'Autumn - the Season of Metal' You already know it! The bread & butter of health is lifestyle. Lifestyle is the total collection of how we fill our day. How we fill it in terms of movements, emotions, behaviours, internal demands, as well as the demands & stresses that our external environment creates. We as human beings are a counterpart in an extremely large system and so the influence of our external environment plays a huge role. The Daoist adepts did not feel they had the authority to determine the objective distinction of things. Therefore the human being is as much the cosmos as the electrons are that makes up our body. 'cycles within cycles' We are a counterpart of these celestial cycles, this means the days, months, years, processions, big years, great years and other planetary relations. This ever-permeating spiritual ether that we call "qi" regulates, communicates and expresses itself through the natural cycles. It gives rise to day & ni