How to Understand Yin and Yang Principles in Feng Shui
ByThe concept of yin and yang is a powerful tool which will enable you to make vital connections between yourself and your environment. If you are experiencing a problem, ascertain whether it is because you are too yin or yang. Once you know if you need to .be more yin or yang to feel better or be more successful you can use this guide to change the chi energy in your body.
Everything is either more yin or more yang
Everything in our universe can be classified as more yin or yang than something else. Yin and yang are relative terms that are used to compare one thing with another. For example, resting is a more yin thing to do than working. At the same time resting is more yang than sleeping. Yin and yang can be applied to structural things such as a home, food, or a person’s body. It can also describe non-physical states including emotions, images and processes.
Everything seeks a state of balance
Although everything is either more yin or yang, as a whole, they seek to find some kind of balance. Individually nothing is in perfect balance, or can be in perfect balance, as everything will always be either more yin or yang. Therefore, something that is more yin is able to reach a more balanced state with something that is more yang. Often we drift to one side of the middle, and more balanced, path. For a while we become more yin and then find we have to adapt and so make changes that make us more yang. It is a constant balancing act that helps us adapt and respond to the world around us.
Yin and yang attract each other
Anything that is more yin will automatically attract something that is more yang. The greater the difference, the greater the attraction. The principle is similar to the poles of a magnet: plus and minus attract each other. Therefore, as you become more yin you will find that you attract more yang things into your life and vice versa. For example, if you eat something more yang, such as a dry salty snack, you will begin to crave liquids, which are more yin.
Nothing is solely yin or yang
Everything has some yin and some yang in it, but there is always more of one or the other to start with. But rather than thinking of yin and yang in terms of black and white, it is more accurate to think of it in terms of different shades of grey as there is more or less of each element dominating. Because everything contains its opposite, it means that everything has two sides to it. For example, winning the lottery may enable you to buy everything you ever wanted, but it could also result in the loss of your family and real friends. At the opposite end of the spectrum, losing your job may cause worry and financial hardship, but it could also lead to a far better career in the long term. There is always something positive in a negative situation, just as there is something negative in a positive situation.
Everything changes
Everything is always moving from being more yang to yin or from being more yin to yang. For example, a person might be more yang – irritable, frustrated and pushy, but as time goes by he or she may become more yin – relaxed, peaceful and calm. The opposite is also true, someone who is more yin depressed, listless and quiet could be in the process of becoming more yang – active, dynamic and quick. It is more important to see where you are going than worrying about where you are in the present.
As we all strive for greater control in our lives, the concept of yin and yang can help us to see where we are out of balance, and help us understand how to fix it. Whatever happens to us has both yin and yang elements and this allows us to perceive positive benefits in painful experiences and pitfalls in rewarding ones. Because everything is always changing we have the opportunity to change ourselves and our experience of the world using the principles of yin and yang.
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