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Yin-Yang Harmony in Western Terms
But for the sake of western readers who are generally interested in the why and how besides the practical results themselves, let us examine what happens in the maintainace of yin-yang harmony. When you take in cholesterol or sugar, for example, certain chemical reaction occus in your body which sends a flow of impulses to your master-mind telling your master-mind that there is cholesterol or sugar. In Chinese medical terms, this flow of impulses is a flow of energy, and it is regarded as a yin flow.
After processing the information, the master mind sends a flow of instructions to the appropriate organs or glans to produce the necessary chemicals of the right amount and at the right time and place to change the cholesterol or sugar into useful ingredients for your body. This flow of instructions is also a flow of energy, and is regarded as a yang flow. So long as your yin flow and your yang flow are in harmony, you will not have cardiovascular disorder or diabetes, irrespective of whether you take just a mouthful of cake or two pieces, a pinch of sugar or three spoonful.
For the sake of easy understanding, let us quantify the flows. Let us say you have taken 5000 units of cholesterol or sugar. If you are healthy, i.e. if your body systems work the way they are meant to work, 5000 impulses will flow to inform your master mind of your new bodily environment. You master mind will send out 5000 units of instruction to tell the respective glans to produce 5000 units of chemicals to metabolize the 5000 units of cholesterol or sugar.
You need not have to practice any special exercise for this process to happen. The process is natural; the fact that you are alive entitles you a right to the process. You also need not have to know how the transmission of impulses or instructions work, or what chemicals are produced, or what ingredients are necessary to make the chemicals -- just as you need not have to know what the composition of your gastric juices is, or how your lungs regulate the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide, you are still able to digest food and breathe.
If, for some reasons, the yin flow of impulses is blocked, then you will be unable to produce the right amount of chemicals. Let us say 1700 units of impulses are blocked, and only 3300 units can get through to your master-mind. Your master-mind therefore will have incorrect information regarding the amount of cholesterol or sugar present in your bodily environment, thinking that only 3300 units instead of 5000 units of cholesterol or sugar need to be metabolized. The master-mind will generate a yang flow of 3300 units of instruction, resulting in only 3300 units of chemicals to be produced. If this yin-yang imbalance persists, cardiovascular disorders or diabetes will occur.
The blockage of energy may happen at the yang flow, in which case even if the yin flow is clear, illness will occur. For example, 5000 units of impulses along the yin flow reach the master-mind, and so the mind now has the right information concerning the amount of cholesterol or sugar in the body. The mind therefore sends out 5000 units of instruction to the respective glans along the yang flow. But if 2100 units are blocked, only 2900 units of instruction can pass through, resulting in the production of only 2900 units of chemicals when 5000 units are needed. This will also cause cardiovascular diseases or diabetes.
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