Inspired Action Alchemy

Leta and Jaye share their humor, fun and gratitude for creating 99 episodes and discuss Alchemy, the Five Elements, and the Nine Palaces.

"99 challenges…and a podcast ain't one…with the attitude of gratitude."

By Jaye McElroy and Leta Herman | Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram https://chrt.fm/track/5E3D1B/traffic.libsyn.com/inspiredactionpodcast/IAP-099.mp3 Wrapping up and recapping Season Five of the Podcast

• What is and what isn't…Wu Wei?
• Uncovering your authentic self with a deeper understanding the Five Elements
• Daoism and the Curriculum of this Lifetime
• Exploring the Nine Palaces – seeking balance
• Understanding the effects of trauma – and how Alchemy can help
• The Nine Stages of Alchemy
• Sneak Peek at Season Six!

Thought Quotes:

"Don't get in the way of the Wu Wei!"

"Alchemy is about transforming yourself, and in order to do that, you need to love yourself. So much of what we're talking about is baby steps."

"Wu Wei is the idea of being inspired in every moment, to either take action, or not take action. Every footstep you take is the exact right one in front of you, and you're so in tune with yourself and your destiny that your foot always lands in that perfect footstep."

Links in this Episode:

• The Alchemy Learning Center — a new online community of learning. Five Element, Nine Palaces, and Alchemy online classes on live online events.
• New classes on the Five Elements: Becoming an Alchemical Healer Series
• Master Alchemy Apprenticeship program
• Check out our new App in the App Store or the Google Play Store!
• Through the Mystery Gate, by Leta and Jaye
• What If… T-Shirt
• How to send us your Five Element walking videos
• Email your questions and voice memos to Info AT InspiredActionPodcast.com.

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What do Waters really want? Ocean, tsunami, still pond, frozen water, stagnant swamp… or playing on the Slip-N-Slide! It's all good! Waters want fun and intensity… and they want to matter.

"Waters inherently know they are here to experience the limited physical body within the unlimited universe."

By Jaye McElroy and Leta Herman | Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram What does Water REALLY want?

• Water has the ability to shift between varying states of being, sometimes within a single day.
• Waters' true nature best described as a state of stillness and movement happening simultaneously.
• Waters seek excitement and intensity; being able to really dive into things.
• Waters want experiences and adventures; this could mean traveling and exploring, or it could mean reading about the adventures of others.
• Waters are all about wisdom, getting to the deeper knowing that's underneath the fabric of existence.
• Waters want to feel like their existence will matter; that somehow their presence here mattered.
• To answer the What Do I Really Want Question, Waters have to really get to Trust and this will bring them to the peace of mind in knowing that every next footstep is the right next footstep.
• Some Waters want their legacy to be teaching and imparting their wisdom to others, so that they can know that they really mattered.

Thought Quotes:

"Waters are so great in emergency because they've got that ability to be really active on the outside but calm cucumbers on the inside."

"Waters, more than any other element, are acutely aware of time. This drives them to make the best of their lives."

"Each water has a different idea of what's safe to do, but they like to push the edge of that."

Links in this Episode:

• The Alchemy Learning Center — a new online community of learning. Five Element, Nine Palaces, and Alchemy online classes on live online events.
• New classes on the Five Elements: Becoming an Alchemical Healer Series
• Master Alchemy Apprenticeship program
• Check out our new App in the App Store or the Google Play Store!
• Through the Mystery Gate, by Leta and Jaye
• What If… T-Shirt
• How to send us your Five Element walking videos
• Email your questions and voice memos to Info AT InspiredActionPodcast.com.

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What do Metals really want? They may want a fancy new car, an amazing trip around the world, or the perfect romance, but deep down they want to be free from attachment and ultimately let go of wanting altogether. In this episode, we will discuss Metal's desire to grasp the ineffable and of course their ability to see the shenanigans going on all around them!

"It's like they're just sitting back in their lazy-boy chair, watching the rest of us go through all our machinations… and they just see it for what it really is — a bunch of shenanigans."

By Jaye McElroy and Leta Herman | Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram What does Metal REALLY want?

• Metal has the ability to "see through" other people
• Metals want – nothing. When you're living in the Dao, how can you want anything?
• You exit into life and enter into death. Metals live in-between
• Metals have no boundary of time and space
• Metal Movies: Nomadland, Call Me By Your Name, Lost in Translation, Wings of Desire, the Tree of Life, and The Fountain
• Metals want to fly free on their magic carpet rides but at the same time have deep connection
• To answer the What Do I Really Want Question, Metals have to imagine they have no obligations and then ask the question

Thought Quotes:

"Nothing really matters – to me!"

"It's like Steve Jobs took the best of Wood and their love of gadgetry and combined it with the best of Metal and their love of clean lines and beautiful design, and built a company on those high values – and what a success that was!"

"To want nothing… in Daoism, well, that just means you're living in the Dao. How can you even have a want from that place?."

Links in this Episode:

• The Alchemy Learning Center — a new online community of learning. Five Element, Nine Palaces, and Alchemy online classes on live online events.
• New classes on the Five Elements: Becoming an Alchemical Healer Series
• Master Alchemy Apprenticeship program
• Check out our new App in the App Store or the Google Play Store!
• Through the Mystery Gate, by Leta and Jaye
• What If… T-Shirt
• How to send us your Five Element walking videos
• Email your questions and voice memos to Info AT InspiredActionPodcast.com.

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Searching for Truth, Harmony, and Belonging among the rubble….When you ask yourself what you really want and the first things you think about is everyone else you care about… you may be Earth! But can you put aside everyone else's needs to discover what you really want?

"When we use the word HOME in this podcast, we're talking about… anything that gives a person a sense of belonging."

By Jaye McElroy and Leta Herman | Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram What does Earth REALLY want?

• What does Earth really want? Deeper understanding of themselves and the people in their lives!
• The Home Palace – it's about belonging and spiritual connection
• When the focus is on others – those who are struggling
• When Earth is depleted – Earth crisis
• Seeking Peace of Mind
• Pursuing deeper realizations and the power of THOUGHT
• Why Earths make great pyschologists
• Relax your mind and let your heart give you the answer to your What Do I Really Want question

Thought Quotes:

"It's resolved. That feeling like, "Yup, we dug deep, we worked it out, and now we can move on." That's what drives them. That feels like success."

"Put aside this very strong desire for your loved ones to be well. Let's make it hypothetical. Let's say you already have your wish that your family members all have peace and harmony – now, let's have you ask the question – What do YOU really want – for yourself, deep down."

"Let your analytical mind relax a bit… don't think, and let the answers arise from deep inside yourself, from a place beyond mind."

Links in this Episode:

• The Alchemy Learning Center — a new online community of learning. Five Element, Nine Palaces, and Alchemy online classes on live online events.
• Master Alchemy Apprenticeship program
• Check out our new App in the App Store or the Google Play Store!
• Through the Mystery Gate, by Leta and Jaye
• What If… T-Shirt
• How to send us your Five Element walking videos
• Email your questions and voice memos to Info AT InspiredActionPodcast.com.

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What do Fires really want? What are they really looking for? They want to burn brightly in the world! But what if they don't feel safe and accepted? Can they feel safe enough to be a lighthouse of love in the world – letting their love burn brightly!

"The Fire heart is like a big furnace, they're looking for passion through other people and social circumstances that fuels the furnace – those are the Fire Starters… those little sticks and crumpled up pieces of paper that really help bring them back from the barely burning coals, so they can burn brighter."

By Jaye McElroy and Leta Herman | Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram What does Fire REALLY want?

• What does Fire really want? To burn brightly in the world!
• The Social Palace – if it was one of the Nine Palaces – it would be a Fire palace
• Acceptance allows Fires to feel safe to burn brightly
• Why Fires need to be loved – by EVERYONE
• What happens when a Fire's fire goes out…
• Restarting a Fire's fire
• Excitement and wildfires
• Why some Fires can't receive love
• How some Fires get burned out
• The Prosperity Palace and why it's so hard

Thought Quotes:

"They think everyone has to love them all the time and then they get shocked because they put their hearts on their sleeves and then someone comes along and knocks their ice cream cone on the ground."

"And that's a Fire's life. Sometimes people are mean, but you manage to keep your coals burning low, or something bigger happens and the Fire goes completely out. And it takes a lot longer to bring it back up."

"They want to share good things and have people benefit and be excited about what they're excited about and have it spread like wildfire."

Links in this Episode:

• The Alchemy Learning Center — a new online community of learning. Five Element, Nine Palaces, and Alchemy online classes on live online events.
• Master Alchemy Apprenticeship program
• Check out our new App in the App Store or the Google Play Store!
• Through the Mystery Gate, by Leta and Jaye
• What If… T-Shirt
• How to send us your Five Element walking videos
• Email your questions and voice memos to Info AT InspiredActionPodcast.com.

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What do Woods really want? What are they really looking for? They want to do great things that leave the world a better place. Woods need to do great things and want these things to benefits others. But what if no one recognizes what they're doing? Can they recognize their own greatness?

"Recognition… It's that feeling that there's a reward for all your hard work… like someone is seeing the greatness of Wood. It's the constant , unwavering pursuit of greatness… but what's the point of making something great if all your friends and loved ones aren't better off for it?"

By Jaye McElroy and Leta Herman | Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram What does Wood REALLY want?

• What does Wood really want? Recognition!
• Someone sees your greatness and benefits from it
• How to avoid the "Why Bother" syndrome if you're Wood
• It's humble… it's what we all think will make the world a better place
• They love to be motivated and love to motivate others. They're always looking for ways to improve
• The Oracle – all-knowing, future-telling knack and why Steve Jobs had it
• Jaye's Gravel Biking obsession
• Crypto-currency and why Woods love it
• Wealth and Health – the palaces of the Wood Element – Wood needs optimal resources and physical wellness to accomplish great things.

Thought Quotes:

"The big Win-Win is everyone is happy and that makes the Wood person happy."

"It certainly doesn't feel like greatness if at the end of the day it feels like big a waste of time… it's the challenge of the defeated Wood."

"How does a Wood measure greatness? A giant yard stick! A Shrek-sized yard stick!"

"The more good you do, the less recognition you need."

Links in this Episode:

• The Alchemy Learning Center — a new online community of learning. Five Element, Nine Palaces, and Alchemy online classes on live online events.
• Master Alchemy Apprenticeship program
• Check out our new App in the App Store or the Google Play Store!
• Through the Mystery Gate, by Leta and Jaye
• What If… T-Shirt
• How to send us your Five Element walking videos
• Email your questions and voice memos to Info AT InspiredActionPodcast.com.

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Can you ask yourself what you REALLY want and not what everyone else wants you to want? The answer is not necessarily logical… it's your heart's desire.

"In the big scheme of things, Alchemy isn't about what you truly want. It's bigger than that. But it's our wanting, our lusting, our striving that gets in the way of doing our Alchemy. So if we have that longing, it's going to interfere with our ability to fly free in life."

By Jaye McElroy and Leta Herman | Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram What do you REALLY want?

• The second step of Stage One of Alchemy – ask deeper questions – what do you REALLY want?
• What is your curriculum of this lifetime (the Nine Palaces)
• Immortality
• The story of meeting an immortal
• Asking the question without being influenced by your family, friends, coworkers or society in general
• What kinds of things does each Element want?

Thought Quotes:

"The longing is really clinging to something that we can't seem to fulfill."

"It's ironic actually that the thing we want most is best achieved when we stop wanting it so badly and start allowing it."

"You can think of it as your destiny. You came to have the experience."

Links in this Episode:

• The Alchemy Learning Center — a new online community of learning. Five Element, Nine Palaces, and Alchemy online classes on live online events.
• Master Alchemy Apprenticeship program
• Check out our new App in the App Store or the Google Play Store!
• Through the Mystery Gate, by Leta and Jaye
• What If… T-Shirt
• How to send us your Five Element walking videos
• Email your questions and voice memos to Info AT InspiredActionPodcast.com.

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Can you trust enough to take the next step in the darkness? Alchemy for Water people is having the ambition to get to get where you want to go but having no idea how to get there. It's just about trusting in the moment that you can take the next step.

"Water may be willing to face the darkness, and what helps them the most is to rely on their ability to Trust … trust life and the universe, and know that whatever comes their way, good, bad, intense, whatever it is, they will know what to do about it in that moment."

By Jaye McElroy and Leta Herman | Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram What do Waters fear?

• Focus on Career
• The path of Wisdom and experiences
• Intensity and intense experiences
• Mattering in life
• Anticipation – the scariest thing of all!
• Trust with a capital T – trust there is light at the end of the tunnel
• Preparation is knowing you can adapt to anything
• Avoid frozen and keep moving

Thought Quotes:

"It's like being afraid of being invisible and at the same time being afraid of being too visible. And that's where Waters hang."

"Out of all the Elements, Water is the most varied… any one thing we say about a Water does not apply to every Water person."

"The differences are whether Water is more still or moving. So it's stillness vs. movement."

Links in this Episode:

• The Alchemy Learning Center — a new online community of learning. Five Element, Nine Palaces, and Alchemy online classes on live online events.
• Master Alchemy Apprenticeship program
• Check out our new App in the App Store or the Google Play Store!
• Through the Mystery Gate, by Leta and Jaye
• What If… T-Shirt
• How to send us your Five Element walking videos
• Email your questions and voice memos to Info AT InspiredActionPodcast.com.

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Are your monsters your friends or foes? Alchemy for Metal people is like the children's book Where the Wild Things Are… where the ultimate lesson is to not only confront your demons but to embrace them and be friends with them.

"Metals in general have a permeable boundary… meaning that things infiltrate their exterior really easily. We call this having clouds on the outside."

By Jaye McElroy and Leta Herman | Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram What do Metals fear?

• Metals are attracted to dark things… dark humor, the macabre, life after death.
• They're easily affected by the outside world.
• They may have fear of being overtaken and lost.
• They're fascinated with old things and history.
• Hang onto old hurts and potentially harboring anger.
• Forgiveness is the advanced virtue of Metal.
• Freedom is the goal.

Thought Quotes:

"Harboring these gripes against people from your past ties you down. They're shackles on your ankles. They're the ballasts that keep you from flying on your magic carpet ride in life.There's an innocence and wonder that belongs to Earth, and there's this trust in goodness and truth."

"Metal just wants to be free. Free to roam. Free to be who they truly are and not have to fit into society's rules about social politeness and niceness."

"Real forgiveness is truly letting go and, what's even harder, truly forgetting."

Links in this Episode:

• The Alchemy Learning Center — a new online community of learning. Five Element, Nine Palaces, and Alchemy online classes on live online events.
• Master Alchemy Apprenticeship program
• Check out our new App in the App Store or the Google Play Store!
• Through the Mystery Gate, by Leta and Jaye
• What If… T-Shirt
• How to send us your Five Element walking videos
• Email your questions and voice memos to Info AT InspiredActionPodcast.com.

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Alchemy for Earth people is about overcoming the sense of invalidation to recover the sense of wonderment in the world.

"You're not afraid of the truth! You love the truth, but the darkness for you is filled with untruths."

By Jaye McElroy and Leta Herman | Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram What do Earths fear?

• What are the monsters in the dark for Earth?
• Invalidation or being ignored
• Untruths and liars
• Fear of not belonging to family or community

Thought Quotes:

"There's an innocence and wonder that belongs to Earth, and there's this trust in goodness and truth."

"So as much as you Earths want to examine yourselves and get to your own truths, I do know that slow and steady wins the race here."

"Maybe you had a lovely mother. You worshipped her, but now you see that she's just a liar."

Links in this Episode:

• The Alchemy Learning Center — a new online community of learning. Five Element, Nine Palaces, and Alchemy online classes on live online events.
• Master Alchemy Apprenticeship program
• Check out our new App in the App Store or the Google Play Store!
• Through the Mystery Gate, by Leta and Jaye
• What If… T-Shirt
• How to send us your Five Element walking videos
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