hi everybody i am dondi and this is your final day of the Five Elements challenge! It's been
a lot of fun with you thank you for staying with it! If this is your first day that
is okay that is totally fine you can go back and watch the challenge and join us from day one.
The Five Elements are an incredible system that i have worked with all my life so has my family. I
learned it from my mom Donna Eden. You've seen my sister Titanya this week and we are teaching you
a way to have true balance in your life - true balance in your relationships - in your work to
feel vital to feel healthy to feel like you can go running down a forest path and not have any pain
or limitations or creaks and aches in your bones the five elements can help you in relationships in
communication with your children with your parents it can help you as a health system energetically
a health system and if you study eden method you know what energy is - you know what it means
and if you haven't studied with us we welcome you here today because that is what we are
doing today we are working with energy we're giving you very simple techniques to balance
your elements so inside of you you have the five elements of water wood fire earth and metal
there is usually one that is stronger for you in your life and once you know that you can
focus on it and really work with it in the way of preventative medicine in the way of wellness and
so the five elements can help you in all aspects of your life and especially under stress so
when you are stressed i don't know if you know it but you probably default to a big
emotion and in the five elements there are five main big emotions and those are fear anger
panic worry and grief and we work with those five emotions all of the time in the five elements and
and any sub emotion like of course if you're working with anger you're going
to have frustration so that type of thing and today we're going to work with those emotions
and the first one is for the water element now this will help you even if you aren't a strong
water element because most people at some time in their life feel fear it's either a small
sort of small fear of uh i have to get my house clean it's never going to be clean and now i
see the spider webs and the spiders are coming and maybe mold will grow because you're so busy
that's a fear or a bigger fear like oh my gosh am i going to be fired at work and my boss hasn't
really talked to me lately and maybe i'm going to get fired or even a bigger fear what is happening
with our world right now that fear so all types of fear and there's a technique that is really
amazing for this what it does is it moves fear out of your system energetically it helps calm your
nervous system which can bring down your blood pressure it also works with the vagus nerve and
the vagus nerve runs throughout the body one of the longest nerves you'll ever see in your life
it is often sort of triggered when you're under stress and it can get really tight and it comes
through the neck area it can actually make people faint if they don't know how to control this and
and if you've ever seen somebody faint or you're a fainter the vagus nerve is usually involved with
that so let's do the technique together it looks really simple it is simple but it is profound and
it works so you are going to bring your knees as close as you can to your chest if you cannot maybe
you're in bed maybe you're in a wheelchair imagine this see it in your mind see yourself hugging your
knees and i'm going to inhale and then i'm going to exhale and when i do my exhale i'm going to
like i'm blowing out a candle this is what really helps the vagus nerve
it helps it even more if you add a sound like
so let's do this together i'm going to inhale and exhale
inhale and exhale now i'm going to do it with no sound just the blowing
inhale and exhale now everybody does these exercises a little bit differently some people
put their hands on their heart chakra and they just sit with that good feeling
some people bring their thumbs to their third eye some people just want to open up with their hands
i've seen all sorts of endings for this technique but that is the basic technique use that whenever
you feel fear you can even use it when you don't feel fear because it's so calming and
you're going to start to train your body to have good habits all right i'm going to stand up and
do the second exercise which is a wood exercise and join me for wood we have four more exercises
all right here we are to work with the emotion of anger this is an emotion that you don't want
to stuff down this is an emotion that you want to work with the japanese people say that anger is
a friend indeed so become a friend to your anger figure it out work it through and then release it
this is one of the most powerful techniques to release anger it's called blowing out the anger
so we're going to rub our hands together shake them off we're going to make fists here and we're
going to bring our arms behind and up that's on an inhale and now we're going to exhale
so did you see when i came down my fists open all of that is going to go a lot faster so it's going
to be inhale and exhale all right you're stretching through the trunk of your body
you're coming down really through all of your chakras it's an incredible way to get in touch
viscerally with your anger and release it and the sound i'm going to make is
you can make any sound you would like you can grunt you can say someone's name you can say
work anything you want that you feel frustration around let's do it together let's make our fists
we're going to bring our arms behind and up on an inhale
again
and again
and one more time slowly
you can do this anytime you're feeling frustration or anger it's a great way to energetically release
it from the body okay we're moving on to fire element a fire element person is a person who
goes to panic under stress so this is going to calm the panic you know a lot of times
when people are feeling the panic talking about it doesn't help someone talking at them doesn't help
they need to calm energetically and this will do it it's called taking down the flame
i like to always rub my hands together to create some nice energy and then shake it off
put my hands on my thighs for grounding take a nice deep breath
let it out and we're bringing our arms up and our hands into a pyramid position
right on the top of our head i will show you what it looks like
and it will go right through my hat
this is the crown chakra and your energy will start to calm you can breathe normally
here in eden method we like to breathe in through our nose and out through your mouth
it connects up a couple of energetic pathways that are really important but breathe how it's
comfortable for you and next we're going to take this little pyramid and put it at our third eye
which is right here between the eyebrows now when i moved my pyramid from the crown
chakra to the third eye i took a nice deep breath in and an exhale but again breathe
how it feels good to you your thumbs are between your eyebrows on an acupressure point
which is all about the nervous system so you're calming the nervous system and next inhale and
exhale as you bring these thumbs to your chest we're running through the chakras right now
which are just little energy vortexes inhale and exhale to the belly button
and then we'll diamond out our hand here spreading our fingers
having your hands in a very powerful place on your body sort of this root where many of us live from
and breathing into that this is called taking down the flame and it has even helped people
lower their blood pressure it's a terrific exercise just sink into that for a moment everyone
does it a little bit differently as you've seen during this challenge with me my mom and my sister
and let it go next we are moving on to the element of earth and earth element people tend to
worry they tend to over worry they over worry about other people and they get caught up in
this worry so much that it sort of shadows a practicality of what they can do next how how they
can make good decisions because they get caught up in the worry and something to help that worry
is called the triple warmer spleen hug that triple warmer is an energy system in the body that sort
of governs your fight flight or freeze so we're going to help that triple warmer system calm down
and the spleen is the nurturer in the body it is what cares for you and takes takes care of you
this is a great one not only to help calm you but also help give a little nurturing to your immune
system you're going to take your right hand and put it right under your left breast that is spleen
and your left hand and wrap it around your right arm that is where your triple warmer meridian runs
through a meridian is just an energy pathway on the body and we like to help them flow like
a clean river and this is it it's a triple warmer spleen hug you can breathe normally
and just sink into it and enjoy that feeling of calm all right the next element it's our last
one it's the metal element middle element people tend to go toward grief when they're under stress
usually grief is not that apparent it's sort of underlying and metal people tend
to they tend to have a grief for the world grief of things they haven't accomplished
grief of how they may or may not have been on the right path grief that maybe they haven't
helped enough people so this will help with that it is one of our most popular techniques
in eden method it's called connecting heaven and earth let's rub our hands together and
shake them off bring our hands to pyramid position one hand is going up and one is
going down and we're going to connect heaven and earth on an exhale and then hold your breath
and you're holding your breath here stretching stretching
stretching and exhale
other side oh holding your breath here stretching through the waist and the torso and the tummy
getting good circulation to your organs and exhale one more time on both sides
now if you're comfortable bending from the waist or the hips bend forward and go
toward the ground with your hands and make a few figure eights you can go even lower if you're able
come on up and sprinkle that good energy all around you ah that is connecting heaven and earth
and it really helps move the grief out of your energy system thank you so much for spending
this challenge with us five days five exercises the five elements keep taking care of yourself
thank you for spending this five days with us many blessings to you and we'll see you again soon you