Middle Medicine

Wood Element / Liver Energy / Spring Season: healthy manifestation

 This picture is pregnant with possibilities for discussion. For now, consider this: the spectrum on which anger and depression can be found is called the Liver Axis in Chinese Medicine and the photograph above is of anger. How often, in our modern culture, do we see anger as a positive, non-destructive force? Yes, it can be said that this seedling is destroying the asphalt, but how much do we care about the dead asphalt of our lives anyway? Is destroying asphalt actually destruction?

Let yourself marinate in that for a bit…