With each breath, I let go of pain and invite peace and healing into my heart. I am supported, loved, and whole."
Visualization Tip: As you breathe deeply, imagine a gentle breeze flowing through you, carrying away all heaviness, grief, and tension. Visualize this breeze clearing stagnant energy and creating space for light, renewal, and strength. See the air around you shimmering with silver light, infusing your body with vitality and fortifying your immune system. Picture yourself standing tall like a mountain, steady and grounded, with this protective energy surrounding you. With each exhale, let go of what no longer serves you, and with each inhale, draw in fresh energy, clarity, resilience, and health.
Healing Foods for the Metal Element: Pungent white foods, onion, garlic, radish, daikon radish, sauerkraut, scallions, turnip, horseradish, ginger. Apples, almonds, apricots, pears & pine nuts all moisten the lungs.
Crystals: Apache Tears – The Stone of Emotional Release
Apache Tears, a form of obsidian, is deeply connected to the Metal element and the process of releasing grief. Spiritually, it helps clear emotional blockages, allowing unprocessed pain, sorrow, and trauma to surface gently for healing. This stone encourages a healthy flow of emotions, providing a sense of safety and comfort during times of mourning or loss.
Apache Tears also support the lungs, the organ associated with the Metal element, by promoting emotional release and acceptance. It fosters a sense of renewal and resilience, reminding us that from grief and endings, new beginnings can emerge. With its grounding energy, Apache Tears help us let go of what no longer serves us, creating space for clarity, peace, and transformation.
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