If a frog is put in water which is already boiling, it will immediately jump out. But if a frog is put in room temperature water, and the temperature is slowly increased, the frog will continue adapting to it until it’s too late.

The pace and focus of today’s society have conditioned us to be much like the second frog. We adapt and adapt and adapt, and then find ourselves so out-of-balance that it’s difficult to get out of the pot before it boils.

We all know when something is “out of balance” — we say, “This doesn’t feel right”; or “I’m ‘off’ today.”

Being out-of-balance is ‘normal’ today, yet we still know when something is out-of-whack; but not knowing exactly what to do about it, we just take it in stride and keep going. Eventually all of these insignificant imbalances add up and begin to take their toll - we can’t just keep going. When we get sick, or become somehow incapacitated, then we have to deal actively with the imbalance. But as humans, we’re capable of living with an amazing amount of imbalance, which we adapt to, and just live with. 

Women especially, are called upon to Reclaim their Yin, since Yin is the Nature of the woman. Women are the foundation of Yin among people, but we’ve long ago lost our experience and understanding of what Yin is. It’s time to Reclaim the Yin, and bring our lives into balance. And by becoming more balanced as individuals we automatically bring more Yin energy into our time, so the energy of the planet can benefit too.