Summer is slowly approaching. What does this mean? Summertime is
a season full of energy, heat, longer daylight, and sunny days.
Summer is the season of yang, a time when the body undergoes
vigorous metabolic (body energy) processes. According to TCM,
summer is yang as mentioned earlier, but summer is also based on
the five elements. Summer is fire, color is red, emotion is joy,
and the organ associated with fire is heart and small intestine.
Fire is symbolic because in TCM it is the maximum activity or
greatest yang, which means that it is a time of heat,
outgoingness, and moving outward in nature and in our lives. In
human anatomy, the heart, mind, and spirit are ruled by the fire
element. We should give greatest focus on our heart, mind, and
spirit for staying healthy in summer. It is important to make
sure our body is balance during the summertime. When we are
balanced in the summertime, our heart is strong and healthy, the
mind is calm and sleep is sound. But if we are not balanced in
summertime we creat