The Five Elements: Water

Water is both powerful and gentle, Nurturing and destructive. Water is the basis and source of life.

The emotion associated with Water is fear. Caution and defense are its positive manifestations, but excessive paranoia or extreme recklessness may manifest when the Water Element is imbalanced.

The term "resonance" is used to refer to something sharing the same nature of qi as an Element. Manifestations of resonances can allow practitioners to diagnose imbalances. The Water Element resonates with the Kidney and Urinary Bladder Organ systems.