July 19, 2024 • 16 mins
How does the shift in energy during this time of the year affect our daily lives and well-being? This episode unpacks the intriguing connection between seasonal transitions and our physical and emotional states. We take a closer look at how the stored yin energy from winter is catalyzed by the vibrant yang of spring, leading to rapid growth and increased activity levels. We'll also discuss appetite, emphasizing the wisdom of balanced consumption and the importance of knowing when to stop, whether it’s in eating, working, or any other activity. Our conversation touches on how modern technology can disrupt our natural rhythms, the critical need to listen to our body’s signals, and the often-overlooked necessity of staying hydrated for overall health.
Late summer isn’t just about outward yang energy; it’s a time for the completion of projects and embracing the quieter energy of yin. We explore how the subtle, yielding nature of yin energy can guide us toward balance amid the bustling energy of the season. Instead of feeling pressured by a lack of constant inspiration, we delve into the importance of accepting and tuning into the quieter moments. By reducing excessive cognitive and verbal activities, we can align more closely with the season’s natural rhythms. Join me as we uncover how withdrawing from overstimulation and high expectations can provide profound insights and a deeper connection to the gentle energy that the end of summer embodies.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And we're kind of cruising through this qi node.
This two-week period of littleheat almost finished on the 21st
on the full moon.
Have you all been feeling theintensity of the summer energy
kind of turning a little bitmore?
I don't know robust is theright word, but kind of, yeah,
(00:27):
strong.
I feel like every time I gointo the garden I go there every
single day and I'm like whathappened?
It's like a completelydifferent thing, like
everything's flourishing soquickly.
The rate at which everything isblooming is kind of phenomenal.
The rate at which everything isblooming is kind of phenomenal.
So this is that flourishing ofthe yin that's stored from the
(00:50):
winter, that the yang is pushinginto form and pushing into this
massive amounts of plantmaterial and energetic capacity
for huge amounts of growth.
Are people feeling that intheir lives this kind of like
(01:13):
less tired, maybe more energymoving through the system, more
capacity to stay up a little bitlater and kind of move in the
current of it all?
Do you feel it?
Yeah, so this is the time we'reseeing this even more and more
(01:41):
in our political field, thisyang chi going really, really
out there.
It's kind of amazing to watchit from this lens of malignant
yang and just kind of how theseyang forces are vying for power
right now and pulling out all oftheir, their uh yang chi, all
of this like very strongmasculine energy to to try for
(02:05):
buy for power.
Um, I want to touch a little bittoday on appetite and what is
our appetite?
And um, my teacher loomingwould talk a lot about how
having a appetite that's notcalibrated is is ghost behavior.
And this is the appetite thatincludes, like we really want to
(02:29):
make sure we have a healthyappetite, and also the appetite
that tells us when to stopeating or like when to release
and stop doing something.
So appetite in this contextisn't just about being hungry,
it's also about knowing whenyou're not hungry and being able
to listen to that.
And we can think about that interms of food.
But it's not only food, right,it's like how much we stay out
(02:53):
and keep doing something, orwhen we stop talking or when we
put the phone down or when we goinward, how much appetite we
have for exercising whatever.
It is like kind of thismoderation of amount and
quantity, and there's a lot ofinstruction during this Chi note
(03:17):
about that, if we tune into itin that way rather than kind of
going with this rampant only therampant growth energy, but also
kind of tuning into ourcapacity to release and soften
and tune inward.
It's kind of amazing to thinkthat autumn is beginning in what
a month.
No, it's three weeks.
August 3rd, just yeah, that'skind of amazing.
(03:41):
That's only two weeks.
How did that happen?
Was that summer really?
Did that already happen?
Um, so it's about not needing analarm necessarily, this idea of
appetite, of when to wake up,when to go for a walk, when to
turn off the computer, but justletting, like a force inside of
(04:03):
us, keep the time, keep theclock, keep the momentum of
knowing when to slow down, whento speed up, which is kind of a
lot of what I feel like we'velost a bit in terms of a highly
technologized environment whereI think it does really mess with
(04:24):
our subtle intelligence ofknowing when to stop.
It's like, oh, set an alarm.
I tell people I think everyweek, set an alarm, go 55
minutes and then set an alarm,get off your computer, stretch
for five minutes, drink water,do whatever the thing is, you
(04:46):
know, like everyone's like yeah,oh yeah, drink water, let's
drink some water.
It's a good idea.
Let's all drink water, greatinstructional Water.
(05:07):
That's also like a kind ofsomeone told me recently that
that's actually a kind ofanorexia that we can have where
we we limit how much water wedrink.
It's like people areconsidering adding that into one
of the pathologies of just likewhen we don't want to drink
water, which in chinese medicinewe could, just we would
consider a large amount of damp,because if I wait, we have a
lot of damp in our bodies, thenwe're not thirsty a lot, even
though we still need the water.
(05:27):
But I just thought that wasinteresting thing that
therapists are playing aroundwith this idea of like what is
it when we just don't drinkwater?
Like we know we're thirsty butsomething in us doesn't reach
for the drink or make the timeto drink the water.
In Chinese medicine, another waywe talk about that is called
baihe bi, which is like a lilybulb syndrome.
(05:47):
Baihe is lily and baihe bi issyndrome.
And the lily bulb syndrome is akind of yin deficiency.
It's this kind of yindeficiency where we get so dried
out from the yang or the excessheat that instead of it's like
you can imagine it like a kindof leathery quality that comes
(06:08):
on the skin.
Specifically, it affects thelungs so that we're no longer
able to even absorb the moisture.
I know I'm digressing a bit fromwhat we're talking about, but I
think it's related.
So this baihe bi comes in andwe can get that way, also in
terms of our emotions, rightwhere it's like we have a hard
(06:29):
time absorbing the love, ourtype of absorbing nourishment
hard, hard time absorbing water,hard time releasing, reaching
for the nourishment, reachingfor what's actually most helpful
for us.
So it's a kind of state ofconfusion when we, when we need
alarms.
Did you guys hear my alarmright now going on?
(06:51):
Oh wait, I have an alarm.
It's not an alarm, it's a phonecall.
But it's just really funny thatit happened right in that
moment because, like on cue,curated by the universe and
impeccable timing, like when itis that that we need something
to remind us to eat, to remindus to drink water, remind us to
(07:11):
like, have you seen those, thosewater things where it tells you
like one hour, like 12, one,two, like it tells you exactly
you have this, like a x amountof water, and then it tells you,
like each hour, how much wateryou're supposed to have drunk?
My niece has one of those.
I just think it's reallyinteresting that we're like
trying to find how we can figureout how to know when to drink,
(07:33):
when to eat, when to stop, whento go, when to stretch.
We need all these outside cues.
Well, this would be a ghostlybehavior in this classic sense
of the word ghost, where we'velost our capacity to have this
inner rhythm, this inner timing,listening to the seasons,
listening to our bodies.
We need different amounts ofwater every day, right,
(07:54):
depending on what we're doing,depending on how much activity,
depending on the weather,depending on the weather.
So it's just kind of a funnything that we would rely on
something outside of ourselvesto know how much water to drink,
rather than our own listening,our own appetite.
So this is a kind of energy andmind confusion, not a mental.
(08:18):
It's not a mental confusion.
We try to ameliorate it withlike mental calculations, but
it's really a somatic experience, the appetite, a somatic kind
of knowing of when to drink andwhen to stop, when to eat, when
to stop eating.
So where do we learn completion?
So where do we learn completion?
(08:46):
How do we learn this completioncycle, this kind of completion
of action?
There's many places.
Hopefully, as children, we letour appetite evolve naturally or
according to our innerdevelopment of that appetite.
That's important with babies toallow them to have this
(09:10):
appetite and know when to stopand when to go to go.
So now completion is that we'rein the cycle of this chi node
of little heat and next, on theweekend, we're moving into great
heat, which is even more of acautious time around malignant
heat that can flare up and blazein the system.
(09:32):
But you know, ghosts can doweird things when they're not
listening right.
We can keep going, keep doing,keep behaving in ways that are
not in accordance with what'sour actual, actually the
nourishment of our destiny, andbehave in ways that are out of
alignment with our prayer.
That's basically ghostlybehavior, actually, maybe we
(09:54):
could summarize that as likeghostly behaviors behaving in
ways that are not in alignmentwith our prayer.
So completion right now, duringthis Chi node and the next Chi
node, is on a roll.
It doesn't need more pushing,we don't need to push to
complete things.
And if we stop pushing, push tocomplete things, and if we stop
(10:21):
pushing, then the summer heatthat we may have absorbed during
these summer months has thecapacity to disperse rather than
collecting in our body.
So part of the key with us innot pushing the river of
ambition during this and next qinode is allowing summer heat to
disperse itself so that itdoesn't store in our body as
(10:43):
latent heat that can then becomepathologized later on in the
winter as febrile disease or inthe autumn as a lung disease.
And it's tricky when we'resurrounded by ghosts right or
(11:05):
people who are mentally ill orhaving cheat arrangements,
because everything there's a lotof peer pressure, one could say
, or environmental pressure, orjust kind of consensus culture
pressure to keep going andpushing.
So it takes a bit of tuning inand really aligning with a
deeper prayer to know when tonot go along with consensus
(11:28):
culture.
Because consensus culture thistime of year is just like, yeah,
get the next barbecue, throw iton the grill, get the da da, da
.
Do the next thing like add morefire to the ready fire.
You know, pour gasoline on ablazing fire is basically what's
happening in our consensusculture here.
You can really feel it in theelection process.
It's just like mania, right,that kind of and I don't speak
(11:52):
that lightly or I'm not tryingto make any kind of weird
statement about that, but it isa really heart fire condition,
it's very easy to get into astate of panic around it.
So when there's battles, whenthere's incursions, when there's
genocides, when there's thingshappening, it's like very easy
for us to get caught up in thisfrenetic energy Because there's
(12:18):
not a lot of suggestions aroundus to get caught up in this
frenetic energy Because there'snot a lot of suggestions around
us to stop.
It's like a quiet whisper fromYin, like maybe it would be a
great time to stop and calm down.
So these are chi cycles thatare suggesting this conduct and
it takes really tuning intonature to see the way that
(12:39):
nature is starting to wrap up.
Like the seeds are starting tohappen now, like the fruit is
starting to happen.
Like things are starting toinstead of only just growing.
Like things are starting tobolt.
Have you noticed the bolting?
My cilantro is bolting likecrazy, but like a lot of things
are, the basil is starting toalready come into flower.
It's like, oh right, it's notlike it was a week ago, like it
(12:59):
literally changed.
It's like shifting from summersolstice where it just felt like
it was flourishing, flourishing, flourishing, and now I'm
seeing the seeds and the budsand things like that starting to
form on the herbs, so we don'tneed to look for inspiration
right now.
That's kind of a key piece.
(13:25):
Spring is really aboutinspiration and sprouting and
growing.
Now is the time to more sit andbe more carried along by the
current of the chi.
So the flavor of inspirationright now isn't really evident
in nature and I can see thistendency to want to pathologize
(13:51):
that, like I'm not feeling superinspired right now, like, yeah,
it's not really the season tofeel inspired, it's a season to
complete projects.
So if we're looking to feelinspired all year long, then
that can also be a bit deranging.
Does that make sense?
So we want to begin to withdrawfrom talking and thinking too
(14:11):
much.
We begin to have fewerexpectations of cognitive speech
related running on, going,going.
So if we get very loud, it'scould be helpful to help us find
our way to a quiet place rightnow.
And it's tricky, like it takes.
(14:33):
It really takes a focus,listening in and and tuning into
the quiet right, because yinisn't super loud.
It's not like yang, where it'slike look at me, look at this
flowers, look at this thing,it's just like.
It's just like a.
It's not yin doesn't do yin,just yields.
So you need to really to alignwith yin.
It takes a yielding.
And we're kind of cruising through this qi node.
This two-week period of littleheat almost finished on the 21st
on the full moon.
Have you all been feeling theintensity of the summer energy
kind of turning a little bitmore?
I don't know robust is theright word, but kind of, yeah,
(00:27):
strong.
I feel like every time I gointo the garden I go there every
single day and I'm like whathappened?
It's like a completelydifferent thing, like
everything's flourishing soquickly.
The rate at which everything isblooming is kind of phenomenal.
The rate at which everything isblooming is kind of phenomenal.
So this is that flourishing ofthe yin that's stored from the
(00:50):
winter, that the yang is pushinginto form and pushing into this
massive amounts of plantmaterial and energetic capacity
for huge amounts of growth.
Are people feeling that intheir lives this kind of like
(01:13):
less tired, maybe more energymoving through the system, more
capacity to stay up a little bitlater and kind of move in the
current of it all?
Do you feel it?
Yeah, so this is the time we'reseeing this even more and more
(01:41):
in our political field, thisyang chi going really, really
out there.
It's kind of amazing to watchit from this lens of malignant
yang and just kind of how theseyang forces are vying for power
right now and pulling out all oftheir, their uh yang chi, all
of this like very strongmasculine energy to to try for
(02:05):
buy for power.
Um, I want to touch a little bittoday on appetite and what is
our appetite?
And um, my teacher loomingwould talk a lot about how
having a appetite that's notcalibrated is is ghost behavior.
And this is the appetite thatincludes, like we really want to
(02:29):
make sure we have a healthyappetite, and also the appetite
that tells us when to stopeating or like when to release
and stop doing something.
So appetite in this contextisn't just about being hungry,
it's also about knowing whenyou're not hungry and being able
to listen to that.
And we can think about that interms of food.
But it's not only food, right,it's like how much we stay out
(02:53):
and keep doing something, orwhen we stop talking or when we
put the phone down or when we goinward, how much appetite we
have for exercising whatever.
It is like kind of thismoderation of amount and
quantity, and there's a lot ofinstruction during this Chi note
(03:17):
about that, if we tune into itin that way rather than kind of
going with this rampant only therampant growth energy, but also
kind of tuning into ourcapacity to release and soften
and tune inward.
It's kind of amazing to thinkthat autumn is beginning in what
a month.
No, it's three weeks.
August 3rd, just yeah, that'skind of amazing.
(03:41):
That's only two weeks.
How did that happen?
Was that summer really?
Did that already happen?
Um, so it's about not needing analarm necessarily, this idea of
appetite, of when to wake up,when to go for a walk, when to
turn off the computer, but justletting, like a force inside of
(04:03):
us, keep the time, keep theclock, keep the momentum of
knowing when to slow down, whento speed up, which is kind of a
lot of what I feel like we'velost a bit in terms of a highly
technologized environment whereI think it does really mess with
(04:24):
our subtle intelligence ofknowing when to stop.
It's like, oh, set an alarm.
I tell people I think everyweek, set an alarm, go 55
minutes and then set an alarm,get off your computer, stretch
for five minutes, drink water,do whatever the thing is, you
(04:46):
know, like everyone's like yeah,oh yeah, drink water, let's
drink some water.
It's a good idea.
Let's all drink water, greatinstructional Water.
(05:07):
That's also like a kind ofsomeone told me recently that
that's actually a kind ofanorexia that we can have where
we we limit how much water wedrink.
It's like people areconsidering adding that into one
of the pathologies of just likewhen we don't want to drink
water, which in chinese medicinewe could, just we would
consider a large amount of damp,because if I wait, we have a
lot of damp in our bodies, thenwe're not thirsty a lot, even
though we still need the water.
(05:27):
But I just thought that wasinteresting thing that
therapists are playing aroundwith this idea of like what is
it when we just don't drinkwater?
Like we know we're thirsty butsomething in us doesn't reach
for the drink or make the timeto drink the water.
In Chinese medicine, another waywe talk about that is called
baihe bi, which is like a lilybulb syndrome.
(05:47):
Baihe is lily and baihe bi issyndrome.
And the lily bulb syndrome is akind of yin deficiency.
It's this kind of yindeficiency where we get so dried
out from the yang or the excessheat that instead of it's like
you can imagine it like a kindof leathery quality that comes
(06:08):
on the skin.
Specifically, it affects thelungs so that we're no longer
able to even absorb the moisture.
I know I'm digressing a bit fromwhat we're talking about, but I
think it's related.
So this baihe bi comes in andwe can get that way, also in
terms of our emotions, rightwhere it's like we have a hard
(06:29):
time absorbing the love, ourtype of absorbing nourishment
hard, hard time absorbing water,hard time releasing, reaching
for the nourishment, reachingfor what's actually most helpful
for us.
So it's a kind of state ofconfusion when we, when we need
alarms.
Did you guys hear my alarmright now going on?
(06:51):
Oh wait, I have an alarm.
It's not an alarm, it's a phonecall.
But it's just really funny thatit happened right in that
moment because, like on cue,curated by the universe and
impeccable timing, like when itis that that we need something
to remind us to eat, to remindus to drink water, remind us to
(07:11):
like, have you seen those, thosewater things where it tells you
like one hour, like 12, one,two, like it tells you exactly
you have this, like a x amountof water, and then it tells you,
like each hour, how much wateryou're supposed to have drunk?
My niece has one of those.
I just think it's reallyinteresting that we're like
trying to find how we can figureout how to know when to drink,
(07:33):
when to eat, when to stop, whento go, when to stretch.
We need all these outside cues.
Well, this would be a ghostlybehavior in this classic sense
of the word ghost, where we'velost our capacity to have this
inner rhythm, this inner timing,listening to the seasons,
listening to our bodies.
We need different amounts ofwater every day, right,
(07:54):
depending on what we're doing,depending on how much activity,
depending on the weather,depending on the weather.
So it's just kind of a funnything that we would rely on
something outside of ourselvesto know how much water to drink,
rather than our own listening,our own appetite.
So this is a kind of energy andmind confusion, not a mental.
(08:18):
It's not a mental confusion.
We try to ameliorate it withlike mental calculations, but
it's really a somatic experience, the appetite, a somatic kind
of knowing of when to drink andwhen to stop, when to eat, when
to stop eating.
So where do we learn completion?
So where do we learn completion?
(08:46):
How do we learn this completioncycle, this kind of completion
of action?
There's many places.
Hopefully, as children, we letour appetite evolve naturally or
according to our innerdevelopment of that appetite.
That's important with babies toallow them to have this
(09:10):
appetite and know when to stopand when to go to go.
So now completion is that we'rein the cycle of this chi node
of little heat and next, on theweekend, we're moving into great
heat, which is even more of acautious time around malignant
heat that can flare up and blazein the system.
(09:32):
But you know, ghosts can doweird things when they're not
listening right.
We can keep going, keep doing,keep behaving in ways that are
not in accordance with what'sour actual, actually the
nourishment of our destiny, andbehave in ways that are out of
alignment with our prayer.
That's basically ghostlybehavior, actually, maybe we
(09:54):
could summarize that as likeghostly behaviors behaving in
ways that are not in alignmentwith our prayer.
So completion right now, duringthis Chi node and the next Chi
node, is on a roll.
It doesn't need more pushing,we don't need to push to
complete things.
And if we stop pushing, push tocomplete things, and if we stop
(10:21):
pushing, then the summer heatthat we may have absorbed during
these summer months has thecapacity to disperse rather than
collecting in our body.
So part of the key with us innot pushing the river of
ambition during this and next qinode is allowing summer heat to
disperse itself so that itdoesn't store in our body as
(10:43):
latent heat that can then becomepathologized later on in the
winter as febrile disease or inthe autumn as a lung disease.
And it's tricky when we'resurrounded by ghosts right or
(11:05):
people who are mentally ill orhaving cheat arrangements,
because everything there's a lotof peer pressure, one could say
, or environmental pressure, orjust kind of consensus culture
pressure to keep going andpushing.
So it takes a bit of tuning inand really aligning with a
deeper prayer to know when tonot go along with consensus
(11:28):
culture.
Because consensus culture thistime of year is just like, yeah,
get the next barbecue, throw iton the grill, get the da da, da
.
Do the next thing like add morefire to the ready fire.
You know, pour gasoline on ablazing fire is basically what's
happening in our consensusculture here.
You can really feel it in theelection process.
It's just like mania, right,that kind of and I don't speak
(11:52):
that lightly or I'm not tryingto make any kind of weird
statement about that, but it isa really heart fire condition,
it's very easy to get into astate of panic around it.
So when there's battles, whenthere's incursions, when there's
genocides, when there's thingshappening, it's like very easy
for us to get caught up in thisfrenetic energy Because there's
(12:18):
not a lot of suggestions aroundus to get caught up in this
frenetic energy Because there'snot a lot of suggestions around
us to stop.
It's like a quiet whisper fromYin, like maybe it would be a
great time to stop and calm down.
So these are chi cycles thatare suggesting this conduct and
it takes really tuning intonature to see the way that
(12:39):
nature is starting to wrap up.
Like the seeds are starting tohappen now, like the fruit is
starting to happen.
Like things are starting toinstead of only just growing.
Like things are starting tobolt.
Have you noticed the bolting?
My cilantro is bolting likecrazy, but like a lot of things
are, the basil is starting toalready come into flower.
It's like, oh right, it's notlike it was a week ago, like it
(12:59):
literally changed.
It's like shifting from summersolstice where it just felt like
it was flourishing, flourishing, flourishing, and now I'm
seeing the seeds and the budsand things like that starting to
form on the herbs, so we don'tneed to look for inspiration
right now.
That's kind of a key piece.
(13:25):
Spring is really aboutinspiration and sprouting and
growing.
Now is the time to more sit andbe more carried along by the
current of the chi.
So the flavor of inspirationright now isn't really evident
in nature and I can see thistendency to want to pathologize
(13:51):
that, like I'm not feeling superinspired right now, like, yeah,
it's not really the season tofeel inspired, it's a season to
complete projects.
So if we're looking to feelinspired all year long, then
that can also be a bit deranging.
Does that make sense?
So we want to begin to withdrawfrom talking and thinking too
(14:11):
much.
We begin to have fewerexpectations of cognitive speech
related running on, going,going.
So if we get very loud, it'scould be helpful to help us find
our way to a quiet place rightnow.
And it's tricky, like it takes.
(14:33):
It really takes a focus,listening in and and tuning into
the quiet right, because yinisn't super loud.
It's not like yang, where it'slike look at me, look at this
flowers, look at this thing,it's just like.
It's just like a.
It's not yin doesn't do yin,just yields.
So you need to really to alignwith yin.
It takes a yielding.
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