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Someone comes in for an ‘MOT’ because she has a very short fuse and is extremely restless. She comes to the practice regularly because she really struggles with this. One day she comes in and she is boiling over.
She has just retired and I ask her what she is doing differently than usual because the inner turmoil is now at the max. She says that she exercises intensively every day and then goes to the sauna.
Now I understand what’s going on and I can explain it to her step by step using the meaning of Yin and Yang:
Yin is the dark side of the mountain
and Yang Is the sunny side of the mountain.
Yin is cold
and Yang is warm.
Yin – cold becomes a more physical, solid presence (just like water turns into ice under the influence of cold)
Yang – heat becomes increasingly rarefied (like water turns into steam under the influence of heat)
The bodily fluids are Yin (matter).
The moving energy and the mind are Yang (rarefied).
Yin and Yang balance each other in the body.
If there is a lack of Yin, there is a lack of bodily fluids.
Then Yin can no longer control the Yang in the body.
If Yang is not under control, the tenuous moving energy flies out of control. This manifests itself in great restlessness or in rising heat in the form of hot flashes or short tempers.
If you exercise fanatically every day and go to the sauna, you lose a lot of bodily fluids and therefore a lot of Yin. And that, in this case, causes Yang to boil over.