Yin and yang

about to say.

Ying and yang.

So because of the competitive world or the surroundings in our life, our masculine side, it's there.

Okay? And the guards are up all the time.

That was his right hand.

Ying and Yang.

That was his

right hand man.

And there's something from Chinese medicine that I think explains this so beautifully.

Yin and yang.

We often see that familiar circle, one half dark and the other half light.

But I wonder how often we stop and think about what it really means.

Yeah.

Yin and Yang.

Two people, Alison Schabker and Monica Breen.

The ladies wrote it.

I mean, we can have a whole sidebar on the view of traditional Chinese medicine and menopause and, you know, which I know you really subscribe to that sort of thinking, which is that this is a natural process.

And I would say the thing that TCM looks at is that your experience of that transition is really dependent on the amount of Jing that you have, as well as how either depleted or robust your Yin energy is, right? Which is oxytocin is a really good, let's say, modern stand-in for what Yin represents in the female body in traditional Chinese medicine.

And so again, it comes back to how well you're regulating your nervous system, how well you are giving yourself the opportunity to rest and recover and replenish yourself.

And you know, that's, that's not just true of menopause.

So I've kind of brought down the decibels a little bit over time.

But I think that, like, if I were to pinpoint, like, the secret to a really successful relationship, I think it really is kind of a yin and yang.

Because, like, I'm super ADHD.

I'm like, you know, my interests tend to be, I'm very into nature and grounding.

It's not to say that it's easy.

I mean, it's not easy to find someone like that, but.

But it's interesting, and I don't know what your thoughts are on, you know, obviously you've met with, you're an expert in all of this, but what do you find? I feel like that yin and yang really, really is kind of the secret to, you know, growing together and, you know, kind of And leveling each other out.

Yeah,

Clients often do not realize these factors contribute because they have repeated these habits day in day out for years considering the normal.

Okay, but to understand sleep well, we must return to the basic theory of yin and yang in Chinese medicine.

Yin represents the night and contains the qi of the night and yang is the day and contains the qi of the day.

You can view insomnia as a yang conditioning.