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Yin Yang / Hee Haw

March 3, 2007 on 3:50 am | In Nature, TCM |

 

 

 

The picture above has been posted on the Healing Connection website (here) for quite some time. The reason is that it presents an example of how nature provides a message or a concept right before our eyes that often goes unnoticed.
I thought I’d share the story behind this picture.

In 2002 I made a life-changing decision to change not only my career but the direction and purpose of my life. I left a corporate job I had held for 31 years and set out to become a Massage Therapist and an Ortho-Bionomy pracitioner.
One week before I started massage school I went, along with my wife, on a vacation to the Black Hills. Among the pictures I brought back was the one above of the semi-wild donkeys at Custer State Park. They would frequently stop traffic by hanging around the road where passers-by would collect.
It was eight months later, while attending a Traditional Chinese Medicine class that I felt compelled to revisit the photo, this time discovering it was a near-perfect representation of the Yin Yang symbol (see picture below). (For more info on the concept of Yin and Yang go here).
Not only do the animals line up into the proper shape but the small circles do as well. The black circle within the larger white section, and vice-versa, are represented by the donkey’s noses.

Coincidence? Or is this a metaphorical image for contemplation?
Since I was about to embark on a journey, in this case massage school, that served to refocus my awareness on wellness and balance in life, it’s hard not to see this as a harbinger, these two animals anouncing, in their own way, what was to come.

When we look with different eyes it’s amazing what we will see.

What have you been seeing?