This Friday we continue with Ken McLeod's book, Wake Up to Your Life, learning to work with reactive patterns by using the archetypes of the five elements. This is our second week working with the air element (also called wind).

Some insights from the first session on wind/air:

Air reactions happen when a person's role is not clear, when one's identity is threatened. Something arises, the experience of no-thingness, and there is fear, so intellectual activity comes because we can't take it in.  

The air reactive pattern works like this:

Air begins to manifest as a kind of nervousness or anxiety. Underneath that is a feeling that there's nothing to stand on. So it feels like one is falling from a great height. And what you fear is destruction or anhiliation. There is a huge sense of openness in there, that's the emptiness aspect. There's also complete panic. In order to get away from that, you look for something to do. You get caught up in a whirlwind of activity. You get so active you get torn apart. That brings about a certain anxiety, and you go through the cycle again.