Five 5 Colours - Elements - That Make Us Human

Written by Julie Taylor

How To Come B.A.C.K. Faster and Stronger

The only way to recover from serious trauma and ReBuild your life is by attending simultaneously to each of the 5 elements - of what makes a full and fun life - balance.

I struggled to recover after serious trauma (including coma and paralysis) for ten years, refusing to give up.  My belief that I would 'be fine again' never wavered. Somehow though, nothing was really enough? I could 'feel' that I was 'almost' at the tipping point where I would start to heal... It seemed like I didn't quite have the energy to pull myself up straight.

I believed in the absolute power of 'mind over matter' - my dad had instilled this belief in me from childhood.  He was a military man and believed steadfastly that you could 'will' your body to do almost anything. When I discovered Deepak Chopra's book Quantum Healing I was over-the-moon with excitement - his were the first positive words that agreed with what I felt instinctively that I had ever come across.  The information in that book was a precursor to what I would learn about energy healing in the future. Deepak Chopra was my hero!  He could actually prove a little of wat I felt! Ultimately I would embrace almost every modality and the most fascinating work I've found so far is that done by doctors Lynn McTaggart and Bruce Lipton explained in the No#1 hit DVD The Living Matrix.

I tried everything - from Acupuncture to Zen yoga. Slowly, I realized that everything I did helped.  But nothing was enough on its own to ReBuild me. Perhaps I needed balance?

I decided to develop a plan to heal every part of me. Simultaneously.  Every element or 'colour'. First I needed to know how many separate elements of me - of any human - there were? Elements that were 'vital', that is.

All of the ancient healing arts accept that the body is complex and talk about 5 or 7 or x number of 'vital' parts. Acupuncture, for example, talks of 14 different meridians.  I experimented and tried many different 'formulas'.  Nothing worked.  Again and again I went 'back to the drawing board' and tried to get my head around what exactly was my body calling out for to get well? I tried everything and then I stumbled upon an answer that worked...

There are just 5 main elements that make us human. And...  Every single one of them needs to be attended to at the same time in order for us to heal. The Physical including food and exercise, the emotional including peace and emotional balance, the cognitive including why and how this plan works, the financial including peace of mind knowing that my financial needs are sustainable and 'covered' and the joyful including peace, beauty, song and sex (or whatever it is that adds up to joy for you.  And within each of the 5 colours there also needs to be balance...

This is the ReBuildingYou way - 'the way of the turtle' - slow but sure.  In fact, once we know and accept this, healing becomes much more effective.  And as a result, quicker.  In a slow kind of way! The 5 distinct elements of what makes us human each have a colour - it helps me to visualise it...

Physical elements are blue.

Emotional elements are red.

Joyful or inspirational elements are yellow.

Cognitive elements are purple. 

Financial elements are green.

Some weeks I made little progress.  Despite the fact that I was working on each element, I tended to work on one this week and another next week etc. But my healing needed balance. I had to reign in my impatience and curb my tendancy to super-focus on just one element at a time.  For success I needed to balance my healing and work on a little of each of the 5 elements at the same time.

Nothing less works. There are so many different types of therapy 'out there'.  All of them have strengths and the ability to play a part in ReBuildingYou - but they can only work when all of what makes us human is attended to at the same time. The physical, the emotiional, the cognitive, the financial and the joyful. If even one element is lacking I find I feel exhausted.

My ongoing frustration (and I'm working on why it's a 'frustration' for me?) is that even now when I am 'healed' I still have to pay as close attention as before to this fragile health balance? If I overdo it in any one area, it can take weeks for me to recover my feeling of 'wellness'. It's as if my doctor, Dr Adele Hern, was absolutely right... Once severely injured or traumatized, the body - my body - loses resilience. It loses the ability to 'snap back'. No longer does one good night's sleep 'fix things'. It takes a week or two of careful balance and rest and work on my physical and mental health to get back into a 'well' place. Twenty-five years later I still keep trying to rock this 'fact'!  I'm curious to see if I can 'pull an all-nighter' or do the odd week or 2 of extra hard work and then fall back into a comfortable place without feeling totally exhausted. I can't seem to. One of these days I will accept - and relax into and enjoy - that I just need to 'take it easy'.  All the time.  Or else!