Lifestyle Coaching
according to the Chinese Five Elements
Are You Tired of Being Tired?
Is Emotional Stress Getting You Down?
Would You Like to Embrace Life's Challenges with a Healthy Lifestyle?
Learning about the five element archetypes can help you understand the motivations and emotions behind your life choices. Do you want to learn more about why you’re the born manager, why you can’t stand big crowds or why you always want to help people? In a personal session, we can look in detail at all aspects of your life and in which way your current lifestyle choices serve you and in which areas you may benefit from some tweaks.
What to Expect
We are excited to share a simplistic lifestyle concept, which can be adapted to your individual needs and preferences – even when eating out on many occasions. Based on your Chinese body constitution and your life situation, we will discuss the best ways to restore physical and mental strength as well as emotional balance.
The ancient philosophy of Chinese Medicine with its concept of Qi, Yin and Yang and its five elements represents powerful keys to get you on board the healing journey. This holistic approach of making food choices differs very much from common Western concepts and we will not discuss your calorie intake or macros including fats, proteins and carbs. Instead, you will attain the key philosophical understanding which will empower you to take the lead and make healthy eating choices.
We want to help you discover a healthier, joyful and vibrant life.
• Achieve emotional balance.
• Feel more energetic.
• Increase your personal contentment.
• Establish satisfying eating habits.
What is Qi?
There would not be any life, development or change in the world without the existence and constant motion of Qi. It may best be translated into life force or vital energy. In the human body, Qi runs through specific pathways called meridians. Through this network, the energy can travel across all parts of your body and reach all of your organs. If these energy lines are clear, Qi can move smoothly – which is the basis for your body’s self-regulating health system. In daily life it is the intake of food and water as well as your breathing that provide you with Qi and keep this energy in motion. Environmental stressors, strong emotions, extreme climate and lifestyle may weaken or even impair the flow of Qi.
What is Yin and Yang?
Qi divides into two opposing energy forces: Yin and Yang. Just think of the human being as a reflection of nature. All things in the universe consist of Yin and Yang. Without light, there is no shadow. Without heat there is no cold. Without motion, there is no stillness. Yin and Yang are constantly moving, they are inter-rooted and interdependent.
When it comes to Yin and Yang in your body, your aim is to gain and maintain the best possible balance of these two energies. All aspects of your life contribute to that balance. This goes beyond nutrition and breathing and includes your way of thinking, lifestyle and emotion, the way you do your work, exercise and sleep.
What are the five elements?
In a balanced state of Qi, the element of wood stands for growth, development and flexibility, easily imaginable when thinking of a young tree. Transferring this image to the human body, it relates to our wish for creative expression as well as personal and spiritual development in life. In our daily life, Qi easily stagnates with moods or with imbalanced food intake.
Promoting action, expansion and growth.
With its upward-outward movement, the energy of Fire helps us to express ourselves. In a balanced and qi-charged state, we radiate joy from our hearts and easily communicate and connect with our environment. With the abundance of impulses in today’s life, this element may easily be thrown out of balance.
Connecting to the beautiful world around you.
With its centred energy, the element of earth grounds us. When in balance we are calm, steady and take care of ourselves and others in a harmonious way. Earth plays a key role when it comes to generating Qi and blood, which is essential for our immunity and our capacity of thinking and memory in a fast-paced world.
Compassion with yourself and others.
When the energy of the element metal flows freely, it allows us to process feelings of sadness and grief as a natural and integral part of life. We can let go and move on freely and create our life in a healthily structured manner. In balance, this element enables us to access our innermost intuition, our gut feeling.
Growing your intuition.
With the strongest Yin power of all elements, the element of water gives us a strong foundation to tackle the challenges of life. In a balanced state we move on with curiosity and courage that let us calmly adapt to new situations as they arise.
Growing strong roots and embracing change.
Workshops
The Bright Side Family Acupuncture Clinic offers a holistic concept that deals with body, mind and soul development equally. By integrating the five elements philosophy into your day, you will have tools at hand to help you overcome common modern day challenges for a more joyful, healthy and vibrant life.
We are excited to share a simplistic lifestyle concept, which can be adapted to individual needs and preferences – even when eating out on many occasions. In one of our workshops you will acquire the knowledge to have a positive impact on your body, mind and emotions.
These moments when we feel moody, sad ‘for no reason’ or pondering over endless thoughts in the middle of the night…Do you want to learn how food may affect you not only on the physical but also the mental and emotional level? In Chinese medicine, the concept of the five elements includes feelings and the expression of those.
It’s about our individual needs and finally it’s about making good choices for yourself. This workshop introduces you to the concept of the five elements, warming and cooling foods, energising meal preparation and lifestyle habits. If you are interested in a workshop, please get in touch.