“Love me, love me not.”
We open our arms like a big mirror and radiate warmth and love out from our hearts.
We open our arms like a big bowl and receive love and warmth back into our hearts.
This is the movement of Fire, establishing and maintaining heart too heart connection.
Do we risk exposure in order to feel and be felt by others? Or do we not take the risk and feel alone and isolated in a cold and indifferent world.
Our Fire Element is where we interface with this present moment. Fire is the “be here now” Element. It is our main point of contact to the outside world. Our ability to show up and be present, and thus be consciously aware of the world around us. How well we take in and sort out all the bits of data that is being received by our senses moment to moment is largely the responsibility of our Fire Element. Are we easily overwhelmed? Do we get lost in details that don’t actually matter?
When our Fire Element is operating effectively, we are able to stay present and filter through the endless streams of incoming data so that we are only conscious of what is necessary and pertinent to the given moment. It is this steady and persistent activity of being present and sorting which produces our stream of consciousness.
So much of our moment to moment experience of this life is hinged upon our ability to be present and sort efficiently. I can not think of any other pair of faculties that have a greater influence on our overall quality of life. How long can we be present before we are distracted by the endless chatter of the mind? What are we actually sorting for? Are we sorting for love, beauty, kindness, hope, wisdom? Or is it possible that we may be sorting for less noble data. Are we sorting for proof that we are unworthy or undeserving of love? Are we sorting opportunistically for what the mind desires? Or is our sorter taking it’s directives from the deep yearning of our Heart. The Heart has but one desire and one filter setting, Love. How can we love even more? Of all the offerings on the table of Life how can I drink only from the cup of Love and how can I share of this cup with others? Can you imagine a world in which these were the perimeters our sorters were set for? Are you aware that this is not quite the world we find ourselves? Are you able to see how each of us continue to play our part in this awareness? Does your Heart need consulting? Is your sorter in service to the Heart? Or, has your sorter been enslaved by some other part of your being?
The season associated with the Fire Element is summer. Everything we need to know about the Fire Element we can learn by observing nature during summertime. The time of year when everything comes out to play, to be self expressive, full flower, the ability to shine, playfulness, radiance, warmth, cookouts, the beach, joy, laughter.
The organ systems associated with the Fire Element are the Heart, Small Intestine, Pericardium and Triple Heater.
Signs and symptoms that our Fire Element may need support:
The primary emotion is Joy. There may be to much joy, so much that the heart can not contain it all and thus it feels like anxiety. Or there is not enough joy and we are in a deep state of sadness. You will most likely feel it in your upper chest and heart region.
- Anxiety
- Restlessness
- Insomnia
- Heart palpations
- Failure to come back after a betrayal of intimacy.
- Shock and or trauma that leaves us feeling in a state of disconnected limbo.
- Nervousness
- Shyness
- Fear of intimacy
- Fear of no intimacy (loneliness)
- Social anxiety disorder
- Sweating disorders
- Stuttering
- Inability to stay present as life encourages us to unveil.
- All issues about the sharing and receiving of warmth and intimacy and there repercussions.
- Lack of Joy, flatness, dullness, sadness.
- Deep longing for and terror of making meaningful contact with another.
- Issues around chaos and control.
- Easily overstimulated, scattered and ungrounded.
- Feeling vulnerable and over exposed.
- “Different drummer syndrome”.
- Issues of timing, feeling offbeat, difficulty being in synch with the people around you.