the main reason that i am attracted to Chinese Medicine is because i feel it is a complete system which explains the movements through the cycles of what we call life. And, although there is a very analytical side to TCM it stays balanced by explaining its paradigm through poetic means. To me Chinese Medicine is a bridge between the known and the unknown, the large and the small, the healthy and the ill, the left and the right portions of the brain, and of coarse the yin and the yang. Furthermore, the everlasting strength and persistence that Chinese medicine shows in the face of many sceptics and many many years of cultural, physical, "scientific" and political changes is something that is quite admirable...
Physics to me in its academic form is something that is way over my head. I enjoy math and numbers but my lack of "keeping up" with mathematical skills since leaving high school keeps the inner workings (the equations) farm from my grip of understanding. but with that said, the conceptual side of Physics is something that i am readily attracted to. There are many interesting YouTube videos out there on quantum physics that i have been watching for a few years now. They range from highly scientific and mathematical to way too "new agey". But somewhere in the middle of these extremes is a great amount of thought provoking videos. I invite anyone who is curious about physics to check out what is floating around on YouTube. i guarantee a few hours of your life will disappear once you open that can of worms. (talk about bending time. lol)...
I think it is a common phenomena that everyone experiences some perception of time speeding up and slowing down. the specifics of the stories aren't very important to list but the fact that all people despite age, gender, location have spoke of time as something that isn't constant. I think that this notion reveals to us that no matter how hard we try to make static "laws" and try to organize reality into many concise boxes (which may or may not help us make sense of the universe) there will always exist the non-linear influence of personal experience that will color and change what is perceived as reality. Maybe it would benefit some people to give up the boxes and straight lines and just fall in trust with life being an ever changing phenomena...
Mike,
ReplyDeleteVery well put, time can be very tricky, and sometimes it can get the best of us, but I believe that we both know that we can mold it just like our energy and it is a delicate balance as you said so when you realize that you are in control of everything around you and all of a sudden there is a much greater responsibility to ourselves because when you figure it out then there is no one left to blame! It's all us and our hope and dreams! see you soon =)
And to take your thoughts further i think that doing and not-doing, control and letting go, acting and allowing to be acted upon are the only way we can truely be in the world. there is too much frustration with controlling everything. Likewise there is too much frustration with being a leaf in the breeze. when to act and when to let go seems to be in question for me these days. i would hope to be equally in control of the universe as well as comfotably floating within its beautiful oceans...
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