I set my weekday alarm at 6AM. This morning I looked out the window and thought HOW can it be 6AM? It wasn’t that long ago that it was bright before my alarm even went off. We have officially tipped into the yin part of the year.
When I was studying Daoism, one of the scriptures warned against “cursing the wind and the rain”. This is a quintessential example of how to practice nonduality.
Nonduality is a core principle of many Eastern traditions. It asks you to hold a stance of neutrality, the idea that nothing is inherently good or bad. This stance builds equanimity within your mind and harmony with the world outside of it.
And yet, sometimes the heat, the fog, the shortening days, all of it just nature, can feel like it’s out to torment you personally, in a way that nonduality doesn’t quite reach.
This gets even harder if you’re struggling with severe anxiety, depression or an annual seasonal affective disorder (SAD). This is right around the time that my SAD patients start planning their visits to get ahead of the winter depression.
Are you at risk of cursing the wind and the rain? Would you like to find that equanimity and harmony with yourself and the environment? Chinese Medicine can support this kind of attunement, lift your spirits and create a momentum so that each year is less severe than the last.
Would you like to schedule your first or next appointment to work on this? You can schedule this opens in a new window::HERE::
