(310) Where is your healing place?
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By Janet Shin
How are you enjoying your summer vacation? Have you already been somewhere or are you planning something else? When people consider a holiday resort, some feel like going mountains while others prefer beaches. If they are inclined toward a certain place, is there any reason why?
You might think that it is simply associated with a personal propensity, whether by a generation or by a gender. However have you ever thought that your selection is led by other intrinsic sources?
Let’s think about our appetite, for comparison. People learn from their experiences or instinct to pick certain tastes. Their favorite food is chicken or beef and others may be a vegetarian, meanwhile their flavor can be sweet, spicy or even bitter. Our body has its own agreeable food, which depends on our health conditions, seasonal and other various reasons.
Most importantly, those who are sensitive to discern what their body tries to tell can adopt what is truly needed. Oriental medicine observes our body, the posture, colors and shapes, and sees how it displays its problems and circumstances. Then the remedies come up with taking the whole into consideration instead of examining the micro cells of a problem part, prescribing antibiotics and eliminating the diseased tissues.
The oriental thought tries to concentrate on what is guided by our mind and body. This approach is also applied to how we find our healing place, which is feng shui. As a matter of fact, most people are intuitively finding their own peace by doing what is compliant to their karma and ingesting advantageous energies from a certain site.
One of my acquaintances always wishes to go to a forest for her summer holiday. It is because the wood element in her saju is very weak, whereas it plays an important role for her health and happiness. Some say that they feel relaxed when they hear the sound of water flowing. Accordingly they are naturally heading for waterside to take rests. Those who have a water day master, surrounded by many fire elements, bursting into flames, visit mountain streams to get the abundant energy of water. Its energy emitted from streams must be a healthy comfort for them.
One with a fire day master born in a cold month feels enraptured by a bonfire and even by the smell of smog. His day master is lacking in firewood and constantly looking for supplements from a fire place.
For various reasons, unfortunately, our intuition originated from our body and soul is blurred. It may be a pressure from a daily busy life, stress of agonies and urban pollution that contaminate our spirits. Go visit your own healing place to get bountiful vitality that will bring nutritive elements for a better life.
Please refer to two charts to show how the 10 stems and 12 branches are materialized.
Are you interested in learning more about the ancient Chinese teaching about the “Four Pillars of Destiny”? For further information, visit Janet’s website at www.fourpillarskorea.com, contact her at 010-5414-7461 or email janetshin@hotmail.com. The writer is the author of “Life’s Secrets”.