Dondi Dahlin - The Five Elements: Understand Yourself and Enhance Your Relationships with the Wisdom of the World’s Oldest Personality Type System

Praise for The Five Elements

This wonderful book brings ancient wisdom to life and makes it practical for everyone to understand. When you know aspects of yourself and others through natures elements, how the world and all those who inhabit her work will begin to make complete sense.

JAMES VAN PRAAGH , TV producer, spiritual medium, and bestselling author of Talking to Heaven

Dondi is a master of the Five Elements personality system and presents them in a way we can use in our lives to live more joyfully and understand the steps in our journey. An invaluable book for all of us interested in the wisdom and energy medicine teachings of east and west!

ALBERTO VILLOLDO, P H D , shaman, healer, and bestselling author of One Spirit Medicine

This marvelous book teaches you an exquisite system for understanding how you and others operate in all conditions and describes how you can vibrationally call toward you much more of what you desire.

SARK , coauthor and artist of Succulent Wild Love

The Five Elements takes an ancient system used in the Chinese culture and puts it in a modern context. This is the perfect blend of the old with the new, a very useful tool everyone can use to find out about themselves and their relationships. Dondis enthusiastic style and practical wisdom brings The Five Elements to life!

LISA GARR, host of The Aware Show

After several decades of media exposure, what more can be written about Chinese medicine? Plenty. Dondi Dahlins incredible book The Five Elements is practical, comprehensive, and authenticnot esoteric, fragmented, or a vestige of New Age pop psychology. In other words, not only is The Five Elements a book for all seasons, it is a book for all reasons.

STANLEY KRIPPNER, P H D, coauthor of Personal Mythology and Haunted by Combat

Baffling characteristics of friends, lovers, and family become understandable when viewed through the lens of the Five Elements. A dive deep into the time-tested concepts in this book can unlock the full range of your wholeness, harmony, and joy.

DAWSON CHURCH, P H D , author of The Genie in Your Genes

Dondi Dahlins book is full of aha moments and practical and powerful exercises that can be transformative for all personality types. Youll find the code that will open the combination to yourself.

AGAPI STASSINOPOULOS , author of Unbinding the Heart

Over thousands of years, Chinese medicine not only developed a map of the human body, but also a map of the human spirit. With her brilliant knowledge of the Chinese Five Elements, Dondi Dahlin is the perfect guide to show you how to read your personal map!

JEAN HANER , author of The Wisdom of Your Face and Your Hidden Symmetry

Many books about the Five Elements are written academically, like a medical textbook. Dondi Dahlin, from her years of experience and mastery of this ancient wisdom, has written The Five Elements with the layperson in mind, blending Western and Eastern cultures, with ease and fun.

ROBERT PENG , author of The Master Key: Qigong Secrets for Vitality, Love, and Wisdom

Dondi has performed for many celebrities and spent a life in show business. She takes those experiences and combines them with her knowledge of the Chinese Five Elements in intriguing and fascinating stories that will keep you captivated!

MILES COPELAND, entertainment executive/founder of IRS Records and manager of The Police and Sting

If you love understanding what makes yourself and others tick, this is the book for you.

HEATHER DANE , health coach and coauthor with Louise Hay of Loving Yourself to Great Health and The Bone Broth Secret

Dondi helped me to understand not only how and why I behave as I do, but how I can have more compassion and deeper understanding for how others behave.

LAUREN WALKER , author of Energy Medicine Yoga and one of Sonimas 100 most influential yoga teachers in America

The Five Elements will grow your compassion and appreciation of people. Its simple, yet so profound. It is a thoughtful approach to a time-tested system.

HOMAYOUN SADEGHI, MD , author of The Art of Healthy Living: A Mind-Body Approach to Inner Balance and Natural Vitality

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Names: Dahlin, Dondi, author.

Title: The five elements : understand yourself and enhance your relationships with the wisdom of the worlds oldest personality type system / by Dondi Dahlin ; foreword by Donna Eden ; afterword by Titanya Dahlin.

Description: New York : TarcherPerigee, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016018138 (print) | LCCN 2016035084 (ebook) | ISBN 9780399176296 (paperback) | ISBN 9781101993286 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Personality. | Self-actualization (Psychology) | Happiness. | Five agents (Chinese philosophy) | BISAC: BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Inspiration & Personal Growth. | SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / Happiness.

Classification: LCC BF698 .D636 2016 (print) | LCC BF698 (ebook) | DDC 155.2/6dc23

Neither the publisher nor the author is engaged in rendering professional advice or services to the individual reader. The ideas, procedures, and suggestions contained in this book are not intended as a substitute for consulting with your physician. All matters regarding your health require medical supervision. Neither the author nor the publisher shall be liable or responsible for any loss or damage allegedly arising from any information or suggestion in this book.

Cover design: Julianna Lee

Cover images: (top to bottom) Irabel8/Shutterstock; Wichan Kongchan/Shutterstock; Phichai/Shutterstock; Lukas Gojda/Shutterstock; STILLFX/Shutterstock

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I dedicate this book to my father, Raymond Don Dahlin, who was a Wood/Fire/Water. As a conservative agnostic Republican, he would have thought this book was entertaining, but not science, and he still would have supported me to write it. His name is a part of my name and I inherited his Wood, which helped me get this book written and reach my goals. My Water tries to make sense of his death every day of my life.

I love you, Dad. I am two halves of you and Momtwo of the most charismatic and incredible human beings the world has ever known.

I am blessed.