My experience with myself and through working with clients has shown that body, mind and emotions are connected in physical life and do not exist or function separately.

A personal example of this: A conversation with a teacher regarding sinusitis, a long recurring issue with me and direct and honest words on her part and advice on where to look helped me to recognise certain connections and backgrounds and the symptoms were almost gone afterwards and the next day. The accumulated pressure could be released constructively and the energy could be brought into flow through realisation so that the illness could go. This is where the connection between psychosomatics and the five elements comes in: Frustration about not living one's life constructively and according to one's own plan and finding and being able to take one's place. (5 elements: Frustration - rising destructive wood energy that accumulates / taking up space and lowering the energy - metal that could not fulfil its function in the case. (The body opening of the metal is the nose). Psychosomatics: The board in front of the head and inner pressure that cannot get out).

In TCM, or in the emptiness of the five elements, this is explained via the functional circuits and meridians, which, apart from the energy pathway, include muscle and fascia chains, nerve pathways, organ systems and their functions as well as their emotional and psychological components. Similarly, in our colloquial language we find expressions such as ‘a louse has crawled over your liver’ (liver-wood-destructive emotion: anger/frustration) or ‘shitting your trousers with fear’ (bladder-water-destructive emotion: fear) and, for example, we associate love with the heart (heart-fire-positive emotion: love).

A classic physical example from my treatment practice was shoulder and neck tension. The fire meridians small intestine and triple warmer (small intestine and triple warmer-fire-destructive state: stress) run via the shoulder girdle (especially the trapezius muscle) and the neck. Stress is one of the main complaints of our fast-moving times and the cause of many ailments such as cardiovascular complaints and also silent inflammations that can lead to many other diseases.

By consciously working with the symptoms, the mental-psychological-emotional cause can be found and thus the basis for releasing the stress at the root and sustainably healing the stressful issue that has then manifested itself on a physical level. The body, as the greatest condensation of energy and perceived as matter, is the mirror of the mind and soul. The simplest example of this, which is probably known to most people in our latitudes, is that when they are less stressed, they feel better and are healthier and less susceptible to infection. 

This is nicely summarised in Ulrich Schaffer's aphorism.

 ‘You go ahead,’ says the soul to the body, ‘he won't listen to me. Maybe he will listen to you.’ 

 ‘I'll get sick, then he'll have time for you,’ said the soul to the body. 

Through intensive work on myself and deepened through various seminars and further training courses, I work alongside my own intuition in the field with the books by Christiane Beerlandt and Rüdiger Dahlke. It is usually the unresolved shadow issues within us that become the cause of complaints if they are not brought to light and healed. Methods from Cosmogetic Healing and Compassion Key can also be used.

This goes hand in hand with the five elements and the birth constellation, because whatever stressful issues are still present at the end of life and have not yet been brought to healing will have to be dealt with and resolved in the afterlife and in the life to come and will contribute to the new birth constellation.