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Why The 5 Elements

The 5 Elements are the portal to a deeper understanding of who you are and a guiding system to designing a life in alignment with your soul. It’s been my experience that when you have this information to help confirm and support your body, mind and spirit you can easily come into harmony with your life’s purpose and create a life, and ultimately a legacy, of profound impact.

This quick guide is designed to help you uncover your Element type and Alchemy. It’s the confirmation of who you are as a person and why you behave, react and seek support in the ways that you do. It provides you the invitation, and perhaps the permission, to relax into your own knowing of yourself and fully embody all of the parts of you that are longing to be seen.

A Quick Intro to the 5 Elements

The idea that all of nature is governed by yin/yang and the Five Elements lies at the heart of Chinese medicine laid down over 2000 years ago. Its theory says that the energy of the world can be divided into five movements or processes which are sometimes called phases or Elements.

We’ll use the term element to refer to these five fundamental qualities of all matter in the universe - Earth, Metal, Water, Wood, and Fire.

Each Element is defined as having a set of associations, such as a Yin and Yang Organ, a colour, sound, and season, among other characteristics and the elements as a whole are a well-rounded look at everything from our physical health, thru to our natural tendencies and why we make the decisions we do individually and in relationship. Within all of us is the embodiment of all five of the elements. As we move through life, however, it is believed that all of us have one dominant Element which is more prevalent than the others. This then forms the early development of particular repetitive patterns, thoughts, emotions as we look for particular requirements to be fulfilled as we move through the world. Practitioners discovered they could look at these imbalances and strengths in an individual’s chart to determine their main elemental nature and further support them to greater health.

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Discover your Alchemy Take The 5 Element Quiz

1. What colour makes you feel like you are expressing yourself best? a) Dark Blue b) Green c) Red d) Earth Tones (browns & golds) e) White

2. What’s your favourite season? a) Winter b) Spring c) Summer d) Late Summer or Season e) Autumn

3. What time of day are you at your best? a) Afternoon b) Late Night c) Midday and Dusk d) Morning e) Sunrise

4. What are your innate gifts? a) Wisdom and insight b) Confidence & Assertiveness c) Communication d) Nurturing & Supportive e) Organization

5. During troubling times you’re prone to? a) Suspicion b) Depression c) Restless Sleep or Hyper-Sensitive d) Anxiety or Worry e) Rigidity or Inflexibility

6. What is your voice like? a) Quiet or moaning b) Shouting c) Fast Chatter d) Singing and melodic e) Clear with a slight tremble

7. What inspires you? a) Philosophical discussion b) Making Things Happen c) Creating Community and Intimacy d) Creating Harmony in Everything e) Art and Creativity

8. How do you relax? a) Reading b) I collapse c) Dancing d) With Friends e) Projects (Arts & Crafts etc)

9. What’s your strongest mental ability? a) Big Picture and Risk Assessment b) Vision & Drive c) Openness d) Comfort with what I know e) Discipline

10. To which physical weakness are you prone? a) Spine, Urination, Sexual b) Headaches, Blood Pressure c) Heart Palpitations, Insomnia d) Weight Gain, Sluggishness e) Breathing, Skin problems

11. What is your Emotional Tendency in Overwhelm? a) Isolation b) Rage c) Excitable, Forgetful d) Seek Comfort e) Hyper-Critical, Sad

12. Do you like new things, change? a) Sure b) Of Course c) Always d) Not Really e) No


13. So you like to socialize? a) Rarely b) Oh yeah! c) Always d) With a few friends e) Selectively

14. Which quality defines your emotional expression best? a) Honest b) Intense c) Open d) Sympathetic e) Difficulty Expressing

15. People that know you would describe you as? a) Unusual & A Dreamer b) Ambitious & Competitive c) Attractive & Magnetic d) Loyal & Accessible e) Classy & Discriminating

16. My preferences for group work and projects a) Work Alone b) To be the Lead c) Collaboration is Where It’s At d) Creating Harmony within the Group e) When Everyone Understands Their Objective

17. Your ideal way to move your body? a) Yoga b) Something That Pushes Me To My Limits c) Dancing d) Anything with Friends e) Running by Yourself

18. Your ideal vacation would be? a) Retreat for Self Work b) Something Adventurous c) The Beach d) Family Trip e) Museums & Architecture

19. What feeling is most dominant in you? a) Fear b) Frustration c) Elation d) Worry e) Sadness

20. What quality do you value most in yourself? a) Insight b) Power c) Compassion d) Nurturing e) Meticulous

21. Which quality do you value most in others? a) Depth b) Confidence c) Vulnerability d) Honour e) Self-Control

22. With which quality do you have the most difficulty? a) Authority b) Indecision c) Boundaries d) Saying No e) Spontaneity


23. With which quality of yours do your friends and family have difficulty? a) Elusive b) Bossiness c) Clingy or Over-Emotional d) Wishy-Washy e) Rigid

24. What qualities help you in your vocation? a) Independent b) Leader c) Star Power d) Dependable e) Discipline

25. What are your dominant qualities? a) Intelligent - Insightful b) Powerful - Born Leader c) Talkative - Joyful d) Empathetic - Stable 3) Fastidious - Organized

Add up the number of a, b, c, d, and e’s that you answered with each question, the answers that have the highest score are your Dominant Element(s),

a’s ______ /25 Water b’s ______/25 Wood

c’s ______/25 Fire d’s ______/25 Earth e’s ______/25 Metal


My 5 Element Alchemy

Write in your numbers in the Individual 5 Element Alchemy Chart


An Overview of the 5 Element Alchemy

Based on the Chinese Medicine 5 Element Theory, these Element Types have been updated to include the energies and evolution of modern life.

You are the sum total of thoughts, emotions, actions, childhood nutrition, culture, family history, geographic location and your natural gifts. With that said your alchemy is greatly determined by your thoughts, daily practices, routine and habits.

Every Element operates on a Physical, Mental and Spiritual Level. Once you know your dominant type you can make choices that support these energies and create the life you want. This confirmation and embodiment is liberating and a truly powerful experience allowing you to easily tap into your intuition and make decisions to ensure that your Core Requirements are being met. Making every aspect of your life and work feel incredibly supportive, easy and in alignment with your soul.

As you connect with your Dominant Element you may find there is more to you than what one element’s information can provide. This is where your Alchemy comes in. Within each of us are all of the elements. We embody each of them at different seasons of our lifetime, or when we are required to borrow a piece of ourselves that doesn’t always speak up on a daily basis, yet comes forward when it’s needed to support our growth and development.

You may have 1, 2 or 3 secondary elements that are also influencing the way that you express yourself in your daily life. Even the Elements that you’re more deficient in can hold answers for you.

Knowing your Individual 5 Element Alchemy will help you get further confirmation on who you are and what you need to achieve the successes that you envision. With further self-discover this information can also help you refine your daily practices and activities to better support you and help you avoid pitfalls of harmful patterns that will tip you even further off-balance and away from your soul purpose.

In the next pages are a brief synopsis of each element type and their core requirements. You may wish to read them all to further confirm your particular element type or allow for an opportunity to align your full alchemy. To dive deeper in this work you can visit www.ashleyabbs.com to read my essays that further explain working with the Elements or inquire about the different ways to work with me.


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“I Am Enough”

Earth Type individuals are centred, stable and naturally nurturing of others. You’re the care-giver and shoulder we all go to cry on. You’re warm and love to give affection. Sensitive to the energies and Feng Shui of physical space you value and tend to your environment both at home and places of work, inviting friends and family into your space with the intention of creating joy and harmony. You’re fiercely loyal and willing to bend over backwards to help those that you love.

When these energies are unsupported, an Earth Type can become overly sluggish and stubborn. You also can get caught in constant rumination making it difficult for you to make decisions that take you out of your comfort zone. Because you’re a natural caretaker, you often lose your own boundaries and can have difficulty with self-care as your self-worth is often intertwined in the happiness and outcomes of another’s well-being. You naturally worry about those you love and like as well as those who aren’t close to you.

The Core Requirements for an Earth Type

The Core Requirements that need to be met within your personal life, work and relationships are:

Feeling Supported / Getting Nourished / Being Grounded / Having Mental Clarity / Being Understood

They are always seeking fulfilment either consciously or unconsciously to fully embody the capacity and gifts of your Earth energies to experience fulfillment and success. They are often the motivator to your greatest strengths and deficiencies and how they are expressed.

Strengths

- The mother energy embodied- An ability to give support and care for

others- Selfless - an ability to put others before

themselves- Love of family and homemaking- Love and care for food- An affinity to the Earth.- Loyal and dependable

Deficiencies

- Excessively helpful, over Nourishing,smothering others when they don’t needor want to be cared for.

- Boundaries- Not Asking for support, neglecting their

own needs- Walking a fine line between supporting

others and succumbing to the Martyrcomplex

- Get bored or uninterested quickly- Obsessive worrying and overthinking


“I Am Worthy”

The Metal Type values appearance and order. These detail-orientated individuals are disciplined, self-controlled, organized, meticulous, and discriminating. As an embodied artist, you value beauty and art and tend to be fastidious in your appearance as well as the aesthetics of your surroundings. You’re a natural analyst and may have a tendency to see yourself as righteous, enjoying sanctified rituals.

Often quiet, introverted and reserved at first meeting Metal types are considered a bit difficult to get to know in comparison to the other Element Types. However, when invited into their close circle they will relax and even melt into situations where they feel safe to be themselves and share their gifts and ideas.

Those with imbalanced metal tendencies have difficulty with disorder and spontaneity. You may become critical of others and have difficulty living with chaos and expressing your emotions. You may have difficulty loosening up because you’re not naturally impulsive.

The Core Requirements for a Metal Type


Receiving Recognition / Feeling Complete / Feeling Adequate / Finding Meaningfulness / Having Purpose

They are always seeking fulfilment either consciously or unconsciously to fully embody the capacity and gifts of your Metal energies to experience fulfillment and success. They are often the motivator to your greatest strengths and deficiencies and how they are expressed.

Strengths

- Hard Working- Competence and often a high level of

expertise- Looking for the best and towards the

best- A degree of objectivity- A seeker longing for a connection with

higher meaning- An affinity for words

Deficiencies

- Cutting off and becoming isolated- Over-critical of themselves and others- An obsession with struggle and

performance- A cynical resignation- Have difficulty “sorting” things and letting

go- An obsession with matters ‘spiritual’ to

the detriment of those of ordinary life.


“I Am Safe”

Water Types are the philosophers, drawn toward the depths. You value intelligence, wisdom, and insight. You tend to be quiet possibly aloof and incredibly insightful. You enjoy philosophical discussions and reading and are perceptive and ingenious. You value the being and knowing more than the doing of most things.

Water people are honest but aren’t as comfortable as others in social settings. Sometimes it seems as if you view life from the outskirts, evaluating the safety and purity of a situation. You are independent, preferring to go with the flow, and may appear a bit guarded. You aren’t prone to give affection easily, and yet can be pierced to your core. You value depth in others with no time for the superficial.

Imbalanced energies can lead you to become fearful, withdrawing from others and becoming isolated and protected. To establish some balance it’s important for Water types to seek time and space where they can be on their own to think, meditate and recharge.

The Core Requirements for a Water Type


Being Safe / Having Security / Mediating Risks / Being Authentic / Feeling Free

They are always seeking fulfilment either consciously or unconsciously to fully embody the capacity and gifts of your Water energies to experience fulfillment and success. They are often the motivator to your greatest strengths and deficiencies and how they are expressed.

Strengths

- A highly developed capacity to assesswhat is safe

- Strong determination in the face ofdifficulties

- Courage in a crisis- The capacity to mediate risks & proceed

with safety- An ability to see the big picture- An affinity to seek understanding to the

deeper truths and mysteries of theuniverse

- Wisdom - others seek out your opinion

Deficiencies

- Excessive Fear - concern for all of thepossible things that can go wrong

- False bravado in what seem like scarysituations

- A failure to appreciate real and obviousdanger

- Can become ambition-less and apathetic


“ I Am Growing”

Wood individuals usually have strong, confident, sometimes forceful personalities. You know what you want and how you can get it. As a Wood element type, you can easily express your confidence and assertiveness, you enjoy making things happen and can easily bring your imaginative dreams to reality. You aren’t easily hindered by boundaries but are a mover and shaker that takes charge enabling you to become a powerful leader. Your ability to initiate action and run your plans decisively allows you to get things done.

When imbalanced your intensity makes you prone to frustration when the world doesn’t participate in your plans or others have alternative perspectives from your own. It’s important for Wood types to remember that the strongest trees are the ones that remain flexible and bend in the wind or risk being snapped. Your go-go energy can make it difficult to relax so you tend to collapse rather than ease into rest. It is wise to schedule down time in your schedule on a regular basis to ensure you have the endurance to bring your projects and visions to life.

The Core Requirements for a Wood Type


Empowerment / Boundaries / Following Truth / Growth & Development / Having Vision

They are always seeking fulfilment either consciously or unconsciously to fully embody the capacity and gifts of your Wood energies to experience fulfillment and success. They are often the motivator to your greatest strengths and deficiencies and how they are expressed.

Strengths

- A strong capacity to organize- A commitment to continuous growth- Passionate about “causes”, justice &

fairness; stands up for others- A warrior mentality- A youthfulness, even in old age, born out

of commitment to continue growing andimproving oneself

- Generally positive and up beat- Constantly seeking improvement - willing

to think out of the box to pioneer a newway

Deficiencies

- Over-attention to structuring, detail, rulesand hierarchy

- Over-assertive behaviour which can leadto chronic belligerence

- Rebellious behaviour - particularly whenyounger

- My way or the highway” - A tendency fortunnel vision, unwilling to see otherperspectives

- Can be indecisive at times- Quick to anger or have a low-level

frustration occurring under the surface atall times.


“I Am Loved”

The Fire Type is joyful, lively, and communicative. You embody the fiery red tendencies that ignite excitement around you. Always open to the next opportunity, you bring with you passion and delight. You might be a bit talkative, having some difficulty finding clarity with words. Your thought pattern and ways of seeing the world aren’t as linear as other types but it’s okay because you know where it’s leading you. You’re the natural life of any party, and you long to unite with others and receive admiration.

Fire individuals are charismatic communicators and can make friends with anyone they meet. You’re a natural lover that tends to be expressive and affectionate, but when imbalanced you might be a bit clingy, not recognizing where you end and another begins. Your strengths are not in deep contemplation and preparing for the future, as you tend to live in and embrace the moment. You have the tendency to run a little hot & cold, completely enthralled with something one minute and then drop it the next with no care to return to it again.

The Core Requirements for a Fire Type


Love & Affection / Emotional Stability / Happiness / Closeness / Commitment

They are always seeking fulfilment either consciously or unconsciously to fully embody the capacity and gifts of your Fire energies to experience fulfillment and success. They are often the motivator to your greatest strengths and deficiencies and how they are expressed.

Strengths

- A capacity to bring sparkle, fun & joy intoothers lives

- An ability to relate closely to others- A capacity to be optimistic in the most

difficult circumstances- Being able to lead by enthusing others- A commitment to finding inner peace &

contentment- A natural born performer- A willingness to be vulnerable in front of

others.

Deficiencies

- Overly sensitive, Superficiality and aninability to make deep intimate contact

- Can be overly dramatic - fluctuatingemotions

- Relating to others out of context orinappropriately

- Believing that the every situation orconversation is about you

- Overly concerned with what others thinkof them - forget to go inwards forappreciation & acceptance


Wanting the Next Step?

First and foremost I encourage you to play with these Elements, and bring your awareness to how they ring true for you in your life and where they don’t. Chinese medicine is not about

rigid definitions and so there will be some variance to how each of these Elements will express themselves within you and the ones you love. This is where I personally love

looking at the big picture and your chart as a whole. All of the little ways that the other Elements help to shape your personality and perception of your surroundings.

If you are fired up and want to dive in and work with me and the programs that I’ve created to help foster this relationship between the you and the elements by bringing your hearts

desires into form. You can check out

The 5 Element Alchemy Digital Program

This short self-led program is designed to expand on the themes presented within this guidebook and help you apply them to your everyday life.

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The Embodied Alchemy Method ~ 5 Elements of Wholeness

This program is a 6 month group program guided by me. It’s an in-depth program that has been created to help you utilize your 5 Element Alchemy to create the feeling of wholeness

while taking your desires from their initial spark thru to manifestation. Within this offering, there is an opportunity to work 1:1 with Ashley also.

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Let’s Connect!

Now that you have revealed your 5 Element Alchemy, I would love to connect. You can do so by replying to my newsletters or on Instagram as it’s my favourite social platform. You can share your 5 Element Alchemy with the world by tagging me with #5elementalchemy on Social Media. Instagram is my favourite!

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