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Article Title: The Interplay of the Five Elements in Our Loives

Summary: How the Elements of Earth, Air, Fire, Water and the Life
Force interact in our daily life.

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The Interplay of the Five Elements in Our Lives

As you are sitting here reading this allow your awareness to turn
inwards into yourself. We are going to discuss the five elements
and see how they interact in our lives.

A good place to start is with a simple example. Just imagine that
you are going to do a little gardening. The first thing one does is
loosen the soil. By digging the soil what we are doing is breaking
the soil up or should I say mixing the Air Element with the Earth
Element.

The next thing a good gardener will do is plant the seed or
introduce the Life Force Element. He will then water the seed or
introduce the Water Element.

The gardener has learned that the spring is the best time to plant
seeds as the Sun is getting stronger or the Fire Element is being
introduced to complete the balance of all five elements. As we know
from experience at growing plants, if all five elements are in
balance the life of the plant grows strong and healthy.

Our life also relies on the balance of the five elements. In humans
the life force is introduced at the time of conception and over the
first 9 months the mother's womb provides everything the foetus
needs to develop. When the baby is born the five elements come into
play as the baby takes its first breath.

So it is easy to see the Air Element coming into the body through
the breath. The Earth Element comes in from the fruits of the Earth
in the form of the food we eat.

The heat of the Sun provides the Fire Element and to a certain
extent we also have an internal fire in the form of the Digestive
Fire.

The Water Element comes into the body by what we drink and the Life
Force Element keeps entering the body by our internal connection to
the divine.

As we know, the mix of the five elements varies depending on where
we are on the planet. At the North and South Poles the Fire Element
is quite weak. On the Equator the Fire Element is quite strong and
the Water Element may be lacking, as in the deserts. So our
environment may influence the Five Elements within us.

Also the food we eat. Each type of food will have one dominant
element. For instance the Water Element will dominate a
watermelon. The Fire Element will dominate a chilli pepper. Onions
may contain a lot of the Air Element. All growing plants contain the
Earth Element and the Life Force.

The point of this discussion is to bring to your awareness the
interplay of the Five Elements that is in everything we experience,
from the changing seasons to the change of balance in the elements
within us, as we grow older.

Certain animals have adapted themselves to one of the Elements. Fish
from the sea and the rivers have adapted to use the Water Element.
Birds fly through the Air Element. Moles burrow in the Earth
Element. Most animals enjoy lying in the Sun, soaking up the Fire
Element.

Each day just see how the five elements are working in your life.
Do you have a good balance of all five?

Are you taking enough time to go for a walk on the beach and just
enjoy the play of the five elements in your life? The heat of the
Sun, the ebb and flow of the waves, the sea breeze on your face.
Take time to see and appreciate life itself and its interplay.

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