Are You More Yin or More Yang?

Posted by on June 28, 2011

Are You More Yin or More Yang?

Did you know your home can help you bring your own personal energy into balance? Like a relationship, our home can help balance us out. Most of us tend to be more yin or more yang. While feminine energy is yin and masculine energy is yang, it has nothing to do with gender. Men can tend towards yin energy and women can tend towards yang energy, and vice versa. Here are some characteristics of each:

Yin Characteristics:

Sensitive, Nurturing, Slower Moving, Intuitive, Relaxed, Imaginative, Quite, Introverted

Yang Characteristics:

Excited, Rational, Direct, Mental, Enthusiastic, Outgoing, Changeable, Logical

Ideally, we want a balance of each of these. When we have too much of either, it leads to the following imbalances:

Too Much Yin:

Depression, Weight Gain, Accumulates Clutter, Past-Oriented, Cries Frequently

Too Much Yang:

Anxious, Future-Oriented, Hyperactive, Emotion-less, Reactive

We all tend towards being too yin or too yang in times of imbalance and can use our home to help bring us into balance. If you are more yin, then you want to balance out your tendencies with yang qualities in your home, and vice versa. For those who are more yang should bring in more yin qualities into their home. Here’s how:

Yin People Should Bring in Yang Qualities:

Large windows, open floor plan, skylights, high ceilings, light colors, natural light, Tall furniture, hardwoods, minimalism, mirrors

Yang People Should Bring in Yin Qualities:

Small separate rooms, Closed doors, lower ceilings, covered porches, small windows, more trees and shrubs, rugs and carpet, window coverings, low furniture, low light, dark colors

Take a look around your home and see if your home is more yin or more yang. Is this the best energy to balance your personal energy? If not, make some changes and see if your energy changes for the better.

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Tisha Morris is a feng shui expert, life coach, and the author of Feng Shui Your Life. For more information, visit www.tishamorris.com

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