YIN and YANG -The Chemistry of male and female chi

[Magnet Man]

Chinese and Oriental medicinemen in general have worked on mastering the chemical balance between male and female hormones for the past five thousand years. Diet and acupuncture, together with the prescription of a variety of esoteric physical and mental exercises have been their traditional methods of restoring health to ailing patients.

The therapeutic effects of acupuncture (metallic needle-point stimulation of the invisible electro-magnetic currents that flow within the atomic structure of our bodies,) though still not properly understood and analyzed by western medicinemen, has been generally acknowledged as an effective means for helping to restore health.

The Chinese understanding of diet, which involves an ancient alchemy of intuitive insights into the subtle male/female characteristics of gaseous, organic and mineral food-stuffs, remains largely a mystery to western science.

Of even greater significance is the Oriental focus on the power that the mind has over the body and their research over the millennia, by uncounted millions of mystical practitioners, into the development of the types of physical and metal exercises that can be employed to bring about a sense of balance to the complex chemistry of the human organism.

Our own scientific investigations into understanding the effect of the mind on the body, the powers of rhythmic breathing and the chemical balances of estrogen (yin)and testosterone (yang) in the human system, and exactly what effect they are having, not only on our health, but in determining the quality of our behavior, seems to be taking western medicine more or less down the same ancient path that China and India has trod for millennia.

I have no more than a layman’s grasp of the physical science of western or eastern medical chemistry and any corrections where I err in this thread are welcome. I do have some experience in interpreting both the mental and the metaphysical implications that Chinese and Indian medicinemen consider to be essence of the healing arts, and upon which foundation they have traditionally based their physical practices on. In this vast arena of the sub-conscious (where meta-normal energies can be evoked by the patient and thereby facilitate the recovery of that delicate balance between body, mind and soul, which constitutes the essence of well being) western medicine is playing catch up. It is in this extra-sensory arena that I hope to offer some insight.

Some one hundred million Westerners have taken initiation into oriental metaphysical practices since the 1960’s. It would be nice to hear any confirmations from those who have experienced the effects before proceeding

[fay]

i most of the time can control my headaches just by telling my self to relax and i breath deep breaths. i think my headaches are due to stress and dehydration(my water intake is not good). but there are days where i am unable to relax thus cant get rid of the headaches.

[Trivium515]

I do think that the mind has a lot to do with one's health...
When I was younger, if a cold or flu came into the house I would be the last one to shake it, everyone would be pretty much over it in a few days, a week maybe, but for me they could last anywhere from two weeks to two months. Just flat on my back, misery.
It seemed I was getting these more frequently too, four or five times a year, a couple of times in the dead of summer... After awhile (and a quite a few rounds of antibiotics later) I just got fed up with it, I told myself "enough" and I focused my mind on various goals, anything that I could grab onto, I also worked to keep negative thoughts/energy at a minimum. And started exercising, which in turn made me eat more, I think nutrition was part of the problem.

haven't gotten so much as a little cold in over a year...

[nickelfire]

My own chi is both negative and positive, and I think there's a lot of interplay between Yin and Yang too, and there's more to come.
I've never been terribly masculine, I take little pleasure in the types of things young men my age do, and as a result, I fit in neither males nor females.
I often see things from two conflicting sides and I wonder if others around me do as well; I have little conviction because I can't decide where I stand anymore.
Despite my progress, the male in me is still at war with the female, and the balance I seek is very far away...

[MagnetMan]

Yin/yang is directly connected to right and left brain modes of comprehension.

A balanced psyche which sees both sides of any challenge is always optimum. Discovering the opposite side to yourself introduces you to the most constant consultant you can ever have.

Balance can be encouraged via regular practice with the opposite hand. A twenty minute writing exercise can usually make the brain switch sides. Copying a drawing for forty minutes or so, when viewed upside/down also does the trick.

What is cool about dual brain exercises is that the switch to the intuitive brain does not lose contact with the analytical side. The appreciation is mutual. The sense of increased personal power is marvelous.

[Lasher]

Is dyslexia, or any kind of hesitance/confusion, while writing with a pen a sign of left/right brain conflict? Is it a smudging of the lines of the hemispheres’ respective roles? It happens to me a lot. I’ll be writing just fine and then, all of a sudden, I come to a certain letter or word and freeze… just complete incomprehension. I can only seem to overcome it by releasing the pen and looking away from the paper and shaking my hand… it’s actually a very uncomfortable sensation. It feels physical. It’s unnerving as my hand seems kind of painful and unwieldy… unresponsive. It’s hard to explain. How do you know when you’ve switched modes… is there any kind of limbo grey area? Can you be see-sawing back and forth without realizing it?

[MagnetMan]

Apr 15, 2008 14:25:59 GMT -5 Lasher said:

Is dyslexia, or any kind of hesitance/confusion, while writing with a pen a sign of left/right brain conflict? Is it a smudging of the lines of the hemispheres’ respective roles? It happens to me a lot. I’ll be writing just fine and then, all of a sudden, I come to a certain letter or word and freeze… just complete incomprehension.

Sounds like a neuron misfire or blockage.

I can only seem to overcome it by releasing the pen and looking away from the paper and shaking my hand…

Message is rerouted.

How do you know when you’ve switched modes… is there any kind of limbo grey area? Can you be see-sawing back and forth without realizing it?

In a drawing exercise there is an unmistrkable sense of re-vision. Hesitation leaves. The eye sees and the hand the draws with authority.

In the more abstact realm of dual brain thinking, it can be a little more difficult to know if balance is present. Any strong sense of self-doubt indicates non-balance. Absolute certainty is rare. Caution is the watch-word. Self-realized balance does not come easy.

[Lasher]

Apr 16, 2008 12:43:29 GMT -5 MagnetMan said:

Sounds like a neuron misfire or blockage.

So, do you think that is what dyslexia is? A struggle between the 2 hemispheres?

In a drawing exercise there is an unmistrkable sense of re-vision. Hesitation leaves. The eye sees and the hand the draws with authority.

Thanks for this explanation, MM. I haven't drawn in awhile, so I guess the feeling is a bit distant. I wonder why I get so effected when writing though. Some early dysfunction that's ingrained.

[MagnetMan]

Apr 22, 2008 18:41:32 GMT -5 Lasher said:

So, do you think that is what dyslexia is? A struggle between the 2 hemispheres?

The lens of the eye, like that of any primary lens, registers images up-side down and mirror reverse. It takes both sides of the brain to make the correction. I believe that the analytical side of the brain is not mature enough to accommodate the full adjustment to artificial nature of cyphers in th Early years of life. IMO, premature struggles to decipher script before puberty is the cause of dyslexia.

[fay]

in my stress days i get flue. i have noticed that during my exam days i would most definitely get the flue , the exams being in winters helped getting flue quicker.well the flue is not so bad for the past year but now i have asthma.

i have a family history of asthma. i used to be ok till a few years back. and now it has gotten worse . i think it is due to stress. i have lived all my childhood in a desert and never got sick and now i have asthma. thank god it not bad. my son has it too. it worries me when he can not breath properly.