Jul 11, 2022
Are you familiar with the Five Elements? Dondi Dahlin dives into each element and how working with the elements can help address health challenges and lets you age in a way that feels good!
In this episode, Cathy and Dondi discuss:
- Defining what the Five Elements are: water, wood, fire, earth, metal
- Understanding that each element has specific parts of the body that govern it
- Examples of personality types and common emotions for each element
- Different body parts that connect to the fire and earth elements
- The history of the Five Elements and why it’s growing in popularity
- Benefits of understanding the Five Elements and control cycles
- How Dondi learned about the Five Elements and different energy systems
- Whether or not people can completely change their element
- How to know which element you are and the elements of other people
- How knowing the Five Elements can help predict health challenges for ourselves and others
Memorable Quotes:
- “The five elements are this incredible system about personality typing. Also, it's a health system as well, and the five elements are water, wood, fire, earth, and metal…once you find out what your element is, you'll also find out what parts of the body govern that element.”
- “It diffuses it so you can relax. Oh, I see I have this foundation, this underlying vibration that doesn't put me in a container but it sort of contains who I am, and I don't have to beat myself up anymore. I get it, I understand who I am so much better.”
- “An element can be suppressed by a school or a family or a way of life that made that element go dormant. So does a person really switch their element completely? Or was that element always there and just settled underneath the late layers and waiting to come out? That's a question that we still grapple with.”
- “You can do things so you can age in a way that is vital and that feels good and where you aren't walking around hunched over with health challenges. Just start to embrace your elements and it does wonders.”
Dondi Dahlin is a bestselling author and has been a recipient of many book awards for her international best-seller The Five Elements, based on the world’s oldest personality type system. She has taught at ACEP, OMEGA, Hay House, Shift Network, Mindvalley, Feathered Pipe Ranch, and events throughout North America and Europe.
Dondi co-wrote The Little Book of Energy Medicine with her mom Donna Eden who is a renowned healer and pioneer in the field of Energy Medicine. Before Dondi started working with her mom, she performed in over 30 countries, was featured in 100 commercials, took the titles of both Outstanding Speaker in the Nation and Belly Dancer of the Universe, and remains a member of the Screen Actors Guild.
Dondi is also a mom who home birthed and home schools her son. She became a historical preservationist when she fought to list her home, the only Victorian Folk House in San Diego as “protected” and on the historical register.
Mentioned In This Episode:
- The Basics of Eden Energy Medicine
- The Radiant Circuits (The "joy generators" of the body)
- The Five Elements (with me, my sister, and our mom)
Eden Method - https://edenmethod.com/free-classes/
Links to resources:
Health Coach Group Website