Being aligned to the Elements each day serves a really positive purpose because what it does is it ensures that you are connected, first of all, on all levels. And it also means that you are more likely to be responsive to things that occur as you go through your day. Whereas if the elements aren’t aligned within you, if something’s off-centre, then you could prove to be reactive to what’s happening as you go through your day.

At a personal level, when we align the elements within us, we’re bringing the aspects of ourselves together so that we feel whole. So that as we step forward into our day, we feel complete within ourselves as we begin. We’re not stepping forward with little bits shooting off in all directions – which is never comfortable.

And so if you were to take a moment – as you would to do a chakra meditation – but to sit and see yourself, bring into alignment the elements within you, what you do then is you bring yourself together.

Now here’s where it gets tricky, actually it’s simple but it can appear tricky. If you don’t know your archetypes, it doesn’t mean you can’t bring the elements together. Because we have a physical, emotional, mental body, that’s three elements earth, water, fire. Where’s the air? Well fire and air can be interchangeable for the mental body and people don’t always understand that. Most people see the mental body as air because it’s our thoughts, but if we’re a motivational person, if we’re an inspirational person, then we have fire, not just air. I’m trying not to make it too complicated.

When you know your archetypes, you may know specifically which archetype is representing which of your bodies, and at that point you will know whether you’re earth, air, fire, water or whatever combination they are. And as a consequence of that, you can align the elements more specifically.

When they’re not aligned, our personal elements are not aligned, if we don’t look at what’s happening, if we don’t address it then probably some area of ourself is suppressed or another aspect, another element, may be more dominant than it needs to be. In which case, that is going to step forward into the day and the other three parts of ourselves kind of trail along behind.