Yin Energy

Mother Earth is one of four yin energy personal elements. Yin energy has feminine qualities. It’s receptive and creative, intuitive and sensitive, compassionate and caring. It waits to be invited to participate and responds to initiated action. It is gently yielding in nature, opening, allowing and surrendering.

Yin energy is balanced by contrast. It holds space for its opposite energy the way the dark night creates a canvass for lights in the sky to shine. Deep within its core, yin energy contains a radiant sphere of yang energy. A center of bright, darkness penetrating light energy. An anchor of masculine energy in the heart of the black sea. A guardian of the night’s watch, safeguarding peaceful, restorative sleep. An unfaltering beacon of eternal light, beaming in a cosmic ocean of darkness. A seed of vibrant life, buried deep within the cold hard soil of hibernation in the dead of winter. A focal point of positive ascending energy, rising like the sun at dawn in the morning sky. A bright new day that is conceived through the creative essence of the womb, transitioned through the laboring of the female and birthed through divine feminine space-time portal. The star gate set amidst the sacred spaces, the light at the end of the tunnel. A burst of masculine energy around which the feminine energy can gather around and hold within its everlasting embrace.

Yin is a downward moving energy. The descent of water over a fall, the river that flows down the side of a mountain, the whirlpool of downward spiraling undercurrents. The deep grooves plowed into the dark, rich, fertile soil. The suddenly opening sinkholes, the sucking and wholly devouring quicksand. The burying alive of the entombed seed; the burrowing of the kernel of dormant life in its earthly grave. The roots that dig deep and extend themselves through the topsoil into the lower subterraneous layers of the Earth’s crust. The mined ores that melt down and relinquish their form when held to the flame, to be molded, and shaped and cast, impressed, embossed and engraved.

Yin is the great down under. The underground caves and mines, underground cities and catacombs, the underground bunkers and tunnels. The underworld. The abyss, the bottomless pit. That which lies beneath the surface, under the great expanse of the planes of existence, terrestrial boundaries and outlying borders.

Yin is dark. The dark matter that permeates all of space. It is the dark waters. The darkest hour, the darkest corners. The darkened door, the darkened room. The dark shadows and dark places, the dark recesses of the mind. The darkness hidden from yourself and the world. Your dark side, the shadow self. The dark night of the soul. The dark side.

Yin is deep. It is deep space. The unfathomable depths, the wide gaps, the yawning caverns. The great deep, the deep end of the ocean, the deep well of wisdom. Depth of thought and feeling. Depth of character. Depth of understanding.

Yin is still. It is silent, serene and secluded. Cool, calm and composed. Controlled, contemplative and content. It contracts, goes within, internalizing and creating from that innermost place of meditative tranquility and quiet solitude.

Yin is secretive. It is seductively mysterious. It is the hidden, the occulted, the obscured. The covert, the concealed, the cryptic. It is the great mystery. The veiled that keeps the undercover under wraps, cloaked, masked and enshrouded. It is the unseen. It has the super power of invisibility. Ever elusive, unobserved, unnoticed in the shadows.

Yin energy is negative. It has a negative charge. It has negative thoughts and conjures up negative emotions and depressive moods. It is the negative space, marked by absences in visual mediums. The temperatures and currencies in the negative, below the zero point. Negativity that withholds and withdraws, denies and removes, vacates and empties.

Yin energy is the space of creation. The empty spaces. The unfilled, unoccupied, uninhabited. The void. A vacuum, devoid of anything, everything. Nothingness. Without control. Without limits. Without form or structure. Without definition. Without linearity. Without concentricities. Without significance.

Yin is associated with the right side of the brain. The creative, intuitive and perceptive abilities. The visually and detailed oriented. Scanning to take in the whole of the picture or environment and then taking note of the finer details. Spatial awareness, facial recognition and the finely attuned interpretation of music and the context and tonality of communication. It comprehends visual imagery and make sense of what is seen. It perceives that which is imperceptible, not obvious; it can literally read between the lines.

Yin is associated with the right brain controlled left side of the body. The left side of the body represents the ability to receive. Information, awareness, access to consciousness. Appreciation, compliments, gifts, resources.

Yin is pure potentiality. It is the potential energy stored in a force field. The energy generated by an object through proximity to another object. It has elastic, gravitational, magnetic, electrical, nuclear and chemical potential energy. It restores various types of force; spring force, gravitational force, applied force and electrostatic force.

Yin is infinite possibility. The possibilities that are vibrating with potentiality right up until a choice is made and the rest of the options collapse. Possibilities because they are available to be chosen in each and every moment. Infinite because the choices are limitless and constantly being renewed within the state of inquiry that asks the question: “what else is possible?”

Yin energy years establish a default setting of rest, relaxation and rejuvenation. Life tends to take on a slower, meandering pace that allows us to literally stop and smell the roses, linger over our favorite morning cup of joy, spend the afternoon on our back in a park, a garden, a grassy knoll, watching the clouds roll by. Deadlines, task sheets and to-do lists becomes less of a priority. Naps come into vogue. Sleeping in and lazy mornings are written into schedules that become less busy and hectic.

Creation becomes a simple, though not always easy, process of ask and receive, appreciate and repeat. Productivity and procrastination are replaced with inspired action and going with the flow. Attempts at forceful change are traded in for letting things be what they are, letting people be who they are and letting yourself become who you really are, naturally and effortlessly. Recollecting and reclaiming the parts of yourself you had discarded and abandoned along the way becomes a process of reflection and careful selection for reintegration. It is a time to live inside the questions instead of seeking answers and coming to possibility limiting conclusions and decisions. Mastering receiving and responding to life instead of making things happen. Asking and choosing. Being in allowance of what is.

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