Earth
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Earth is associated with the late summer, the time of year when everything has started to slow down after the exuberance of the full summer. It is that mellow yellow time when the fruits and the harvest are in abundance and waiting for us to fill our cupboards, content that they are full and ready for the coming winter months. |
The key words for Earth energy are nourishment, nurturing, mothering, centredness, rhythms and groundedness.
Earth energy is associated with sympathy and the ability to think and concentrate, the Stomach and Spleen, the colour yellow, humidity, sweet taste, the muscles and the mouth. In balance, we feel content and fully at home within ourselves and truly nourished by the life we have created for ourselves. Out of balance, we can be dissatisfied, constantly worrying and have a feeling of having a hole that can never be filled. Eating disorders are very common, coming from the inability to be truly nourished at a deep level