Meditations
5 Elements 
This is a Taoist Meditation and it includes all aspects of the universal energy. In Oriental Medicine each organ is a system that is responsible or affected by a particular EMOTION and has specific jobs/processes to keep us healthy and in balance. By practicing this meditation you are working to heal all aspects of your being.
The following is a summary of the organs systems with their colors, emotions and symptoms:
The Heart is the Emperor. “Element= Fire, Color= red, Emotion=Joy”
When not balanced you have anxiety, problems with sleep, feel empty, heavy chest, bad circulation.
The Spleen: “Element = Earth, Color = Earth-Yellow, Emotion = Worry”
When not balanced you have digestive problems, lack of energy, heaviness in the body, mental weakness, forgetfulness, muscles weakness.
The Lungs: “Element = Metal, Color = Silvery-White, Emotion = sadness/grief”
When not balanced you have problems breathing, lots of sadness, allergies, colds and flues.
The Kidneys: “Element = Water, Color = Black-Blue, Emotion = Fear”
When out of balance you have lots of lower back and knee pain, coldness, difficult breathing, prostate, sexual and reproductive problems.
The Liver: “Element = Wood, Color = Pine-Green, Emotion = Anger/Depression”
When out of balanced you have headaches, Bad PMS, bad periods, digestive/acid regurgitation problems, irritable all the time. Don’t like anyone including yourself.
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In the beginning the meditation process is mostly visualization but I challenge you to concentrate on your body/organs and feel the sensations while going through the meditation.
Start of Meditation
Sit comfortably, close your eyes, clear all the stress of the day and center yourself by inhaling deeply and slowly through your nose and exhaling through your mouth until you are calm. Intend that no matter what, you will be gentle and loving to yourself through this process. If thoughts arrive, acknowledge them and go back to meditating. Do this throughout the meditation.
Go up into the sky where the clouds live and ask 5 clouds to volunteer to help you heal yourself. Get a cloud of each of the following colors: Red for the Heart, Earth-Yellow for the Spleen, silvery-White for the lungs, Dark-Blue for the kidneys, Pine-Green for the Liver and, bring the cloud in the shape of a rainbow into your heart (located in your chest, slightly above and to the right of your left nipple).
1) In your Heart, the 5 colored clouds slowly turn into a Bright Red cloud that fills your Heart. Put your awareness in your Heart and feel it, feel the love that surrounds you, feel your connection with creator until the Heart feels loved and peaceful, Then move the Bright-Red cloud to the Spleen (located under your left lower ribs).
2) In the Spleen, the red cloud slowly turns into an Earth-Yellow cloud. Put your awareness in your Spleen and feel it, feel the connection with earth, be grateful for all the wonderful food you receive from her until it feels loved and peaceful; then move the Earth-Yellow cloud to the Lungs (located in the back from the base of your neck to the lower ribs).
3) In your Lungs, the Earth-Yellow cloud slowly turns into a Silvery-White cloud. Put your awareness in your Lungs and feel them, feel the breath in and out, feel the love in the air until they feel loved and peaceful, then move the Silvery-White cloud to the Kidneys. (located level with of your navel, in the back, on both sides to your spine).
4) In your Kidneys, the Silvery-White cloud slowly turns into a Dark-Blue cloud. Put your awareness in your Kidneys and feel them, feel the immensity of the ocean and the coolness of the water until they feel loved and peaceful, then move the Black-Blue cloud to the Liver (located in the front, under your ribs on the right side).
5) In your Liver, the Dark-Blue cloud slowly turns into a Pine-Green cloud. Put you awareness in your Liver and feel it, feel the coolness of the mountains and trees until it feels loved and peaceful, then move the Pine-Green cloud to the Heart.
In your Heart, the Pine-Green cloud slowly turns into a Bright Red cloud. (at this time, if you want to do another cycle go to step one and do it as many times as you want, ideally an odd number of times. Otherwise, go to the next step).
End of Meditation
In your Heart, the Bright-Red cloud slowly turns into the rainbow (Red, Yellow, White, Dark-Blue and Pine-Green). Feel the joy of being alive, peaceful and healthy. When the heart feels loved and peaceful, take the rainbow/clouds to the sky, thank them and let them go back home.
You can practice this meditation as often as you like or need. Intend to continue the day as peaceful as you feel after the practice. May you live a healthy and joyful life!
Juan Ramón Tejada
Lic. Ac. (AZ), Dipl. Ac., MSOM, BSBA
American Health Acupuncture
520-544-6603
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Re-Connecting Meditation 
Introduction:
Most of us walk in our life/world disconnected from the source, feeling lonely, sad, depressed and unloved. The reason is that we were not taught how to be one with the Creator/God, how to feel good about ourselves, how to accept and enjoy life no matter what. We were taught to look for the BAD side or find out what is WRONG with our lives. And of course, no one is to blame because we all have been domesticated/programmed by the same method/program BUT WE ARE RESPONSIBLE because we have been creating what and who we are without knowing.
One way of teaching ourselves a different way to create our lives is through meditation. This particular one helps us to re-connect ourselves, to re-discover that we are alone but connected to our creator. Because how we were domesticated by our parents, religion, and society in general we think that other people will provide the love, joy and beauty that we are missing. We were taught to look outside of ourselves for God.
Now is time for common sense, we are our own teachers, gurus, guides and so on. By meditating and experiencing the other dimensions of ourselves, our minds and bodies begin to feel/experience what natural/developed people call “the silent knowledge”. It means that we know inside of ourselves what to do to be joyful, this prevents the mind from our suffering, instead we connect to our divinity. It is time that we reclaim our wonderfulness, our perfection, our divinity!
Preparation of Meditation:
Sit comfortably, close your eyes, and clear your mind of all the stressful situations of the day by inhaling three times deeply and slowly through your nose and exhaling through the mouth; visualized the heavy, dark energy going out as vapor through your mouth and receiving clean, clear, loving energy through the nose. Now center yourself. Intend that no matter what, you will be gentle and loving to yourself through this process. If thoughts come, acknowledge them and continue meditating. Do this throughout the meditation.
The meditation can be as long or short as you want, the important thing is to be gently and loving towards yourself even if you feel that the meditation was not “good enough” you have gained a little more emotional peace.
Start of Meditation:
Imagine that you physical body is the only seed in a huge apple and feel all the possibilities of life within that beautiful seed. Feel how you are here to create life, with every breath, with every thought, and with every action. Go within and feel how your cells are creating life inside you, feel how life continues within you even when you are not aware of it. Feel how the mind is another dimension of you, you body is another dimension of you, your emotions are another dimension of you. Experience all the parts that are YOU. Feel the life flowing through you, feel how all of your parts are equally important to create life.
While continuing to feel your being, feel the fleshy part of the apple that surrounds you (remember that considering your size, this apple is three millions bigger than a normal one) so reach out and feel how large this energy field is. Feel how this energy field is there to protect you, to nurture you, to nourish you, to make sure that you have all the power to create the kind of life that is joyful and nurturing to you. Feel the pleasure, the joy, the love that this energy field derives from being a part of you.
Now go further and feel the skin of your apple, feel how the sun shines on it. Feel the love that is between the sun and you. Feel how protective the skin feels towards you. It keep some of the sun light out but allows enough light to flow through because the sun also wants to make sure you have all the light/energy you need to create life. Keep on feeling, be aware of your being at the same time be experiencing what is going on around you. Go back to feel the skin of your apple and feel the gentle rain falling on it. Feel how the skin protects you from the rain but allows a little bit to flow through so the rain can make sure that you have everything that you need to create life. All this energies/entities are there to facilitate your creation of life. Feel how all of them are aware of your existence, feel the light/energy rays coming from them to you and how you in turn greet them with your light. Feel the “heaven/apple tree” that is holding you. Feel how loving it holds you and how it provides shelter, food, protection, nurturing and nourishing so you can create a beautiful life. Feel how many beings are in your life to help you accomplish your mission to create a loving life.
End of Meditation
Thank your body, your mind, the sun, the rain, the tree of life for such a wonderful experience.
You can practice this meditation as often as you like or need. Intend to continue the day as peaceful as you feel after the practice. May you live a healthy and joyful life!
By: Juan Ramón Tejada
Lic. Ac. (AZ), Dipl. Ac., MSOM, BSBA
Acupuncturist & Herbalist
American Health Acupuncture
520-544-6603
