Yin Yang

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The Yin Yang theory offers that all phenomena consist of two opposite aspects, yin and yang.  Yin and Yang can be comparably defined as: up and down, left and right, light and dark, hot and cold, stillness and movement, substance and function, etc.

Yin and yang represent two opposite aspects of every object and its implied conflict and interdependence. Generally, anything that is moving, ascending, bright, progressing, hyperactive, including functional disease of the body, pertains to yang. The characteristics of stillness, descending, darkness, degeneration, hypoactivity, including organic disease, pertain to yin.
 

The movements and changes of yin and yang give stimulus to the development of everything including Heaven and Earth, the outline of everything, the parents of change, the origin of birth and destruction and more.

The nature of yin and yang is relative. According to Yin-Yang theory, everything in the universe can be divided into the two opposite but complementary aspects of yin and yang and so on ad infinitum. For example, day is yang and night is yin, but morning is understood as being yang within yang, afternoon is yin within yang, evening before midnight is yin within yin and the time after midnight is yang within yin.