Sometimes people are afraid to embrace the Yin and work on down-regulation and stress reduction through nutrition, breathing and lifestyle/training methods.
The other side, the Yang – the “work” is cut out for them since beginning school. The repetition of the yang over decades leads to a way of living, a conditioning.
The Yin is the “space in between.” Or the other stuff.
The know it’s out there, but surely the rest, recovery, connection stuff isn’t as important as the work, the training and the growth? There’s not much time for that…
Well, the thing is, this isn’t in our own personal control. It’s physiology, universal law, whatever you want to call it. Expansion/contraction, rest/digest, day/night. This is the way it is.
The only confusion that can occur is in the mind of the individual (the conditioned mind, as a product of schools, parents, teachers, peers etc).
In fact, when we address the yin, we have more capacity for yang. Our potential output increases as the input is addressed.
The equation is somewhat fixed in ratios, but scalable in size.
When you learn to befriend “stress” and understand how to connect with your body, mind and nervous system, how to down-regulate the stress, recover, eat and breath for health, then both adaption and eventual output just goes up.
