To do or to be, that may be a actual query nowadays…
These energetic and passive features of ourselves are two sides to the Yin Yang dancing coin of exploring steadiness.
Doing expands, expresses and makes use of up important life drive.
Being returns us to replenishment, quietude and calm.
With out being, there may be little useful resource for doing.
And but the existence of each is crucial for wellbeing.
Our bodily methods are clever, there’s a intestine intuition at play linked on to metabolic nuances. Our autonomic nervous system helps us to keep up a gentle steadiness between quick motion and calming relaxation, offering an equilibrium of well being resonating in every cell. If we will hear to what’s required, somewhat than assuming our thoughts is aware of finest, then we confide in a deeper relationship of self care and an honouring of this miraculous physique/thoughts/spirit arrange. We step into the ‘Do-Be’ dance, a dance of complementary opposites. Right here is the Yin Yang precept at play.
Our cells are alternately discharging waste merchandise and receiving vitamins to allow their mobile enterprise to happen. Certainly it feels extra gracious to acknowledge this as a dance somewhat than a strict alternative of this, that or the opposite.
‘Being’ is actually Yin in nature. Like water, which flows and returns to a spot of holding, it will possibly, when left to its personal gadgets, discover the bottom level to settle. It wants a spark of fireside to stop stagnation or drowning.
‘Doing’ is actually Yang in nature. Like fireplace, it expands and expresses with motion, which might burn out if unchecked. Doing wants a dose of being to help within the balancing of its fireplace.
There are a myriad of illustrations of the Yin Yang dance via nature, in and throughout the seasons.
Just like the breath – we can not breathe out except we’ve breathed in.
We can not get up, if we’ve not been to sleep. The evening offers rise to the morning, because the day offers to nighttime.
Yin is not only darkish, feminine and shadowy, simply as Yang is not only white, masculine and sunny.
Inside every there may be a facet of the opposite to encourage the ‘Do-Be’ dance to proceed to nurture life.
It’s not only a balancing of opposites, it’s a balancing of being. Just like the Earth and the Solar being at a sweet-spot distance that permits life on earth to proliferate. Or the forces of gravity and electromagnetism that should be at a specific diploma, neither stronger or weaker, for matter to cohere.
In modern society, Yang has had the higher hand for approach too lengthy. Consequently, we’re in an epidemic of low self care, illness and illness, regardless of all of the advances in modern-day science.
How can we be extra Yin and maintain house for ourselves to heal?
We’re, in any case, human be-ings.
Why do we have to steadiness ‘doing’ with ‘being’?
- our methods work higher when within the steadiness of steadiness, to stop dis-ease and heal excellent issues
- honouring the innate steadiness on the core of our existence permits us to be extra measured with selections
- fostering a relationship with the everlasting now second, we turn into extra current with life, a key to limitless vitality
- Doing the ‘do’ with out being the ‘be’ results in ungrounded, over stimulated behaviour, eroding true well being
Taoist meditation/affirmation
Utilizing the facility of the I AM BALANCE assertion, activated by the breath, together with inserting your palms in your decrease stomach on the stage of the sacral chakra. Say the next to your self, 3 times.
- Breathe in ‘I’
- Maintain for ‘AM’
- Breathe out ‘Steadiness’
Discover how this centres you in the course of your ‘Do-Be’ dance. This steadiness place in your stomach is the ‘dantien elixir subject’. That is your zone of potential, a centre of useful resource to entry your complementary substances to a balanced life, the place Yin and Yang interaction in concord. Drop in right here everytime you really feel out of types and reconnect to the ‘I Am Steadiness’ inside.