Gentleness
In this exploration into my food difficulties, I have come across many healing methods and traditions. Most of them point to stress as a source of health problems and what perpetuates them. Everyone has their idea about what to do, how to heal. What I have discovered for myself in this whole process comes down to gentleness. There's a gentleness I feel when I go inside, and I literally feel like a different person altogether when I stay connected with it. I wanted to write about it today. Chinese Medicine talks about yin and yang, and what I seem to have is an excess of yang and a deficit of yin. Yin being the feminine energy. So I have been making an effort to live more yin-like, and this sense of gentleness arises for me when I do let myself live yin-like. So what does this mean. More than anything, for me it means to be in the moment. It has always seemed to come down to that in my experience. As a contrast, when I am not in the moment, then my mind is occupied, busy, at work...