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• Origins of the Yin Yang Symbol
• Drawing the Yin Yang Symbol
• Understanding and applying Yin Yang
• Chinese Medicine
• Yin and Yang Colors in Feng Shui
• Feng Shui Institute
• Yin Yang Giftstore
• Yin Yang Horoscope
• Barefootdoctor on Yin Yang
• Yin and Yang in the kitchen
• YinYangTao Store
• Yin Yang Outdoor Furniture by Dedon
• Yin and Yang outdoors
• TAO/YIN YANG WEBRING
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Origins of the Yin Yang Symbol 

The Yin/Yang School of Chinese philosophy, perhaps founded by Tsou-Yen (c. 305-240 BC), is an early attempt at a cosmology, based on the opposition of yin and yang and a doctrine of Five Elements (metal, wood, water, fire, and earth), operating in ordered cycles in the production of nature and history.

The Yin Yang symbol is a Chinese representation of the entire celestial phenomenon. It contains the cycle of Sun, four seasons, 24-Segment Chi, the foundation of the I-Ching and the Chinese calendar.

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Drawing the Yin Yang Symbol 

Using just a pair of compasses, a ruler and a pencil, you can recreate this Yin Yang symbol:

Set compass to 3 cm.
Mark a point in pencil and draw a circle around that point with the compass.
Draw a vertical line with a ruler through the middle of the circle.
Measure and mark each 1.5 cm along it.
Set compass to 1.5 cm.
Draw semicircle to the left around the lowest 1.5cm mark.
Draw another semicircle to the right around the topmost 1.5cm mark.
Set compass to a very small size, and draw circles around both 1.5cm marks.
Rub out vertical line and centre marks.

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Understanding and applying Yin Yang 

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Chinese Medicine 

Health is life in balance

In Chinese medicine, being in good health is achieved by a balance of the Yin and Yang forces. In poor health, the balance can be rectified through acupuncture, exercise, diet, herbs and/or a change in lifestyle.

An excess of YIN affects the
Liver
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Lungs
An excess of YANG affects the
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Small Intestine
Stomach
Large Intestine
Bladder

Yin and Yang Colors in Feng Shui 

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Have you ever wondered what feelings do you have when you look at bright red rose in the garden? Can you imagine if a garden that does not have colorful flowers but only the green foliage? Early in the morning when you see a newly opened flower in your garden, your heart is filled with joy and happiness. Each flower in the garden has a different color and hue that affects you differently. While the white lily touches your soul for its serenity, the red rose with its vibrant energy elicits a feeling of love and passion. The feeling is different because the flower is reflecting a different color and Feng Shui uses this natural magic of colors to transform your life.

A rose is red because it reflects red color and Feng Shui makes use of this reflected energy to create a balance between yin and yang energies that suits your personality or your environment.

You may be aware of two types of energies (yin and yang) that the colors in Feng Shui represent. You can think of yin energy as like a plant growing from the earth. It comes from the soil, raising itself upward and moving toward the sky. As yin energy moves up to the sky it becomes diffused and dissipated. Yin energies have an element of dreaminess about them and the colors like blue, white, green and purple according to Feng Shui are believed to have yin energies.

If your home office is full of creative and dream-inducing objects or colors, Feng Shui may ask you to get rid of them (at least some of them) and introduce in their place more vibrant colors that will help you get in the right spirit to do some work and be enthusiastic.

Every association you have with a color contributes in some way to how you are. That is why colors play a meaningful role within the practice of Feng Shui. It is very essential for you to understand why toning down or playing up certain Feng Shui colors in your home will help you to achieve the goals you have set for yourself in your life.

The guiding principle in using Feng Shui Colors should be to achieve balance rather than excess. Whether you are planning the color scheme of your home, office, garden or personal appearance, the following characteristics of the colors in Feng Shui practice will give you an insight into how they can be used in Feng Shui design.

Yin Colors & Feng Shui

Yin colors according to Feng Shui are the colors which bring about healing and relaxation. The relation between colors and Feng Shui can be better understood by taking the example of some colors as given below.

Blue: Blue color according to Feng Shui has yin energy and it is calm and soothing. This color has great significance in Feng Shui as it reflects love as it heals and relaxes. Blue creates a feeling of peace and trust. Since it is the color of the sea and sky, Feng Shui associates it with adventure and exploration. Navy blue it the color of intellect and wisdom.

Black: Black color in Feng Shui symbolizes money and income, black is great for careers, especially when combined with metal. It is the Feng Shui color of emotional protection and power.

Purple: Purple, the color which lies at the end of the spectrum, has a great significance in spiritual Feng Shui. The color is excellent for physical and mental healing and Feng Shui associates it with spiritual awareness.

White: The color in Feng Shui represents poise, confidence and purity. Because of its yin energy, Feng Shui uses this color mostly in combination with gold or silver to generate an atmosphere The other yin colors of Feng Shui are pink and green which also have their individual properties that are used in Feng Shui practice.

Yang colors and Feng Shui

Yellow: Yellow color in Feng Shui is considered to be as auspicious as red. Yellow represents sunbeams, warmth, motion, cheerfulness and friendliness. However, according to a noted color Feng Shui consultant, prolonged exposure to large amounts of intense yellow can cause anxiety.

Orange: With a lot of yang energy the orange color has great significance for spiritual Feng Shui practice as it strengthens your concentration. You might use this color when your creative well runs dry. Orange color in Feng Shui is used to give you a sense of purpose. Orange is the color of organization.

The other yang colors of Feng Shui are Tan/Beige, Brown, Red, Mauve, Maroon and lavender and gold. Each color has its significance such as money, luck or romance. These colors can be used in different combinations with Feng Shui elements for balancing the chi of your Feng Shui home, Feng Shui bed room, or Feng Shui office.

Colors & Feng Shui also have a lot to do with the direction in which your home sits. There are different colors that Feng Shui defines for the use in exterior facades of your house. Exterior colors of your house in Feng Shui practice can be used for matching or enhancing the basic house type that you have.

For example if your house is facing towards the south, painting its exterior with white, grey or blue enhances the flow of chi in your home. For houses facing towards East, the colors in earth tones or metal tones are thought to be of much use for enhancing the positive energies of the house.

The above article has been written with the sole aim of introducing you to the significance of relationship between colors and Feng Shui. But in actual Feng Shui practice there are many other factors which need to be given importance, it is very essential for you to understand the core of Feng Shui.

Once you know what is Feng Shui, you are in better position to understand the significance of Feng Shui tips. Remember that opening your heart to universe is more important than knowing meaning of colors and Feng Shui practice, because it is from there that you allow the healing energies to flow in your heart and living environments. The book on The Spiritual Feng ShuiTM has been specially written for Feng Shui study for beginners to bring home the significance of spiritualism for Feng Shui practice.

The author is an expert Feng Shui Consultant - Colors Feng Shui, Other useful resource: Feng Shui design.

Feng Shui Institute 

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Yin Yang Horoscope 

Calculate a Yin Yang Horoscope

Tools to calculate your own Yin Yang Horoscope:
A personal horoscope derived from the ancient I Ching oracle. Combining the simplicity of solar sign astrology with a sometimes rather disturbing directness makes the Yin Yang Horoscope a branch of Chinese astrology both entertaining and capable of suggestive predictions. The horoscope forecast is symbolic and open to interpretation on multiple levels. Also, it gives us tools to do some creative thinking ourselves.

Barefootdoctor on Yin Yang 

Balance

[2007-11-20 05:56:00]

One problem with the eternal debate over fatalism versus free-will, is the very premise for it is invalid. The immature mind seeks to resolve reality by choosing one option or another. The evolved mind understands reality to be more complex than that. While there is a place for the either-or model, our universe operates at the deepest level, on the principle of yin and yang, not yin or yang. Yin, in this instance represents the acquiescent state associated with fatalism: the ability to welcome and accept everything life brings your way, whether painful or pleasant, as an expression of absolute universal love and as the inevitable result of the near-infinite chain of cause and effect originally instigated at the inception of existence itself, as something already 'written' and therefore not to be struggled with. Yang represents the active principle in respect of focusing one's will towards achieving a specific goal or set of goals, thereby instigating a new strand in the chain of cause and effect. (Ascertaining whether the choices involved in the latter are also predetermined or not falls within the realm of mental masturbation). Both the acquiescent and proactive modes, working in harmony, are required for you to function effectively and gain the most value from being alive. This implies being willing to accommodate the paradox and the necessary wisdom to do so requires desisting from seeking to draw conclusions. So you let go and stop struggling with what is, or what to perceive the is to be, you stop feeling sorry for yourself, you stop resisting life and all the new information reaching you in each and every second and instead accept everything with good grace and as much cheerfulness as you can in any one moment. You breathe freely and rejoice in being alive. However, simultaneously, you continually work on refining your goals and directing your will towards achieving them.

These two urges: the yin and yang respectively, must be relatively balanced, so they can sit together comfortably. Too much acquiescing and not enough striving and you congeal into a blob. Too much striving and not enough acquiescence and you overheat and evaporate.

And the key to this intricate crucial balance lies in something incredibly simple.

Each time you breathe in, you are nourishing the yin, the accepting.

Each time you breathe out, you are stimulating the yang, the proactive.

Consciously equalise the duration of the inhalation and exhalation and be mindful of continuing to do so all the time, as you work, rest and play and by and by, the yin and yang of your entire life will fall into a state of perpetual and only mildly fluctuating balance.

From balance, comes peace. From peace comes happiness. From happiness comes success.

May you feel supremely balanced, peaceful and happy today and tonight and may it bring you surprising success in all your endeavours.

Love, Doc

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Yin and Yang in the kitchen 

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Yin Yang Outdoor Furniture by Dedon 

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Reader Feedback 

spirituality Great lens. You may like some of mine as well :) Posted June 22, 2008

CardLady This lens has great info!! The Yin Yang Symbol is also called the T'ai Chi symbol. Posted June 10, 2008

Tiddledeewinks Interesting! Check out my lens on my original designs where I have incorporated the yin yang into one. Posted March 13, 2008

FloralPatch Nice work and thanks for sharing. - Bobbie   Cheap Flower Delivery Posted March 01, 2008