The Chinese Five Elements: Identify Your Elements & How it Can Benefit You (feat. Dondi Dahlin)
We’re all born with individual rhythms that go beyond the influence of our genes and upbringing.
The Five Elements is one of the systems that we can use to understand our rhythms.
The system originated in ancient Chinese medicine 2,000 years ago–when scholars theorized that the universe is composed of five forces: water, wood, fire, earth, and metal.
Our guest Dondi Dahlin will help us understand the five elements better and how we can use it to transform ourselves.
Dondi Dahlin is an award-winning public speaker and has been seen on Hay House, Shift Network, OMEGA Institute, Mindvalley, and ACEP. She is also a popular teacher spreading Eden Energy Medicine and the Five Elements through international workshops. She co-authored The Little Book of Energy Medicine and her book The Five Elements became a best-seller when it was released in 2016. Dondi is also an internationally-acclaimed dancer, actress, and teacher in television, film, and stage for over 30 years.
In this interview, Dondi explains the personality types represented by the five elements of water, wood, fire, earth, and metal and how we can use them to stay in balance physically, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally. She also talks about how we can use it to improve our relationships with others.
Interview time stamps:
04:00 ︳Dondi talks about her upbringing and what it was like growing up with a mother who is a renowned healer
09:40 ︳The water element personality type
10:40 ︳The wood element personality type
11:51 ︳The fire element personality type
14:00 ︳The earth element personality type
15:11 ︳The metal element personality type
17:50 ︳Common misconceptions people have about personality categorization
19:39 ︳How to find your primary and secondary element
23:50 ︳What it means if you don’t identify with your element
26:26 ︳How knowing the Five Elements can improve relationships
31:15 ︳What does our element say about our health and body type
39:18 ︳Dondi explains the body type of each element
39:18 ︳How does the culture we were raised in interact with our element personality type
Learn more about Dondi Dahlin and her book “The Five Elements: Understand Yourself and Enhance Your Relationships with the Wisdom of the World's Oldest Personality Type System” at her website.
