When we think of the yang, we think of drive, movement, and expansion. When we think of yin, we think of emotions, connections, and intuition. Whether or not we are male or female, we all have a masculine and feminine side, and bringing that into balance will dictate our relationships with our children, partner and friends. When we look at the yin and yang qualities, we can observe them in our lifestyle, the food we eat and how we navigate and express ourselves in the world. It is associated with the sun, fire, sky, heaven, dry, masculinity, daylight and birth. Yang is characterized by fast, hard, solid, focused, dominance, expanding, strong, and aggressive. It’s associated with the moon, water, earth, femininity, downward movement, death and night. Yin is characterized by slow, soft, allowing, passive, submissive, cold, receptive, intuitive and able to let things unfold as they may. We can look at the characteristics found in yin and yang as a way of looking at ourselves to better understand if we are in harmony or out-of-balance. We are simply attempting to look at some of the ways in which to find balance in ourselves without delving too deep into Chinese medicine. In life we always need to find a balance and harmony with all things, when things are out of balance, they fall into the following four categories: deficiency yin, deficiency yang, excess yin, excess yang. In the Western world, we would say that the microcosm exists within the macrocosm.
The Taoists believe that everything is part of the oneness of the universe therefore the external forces of nature can be found in the internal process of the human body. Yin and yang mutually control each other.If we turn to nature, we can describe the heat as yang and the rain as yin and the daylight as yang and the night as yin. Even if they are opposites, one cannot exist without other. Yin and yang are interdependent and define one another.Nothing is completely yin or yang as it is always in comparison. It is a perfect expression of ordered chaos. It is forever dynamic and the basic foundation for change in nature. Everything in nature and the human body can be expressed in opposition.There is a movement within the symbol to convey that whenever yin and yang come together, they separate only to reconnect as one. There is an inner circle within each of the opposite color. If you observe the symbol of two curved teardrops, you will see the black (yin) side descending and the white (yang) side ascending. The Taoists define yin yang as polar energies that fluctuate and interact in constant motion. Here’s a fun video explaining the meaning of yin-yang: The polarities that run through the philosophy are life and death, heaven and earth, night and day, health and sickness, poverty and wealth, positive and negative, and the cycles of season. The two fundamental forms of qi (life force) are yin-qi and yang-qi – the feminine and masculine energies. Shadow cannot exist without light as yin cannot exist without yang. The heat of the sun (yang) will dissolve the morning dew (yin) the evening night (yin) will be replaced by the morning sun (yang). Nature conveys itself in an endless cycle of polar opposites. These opposing forces, yin –the feminine and yang- the masculine, are always joined and equally dependent in the natural world, and harmony is achieved when the two forces are in balance. The theory of yin-yang was explained in written form in the book I Ching around 700 B.C., but the earliest evidence is found in inscriptions made on “oracle bones” that date back to the 14 th century B.C.E. The Taoists developed the system of traditional Chinese medicine and saw the universe as a unified field, continuously shifting and altering while maintaining its unity. Yin-yang is the dominant concept in Taoist philosophy that describes two halves that complete each other.
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