October is a perfect month for some deep reflection – how was your year so far? How was your life this year so far? How did you arrive into autumn?
Did you arrive into autumn from a place of relative calm and peace and stability and constructive step by step incremental developments – in you life, in you projects in your self-care, with your inner work? Was your life generally orderly during Yang seasons of spring and summer? Or, did you arrive into your autumn from a place of chaos – relative chaos, mild chaos, creative chaos – ‘nice chaos’ – or was it a total chaos when you find yourself either externally or internally being in some turmoil and your life in some unexpected developments: either very many of them or very quick in sequence or very much not controlled by you in a way you want to keep a healthy control over your life?
So – where are you?
Sit comfortably, close your eyes and just pause to reflect on where you are in this moment of time – stepping into a long long season of Yin energies – Metal and Water, Autumn and Winter. Take a nice deep breath, relax your shoulders and be prepared to see very clearly, very honestly where you are right now.
Nothing is good. Nothing is bad. Nothing is wrong. Nothing is right. The order isn’t always good – what we see as order can be really stifling, stagnating, order can be the status quo rather than a real order – and we feel like we have to change something. The chaos – even though sometimes frightening – and although some people thrive on chaos – generally as humans we don’t like chaos so much because it’s unpredictable; sometimes we feel like while chaos can be nice and creative and exciting, after a while we feel that it’s so fast moving and uncontrollable that the very foundations of our life, the very earth beneath our feet starts to tremble and shake and we feel like we are not in control at all.
Element Metal which rules over the middle and late Autumn, lends us this chance to take back control. The quality of selection, refinement, discernment are all important qualities of element Metal. In Autumn we reassess the active part of our year and see what worked and what didn’t, what we want to keep and take into further development next year and what we want to leave here, to let go of and what probably sometimes from the long past outlived its usefulness. Recognising what is worth preserving and what is no longer necessary is important part of our health in autumn. And speaking of quality control and control in general – especially if you arrived into autumn from a place of chaos and not order, it’s very important to see where we are and it’s very important to start getting back some control over our life from the body perspective – helping, supporting the body to balance the energies with Acupressure, Acupuncture and Colourpuncture.
With this natural restructuring and related decluttering and organising let’s have a look at these ‘arriving into Autumn’ two very different scenarios.
The orderly Yang part of the year
If you arrived into Autumn from the calm and balance of summer, your life has been generally organised, not particularly eventful, then all you need is literally to take stock, organise, declutter, file away everything according to your filing system of choice – internal and external. It’s all simple and practical. You enjoy the fruits of your labour, you change your meals to warm and nourishing meals of autumn – and you are ready to sit by the fire with the cup of tea reflecting on the year and even start to preview and dream into the next year. You light your candles, you bake you apple pie and enjoy job done well 🙂
For your Acupressure and Colourpuncture self-care you can do the classic St36 Acupuncture point to support your energy, to support your Metal Element with its parent Earth Element so you have the best start of your Metal season – and beyond. You can start contemplating on which Dream Zones you may want to use for deeper inner work with dreamwork: intentional dreaming – you are free to choose. Also remember that your easy seasonal Cold/Flu self-care with Colourpuncture is very effective and always at hand.
And October is indeed the best month to start planning for the next year – especially if everything is peaceful, everything is in order and all you need is to support and maintain what you created this year and how your creations this year generally fell into place in a bigger scheme of things of what you have been working on in your life so far – with your projects, with your external life, with your contribution to the bigger whole and your self-care. From here it’s nice to make some plans and even start road testing some developments you would like to see January onwards.
The chaotic Yang part of the year
Another scenario: you arrived into Autumn from a place of total chaos – creative, worrying, mixed – and your feelings are likely to be very very mixed. Sometimes life has been just busy, eventful – lots of events happening one after another so you don’t have time to breathe, to realise what’s being happening, time to process, and understand where everything belongs. Probably in a flurry of activities you barely had time to understand what was truly important; what was creative and what was just chaotic and in needing of sorting out now in autumn. And sometimes you do get this feeling that very foundation of your life you stand on is shifting, it’s trembling and you are not in control anymore. So control – and talking back control – is very quality of Metal element. Acupressure and Colourpuncture self-care can help us a lot – we are coming from a body’s perspective, we are supporting the body first so we are then ready to take on external life or big internal developments. St25, a ‘Celestial Pivot’ is great start to stabilise our core, to stand tall and start balancing and calming down the energies, transforming the chaos into change, transformations and new starts. St25 is done with Violet/Yellow complementary colours Colourpuncture and is a good example of how to use Violet and Yellow colours pair on bilateral points. Some focused Autumn Journaling self-care also goes a long way towards ‘digesting’, stabilising and integrating our life experience, transcending and transforming a busy and chaotic patch.
Please watch the video above for the location and details of treatment of St25 with Colourpuncture and if you have any questions I’d be happy to support you. Please use the form below to get in touch with your questions.
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Wishing you inspirational and creative Metal season!
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