Polarity Consciousness and the Five Elements

Water and earth together for the feminine principle of receptivity and form which has a negative force.

The ground. Structure and form. The most dense vibration. Highly magnetic Mother earth; the mother that holds us in our life down here in this world. She contains us with her edges, limits and boundaries. Within this safety, we can let go; the neck, the bowel, the knees. Bending the knees and bending the neck, softening into the ground of this world. She holds us. Here we receive nourishment and eliminate and release all that is not needed. This is then manure for our future. Earth is the edges, our edges. Survival, safety and the opposite pole of death and fear.  We exist down here due to earth's atoms, cells and dust that is magnetised into form by the Divine Feminine.  

When we work with the earth element we feel safer, more supported and freer; feel the solidity of the earth, work with grounding, clarify boundaries by clearly expressing what you need and negotiate with other's needs, experiment with saying no and then offer what is possible. Accept wealth and abundance in all its forms, rest, let-go of clutter and anything you don't need, let go of anything that leaves you feeling unsafe or insecure or drained.

 Whereas earth is the completion itself, it is water that will take us there. It naturally flows to ground and like earth it has a negative force and is highly magnetic.

 A higher vibration than earth, water is more fluid and  flowing. Highly receptive, like a woman held firm by her lover, she surrenders, she receives.... we feel...  we weep, we allow our sweetheart to touch our skin and pleasure delights our soul. With water we sink into our heart, into our surrendered self. For here, we are complex and emotional, healing and nurturing. The heart and breasts; the food of the Gods. The pelvis; the portal to the land of souls and centre of our sexual ecstasy and then our dear feet; the sea bed of the body. Blood, lymph, tears and sexual fluids. Water is flow and receptivity and its opposite pole is control and rigidity. In balance water makes us create, and we care, and we make love, we make food, we make life and we make pleasure. We flow in life and we flow in love. 

As human beings, when we work with the water element we deepen our relationship to our self and each other. We heal our self and embody more/incarnate further; feel your body, sense deeply into your feelings, what tenderness is under the anger or rage? Use the neutral principle to observe your feelings with love and self-compassion. Bodywork, dance, building capacity for pleasure, receiving, work to develop sexual energy by healing the traumas and old conditioning. Work with desire. What do you desire? 

Hot and magnificent, purifying and illuminating, fire is the element of the masculine principle of action and direction.

Fire is a step up in vibration from water. The opposite pole from the feminine, it has a positive force. The heat! And the action! This burning force that fires-up and energises all that we do. Our clear-headedness, our fiery digestion and the powerful muscles in our thighs that power us through mission after mission. It is fire that digests our food that then fuels our body to take the direction that we take, to give us the focus we must have, and the determination that we must find to do what we are here to do. It is fire that we feel when our face flushes with anger or shame or with passion and power. With expanded fire we feel confident and powerful when we have ambitiously stepped out of our comfort zone and expanded ourselves further into the world, firing-up our desires and making this world how we'd like it to be. With courage, enthusiasm and ignition, our fire illuminates our world and dominates our tasks to completion. Everyone has this principle within them.

When we work with the fire element we get to feel confident and powerful, determined and enthusiastic; work out/do weights, embrace our power/trust our power, push through our limits, step one small step out of our comfort zone, get behind our own back. Bring in the neutral to observe your relationship to fire and what you believe about it and yourself.

Air, along with ether forms the neutral principle of balance and peace.

Our breath, our balance, our counter balance, our waverings, our wonderings and our musings…. and love! Just as air brings things to balance, so does LOVE and compassion. And just as the force of LOVE connects everything, so does Air. We feel air also in our lungs as the balance of in-breath, out-breath... our heart-felt feelings as they come and go. Our kidneys; balancing as they bring this and take that and the intenstines as they keep this and let go of that. All the time. The ankles and calves arrange our balance in life as they adjust and readjust our position. Minute adjustments. The hands and arms join in; enabling, collaboration, the dance of balance and equilibrium. Air brings balance and harmony to our system body, psych and soul.

Work with the air element to help bring balance; breathing exercises, self compassion and self love,  yoga balances.  

Air is the bringer of harmony but ether is the harmony itself; the point of balance. The peace. The be-ing.

Still, peaceful, pure is Ether. Neither negative nor positive, Ether is pure neutrality. It is the space that the elements are in. It is meditation. It is standing on a hill and observing the view. Peaceful, endless, now. Spacious presence. On another level, we feel it when we  bring our attention to our mid-line – the very centre of our being; when we leave our thoughts and switch our attention to observing our felt experience in our body. Here, in the centre of our being, feelings and emotions express as physical sensations; the heat of  anger in our stomach or subtle fear in our belly or the warmth of joy in our chest.

Observing and witnessing painful feelings, enables them to digest, release and let go. Here, we are more like our Godlike self, more master of our world, where we can observe all that is. 

When we work with ether we feel more spacious and peaceful; make space to "be". Make space to observe your inner world. Make space to love you and observe you with compassionate awareness. Practice loving spacious observance of feelings by tracking them in the body. Observe their is-ness. Practice listening. Slow down and pause. Make-love... slowly...