In Chinese medicine, health is represented as a balance of yin and yang. These two forces represent the bipolar manifestation of all things in nature, and because of this, one must be present to allow the other to exist. Hence, where there is above there is below, whatever has a front also has a back, night is followed by day, etc.. On an emotional level, one would not know joy had they never experienced pain.

It is important to note that the balance of yin and yang is not always exact, even when the body is healthy. Under normal circumstances the balance is in a state of constant change, based on both the external and internal environment.

For example, during times of anger, a person's mood is more fiery, or yang, and yet once the anger has subsided, and a quiet peaceful state is achieved, yin may dominate.

This shift in the balance of yin and yang is very natural. It is when the balance is consistently altered, and one (be it yin or yang) regularly dominates the other, that health is compromised, resulting in illness and disease.

Ancient scholars of China, who the emperors of the Han dynasty commissioned to study the earlier divergent principles of philosophy, came out with a unifying theory of the nature and alternating cycles of yin and yang. As yang increases, yin decreases and vice versa, in order to strike a natural balance. While it is important to have balance and harmony in nature, there are times of imbalance whenever yin and yang are deficient or in excess. This imbalance in yin and yang brings about unhappiness or misery in human life.

flowing through us. And all of us, right from a tiny microbe to the strongest of human being have the same matter present in it.

There are no rigid borders between Yin and Yang and they rely on each other to be true. Imagine if there is no earth, then the word sky becomes meaningless. Like a coin cannot exist without two sides, life cannot exist without both energy and matter. As we are dependent on the universe for our existence, the universe cannot exist without us. There can be no life without death and without death life has no meaning. A human being has both positive energies and negative energies. A human being is both good and bad and so are our thoughts and emotions, resulting in some of our energies to be positive and some being negative.

Our thoughts and emotions – no matter how noble or nasty – are electronic pulses – energy – running through the most complicated, most powerful matter – the human brain. In fact the human brain is the most evolved matter on the earth. Darwin has proved it scientifically and spiritual leaders and masters of different times in different countries have proved it spiritually. It is for this simple reason that we are most evolved; we are very close to divinity and are able to receive the spiritual guidance from the universe to attain the Here, Feng Shui, an ancient Chinese art of space arrangement and placement of your possessions in particular directions or positions in your house, comes to your rescue. Depending upon the kind of distress you may be in or the kind of luck you want in your life, Feng Shui experts offer you suitable advice in order to make adjustments in the placement and directions of some of the objects occupying various spaces in your house. Many Feng Shui followers are also quite fastidious about using or wearing certain objects on their person, as they believe in the principle of balance in yin and yang that would bring them luck and turn their fortunes for the better.