Yin and Yang (Continued)

We say of some parts of the body that they are yin and of other parts that they are yng but this is relative. Sample, the upper body is young relative to the lower body, but the outside of the leg is young relative to the inner side.

Another example: although all males are yang relative to any female and all females are yin relative to any man, some men are more yang than others and some women are more yin others. As a result, someone could refer to a female as yang, but this would only be in comparison to other women. In short, when the terms yin and yang are used, the context is quite important.

The balance between yin and yang is not static but dynamic. From it comes harmony. It is true for nature and for humans as well.

Changes, such as those in the body and in nature, are seen as the result of one energy growing while the other contracts to make room for its partner and vice versa. There the yen or yang becomes disruptive and over beers it's energetic partner, the balance is destroyed and trouble arises. The dynamic interaction of these two forces is reflected in the cycles of the seasons, the human lifecycle and other natural phenomena.

The goal of all energy medicine is the promotion and/or restoration of balance in the body's vital energy. The complementary yin and yang forces regulate this delicate balance.

The Yin and the Yang

The ancient Chinese saw the world and everything within it subject to two broad powers or energies: the yin and the yang. Yin corresponds to principles such as inner, dense, cold, feminine, while yang offers the opposite–outer, light, warmth and masculine.

Contrary to common Western interpretation, yin and yang are not opposing forces but complementary and interrelated ones. Think of the pedals of a bike: when one is up the other one is necessarily down. The movement of the bike requires one pedal to come back up pushing the other one down and so on. When this happens in an orderly fashion, the bike is in movement and the movement provides balance.

 Each phase of yin and yang always contains the seed of the other. Since everything is in movement, change is seen as the result of one energy expanding when the other one is contracting and vice versa. There is never 100% yan or yang any place because neither one can ever be excluded from the whole. , Movement and change would be stopped and all would be static. That's impossible!

The illustrations show the dynamic context of yin and yang. Do not think of yin and yang as absolute and static but rather as relative and dynamic.

Energies, Frequencies and the Aura

You cannot see energy but you can see it's a fact and many manifestations. There are many types of energy: mechanical, electrical, physical, nuclear, and so on. All of them have vibrations in common. They propagate through space as trains of waves. Their wavelength is measured from the crest of one wave to the other. Some wavelengths like those carrying the signals of AM radio are measured in meters, but for the visible spectrum of vibration such as the seven colors of light, the microscopic wavelengths are measured in nanometers, one billionth of a meter (a meter is equal to 3.28 feet!)

Energy moves as electromagnetic waves defined by their wavelength to which corresponds a frequency. A frequency is the number of times a crest of waves from a train or series of waves passes a stationary point in the span of one second. As a result, the longer the wavelength, the longer it takes in the lower the frequency. Conversely, the shorter the wavelength, the higher the frequency. Higher frequencies imply higher energy.

Well-known scientists such as Einstein have focus their field of study some energy, yet it is surprising that very few Western scientists have given serious consideration to what most of us already know intuitively: There is an energy that animates the human body.

There are several layers in the energy field that we call the aura wrapping the physical body:

1) The Ethereal body, reflective of the physical body

2) The Astral body carries the energies of emotions and traits of the character

3) The Mental body hosts the energies of thoughts and intuitions

4) The Causal body is the energy of our higher or spiritual self

The ideal aura of a balanced and fully integrated individual from the physical to the emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of his or her being, blends harmoniously all seven chakra colors forming a white light (just as the seven colors of the rainbow constitute the white light of the sun).

Energetic Centers and Auras

In ancient India, the Ayurvedic philosophy led to an energetic view of the human body just as it happened in ancient China. Some of the Ayurvedic concepts are very practical for spa treatments. For this reason, the treatment protocols of Phytobiodermie incorporate work on the major energetic centers named chakras.

You may have already begun to think of the body as an energetic system. Vital energy powers and directs the body. Vital energy sources include ancestral energy from our parents and energy transformed in our body from the air we breathe and the food we eat. We are also subjected to the energies of our environment from heaven (in the sense of cosmic energies) and from earth (called telluric energies).

Energy is constantly transformed and flowing within each of us and it also flows in and out of each of us. Ayurveda also has energy points called Marma points that correlate highly with acupuncture points and energy channels called Nadis. There are also chakras or energetic centers.

Each chakra receives and sends out energy creating an energy distribution system not only within the body but also between the body and our energy field. Each chakra has its own range of energy vibration that corresponds to one of the seven colors of the rainbow. Energy blockages can also occur in chakras. It is possible to balance chakras by giving them the lacking energy. Balancing takes place by the application of certain essential oils or, alternatively, with light of various colors.

Chakras are numbered from 1 to 7 starting at the root chakra and ending at the crown chakra. It is best to simultaneously balance chakras by pair determined by their symmetrical position relative to the middle or heart, fourth chakra. Note that the sum of the parent or complementary chakras is always eight. (7+1, 6+2,…)

To each chakra corresponds certain organs and for some, one or two of the eight hormonal glands. The health of organs and hormonal glands depends on the energetic quality and quantity of the corresponding chakra. A healthy hormonal system requires a healthy chakra system, thus the importance and practicality of working with light and oils to energize and balance them.

Chakras have a funnel shaped going deep into the body and extending several inches beyond the skin level into the layers of our energy field, the aura around the body. Each individual aura has its own blend of vibrations, energy and color combination specific not only to each individual but also subject to changes from moment to moment and particularly according to emotions.