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| The Mixed Types |
| Fire/Earth: You mix practicality with impracticality, impulsiveness with patience. You can be the most reliable of persons .. who suddenly goes off without notice. You can make the visionary real. You mix strength and courage. Trouble results when you are insensitive to your environment, become self-centered to the point of hypochondria, or fail to take proper health measures or precautions. |
| Every person relates to each of the four elements differently, depending on their varying emphasis in the personality. For example, one person may be a "natural" swimmer, preferring to exercise in the water, sensing that the sea or lake shore acts as a restorative. Another is a "natural" runner, preferring to have the Earth firmly under his or her feet at all times and taking joy in the sights, sounds, and smells of the land beneath. The elements refer to the most basic energies within us, essential dynamic life forces. The elemental makeup is the energy pattern of the individual. A grasp of these life principles and how they operate is a major step toward understanding what makes one ill and what will heal both physical and emotional disorders. |
| Fire/Air: You put ideas into action, join vision to logic. You are objective but can be affectionate as well. You like to gain knowledge about your own health and will seek out appropriate treatment from an intellectual standpoint. Trouble results when you disconnect from your spiritual needs and concentrate too narrowly on the intellectual level, or when you exhaust yourself through restlessness and unrealistic adventures. |
| Fire/Water: You are the most intuitive of the Mixed Types. You are very fluid and your connection to your inner realm is amazing. You get accurate hunches about what is wrong with you if you feel ill. Impressionable and sensitive, you respond well to visualizations to promote health and healing. Trouble results when you succumb to hysteria and over-emotionalism or wall yourself off in your own private universe. |
| Earth/Air: You are extremely efficient, combining objectivity with practicality, and you are likely to be involved in your own health and health care, using conventional means of treatment for illness while being open to unorthodox methods. You plan and execute well and are in a positive to stay on top of a situation. Trouble results when you fall prey to skepticism, pessimism, or a cynical view of life. |
| Earth/Water: You are simultaneously sensitive and grounded, both intuitive and practical. You have a talent for accepting whatever cards life deals to you and making them work. When ill, you tend to feel your way into your own depths to find the cure. Trouble results when you overindulge, which can produce addictions, or use your depths as a means of escape from harsh reality. |
| Air/Water: You are extremely sensitive, combining compassionate feelings with objectivity. You can detach from your emotions and empathetic responses and analyze your experience coolly. With both a logical mind and the ability to feel, you can effect the course of any illness from both angles. Trouble results when you rely too heavily on your intellectual abilities, which makes you high-strung and nervous. |
| This is a simple exercise designed to enable you to increase the vital force in your body in order to combat illness or effect healing. It can also be used anytime you are tired and need to refresh yourself. You can do this almost anywhere .. sitting quietly at home, in your car, on a train. In the middle of a bustling city, slip into a church .. and breath in energy. Relax and close your eyes. Tell yourself that you are now going to add vital energy every time you inhale deeply. Think of it as putting extra dollars into your energy bank for use whenever you need it. Realize that you are always surrounded by this vital healing force, that it sustains and nourishes you all the time, even when you are unaware of it. Begin to breathe slowly and rhythmically, not altering your breath pattern but simply becoming aware of it. Now, begin to breathe deeply .. slowly and deeply. As you inhale each breath, be aware of the energy coming into your body. Imagine it filling up all the cells in your body like you would fill a balloon by blowing air into it. Let the sense of being filled with energy spread throughout your body. Feel it energize your mind. Hold each breath for a few seconds while you imagine these results. Then, as you exhale, feel the energy being retained within you. Let the breath go out smoothly and easily. Do not force or strain. Enjoy! |
| Breathing Healing Energy |