Earthing. Most of you know this practice but how many of you are consistent with it during the colder months? Earthing or grounding is the practice of putting our feet or hands on the earth.

I sometimes don’t know how I will leave behind the summer that I love so dearly. But as I’ve continued over the years to get more balanced, I find that fall brings its own loveliness, and I find that I can focus on new hobbies that are equally as fulfilling.

It’s funny how I seem to go through and heal from things I am meant to teach and share with the world. In my recent trip outside the country, my first Pluto challenge was in letting go of an old part of myself that I thought I’d outgrown: people pleasing. Secondly, I was reminded why not to drink bottled water. It's so acidic, and my hand and ankle developed a terrible rash from this, even while I ate an alkaline diet. Water is life! Pure filtered water is so imperative for healing and maintaining our health, and I won’t forget this for my clients or myself in future travels. 

We need tools for the ways that we must change through these time. We need more quietude. We need less noise, less social media, and more time in nature to get quiet and find ourselves and get our answers. The Truths that only we can find.

In Chinese 5 Element Theory, we are at the end of the fifth season of late summer. The days are cooler, daylight is shortening, and we feel a difference in the energies since August. During this period where the Earth element is strongest, we need to focus on strengthening the correlating organs of the spleen, pancreas and stomach. Focusing on healing the gut and our “mother earth” will be the priority in order to strengthen our immunity for the fall season.