 Hello, our citizens. My name is Chris. I'm a brain education instructor from Rolling Hills, California. Today, we're going to focus on the five elements. The five elements is an Easter philosophy of energy management that creates harmony inside our body. Today, I'm going to focus on clearing the five elements. So on days when I feel particularly heavy, emotional, stressed out, bodies uncomfortable, that's a time when I'm going to use this practice to clear my five elements so that I can bring myself back to a more harmonious place. So let's get ourselves started. We'll bring our feet about shoulder width apart. Good. We're going to start with just a little bit of bouncing and shaking. So just start to activate the energy in our body. So bouncing, feel the feet, bounce the knees, bounce the hips, feel the vibration through the leg muscles. If they're heavy, shake them more. Good. Try your shoulders. Exaggerate the shoulders. If your chest, your back, your shoulders feel heavy, bounce them more. You're going to relax the hands. You can turn the head to erase the tension in the neck. So on days when I feel particularly emotional or heavy energy, I need to do more shaking, more vibration. That's the best way to clean the physical part. So I get into my body through this shaking to warm up. And then I use my flows to clean specific areas to help specify the energy. Good. Shaking it out about 30 more seconds and just breathe out through your mouth. So when we're clearing, we usually want to use an exhale through the mouth to release that energy. Let it go. Good. And slowly settle in. Good. Grab the earth. We're going to start a little tight to the opening. So as you inhale with the energy flow of your body, as you exhale, come down. As you inhale, let your chest ride, let your tailbone sink. Your front side is open. As you exhale, you tuck your tailbone, you sink your chest. Your back side is open. Inhaling up. Exhaling down. So see the energy flowing up. Chest rises, tailbone drops. Chest sinks, tailbone tucks. Try to feel that rhythm up and down this one. Breathing out through your mouth to release any other stress, any other tension. One more time. Let your hands float down. We're just going to rest our hands kind of like they're resting on top of a pond, relax the shoulder with a space in the armpits. We're going to use this neutral posture as a space to pause between the elements, just to get our bearings so we can shift our focus. So breathing in to your chest and out. So the first element we're going to focus on is mental. This is in our heart, our lungs and our large intestines. This is clearing a lot of grief and sadness. So you're going to connect the index fingers in the thumb. That's the end of the meridians. And then bring your hands up here in front of you. Good. As you inhale, you're going to open your hands spiraling your palms of face up. Lift your heart, open your chest. And then as you exhale, closing, bringing your hands back. Inhale, opening, exhale, closing. Keep working through that spine. Chest opens, tailbone drops. Exhale down. Let go of that sadness, let go of any grief. Try to let go. Good. One more time. Relax the hands, let them float down into our neutral posture. Relax the shoulders. Take two breaths here. Inhale. Good. Now we're going to move to our water energy. This is our kidneys. This is releasing fear. Take your right hand. You're going to put it on your kidney space. Lower back, right below your kidneys. Left hand is going to scoop energy. So you're going to do a little twist of the hips, scooping energy, lifting it up. Exhale, releasing all your fear, scooping new fresh energy. Letting go. Fear. Exhale. One more time on this side. Exhale. Spiral the hand, left hand on your back. Kidneys, inhale, scooping. Exhale, releasing. Really see that energy leaving your body. Letting go of all the stress and attention. Physical, emotional, mental. Bringing your hands back to our neutral position. Relax the shoulders. Two breaths. Now we're moving into our wood and an element that is our liver and our gallbladder. So we're going to bring our hands here in front of our solar plexus space. My left hand's on top, my right hand's on the bottom, and I'm going to push my left hand away. I'm going to pull my right hand back. Pinky touches my ribs, elbow back, push, and then switching sides, flipping the hands. Pinky touches ribs, pushing. So your palms facing up like you're shooting that energy out. So we're going to switch back and forth. So a breath can be two movements. So inhale. Exhale. This is releasing anger. So you might want to go a little faster and stronger depending on how much energy you need to clean. So the breath can be a little bit more disconnected as you're trying to release, as you're trying to clear that anchor, pull the elbow back, push the palm. Good. Breathing. Maybe a little forceful. Good. Two more. One and two. Feel the sides. Bring the hands back down to your neutral posture. Relax the shoulders. Find your long spine. Find your penifits with the earth. Two breaths. Releasing all the stress and tension. Good. And now we're going to be moving towards our fire element. This is our heart and our small intestines. This can be hate. This one can be a particularly heavy. So we want to let this go and use that breath. So for this one here, we're going to bring our arms up into a big, giant energy ball. One hand above the heart, one hand below the small intestines. Feel both of those fire organs in between. Relax the shoulders. Good. So from here, I'm going to spin this ball. So see this ball? I'm going to open my arm. I'm going to push energy out through my armpit. Good. Gather the ball coming back to the center. I'm going to spiral the ball. Pushing energy out from my heart. Push out that hate. Any venom inhaling here, spiraling, exhaling, coming back to the center. Really use that breath. There might be some yelling or some growling that comes along to let that tension out. Whatever needs to clean, let it clean. Sound is a very powerful use of energy. One more to each side, coming back to the middle and slowly coming back to our neutral posture. The final element we're going to come to is earth. Taking our two breaths. That has to do with our stomach and our spleen. This one releases a lot of worry, a lot of stress. Good. So bring your hands in front of your belly button area. One hand on the top. We're going to get the twisting through the hips again. As we in, as we exhale, push your hand out. As you inhale, bring it back. Your hands are going to flip. We're going to go the other direction. Pushing. Inhale, coming back. Exhale. Feel that palm tracing the earth, gathering the energy, using the earth energy, spreading out your stress and worry. Let it be dissolved, absorbed by the earth. Feel the energy leaving your body. Feeling lighter and stronger. One more each one. Coming back to our neutral posture. Two breaths here. Now we're going to bring down the energy, gather, inhale and up. Pulling the energy down. Wow. Continue to release. Clean away any of the heaviness, the tension. Inhaling up. Feel that you've gotten lighter physically, emotionally, mentally. Cleaning away old stress, old tension. Harmonizing, balancing those five elements. We're going to do one more time. Inhaling up. Exhaling down. Plasping hands, bringing over. Second chakra, lower dungeon. Bring your feet together and blowing the breeze. Feel the feet pressing the earth, let the energy move here. Feel the strength as your feet press the earth, as your crown reaches for the heavens, the universe. Feel how much lighter, clear your energy is within the circle, clockwise, around your abdomen. You can feel a little bit of wider. Consolidating, gathering all that energy into lower abdomen, into your lower dungeon. The foundation for all the energy in our body. Foundation for all five elements. Slowly coming in, sero-ing, inhale and exhale. Thank you for joining us for this clearing five element practice. So on days when I feel not my best, when I feel a little bit emotional, my body's tight, tighter than usual, or my mind's not clear, I will use this practice to clear that energy, to bring myself back to a better state, so that I can perform better in every way. So thank you for joining me for this practice. If you have more questions about the five elements, we did a video for each element, so you can learn the details a little bit better. You can learn the skills, you can learn more about the emotions, more about the way we can use them in our daily life. So thank you, Pace, so much. If you'd like to experience a full one-hour brain education, Pace, class, please contact the body and brain center near you.