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What is the Creative Cycle?

What is the Creative Cycle? What are the Five Elements? The creative cycle is a process that underpins all transactions and processes in life, from how projects unfold, to your menstrual cycle, to the shifting seasons within a year and changing energies of a day, to your life cycle as a woman. There are Five Phases in the Creative Cycle, which correspond to the Five Elements. The Five Elements of the Creative Cycle The Five Elements of the Creative Cycle are Water, Wood, Fire, Earth and Metal, and these are respectively energies that underpin all the processes unfolding and matter existing…

Emotional Overwhelm: How to manage it

Emotional Overwhelm: How to manage it Manage Anger, heal from Sadness and overcome Fear through the Five Elements Emotional overwhelm is the feeling of being taken over by intense emotion that feels difficult to manage. When you experience emotional overwhelm, it can feel all-consuming. Can you think back to a time where you were uncontrollably angry, terribly afraid or unconsolably sad? Most of us will feel overwhelmed at some point in our lives. Emotional overwhelm can affect our ability to think and act rationally. It can even stop us from performing daily tasks. Some causes of emotional overwhelm include traumatic…