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The philosophy underlying acupuncture is not terribly difficult. There are relatively few concepts to be understood. Their power and usefulness comes from how they refer to key parts of our experience and how these terms are related to each other.

There are two main concepts that underlie acupuncture:

yin and yang, and

the five elements (sometimes called the five phases).
Here I'll give a brief introduction to each.

In this article I'll give a brief introduction to yin and yang.

yin and yang are the complementary opposites that make up any whole. Any whole can be seen to be made up yin and yang aspects. Thus one day is made up of day and night, humanity consists of male and female, a book consists of paper and ink. The subtlety of this way of thinking is that yin always contains a little yang and yang a hint of yin. (This is pictured in the diagram of 'the fish in the circle', the 'eyes of the fish' being the opposite colour to the body of the fish.) Thus there is some light (yang) at night (yin) and some shadow (yin) during the day (yang); each man (yang) has softness (yin) and each woman (yin) has resoluteness (yang), the ink (yin) contains some of the paper (yang) and the paper (yang) contains the ink (yin).

A good place to begin to understand yin and yang is the chinese characters. The characters for yin and yang are of the shady and sunny sides of a hill. Yang is the sunny side and yin is the shady side. So yin can mean: cooler, darker, rest. Yang by contrast is warmer, lighter, active.

These characters are also a reminder that the same side of the hill can be sunny or shady depending on the time of day. A person is more yin when resting or sleeping and more yang when awake and active. In our human experience the terms are usually relative - something is more or less yin rather than absolutely yin or yang. (Absolute yang is heaven and absolute yin is earth, while alive we are a mix of these two - the breath and earth in the biblical image.)

This quickly becomes complex because each quality or part of a person or object can be classified into yin and yang also. Thus a bodily organ like our heart has its structure (the muscles and so on which are yin) relative to its function (pumping the blood and so on) which is yang.

I hope this gives some idea of how these simple terms can be used in a subtle and diverse way.

Evan Hadkins
http://www.acupunctureiseasy.com
Learning acupuncture by viewing your experience through acupuncture theory.
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Evan has two bachelors degrees (one with a major in English literature and another in Adult and Vocational Education). He has also studied massage (western and eastern) and acupuncture. He is also a qualified presenter of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Of all the forms of counseling he loves gestalt best of all.

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