hi my name is Titanya. Welcome to the Five Element Challenge for today and if you are joining i am
going to tell you a little bit about the five elements and for those of you who have been
on this challenge good for you keep going and those of you who are new you can always go back
and repeat on other days okay so the five elements the five elements are wonderful i love them so
much and my sister my mother our mother is the one who taught us the five elements we've been really
researching the five elements in our own personal lives since we were teenagers and it has helped
us with relationships but it has also helped us to deal with stress and these exercises that we
are going to give you that our mother created are going to help with some stress regulation
these exercises will help calm and regulate your emotions so you can deal with stress easier rather
than blowing up at your loved ones so let me tell you these five elements are over 5000 years old
they are connected to nature itself and the ancients ones always felt like
we as human beings were also had some of these elements within us and so they mentioned
five elements that the universe revolves around and they are water wood fire earth and metal and
we have each of these inside of us but when we get stressed one comes up very strongly and that is an
element that sometimes you go a little crazy in your stress modality with we all are different
but there is one that is really strong so maybe you can identify it within these elements
and within these emotions that i am going to share with you all right so each of the
emotions you can do in sequence but you can also choose one of them when you are in stress
to work with yourself okay the first exercise we are going to do is an exercise for the element of
water and water relates to the element or the emotion of fear fear rules their world sometimes
with the water they can go so deep in their own inner life that the depression and the darkness
comes down upon them and they cannot see any way out of that darkness and so fear fear is a ruling
emotion they may not even go out of their homes because of that fear they may not step into a job
or a business or going forward because the fear is so great this exercise that our mother taught us
helps with that and it is called blowing out the candle so you can do this in a chair you
can do this on your bed and any way you can for your own body and the way that you move
here is the exercise okay so you can alternate it so what i like to do is cross my ankles i like to
cross everything because it connects the right and left hemispheres of the brain and in this way i'm
going to take one hand and cross it over to the opposite knee and the other one to the other knee
so we're crossing our hands we're going to think of our fear something in your life that you just
have these emotions of fear in and we're going to think about it and we're going to breathe in and
as we breathe in we're going to pull our whole body back and then we're going to pretend that
there is a candle in front of us we're going to blow out that candle and come into that darkness
all the way down we're going to breathe in again breathe in through the nose and the sound
is the sound hmm okay it really helps move energy through your body we're going to do
that again but as we cl breathe out imagine that the candle is lighting up your darkness
so even if your candle blows out you light up your darkness so once again breathe in and
and you're gonna come back to the light you're gonna think about the
hope that there is something of light coming into your life and something of inspiration
on the horizon let's do it one more time blow out that candle
and then you're going to rise up into the light even bringing the light into both arms
all around you knowing that you can step into this place of trust trust for your life that
even if you make that step forward even if you have fear you just need to do it because
you will get stronger and stronger in life by every step you take you know this
all right okay so i'm going to stand up and for the next exercise which is the element of wood
so the next element is the element of wood and woods emotion is ruled by anger they can have
anger at the themselves and anger at the world anger and frustration at everything it is
pretty ruling their life and um so this is a really good exercise to get rid of that
anger inside of you because what happens is the wood element can pull in all that anger
and then they can get a little bit stiff in their life stiffen their body and maybe even organs
begin to harden their thoughts begin to harden so they can't see the bigger picture and that's what
they're really good at they're great at seeing the bigger picture so you want to get it out of your
body anger is their ruling emotion so if you're somebody with this challenge you may like this
exercise i love it i love this exercise so let's take your hands and we're gonna rub them together
get gather a little bit of energy shake it off and we're going to just put it on our legs and
in this way you're going to imagine that that energy is running down your legs and connecting
in to the earth like roots of a tree you think of wood tree and really strong like a sturdy tree
breathe in and out now you are going to think of something you are angry or frustrated at think of
something in your life and you are going to take it and imagine it with both arms going out to
the sides of your body bringing up those arms and gathering that energy and grabbing it at the top
and we are going to bring it through the central part of our body in front of us with the sound of
all the way down it's almost like saying s-h-i-t but you just don't you just you can if you want
to but you bring down that sound that's why i like that too okay let's bring it up grab
onto the frustration think of someone or something that you're super angry at and
and one more time let's do it again
think of it again the last little bit of poison we're going to come down slow and deliberate
and let it up
that last little bit of poison ah and just bring that love back to yourself okay i can go on
i can do this all right the next exercise we're going to do is for the element of fire and fire
is an element that i know very much because i am a fire type it person when i get challenged
in my stress i can panic panic is that emotion all of a sudden everything is happening at once
and i have too many things to do i am overwhelmed with emotions and everything everybody is asking
things from me i'm having to do things it feels like confusion and so it's like a volcano that
bubbles up and bubbles up and bubbles up and all of a sudden usually fires project
just they yell they they just don't know what to do and then they also collapse and maybe they even
cry and that those tears can actually help them but we want to help our emotions
balance and regulate in a better way so we can meet our loved ones so this is the exercise
called taking down the flame you're taking down that volcanic energy and bringing calm to your
system your nervous system your whole being and really it can also lower blood pressure
so let's do it all right rub your hands together again make a little fire breathe in and out
open them up to both sides and we're going to connect our hands at the top our our fingertips
at the top make a little steeple and then come down let your breath out with the sound of
to the top of your head this is your crown chakra we are connecting and balancing our chakras
because when you are in this place of panic they're all wonky they are not balanced at all
let's breathe in again and with a ha take it down in between your eyebrows
to your third eye which some call it this is the chakra of intuition let's breathe in
and skip your throat chakra and take it to your heart chakra skipping your throat chakra just
helps connect the chakras together and this heart chakra is all about love and forgiveness and just
sending love to yourself breathing in again take your hands to your belly button with a ha and
diamond shape your hands and we are going to take your hands all the way down your legs taking down
the flame all the way down to the ground you can even put your hands on the ground for a
moment and just feel the earth feel it coming down all the way and then we're just gonna zip
up the energies all the way through the central part of our body from our pubic bone all the way
to our top lip open it up at the top and then just come back to your heart so i want to let you know
each of these exercises on every single day are going to be a little different just to give you
a little bit of a challenge and maybe something you may want to take with you but they all
do pretty much the same thing and the base is the five elements our next exercise is earth element
okay so from here we're already having our hands on our heart and so let's just move them we're
going to move our right hand down to our spleen organ our spleen organ is all about metabolizing
so this emotion is the emotion of worry we are bringing down the worry just like a mother
who were always worries about her children always worries about her pets always worries
about her spouse we're bringing down the emotion of worry there's too much worry for earth elements
and they're not taking time for themselves the other hand is going to go on top of your elbow
and just hold here it's almost like you are bringing that love back to yourself because
sometimes as an earth element you're worrying too much about everybody else and not enough
for yourself there's not enough to go around for yourself so we are going to bring in the sound of
a calming shh to just like rock your inner child rock the baby so you are connecting
up spleen and triple warmer triple warmer is the fight flight or freeze
so calming yourself down and just rocking and rocking is really about
calming the nervous system just like you would do with your own child rock
feels good okay the last exercise and the last element is metal element
the metal element is the emotion of grief this is the grief for the world
and this is an inner grief sometimes with metals they don't show it on the outside but there's this
kind of feeling of sadness they really want to help the world there's this feeling of
kind of sometimes even giving up what is it all for and so they can have this
kind of underlying grief and sometimes they can't even find joy within themselves because
the grief is so strong so this exercise that i'm going to teach you that our mother taught
us is called connecting heaven and earth this is a really good exercise for stretching your body
because that's what happens when grief comes along it's all kind of stuck energy we want to
stretch our body which helps our energies stretch as well so we are going to rub our hands together
shake it out and just let's ground ground again on our thighs breathe in through the nose and
out through the mouth and just bring your energies to your hands making a prayer-like
position in front of your heart chakra in front of your your chest breathe in
and out and we are going to stretch our hands one up all the way to the sky as far as you can reach
and one down all the way to the earth and you are standing in the center almost feeling like you can
do greatness in the world by just touching the earth and the sky and we're going to breathe out
coming back to center we're going to breathe in again and hold your breath reaching up to
the heavens down to the earth just staying in this place of trust trusting the universe
letting go breathing it out letting go that's the counterbalance to holding on to grief let it go
let's breathe in again oh stretch hold your breath knowing you stand in the balance of
heaven and earth and breathe out come to your center and once more the other side breathing
in and out and then breathing out letting it go all the way down to the ground
letting go of anything that is not needed and then let's just roll up our energies
all the way up all the way out and then come back to your heart chakra in the middle of your chest
and just just released you know let's just release with a sound today
a sound oh there goes a butterfly we're releasing that's transformation yippee thank you butterfly
that we're going to release with that sound of
that's the sound of the metal element so with your hands on your heart let's just go
go of anything that is not needed in your life and stepping in to that place of trust all right
i am so glad you joined me today thank you so much good going on the challenge we'll see you tomorrow