Chakras & Chinese Meridian Hours: Fire
I fell over a file in my computer the other day that I didn’t remember saving. Does that ever happen to you?
The file held a simple list of polarities related to the Five Elements of Traditional Chinese Medicine, or TCM.
So let’s take a look at the elemental connections to be found in the meridian clock. Next comes Fire — the middle of the five.
In the clock format, there are two segments for each element, except Fire, which has four.
The Fire element covers 7–11 pm which pertains to Reproductive Organs & Endocrine Glands, and 11 am-3 pm which pertains to Heart and Small Intestine. The Reproductive Organs are Yin Fire; the Endocrine Glands are Yang Fire. The Heart is Yin Fire and the Small Intestine is Yang Fire.
It makes sense to me that all of these go together elementally. They work together!
The emotional polarity of Fire is Joy and Overexcitement.
In these meridians, overexcitement can show up in both Reproductive Organs and Heart as a constant, low-level anxiety. In both Endocrine Glands and Small Intestine, overexcitement can manifest as hyper- conditions — all things going a little too fast, or hypo- conditions — everything moving too slowly.
So what fixes the Anxiety? Well, of course Joy. It’s worth a look at the etymology of the word. My spiritual brand of etymology reveals that anxiety comes from the same roots as anguish and angina! The secret to resolving it can be found in joy. Ah, but what is joy? Most of us confuse joy and happiness. Happiness is circumstantial; joy is your very nature. Joy arises from within.
And of course, there are chakra fixes related to four chakras! Reproductive Organs connect to the First Red Root Chakra, Endocrine Glands connect to the Seventh Violet Crown Chakra, Heart connects to the Fourth Green Heart Chakra, and Small Intestine connects to the Second Orange Sacral Chakra. Their colors range from Red to Violet: wear a rainbow, make sure you can see some matched set of rainbow things (right across from my desk is a row of eight bottles of different colored glitter — you guessed it, the rainbow! Drink rainbow-charged water, take little opportunities to feel your own joy in any situation. It will surprise you how much humans have learned to accept our anxiety as the norm instantly rather than digging deep for a calmer, gentler, long-lasting form of joy, generated from the inside out.
Think of it this way: most often anxiety causes one of four reactions. We want to fight, flee, freeze, or fawn. These represent body, heart, mind, and spirit. Anxiety can paralyze a life, limit a life, consign a life to a narrow band of emotion, or turn us into people-pleasers without so much as a moment’s regard for ourselves.
Beloved, anxiety is really quite simple: it’s the human experience of the unknown. It indicates that something new is arising. We can meet it with anxiety, sure, but another choice might be to return to the joy that arises from within — the one that has no cause, save the blessing of being alive.
