The Winter Solstice and Your HealthThe holiday season is a crazy time for many people. What should be a joyous and revitalizing time of year actually makes some cringe with the thought of endless shopping, meaningless events to attend, obligations, and a feeling of being overwhelmed.
The commercialization and craziness of the holidays are certainly one reason we feel stressed out during this time of the year. There is another reason that many of us struggle with the holidays, and we have to look to Chinese medicine and the theory of Yin and Yang to understand it.
The concept of Yin and Yang is a way of describing the world around us. Yang represents things that are sunny, light, warm, and active. In contrast, Yin describes things that are relatively cooler, darker, rejuvenating, and nourishing. Our natural world constantly swings like a pendulum between Yin and Yang. Noon is the brightest time of the day, and therefore the most Yang. In contrast, midnight is the darkest and coolest, and is considered the most Yin part of the day....
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