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Happy Holidays
Wishing you Peace, Joy, Love and Healthy Abundance! Happy Winter Solstice – The Return of Light! May you have Happy Holidays, a Happy New Year, and Beyond! With Love, Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L
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Emotional Healing, Guided Imagery, Positive & Negative, Prevention, Relaxation & Meditation, Self Care, Stay Healthy with the Seasons, The Science of Happiness
How to Lift Your Mood from Seasonal Depression
It happens in the fall, when days become cooler and the nights become longer, and the leaves start dropping from the trees… and for many in the northern climates the snow, rain, and ice is on its way. What can be done to help with managing moods, feelings, and accompanying aches or pains? Chances are if you experience symptoms of depression you have already looked in to ways to help lift your spirits. Seasonal Depression may be unresolved feelings, emotions, past wounds, hurts, and false or limiting beliefs that are often already there, in the subconscious lying dormant during warmer months, that likely get triggered with colder days and darker…
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Autumn to Winter – The Seasons and Your Health
We are transitioning from Autumn, the harvesting time of year, to Winter, a time to stay warm and conserve one’s energy until Springtime. Autumn is a time to celebrate and enjoy the abundance from the growth of Spring and Summer and to prepare for Winter. In the tradition of Traditional Chinese Medicine Autumn is governed by the Metal Element. The Metal Element represents the minerals of earth such as salt, ores, or jewels. Metal can assist with our structures, strength, and substance. It also conducts electricity which can assist with communication, building networks, and holding things together. How are you communicating with others? How are you communicating with yourself? What…
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Energy Healing, Holistic Health, Holistic Occupational Therapy, Mind-Body Connection, Stay Healthy with the Seasons, Uncategorized
Staying Healthy with the Seasons – Late Summer
Late Summer is the time of transition between Summer and Autumn. It has its own season in Chinese 5 Element Theory and it relates to the energy of the Earth. All other Elements come from and can be felt in the Earth Element. So, it is very important to be aware of how your Earth Element is functioning for you. Home, Center, and The Body are aspects governed by the Earth Element. If you do not feel at home with yourself, at ease, centered, grounded, or have difficulty taking in nourishment from food and drink, or from life itself you may want to consider looking at ways to balance your…
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Connecting, Emotional Healing, Energy Healing, Holistic Health, Holistic Occupational Therapy, Intuition, Manifestation, Mind-Body Connection, Prevention, Self Care, Stay Healthy with the Seasons, The Science of Happiness, Uncategorized
Summer – Staying Healthy with the Seasons
“Summer Time and the living is easy!” This is the time of year to soak up the sun, enjoy the flowers, green, growth, and nature in all its glory! According to the rhythms of nature and within the context of the Chinese 5 Element theory, Summer is governed by the Fire Element. This can be seen and felt by the stronger Sun and expansive energy of longer days and shorter nights. The Heat of Summer and the strong Yang energy are reflected internally. The meridians, or energy pathways, associated with this element are the Heart, Small Intestine, Pericardium, and Triple Warmer. The pathways can be assessed to determine the energetic…
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Connecting, De-Stress, Energy Healing, Holistic Health, Holistic Occupational Therapy, Intention, Mind-Body Connection, Prevention, Self Care, Spirituality, Stay Healthy with the Seasons, The Science of Happiness
Spring Time to Renew Yourself
Spring Time is here and it’s early this year! The days are becoming warmer as the sun moves higher in the sky creating a burst of new energy and new life. This is the time of year for growth and renewal in nature and in ourselves. In his classic text on living in harmony with nature, “Staying Healthy with the Seasons”, Elson M. Haas, MD says, “In the Chinese system of Five Elements, the spring season is correlated with the element of Wood, which governs the gall bladder and liver. The Wood element refers to living, growing entities: trees, plants, and the human body. They grow simultaneously out and…
