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Eastern theories for massage therapists Five Elements TheoryThink of the body as a garden. Metaphors from nature: Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, Wood That which moves the world from the outside moves within me. The 5 elements describe the parallelism and synchronicity of events in the inner and outer world. They are ordered in the five phases - fire, earth, metal, water, wood - which each corresponds to five organ networks and their respective meridians along with the five seasons, climates and personality types. Analagous to the seasonal cycles of evolution: birth, growth, ripening, harvest and decay/death. Fire = summer, joy, red Earth = late summer, pensive, yellow Metal= autumn, sadness, white Water = winter, fear, black Wood = spring, anger, blue
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