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It is nearly the end of another year and always a time for reflection. If you are like me you give yourself an annual report card on your year. Or you just skip the judgment phase and simply create some New Years Resolutions of things to change. My report card for the year would say something like “valiant effort, but balance needs improvement”. The “balance” I promised myself each day didn’t quite materialize the way I had hoped, so my New Years Resolution is to change that and find more balance. What is this balance I'm referring to?Balance is a state of equilibrium between opposing forces. I’m referring to the opposing forces of yin and yang.
The historian in me enjoys looking back on not just this past year but on 2200 years of history, particularly in relation to Chinese medicine . Since the first organized body of Chinese medicine literature dates back to 200 BC, that’s where I started. In an ancient Chinese text called the Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classic of Medicine, I find the same principals of balance as I use for my annual report card. These are the foundation from which Chinese medicine in the ancient world and Oriental Medicine in the modern world are based. Amazing that 2200 years later we are still trying to master the same principals of balance. (Guess I shouldn’t be too hard on myself, I haven’t been at it all that long.)
In 2010 I’m striving for a better balance between my yin energy and my yang energy- balance between work and play and a balance between rest and activity. For 2200 years (probably more) people have sought such a balance. For the balance we look for in this New Year I quote Sir Winston Churchill, “Now is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
Best wishes for a “Balanced Year”.
