The Earth Element Reset
A simple, 10-minute daily technique to restore your energy, clear your mind, and release worry.
In Chinese medicine, the Earth Element sits at the center of all five elements. It governs your digestive system, your ability to extract energy from the food you eat, and your capacity for clear, focused thinking.
Think of it this way: your stomach is like a bakery, taking in raw ingredients and transforming them into something your body can use. Your spleen is the fleet of delivery trucks that transports that energy to every organ and system in your body, 24 hours a day.
When this system breaks down, deliveries stop. That's when fatigue, brain fog, bloating, worry, and muscle weakness show up.
The Earth Element Reset restores this system.
What is a Reset?
A Reset is not simply acupressure or acupuncture without needles. It's a comprehensive approach that combines specific acupoint stimulation with focused breathing and intention to create an immediate shift in your body's energetic patterns.
The Science Behind Resets
Modern research helps explain why these techniques work so effectively:
Neurological Impact: Stimulating specific acupoints sends signals through the nervous system that can reduce pain perception. Studies show acupoint stimulation can trigger the release of endorphins and other natural pain-relieving compounds.
Circulatory Effects: The physical pressure and focused breathing increase blood flow to tissues, bringing oxygen and nutrients while removing inflammatory compounds.
Fascial Connection: The body's fascial network—the connective tissue that wraps around muscles, organs, and cells—responds to pressure at acupoints, helping to release tension patterns throughout the body.
Autonomic Regulation: Resets help shift your nervous system from the stress response ("fight-or-flight") to the relaxation response ("rest-and-digest"), which is essential for healing.
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Longer inhalations and exhalations help relax the body and mind
All healing happens when we're relaxed
Breath directs energy to where it's needed
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Placing attention to specific body regions:
For the Earth Element Reset, we focus on the digestive area and the head
Contact can be physical (hands on body) or energetic (focused attention)
This targeted focus helps direct healing energy
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The Points of Focus are the Reset's healing intentions
Each Elemental Reset will have it’s own 3 Points of Focus
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Coordinated movement and breathing with specific points of Focus & Release
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Energizes the entire system:
Activates meridians and healing centers throughout the body
Updates every cell to a new blueprint of vitality
Integrates the changes through three key zones: Head, Heart, and Navel
Earth Reset Supports:
Low energy and fatigue
Digestive system issues
Mental clarity and focus
Anxiety and busy mind
3 Points of Focus
Digest, Nourish, & Energize
Activate your body's ability to convert food into energy and distribute it where it's needed most.
Clear Thinking
The Earth Element governs your ability to think clearly. When your Earth is out of balance, the mind becomes cloudy, scattered, or stuck in loops of overthinking.
Reset & Digest
Shift your nervous system out of stress mode and into the state where healing and digestion actually happen.
Emotional Sweep: Release Worry
Acupoints
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Conception Vessel 6
Harnesses deep energy reserves
Location:~2” Below navel
This point harnesses your body's deep energy reserves. The name literally means "Sea of Qi." It restores vitality, warms the lower body, and grounds you when you feel scattered or depleted.
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The Earth Element Reset uses what we call The Triangle of Qi — a powerful combination of three activation points that work together to nourish, gather, circulate, and harmonize your daily energy.
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Stomach 36 (Bilateral)
Qi Master Switch
Location: ~4” Below knee, outer shin
One of the most powerful points in all of Chinese medicine. It tonifies your Qi and blood, strengthens digestion, boosts energy, and builds overall resilience. You'll activate this point on both legs to complete the full circuit.
The Emotional Sweep
Release Worry and Overthinking
The emotion connected to the Earth Element is worry. Not dramatic anxiety necessarily, but the quieter kind: circular thinking, rumination, overthinking, a busy mind that won't settle down.
During the reset, you'll do an emotional sweep to release worry. On each exhale, you'll consciously let go of worry, overthinking, and mental clutter. This isn't just a breathing exercise. In Chinese medicine, the exhale paired with intention is a powerful tool for moving stuck emotional energy out of the body.
Follow-Along Practice Video
Follow along step-by-step to practice the Earth Element Reset
Resets Course
The Earth Element is 1 of 16 Resets You Can Learn
The Earth Element Reset is powerful on its own. But imagine having a complete toolkit of 16 resets that address pain, sleep, digestion, hormones, brain fog, inflammation, immunity, stress, and emotional balance — and knowing exactly which one your body needs on any given day.
That's what I teach in the Reset Practitioner Course.
What you get:
• 16 complete resets (6 Elemental Resets, 6 Master Point Resets, 4 Foundational Resets)
• Muscle testing — learn to ask your body what it needs
• 21-Day Reset Challenge — daily guided practice sessions after the course to build your habit
• 30-Day Group Check-In with Janet and Myriam
• Essential Oils Guide matching specific oils to each reset