Les gardiens de l'âme — les cinq éléments protecteurs de l'acupuncture, by Nora Franglen, is not just another book on acupuncture. In it, the author shares the secrets of five-element acupuncture (wood, fire, earth, metal and water), which she has made her speciality.

Starting from the similarities between these elements and nature and the seasons, she studies each of them with rare care and poetry. Through this initiatory journey into the great universe and into our intimate depths, we discover the characteristics, strengths and weaknesses with which the element predominant in us — our guardian element — has endowed us from birth.

Acupuncturists will learn to use the five elements, and more particularly our guardian element, to correct the imbalances we suffer from; psychologists will discover the subtle workings of this guardian angel that stamps its seal upon each of our personalities. We can thus understand, with wonder, the why of our reactions, our behaviours, our attractions and our fears — in other words, our own identity.

Step by step, with subtlety and gentleness, enthusiasm and humility, Nora Franglen guides us through the complexities and windings of the human soul: a true incursion into the infinite that opens a thousand perspectives for connecting more deeply with ourselves and with others, and for understanding why, faced with the same situation, our reactions may be identical or divergent.

In this voyage within ourselves, on the tides of life, through the cycle of the seasons and the element each of them magnifies, it is our guardian element — the true keeper of the soul — that will guide us throughout our lives.