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Are you flowing freely in your life? Or are you frozen in your life, afraid to take your next step? Or are you stubbornly not letting go of the anger you feel? These are just a couple reasons why your heart may not be free if you’re the Water Element. Listen and learn how you can face your Water challenges.

"So remember, living in a state of anticipation...this is water. And hopefully that anticipation is like a really wonderful feeling of exciting events in the future. But we always say your greatest gift can be your worst nightmare for every element. So this excitement for life can also be dread and terror for life when life is potentially delivering bad stuff in the future. "

 

What are the Water tentacles of the heart?

• The number seven is the number of potential. And Water is all about potential!
• Waters don't mind waiting because they live in anticipation.
• You're not a freak or an alien... you might just be WATER!
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• Water is the most varied Elemental type.
• Waters excel in an emergency.
• Drama, trauma and the Dalai Lama - Waters love intensity and quietude/wisdom/meditation - the challenge is to have good intensity not bad intensity in life.
• Likely Water tentacles are: Fear, Apathy, Over-Indulgence and Deep-Seated Anger.
• The emotion associated with Water is often translated as "fear" but we like to use the word "anticipation."
• Fear as a negative emotion is more like PTSD. It's about freedom... do you have the freedom to drive on the highway even if you feel afraid?
• Anticipation should be a really wonderful feeling of excitement about the future.
• The Thirteen Ghost Points in Pod 29 and Pod 30.
• The Apathy tentacle is like being frozen in fear - like the Deer in the Headlights or Woolly Mammoth version of Water - a refusal to move and flow.
• The feeling of lack can bring out the over-indulgence tentacle for Waters.
• Waters can tend to not want to confront and stuff their anger, which causes the Deep-Seated Anger tentacle.
• To free yourself from these tentacles, do the Free Your Heart meditation in the Stage Two of Alchemy meditations in the Alchemy Learning Center.

 

 

 

One might be like a still pool of water and one might be like a rushing river, and those two don't seem alike at all... but wait a while, a couple minutes, a couple hours... time doesn't matter to water. They might even switch places energetically because all waters have the capability of being a calm lake or a tsunami.

 

For Metals, a Free Heart can mean the difference between flying and falling. How can the Metal Elemental type free their hearts and fly free in life? Can you let the power of the Metal Lungs let go of deep-seated anger and jealousy to fly their magic carpet through life instead of falling and going splat?

"If you can say that you always do this particular thing whenever that particular situation happens, the question is why ... and at the core of this is the idea that those issues probably come from your heart pains, which come from past experiences that we can't let go of, and are haunted by -- even if it's completely unconscious."

What are the Metal tentacles of the heart?

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• Apathy and Deep Seated Anger are the the primary tentacles for Metal people (bonus: Temptation and Jealousy).
• The Yin nature of Metals makes them more reserved and observant - less "overly involved" - so more prone to retreat and shutting down.
• A Metal person's nightmare could have them feeling disconnected and unable to find the way back.
• The Apathy is the feeling that they'd rather do nothing -- life is just too painful -- when they've experienced deep trauma and the disconnect can feel all encompassing.
• Apathy can be a mechanism where total surrender of CONTROL (especially in instances of trauma and abuse) allows for the Metal person to survive the circumstances of their environment.
• Even if they aren't doing something about it, a Metal person is going to feel Deep Seated Anger at the injustice of the situation; this could be suppressed and building up until a time when it explodes!
• Metals tend not to overindulge on things like food, though they might feel tempted by things they aren't supposed to have...
• A Metal person can get really stuck in addiction if it feeds the impulse to be non-compliant with a norm (they follow the rules but find ways to be slightly deviant) -- think about the "cool" smoker.
• Moxibustion or incense could help to offset some feelings of lack if a Metal smoker decides to quit.
• Metal Jealousy is about not getting the RESPECT they deserve, and seeing others get it.
• The Free Your Heart Meditation can help you to re-write the memories of experiences which have caused these tentacles to develop and create triggers in your life today.

Thought Quote:

"Notoriously some of the big kings and queens of rock and roll, sex and drugs, but in everyday life, we have them around us of course...they just love a good Rebel Yell!"

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• 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
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How can Earths free their hearts and feel a sense of abundance and nourishment in life? Can you let go of resentments and heal from the past... Tune in for this core Earth Element episode!

"The first step is acknowledging that the problem isn't outside of you. That these outer circumstances are happening, but inside it's time to look at yourself and why you're being so triggered...so first ask yourself: what are the triggers?"

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What are your Earth tentacles of the heart?

• What would happen if the Earth came to an abrupt halt?!
• Revisit Pod 2 and Pods 12-16 to brush up on basics of the Five Elements
• Two types of Earth: Stomach and Spleen. What does each mean?
• Food can play a major role in an Earth person's life...sometimes positive, sometimes negative.
• Earth people sometimes struggle with feelings of lack, coupled with a denial of this feeling, and this can occasionally lead to... Overindulgence.
• Some Earth people have tentacles that mess with their appetite, and may develop an eating disorder.
• The flavor of Deep Seated Anger for Earth is Resentment, and when unaddressed this can come out in some not-so-nice ways...
• Earth is right in the middle of Yin & Yang, and has some of both aspects.
• Earth Apathy can be understood as an extreme version of putting others' needs ahead of their own
• Occasional Jealousy (or Envy) can happen for Earths, especially when coupled with the deep seated anger and/or resentment.
• Earth people do not like feeling like they've been "duped"!
• How to address these tentacles? Earth goes into problem solving mode -- but can go round and round--so it's important to look inward.
• Check out the Free Your Heart Meditation in the Second Stage of Alchemy Meditations in the Alchemy Learning Center to practice this!

Thought Quote:

"They may have learned from trauma that they just don't matter at all, which is different than the Water wanting to matter, and they just go along with others, just to stay safe. They don't want to rock the boat or cause a rift."

Jaye McElroy

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• 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
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Supreme lover or supreme controller? Which are you? Are you trying to fill a hole of lack of love? Are you getting the love you deserve? Or are you trying to control everything and everyone around you? What stokes your fire and how can you spark your authentic heart again?

Maybe they also even got bullied in school, and maybe it came more from this feeling of isolation among friends. So that could be where Fire might feel a lack of love. And then, you know, when fire's not loved... it's disastrous.

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What are your Fire tentacles of the heart ?

• Fires tend towards over-indulgence, temptation, ego/pride and jealousy.
• Why Fires love a good smorgasbord
• The over-indulgence tentacle - filling the lack of love hole
• The temptation tentacle - also filling the lack of love hole
• Demi-sexual, and being attracted to those you have an emotional attachment to
• Healing the tentacle by going through the past and rewriting it
• The ego/pride tentacle - coming from the Fire need to be the Supreme Controller
• The jealousy tentacle - comparing yourself to other who have the love
• For the Trekkies out there - Smorgasborg!

Thought Quote:

And don't forget to wear smorgasbord pants. The ones with the stretchy elastic waist. I usually say buffet pants, but that word is out. That is so like 1990! Right now we're saying smorgasbord pants.

Fires love a lot of variety. We love to see variety everywhere we look in our visual field. That's why parties are so cool. There's lots of color, there's lots of people, and you know, the people are the most interesting.

So let's just say you're Fire and you have a feeling of lack inside, deep inside. that would be a heart pain. And that makes you feel like you need to fill this, lack - like a giant hole inside. And it's a constant sense of hunger. And so instead of going out and making friends and doing your fun Fire thing, you stand by that smorgasbord at the parties and stuff yourself nervously, and then you go home and eat an entire container of Paul Newman's O's.

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• 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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Saving the world is a big job and not everyone appreciates what Woods do for the rest of us. How can Woods heal the heart pains of being too much or not being seen for their greatness. Listen in for clues on how to heal Wood heart pains.

“I have a special relationship with fashion. For me it’s like a superhero cape… it gives me wings to fly.”

– Lady Gaga By Jaye McElroy and Leta Herman | Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram

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How Would Wood Unwind Their Tentacles?

• The Wood version of a poncho – Celine Dion in a cape!
• What to take on the Titanic, singing Celine Dion, and why Leonardo DiCaprio couldn’t fit on the door!
• Wood is the change agent of the world, and frustration or anger is what gives them the impetus to create that change.
• The Wood mind is constantly calculating odds and possible outcomes…it’s about optimal circumstances for survival at all times.
• The Wood way is about finding a better way, especially when its a Win-Win.
• When things don’t go Wood’s way…this is where the frustration can take a turn…
• The common Wood tentacles: Deep-Seated Anger and Ego/Pride
• Free Your Heart Meditation

• Moxibustion treatment – heat on acupoints
• How Woods utilize their Oracle for telling the future
• A Wood temper tantrum … Bradley Cooper in Chef
• Why Woods aren’t naturally Greedy, but Greed can be their tentacle

Thought Quote:

I can’t allow you to sing it because that could cause an uprising in Canada. I’m pretty sure the Canadian mounties were created to come after people who do really bad Celine Dion impersonations. So you do not want to upset our family up North, the Canadians, because it’s a real thing. They do not like you singing bad Celine Dion…”

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
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Is your heart wrapped in tentacles of old pain(s)? What are these tentacles? How can you release them? Leta and Jaye discuss some of the the concepts of freeing these tentacles so that your heart can be free!

“Are you free to do life the way you want to OR are you changing your life–radically or subtly–in ways that make your heart no longer be free to be you?”

By Jaye McElroy and Leta Herman | Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram https://chrt.fm/track/5E3D1B/traffic.libsyn.com/inspiredactionpodcast/IAP-102_final.mp3 A Kraken…a Ball of Twine…A Tentacle, Oh My!

• Give Pod 54 a listen if you want to hear Jaye talk about The Kraken
• Your shiny new bike was stolen…NOW WHAT?!
• What do we tell ourselves we have “learned” from the “bad” things that happened to us?
• Each Element has different experiences of how heart tentacles are formed and how they can be removed…more on that in the coming episodes!
• What do the Heart Tentacles and the Seven Deadly Sins have in common?
• The Trials of Lü Dongbin
• Tentacle Types: Lack versus Control
• Visit Pod 29 to learn about how the Ghost Points can help with tentacles of the heart

Thought Quote:

“We are actually meant to follow a path and have passion in our lives, that’s what this part of alchemy that we’re studying here is all about…getting you back in touch with your passions so that you can feel inspired to act on your inspirations.”

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
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Ho’oponopono is one way to free your heart through its Advanced Forgiveness method. Is your heart free to truly be your authentic self? If you have Heart Pains from past trauma or difficulties, then you may need to release them. Sing along with Leta and Jaye to the Free to Be You and Me song…or not!

“In order to align your heart with what you really want…your heart has to be fully accessible to you. It has to be allowed to feel the passion and excitement for life that only our hearts can bring.”

By Jaye McElroy and Leta Herman | Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram https://chrt.fm/track/5E3D1B/traffic.libsyn.com/inspiredactionpodcast/IAP_101_Final_Final.mp3 Forgiveness as Freedom

• Search the archives for Pod 61 if you want a fresh take on advanced forgiveness.
• Can you forgive those who have hurt you?
• What holds you back from forgiveness?
• Not everyone is ready to forgive–and thats ok! It’s a process and an ongoing conversation with yourself.
• How are we seeing ourselves and our goodness in contrast to the world around us, and how we have been hurt by other people?
• What’s this Ho’oponopono Prayer all about? And what is it…not quite?
• In choosing forgiveness, we free our hearts to then seek what it is we truly want, and be our most authentic selves!

Thought Quotes:

“There is no small feat in advanced forgiveness….it’s what we call a tall order.”

“If you feel like you can at least access your own heart, then you have the ability to access your healing magic…so you can release your heart pains on your own.“

“Unwrapping and untangling these heart-entrapping tentacles takes time, self-love, and a vigilant mind. This self-love can be rejuvenated and re-awakened in you, or it can be developed for the first time in your life.”

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
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• How to send us your Five Element walking videos
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This is where the magic happens. Our first episode for Season Six, which is all about the heart, explains how the magic of the heart happens and what we can do to improve our heart magic.

“What is the magic of the heart, and is it for everyone, not just for healers?”

By Jaye McElroy and Leta Herman | Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram https://chrt.fm/track/5E3D1B/traffic.libsyn.com/inspiredactionpodcast/IAP-100.mp3 Exploring the Heart of the Matter

• What and Where is the Void of the Heart?
• Heart Entrainment and the Magic of Healing
• The mystery of the heart is not meant to be understood on a logical “mind” level
• Some (most) of us have some Heart Pains we carry around which cause us emotional blocks
• Untangling the Tentacles of the Heart
• Self Love and Forgiveness – deep self inquiry and Alchemy can help with this
• Reclaiming and rewriting the stories we tell about our hearts, asking what the heart wants and needs
• Allowing self-recognition as a first step and taking your time

Thought Quotes:

“In Chinese medicine we believe a person’s spirit lives in that space inside the heart where the blood flows through. So a healer has to be able to access the void of a person’s heart in order to create the magic of all healing.”

“So you have to…train to entrain to un-train…just get on the train! Just get on the magic heart train!“

“Forgiveness isn’t about freeing them; it’s about freeing YOU.”

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
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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
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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.”

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• 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
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