Which of the 5 elements are you?

Quiz Questions

• 1.
  Most people would describe you as primarily:

  • A.
    Fiery, passionate, wears your heart on your sleeve kind of person
  • B.
    Grounded, nurturing, thoughtful, patient. Often you are prone to give more than you receive
  • C.
    Intelligent, discerning. High value placed on debating philosophies and moral standards.
  • D.
    Deep, sometimes brooding. Your emotional world dictates your life. Artistic, poetic.
  • E.
    Ambitious, motivated, active. You love to achieve, create, and manifest tangible things in the world.
• 2.
  Your idea of a perfect day would be:

  • A.
    Dancing, singing, laughing - just being social and having fun!
  • B.
    Good food, a nice walk outside, holding hands with someone you love 
  • C.
    Great discussions about life, people, and ideas with other highly aware people
  • D.
    Painting something that expresses your mood and your soul 
  • E.
    Going for a run, finishing an exciting project you’ve been working on, and checking off many items on your to-do list 
• 3.
  When it comes to getting projects done, you tend to:

  • A.
    Go in with full passion and enthusiasm but lose motivation halfway through and have difficulty finishing
  • B.
    Go slowly and deliberately, slow and steady wins the race. Eventually, you do finish, though often later than you would have liked
  • C.
    Spend much time thinking about the project, conceptualizing the steps and actions that need to be taken, before taking any physical actions. Sometimes projects never get started because you over-think them and have fears of failure
  • D.
    Work on them when you feel like it, when you’re in the mood. Projects might take days or months or years, you’re not really concerned - there’s no point doing it if you’re not feeling inspired by it 
  • E.
    Be excited, plan well, and execute well. Finishing a project is very important to you, and doing it well so that you can be proud of it and others can admire what you’ve done. 
• 4.
  When it comes to love, you:

  • A.
    Love quickly and fully, passionately. Sometimes you can be possessive or jealous. Love can make you almost manic and it’s what you live for! 
  • B.
    You love to take care of someone you love: cook for them, listen to them, make sure they are supported. You sometimes forget your own needs in a relationship.
  • C.
    Are turned on by people that are a match for you intellectually. You can have very high standards in partners or high expectations in a relationship that are difficult to meet. Very low tolerance for lying or cheating.
  • D.
    Are slow to open up to a lover, but when you do, you are deep and rich. There is a part of you, however, that you always keep hidden to yourself - your deepest feelings and essence is a rare delicate thing that you don’t let others see often. 
  • E.
    Enjoy shared goals and activities. Love it when you can go do a physical activity like biking together, get a home project completed, and then watch a good sports game together.
• 5.
  When it comes to your image of your perfect life, you picture:

  • A.
    Being surrounded by loving, funny, joyful people. Living life passionately everyday. You don’t really care if you’re rich or poor, accomplished or not, as long as you are surrounded by loving friends and family
  • B.
    Nurturing your relationships, children (you would love to have children if you don’t already), gardens. Growing your own food on a small plot of land in a beautiful spot in nature sounds like heaven.
  • C.
    Always learning, a clear pursuit of truth and integrity. You may be a teacher, an author, or a coach of some kind. You have intelligent, aware friends that give you stimulating conversations, share book or indie movie recommendations, and admire your ideas and ideals. 
  • D.
    You’d love to live near the water: the ocean, a lake or a river. You are patient as you create a life that is stable yet fluid. You are comfortable being with whatever comes your way, you can live almost anywhere and be content. You attract what you need with little effort. You don’t need material things to be happy.
  • E.
    You would love a prestigious career that earned you good money and a good reputation for being excellent at what you do. You are a go-getter and you generally have accomplished all that you’ve set out to do, and have an abundant life to show for it. 
• 6.
  When your more difficult emotions overwhelm you, you most often feel:

  • A.
    Passionate, expressive. You love so much it hurts, at times. You can get frustrated when a romantic partner doesn’t share your enthusiasm and passion for life.
  • B.
    Worried or anxious. You ruminate, worrying about the future or thinking about what you could have done or said differently in the past.
  • C.
    Judgmental, critical of yourself or others, insecure. You feel grief, sadness and loss deeply. 
  • D.
    Fear, panic. Feeling unsafe or unsupported in the world. Lack of love or joy. 
  • E.
    Anger. Frustrated when things don’t go the way you want them to go. Competitive to a fault.
• 7.
  The color(s) that most represents you is:

  • A.
    Red
  • B.
    Orange/Yellow/Gold
  • C.
    White/silver
  • D.
    Black/Deep midnight blue
  • E.
    Green/turquoise/blue
• 8.
  If you have health problems, they tend to focus on:

  • A.
    Heart palpitations, circulation issues
  • B.
    Digestive problems, stomach pains, weight issues
  • C.
    Lung issues, asthma, chronic coughs
  • D.
    Kidney stones, urinary tract infections, edema
  • E.
    Liver problems, gallstones, gallbladder removed

Quiz Outcomes

• 1.
  Fire

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  The fire element is associated with the heart as we carry our soul, our passion, and our joy here. Heart attacks are often a result of a lack of joy within the heart chakra, or a lack of connection to the soul or soul purpose in this lifetime. A balanced fire element is loving, compassionate, and joyful. An excess of fire can result in mania or a kind of fickle recklessness with actions or other people’s hearts. A lack of fire can result in a kind of weariness about life, fatigue - a general lack of ability to enjoy life and give and receive love. If someone has had many traumas surrounded the heart chakra and love, the person can shut this center down almost completely. I feel that one of the most important things that energy workers can do at this time is help people to open their heart again! It is very, very difficult to fully heal if there is a closed ability to give and receive love.
• 2.
  Earth

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  The earth, of course, grows our food. It is where all life springs from, it nourishes us with its healthy soil. The earth represents the nourishment of the body, food/stomach/digestive system, being grounded and stable. People with Earth type characteristics tend to be very nurturing and caring towards others, sometimes at the expense of forgetting to take care of themselves. They are prone to gaining weight around their midsection and can struggle with food issues such as emotional eating and sugar cravings.
• 3.
  Wood

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  In Chinese theory, wood is associated with the vegetation that grows from the earth: plants, trees, flowers, herbs. A healthy wood element in a person is balanced outward growth, a movement into the world and a comfortableness in beginning projects. Many people that we call ‘type A’ personalities have excessive wood in their system. They are high achievers and enjoy accomplishing things as they reach their influence out into the world like sturdy branches. Their body types tend to be a runner’s build; muscular but lean. An excess of the wood element results in over-focus on the external world and ignoring the inner world, along with anger and frustration. A lack of the wood element leads to laziness, complacency, indecisiveness, and inability to start or finish projects. The organs associated with the wood element are the liver and gallbladder.
• 4.
  Metal

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  Metal not only represents the literal metals on this planet but also hard minerals and rocks such as granite, marble, and mountains. The metal element is associated in the body with the lungs and the large intestine, both of which take in what is needed (air or food particles) and excretes what the body no longer needs. This requires discernment. The metal element is like a finely polished sword: deftly cutting away what isn’t needed and leaving the pure. So, the metal personality type is very intelligent, discerning, and enjoys mental activities. Excessive metal element in a person, however, is like a harsh sword that can slash outwards to others or inwards towards the self. If it cuts outwards, can lead to self-righteous judgment, harsh criticism and cold personalities that lack compassion. If it slashes inwards, it can cause excessive self-criticism, guilt or shame. The body type of a metal person is thin, especially around the chest, with low to moderate muscle tone.
• 5.
  Water

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  Water, of course, is incredible in it’s ability to be fluid and changeable. It is both soft and yielding as it sits in a calm lake, or immensely strong and powerful in a tsunami or hurricane. It is reflective and deep, as are people who carry this element strongly. Body types tend to be soft like water on the surface, but they can have strong muscles underneath the layers of softness. The water element is associated with the urinary bladder, and the kidneys/adrenal glands, which affects our energy and longevity. The water element is useful to teach patience, strength through calmness, and quiet introspection. However, excessive water can lead to stagnation of movement, frequent dark thoughts, and fear. The water/kidney element needs to have a least a little fire in it to keep it moving and not allow the water (which also represents our emotions), to stagnate, freeze, or get too lost in the murky depths.