Having just held a seminar focusing on the Earth element, I like to look back and think about why I like running these seminars so much and what I learn from them. They are not just occasions for me and Guy Caplan, my co-worker, to impart the knowledge we have gained from our many years of practice. If this was so, it would merely be a one-way process, much as though we were standing in front of a class of students teaching them something. But it is much more than that for me, for it is an opportunity to link up with five element acupuncturists and students, both in person and now online, as we open up the occasion to a large group of about 100 people watching us in Beijing.
What I most cherish is the feeling of belonging to a community again after these years of Covid lockdown, to a five element community which spreads far and wide around the world, and offers more and more patients the chance to transform their lives. In my last blog, I said that our treatments are "making it possible for our patients to fulfil whatever destiny fate has laid down for them" as expressed through their element. And this is how I view all that I do. My writings and teaching give me the opportunity to open people's minds and hearts to the potential which resides within their own and others' elements. However tired I often feel at the end of a day's teaching, I always wake the next morning with a lighter heart and the warm feeling of another job well done, something to be nurtured, particularly in these dark days.
I dedicate this blog to all who came in person to the seminar and to all in China who participated in our day online.
And now on to a day on the next element in our series, Metal, on Monday 28 November. Make a note in your diaries if you want to join us for another happy day immersed in the elements. You can look at our website www.sofea.co.uk for details of how to book a place.
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