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In Chinese medicine, the spirit is divided into five parts: the shen, the yi, the po, the zhi, and the hun. You can read about the main differences here but I’m going to spend a couple of minutes talking about the zhi. The zhi is our willpower. Its yang aspect is our ability to look at a difficult task, pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and get to it. It’s what gets us through marathons, board exams, and starting a pop-up community acupuncture business. My yang zhi is what got me through my diet after I had decided to do it. The yin aspect is more subtle. It can feel like fate but it’s not something that’s passed down from on high. It’s the result of the subconscious decisions and the gut reactions we act on. My subconscious always knew that I would never be happy working in a cube. Yeah, my yang zhi could have gotten me through it but it would have been exhausting. But my yin zhi said, “Hey, nutrition is interesting. Where else does this go?” And then it brought me to yoga, meditation, and complementary medicine. Every step I took would require yang zhi to get through the action but yin zhi to make the right decision. Cover photo and featured image by luizclas from Pexels

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