Nature slows, grows colder, the energy and drive and warmth of yang becomes less obvious.
However, in sleep we dream, dreams being yang in relation to the body’s quiescence. That change comes from the yang ‘drop’ in the yin. Nothing seems to happen, but actually our bodies are repairing and growing: it’s just not obvious. Our personality disappears, our bodies rest and breathing slows. In life they symbolise different aspects of our experience. Each contains an element of the other – see the drop of the other in the middle of each?īy convention we call the dark side ‘yin’ and the light side ‘yang’.Within the circle neither could exist without the other. They are the same, with complementary shapes. It has two parts, each growing out of the other. Notice that this is a circle, symbolising everything, whether you can conceive of it or not. It has a symbol, the TaiChi or TaiQi (“TYE-CHEE”). Its basic ideas inform my practice of Chinese medicine and, when you understand it, they may help you make sense of your life. Written in antiquity, it has been studied and commented on by China’s greatest sages. If there is such a thing as an authority on yin and yang, it is the ‘I Ching’ (or Yi Jing), a collection of 64 texts or ‘hexagrams’ describing situations and how they change. After all, yin and yang can be applied to anything, so why not War and Peace? However, I agree, this page is rather off-message!Īnd I have a question for you – after reading this post – you’ll find it at the end. This is my current understanding of the relationship between war and peace, yin and yang.
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