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The Five Elements way of life

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It has been very challenging since I thought on the idea of presenting the humongous possibilities of the ‘Five Elements theory’ within the scope of a blog. What I actually have done is to try and present the basic understanding of this beautiful theory and guide readers to the ways of easy implementations of it in decoding and solving problems of life. I am greatly indebted to the writings of Dr. Devendra Vora, Mr. M.P. Khemka and Smt. Suman Khemka Choudhary.

Well, '90's Indian kids like me(did we grow up actually!) will be familiar with the names of five elements from the very popular tv serial 'Shaktimaan'. I believe a good portion of other readers also know the sanskrit names 'Agni', 'Vayu', 'Prithibi', 'Akaash', 'Jal' representing the 5 elements and whose Chinese counterparts I am going to discuss here namely-
Wood
Fire
Earth
Metal
Water.

But often we are not interested in this millennia old gibberish because we fail to discover the science behind all the miraculous proclamations this theory brings. The problem lies in the misapprehension that these water, earth, fire etc. are actually elements like hydrogen or oxygen. They are not. The theory says that the human body and everything else in the universe are made up of these 5 elements. Well, these are not elements of chemistry but universal characteristics of all the elements. You can categorise everything in the universe from a very large scale to infinitesimal ramifications by these 5 types. Everything is made up of atoms and atoms also display the 5 symptoms within them. And more often than not the same categorisation can be implemented in quantum level of things.

It's observable that while physical entities(like the sun, rocks, metals etc.) in the universe exhibit any particular one or two properties of the elements, organic entities(living things!) disclose that they are a good mixture of all the 5. Confusions will be over when we stop going by the names and practise that WOOD means the windy or moving property of things, FIRE means the heating property and so on and so forth. Hence goes the chart for convenience:
There are 2.4(western philosophy) to 3.3(Indian philosophy) billion brain cells in a developed human brain. These cells are also of 5 elemental types. By controlling actions of particular organs and endocrine glands, these 5 types of cells bestow our physical body and mental state with the same 5 characteristics and through balancing of these properties sustain our living system. The act of balancing is referred by the saints as metabolism and lack of balance as disease. Like if the WATER type of brain cells provide for our bones and EARTH type of brain cells build our fleshy structure- a deficit in Water element in our body will lead to osteoporosis and an excess of Earth element will lead to obesity. Here goes the chart of our physical and mental construction supported by the 5 elements:

The excess or deficit in any element is denoted by the amount of conduction of bio electricity in that particular type of cells in the brain and it evidently produces corresponding symptoms in the body as disease. With age, naturally, prime bio electric activities of brain cells shift from one element towards other creating a generative cycle of energy as follows:
Generative cycle of energy in elements

 Age inappropriate deficit or excess or disease can be controlled by feeding proper bio electricity to the controller of the affected element by means of external infusion, according to this controlling cycle of energy:
Controlling cycle of energy in elements

So we can say, to fight obesity i.e. the excess of Earth we can simply feed the Wood. This method of external infusion can be any natural procedure like acupressure, acupuncture, herbal medicine, magnet therapy, colour therapy, audio therapy, yoga, diet or simple motivation.

Simple yet so vast, profound and effective way of restoring physical and mental health can bring out miracles if done rightly. Saints of the past stopped aging by manipulating the elements. Well, we the '90 babies know what 'Shaktimaan' achieved by the mastery of the five elements. Not going that far in my next article I tried to present very simple ways by which one can detect(by visible symptoms) and correct(by diet, colours, motivation etc.) the imbalance of elements in anyone and cater healthy physique and intellect to everybody including him/her-self.

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