Masters of Health Magazine November 2017 | Page 49

Fire

You are ready for fire now. Fire is fast, staccato, and precise movement. When you have a lot of fire, you are enthusiastic, motivated, and nothing can stop you. It is movement with focus and purpose. It can erupt like a volcano or simmer like a slow boil. You can have a big fire or small fire, depending on your comfort zone. Fire is happy, jovial, warm, loving, brave, determined, enthusiastic and accomplished.

This is the element needed to take action on the things you have been wanting to get done.

This is where your New Years resolutions take shape and you can plan for the future and the new year.

Fire Affirmations-I feel the warmth of a fire on a cold day. I have motivation and will power to keep the promises I make to myself.

I can say no when I want to and yes when I want to.

Fire Exercises

This exercise brings an awareness of the feeling tone of the elemental nature of Fire. To be direct, straightforward, fearless and to feel what that feels like in your body.

Know that you can always make a big fire or a little fire. No one is watching. To get the feeling of fire, we look to mythology. We find our heroes and heroines and they take us on a journey through

our senses.

To learn more about fire exercises Order

Thea's book "Moving with elements" here.

Water

I can adapt and change with every new circumstance.

I go with the flow.

I appreciate all I have and I am .

I nourish the relationships I have, and am open to meeting new people and making new connections this holiday season.

Stand tall, feet placed under your hips,

and let your arms come into prayer

position, then reach both arms up overhead,

let your eyes follow your hands,

reaching up. Look through the heart, your

both hands touching overhead makes, then bringing your arms apart and down to

shoulder level out to your sides, take a deep breath in and imagine you are surrounding yourself with light.

Repeat, bringing your arms back up, let your back have a slight arch as your gaze looks upward.

Then finish coming back to center in prayer position. Release your back and relax your neck. Let your knees have a slight bend. (They say the older tangueros, the elder couples that dance tango in Argentina, keep their bodies strong by

dancing 3 hours a day with a slightly

bent knee.)

Then allow your awareness to go into your feet and feel the solidity of the earth below you.