Applying the System of the Five Elements to Care for Your Good Health of Body/Mind/Spirit.

Health has always been a tender subject for me from a very early age. Severe illness and near fatal accidents repeatedly made health and life new gifts for me. My exposure to the German writer and philosopher Goethe and the idea of God being present in Nature around us, prepared me for the Higher Intelligence of Natural Laws underlying the science of Taoist naturalists.

To view a person's energy field as a garden makes so much sense. Each garden needs the loving and caring eyes and hands of the gardener to clear the weeds, cultivate and fertilize the soil, stake up and water the delicate plants, prune and shape the trees and shrubs. Each garden needs to be tended in the right way to produce a healthy harvest, assure new generations, and maintain natural balance of the Elements.

The Taoists recognized the human being as an integral part of Nature, being part of the Ecosystem and containing a corresponding Ecosystem within. The acupuncturist tends to this inner garden and helps you learn how to maintain it yourself. My work in this system of medicine has never ceased to inspire me. Still today I am astounded to observe the miracle of life and how Nature's beauty manifests in every person in a very unique way.

-Dirk P. Hein, M.Ac. (UK)