Find One Person to Give to Every Day

The energetic season known as Wood in Traditional Chinese Medicine and which is practiced in Phytobiodermie's lines of organic skincare products is a time for GIVING. When we give we regenerate our own selves. Find someone every day, if at all possible, to give to. That's a nice side-effect, but never our reason for giving. We give just to give. And it doesn't always have to include money. Here are some ideas:

• Send a greeting card in the mail to someone who wouldn't expect it. (Greeting cards in the mail are becoming a thing of the past, so it will be appreciated!)

• Give someone a hand massage for five minutes.

• Defer to the person behind you in the cashier line. Let him go ahead of you no matter how much he has in his cart.

• Give a few dollars to the homeless person on the street corner with no strings attached.

• Make a little extra of whatever batch of food you're about to make and give the extra to someone you care about.

• Make a phone call to someone who's been on your mind and see how they're doing.

• Let the other person have the good parking spot and just drive on.

5 Novel Ways to Break Out of Doing the Same Old Thing

The energetic season of Wood offers us the golden opportunity to renew and rebirth ourselves. It's time to break free of old habits and stuffy rote ways of going about our everyday. Here are 5 fun ways to break out!

1) Put on your clothes in opposite order.

2) Sleep in your bed in the opposite direction.

3) Invite someone else out to lunch with you.

4) Don't cook your food. Eat it raw!

5) Give five people a hand massage for about five minutes each. 

Regaining Balance in the Energetic Season of Wood/Spring

For the energetic season* we have entered into known as Wood, we benefit from focusing on these areas for healing, restoration and regaining balance in our lives:

Color: Green

Quality: Growth

Sense/Organ: Sight/Eyes

Indicator: Nails

Tissue: Tendons/Ligaments

Taste: Sour

Emotion: Anger

Climate: Wind

Direction: East

Organs: Liver (Yin) / Gall Bladder (Yang)

What Creates Imbalance

Doing the same old thing

Excess

Congestion, laziness

Drugs

Overeating

What Creates Balance

Keeping warm

Staying quiet

Sleeping well

Being at home

Looking within
Giving

*According to Traditional Chinese Medicine principles