The Five Agents/Elements are energies that are linked to a person's moral qualities and can be categorized as the five virtues of the Five Yin Organs. The Five Agents are also categorized into Five Elements.
The psycho-emotional components of the Prenatal Five Agents and Postnatal Five Emotions are both stored within the body's Five Yin Organs and are expressed as the child grows into adulthood. When one of the internal organs is stimulated, a Yin or Yang psycho-emotional reaction is created.
Psycho-emotional energetic interactions are feeling manifestations expressed through either the positive moral qualities of the congenital Five Agents (Yang - kindness, order, trust, integrity, and wisdom) or the negative developed emotional experiences of the Acquired Five Emotions (Yin - anger, joy, worry, grief, and fear).
The Five Agents are connected to the Wu Jing Sheri-Five Essence Spirits (Hun, Shen, Yi, Po, and Zhi), and stored within the energetic elemental nature of the body's Essence (ling) of Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water. The Five Elemental Energies, however, encompass not only the body but all the myriad phenomena of the body and nature, combining and recombining in infinite ways to produce manifested existence.
The Five Elements | Congenital Agents | Acquire Emotions |
Wood | Kindness | Anger |
Fire | Order | Joy |
Earth | Trust | Worry |
Metal | Integrity | Grief |
Water | Wisdom | Fear |
Citation: Johnson, J.A. (2012). Chinese Medical Qigong Therapy.