Sleep On It

You just don’t get it. You tried everything: you restricted yourself to the grape fruit diet, you joined zumba and you called Jenny, but you just can’t seem to free yourself from those extra pounds. Maybe, you should sleep on it – literally. President of Home Fitness and Doctor of Oriental Medicine Trisha Phaklides supports the notion that there is a direct correlation between dreams and patients’ physical and psychological well-being.
A 2003 graduate from Southwest Acupuncture College in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Doctor Phaklides has aided over 40,000 patients and continues to heal patients at her private practice in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, according to her website www.wedreaminchinese.com. Through her studies of Oriental Medicine, Doctor Phaklides has detected a correspondence between her patients’ dreams and their physiology. “I have always wondered about dreams like most people and knew there had to be more to them,” writes Doctor Phaklides on her website.
Doctor Phaklides based her research on Chinese dream interpretation on the Five Element theory, a supposition that centers on the elements of fire, water, earth, metal and wood through sensory clues – states Doctor Phaklides’ website. Dreams that present a visual of other sensory portrayal of one of these five elements is said to provide an implication to stresses within the body.
According to the Five Element theory, depictions of fire symbolize setbacks within the dreamer’s heart or small intestine. Dreams incorporating the element of wood signify problems within the liver or gallbladder. Water represents trouble within the kidneys or bladder. The element earth indicates stresses on the spleen or stomach, and dreams portraying images of metal are linked to lung and intestinal difficulties. Doctor Phaklides compiled her findings and examples of actual dream interpretations in her newest book We Dream in Chinese. To learn more about the Five Element theory or Doctor Phaklides’ book, visit www.wedreaminchinese.com