Chakras & Chinese Meridian Hours: Metal
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 Metal.
In the clock format, there are two segments for each element, except Fire, which has four.
The Metal element covers 3–7 am which pertains to Lung and Large Intestine.
Lung is Yin Metal; Large Intestine is Yang Metal.
The emotional polarity of Metal is Inspiration and Grief.
In these meridians, worry can show up in both as a constant, low-level sadness, mostly from a focus on the past.
So what fixes the Grief? You might think I would answer Inspiration since it’s the emotional polar opposite, and it’s true, to be inspired does fix grief, but … the real thing that fixes grief is grieving. It’s worth a look at the etymology of the word. My spiritual brand of etymology reveals that grief comes from an Old French word meaning burdened.
Grief is a burden we carry until we grieve it. That means looking at it, holding it, forgiving yourself and the other, and allowing whatever feelings there are to rise up and release. Then you get to inspiration. Interestingly, the word root -spir- in inspiration means to breathe. One of the simplest things to do with grief is to breathe slowly, deliberately, quietly, letting the infusion of new life change the grief.
And of course, there are fixes related to the chakras. Large Intestine is part of the digestive process that helps us make fuel of whatever we eat, and related to the Second Orange Sacral Chakra. Lung is the principle portion of the respiratory system, and connected to the Fourth Green Heart Chakra. Wear orange or green or both, drink rainbow-charged water, make of habit of noticing your tiniest of daily inspirations, whether they be a good sigh, a long cry, a lovely idea.
Think of it this way: most often grief puts our minds so far into the past that we completely ignore what’s happening now. But, now is where we live. Now is where we find inspiration. Now, is when our brilliant bodies are converting food to fuel, and breathing.
Beloved, grief, like worry, is a thief, an insidious one. Sure, all sorts of dreadful things may have befallen us, and until we work through them, can burden us. If you can’t process whatever it is yourself, get help. Remember that inspiration is available 24/7/365. Just take a deep breath, and, like Elsa, let it go.
