Welcome to Your Fives Faces of God
Message from Dr Ka’imi Pilipovich: The material in this course is an essential part of my clinical practice. After many years of working with clients with all manner of complaints, I keep getting led over and over to difficulties in emotional expression. This leads to a backlog of held emotions in the body mind, which creates an imbalance in nervous system function. When the nervous system is out of balance, the body can no longer function efficiently and we develop disease.
Chinese Medicine has long associated emotional imbalance with disease, so I turned to that history for insights on the proper role of emotions in our mind and life, and what happens when those emotions get distorted. The ability to identify the misunderstandings and beliefs that we get taught about emotions turned out the be the biggest advance in my practice in terms of really helping people. I created this course in 2011 to help my students more fully understand what I did in my clinic, and for my clients to understand more about themselves and to empower them to be healthy in both body and spirit.
How it works
You can find each lecture listed in the sidebar menu on the left side of the page.
There are a total of seven lectures, outlined below. Each lecture consists of two parts:
- a downloadable audio lecture as an MP3 file
- a downloadable homework assignment as a PDF file to save and print.
We recommend printing out the homework first to help integrate the lecture while you listen to it.
Most students like to listen to the lectures several times, as they are able to gain more understanding each time.
Outline of Lectures
1. Your 5 Faces Introduction Lecture
- Five elements as aspects of ourselves
- Mind body spirit connection thru clinical observation
- Meridians, the brain and thinking
- Emotions
- Organ personalities
2. Wood – Liver and Gall Bladder, Anger and Benevolence
- TCM physical functions of each organ
- TCM psychological functions of each organ
- Personality profiles
- Purpose of anger
- The virtue of anger is benevolence
- Expression of personality and emotion
- Common belief systems around anger
3. Fire – Heart, Small Intestine, Pericardium, Triple Heater, Joy and Propriety
- TCM physical functions of each organ
- TCM psychological functions of each organ
- Personality profiles
- The purpose of joy and sadness
- The virtue of joy/sadness in propriety
- Expression of personality and emotion
- Common belief systems around joy and sadness
4. Earth – Spleen and Stomach, Worry and Integrity
- TCM physical functions of each organ
- TCM psychological functions of each organ
- Personality profiles
- The purpose of worry
- The virtue of worry is integrity
- Expression of personality and emotion
- Common belief systems around worry
5. Metal – Lung and Large Intestine, Grief and Justice
- TCM physical functions of each organ
- TCM psychological functions of each organ
- Personality profiles
- The purpose of grief
- The virtue of grief is justice
- Expression of personality and emotion
- Common belief systems around grief
6. Water – Kidney and Bladder, Fear and Wisdom
- TCM physical functions of each organ
- TCM psychological functions of each organ
- Personality profiles
- The purpose of fear
- The virtue of fear is wisdom
- Expression of personality and emotion
- Common belief systems around fear
7. Course Summary
- Reflections on the connections between the lectures and suggestions on integrating the material.
At the end of the course, there is a questionnaire that you can complete and send to us if you wish to receive a certificate of completion.