Wood element personality types feel driven, ambitious, and focused. One of the Chinese elements types, wood types thrive with a challenge. Adventure motivates them. Don't know your Five Elements Personality Type? Take the quiz.
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Wood Element Personality ?
Strength and Flexibility
Wood Element Personality types are driven, ambitious, and focused...really focused. If you ask Wood types a question, they will likely keep working while answering. Unlike Water types who feel great fear, Wood types feel excited by a challenge. Wood’s capacity to envision helps create concrete goals and plans.
When in balance, Yin energy keeps Wood types supple and flexible, like a willow. When out of balance, wood could crack and lose a physical or emotional limb when, or even be completely uprooted.
Wood Element Personality Archetype - The Pioneer
Driven by adventure and exploring the unknown, the Pioneer deliberately battles adversity to tame the wilderness. Adaptive, cunning, and fiercely independent, Wood types strike out on their own, striving constantly to move past their limits.
Exploration can be in the physical realm, including traveling unmapped roads, trekking up mountain slopes, or exploring space. It can also be in the personal realm, staring a new business, researching an as yet unrecognized field, or inventing new products.
The Pioneer removes resistance in order to innovate, reform, and revolutionize. Action fulfills this Chinese elements archetype of the Pioneer.
Chinese elements - Wood’s Need for Calm
Wood prefers to follow documented procedures rather than popular trends. Since Wood is soothed by routines and repetition, consistent schedules (mealtimes and bedtimes) help ease Wood’s sense of stress and action.
This opposes Wood’s consistent drive to explore. In order to stay emotionally and physically balanced, Wood types need to embrace Yin, calming, energy. Periods of hard work must be followed by rest.
Hard work should be completed on a schedule to keep Wood flexible and healthy.
Without enough Yin, Wood beco