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Where there is yang there is yin and where there is yin
there is yang. Neither exists without each other. Balance
between both sustains harmony or whole and imbalance
between both creates to much of either. This is aspect of
duality. We are surrounded and internalised by this
duality. If we look at our own bodies and start from the
top then we know that our brain is split into right and
left brain which controls different way of thinking. There
is also two eyes two openings in the heart, two lungs, the
liver splits in two, there are two kidneys etc. This
duality in the body applies to the yin or the solid organs
in the body. The yin organs in the body hold and the yang
organs excrete, more about this later.

Looking at the outside world we can see the yin and yang in
the aspect of day and night, hot and cold, light and dark,
sun and moon, left and right, wet and dry, heavy and light,
below and above, contraction and expansion, slow and rapid,
descending and rising, water and fire, solid and gaseous,
growth and death, passive and aggressive, heaven and earth
and many other possibilities. The play between all these
qualities create result or action and reaction and
consequence. The more one aspect dominates the other, the
stronger is the reaction in the environment which it
influences. For example if there is too much heat and sun
like in desert there is no growth. If it is too cold and
little sun like in the arctic there is no growth. If there
is equal amount of day and night like it is at the equator,
there is easy growth.

The further the yin and yang is from each other, the more
conflict it can be. This is very true in relation to our
relationship with other people. If we take for example right
wing and left wing politics. There was a wide gap between
these two ideology. It created one of the greatest conflict
ever we have seen in this world. It almost brought us on the
brink of destruction. But from that conflict there was
creation of even greater aspect into our mass consciousness
and that was the demand of peace and brotherhood. There has
never been so many organisations and individuals fighting
for human mankind to bring awareness of non-conflict or
tolerance towards difference of being and demand of peace.
This is still going on and even today the need is great
since we are seeing great conflict between two ideology and
cultures again in a different way.

So what does all this politics got to do with health. Well,
what is above is below and what is outside is inside. The
laws of the universe are everywhere the same. In fact the
Chinese philosophy talks about the universe being reflected
in our bodies. This is not only in Chinese philosophy but in
others philosophies as well. So in our bodies there is
conflict between yin and yang and the further the yin and
yang splits apart the more serious consequence there is. If
there is to much yang there is too much heat if there is too
much yin there is too much cold.

Good example of conflict between yin and yang might be
manic depression or bipolar syndrome. This mental disease
can be described as swinging between the extremes of
over joy and depression. This creates great suffering for the
person involved. Both ends have the potential to be
destructive and the person fights in between against one
and the other. In our everyday life we are constantly
making decisions between so called right and wrong behaviour
or action. This can create stress in our life’s and constant
indecision. This is an example of conflict and it can be
trivial or very serious. Who doesn’t know the feeling of
the devil on one shoulder and the angel on the other
shoulder, of course metaphorically speaking.

It is always the middle path that is the most generous,
but so hard to stay on it. Understanding and trusting
that understanding is our key. Intuition is the fluid
which brings us back to the balance.

Be Well

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