"I work with your energy so that you can find your perfect self (Dao)"

Dao is our perfect self. Our Body, Mind and the Spirit have a natural capacity to be perfect: healthy, serene and happy.

However, life is a constant movement of energy which affects our Body, Mind and the Spirit.

Our capacity to manage these energies gives us the vital life force to go towards health, peace and happiness.

Ancient Chinese identified five types of these energies and the channels in which energy flows within a person.

Five Element Acupuncture (FEA) works with patients' energy to create for them the right energetic conditions in which they are capable to re-establish balance:

Five Element Acupuncture heals the Spirit from the hurts, frees the Mind from negative thoughts and chaos and creates conditions in which the Body relaxes and we are able to take care of it.

• Emotional hurts take up a lot of energy and make us tired and unhappy.
• Negative or chaotic thinking makes our experience of the life the same.
• Stressed body cannot cope and becomes ill

The causes of those blocks are as diverse as each individual. Therefore, each person receives an individual diagnosis and treatment.

In short, the aim of such diagnosis is to examine the condition of each of the Five Elements within a person in order to identify the one element which is the cause of the complaint.The collective of all the patient's Body-Mind-Spirit symptoms will point to the individual cause of their problem.

The Five Elements are: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water. The Five Elements co-exist in a complete balance and harmony when they follow a rhythmic and cyclical flow all together. The best example of such a cycle in nature is the seasons. The cause of the disease or suffering can be diagnosed by finding the "weakest link" in the cycle of Five Elements and by treating it.

The treatment is a choice of individually selected points for each individual to establish harmony among all the Elements. When the cause is treated the patient will heal and the symptoms will cease.

In a human being, each Element relates to different physical organs, physiological processes, mental processes and emotional experiences of our lives.

Five Elements in the Body :

1. All Five Elements take part in the process of digestion, absorption and elimination.

The related maladies are healed by treating the element that was the first one to fail in this cycle. That brings all other Elements into balance.

Five Elements in the Spirit :

2. All Five Elements need to work together for us to make an inspired and wise plan that we can passionately carry forward to its fruition.

FEA can heal that part that inhibits us from achieving fulfilling work and therefore our potential.

The secret of FEA's success is that it keeps all three Spirit-Mind-Body in equal balance at all times.
This is why this healing is lasting.

Five Element Acupuncture works by healing primarily the injured or unfulfilled Spirit. The lifted Spirit will be sustained if the Mind supports it with a respective change in our thinking and behaviour. This means disease-causing behaviour is replaced with health creating thinking and habits. With time, symptoms cease and the Body regains health.

Other Body-Mind-Spirit conditions treated by Five Element Acupuncture :

Examples of Body-Mind-Spirit relationship :

• Lower back pain can be experienced when an individual fears that life's demands may be greater than their own reserves to cope with them. It is said that such person feels a lack of the "back bone" for own support.

• Shoulder tensions and related headaches can be the result of "carrying too much on one's shoulders". A person takes on too much responsibility due to being unable to allow others to share their "load".

• Knee problems may be related to underlying fear for survival, as if a person feels he/she needs to be always "on the run".

• Gynaecological problems are likely to be related to a woman's expression of her femininity. In FEA femininity relates to the balance of nurturing for self and others equally.

• Breathing problems may be related to such problems as:
  - a life situation that "constricts" one's personal space.
  - anxiety in communicating and expressing self due to vulnerability.
  - living in continuous fear for survival, as if constantly "running".
  - repressed or held anger; or
  - unresolved grief.