The nature you arrived with.
Understanding your birth constitution
Before the first leaf opens, there is a life held quietly within the seed. You, too, arrived with a nature of your own.
What is a birth constitution?
In the Chinese medicine framework I use, your birth constitution describes your inherited elemental nature: a traditional way of understanding your particular strengths, sensitivities and rhythms.
My reading draws on the ancient Chinese system of stems and branches, exploring your elemental patterns in relationship with the cycles of time. We relate that understanding to your history and the life you are living.
Your constitution is individual. A short guide can introduce the idea; your personal chart and interpretation come through your reading.
Your savings.
Your everyday account.
I use two bank accounts as an image for a traditional understanding of vitality.
Your inherited reserves are like your savings account. Everyday nourishment is like your current account: the food, rest and rhythms through which you tend yourself day by day.
The question becomes: how am I caring for what I have been given, and what am I asking of it?
Three questions to carry with you.
What restores me?
Notice a meal, a rhythm, a place or a practice after which you feel more settled or nourished. What do you observe?
Where am I spending without replenishing?
Look at one ordinary day. Where does your energy go? Where is there space to receive nourishment and rest?
What is one act of care I can repeat?
Choose something small and realistic. Record what you notice, without trying to label your constitution from a single experience.
Your own chart.
Your own way forward.
I’m Kat Chu, a fourth-generation Chinese medicine doctor with more than twenty years in practice.
Through The Path, I explain your birth constitution and the patterns I see, then translate that understanding into a chart, personal diet and lifestyle guidance, an individual acupressure routine and a beautiful healing meditation.
A living guide to keep and return to. Two private Zoom sessions and your personal guide: £288.
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