Elissa Rubenstein
Aug 25, 2017 · 2 min read

THE IMPORTANCE OF DUALITY WHEN CONSIDERING HEALTH

As I have discussed in my previous newsletters, I received a great benefit from earning a Certified Nurse Assistant degree from a Red Cross training program. Literally, my life has changed from this endeavor in terms of my gaining the ability to guide my own healthcare plan to a great degree, or at least to know what direction to take when health issues arise. In this newsletter I want to again discuss numbers, as I have always in the past letters and make note of the number two (what I call duality), a phenomenon to consider when evaluating individual health. Such duality within physical health numerics can be seen in the ways listed below:

  1. Health of the body inside the body and health of the body outside the body.

2. Health specifics for best daytime and best nighttime health.

3. Aeration levels versus fluidity levels.

4. Body rhythm versus areas of stillness.

5. Salt or savory versus sweet and sour versus sweet or bitter versus sweet. Here we can see an emphasis away from the number two and a new factor of four -- meaning three possibilities in adverse to sweetness to put into the body.

6. Kinetic chosen movement versus rhythms.

7. Need for outdoor heath and health within shelter.

8. Winter or hibernation versus summer and periods of work and great activity.

9. Inner work versus physical laborious work.

10. Exercise of the inside of the body and of the outside of the body.

I am certain many more examples can be considered here. However, the point to be made is how necessary complete balance and harmony with dualities are to maintain health.

My opinion is that while western culture places great value on outer body health insofar as a major emphasis on physical exercise, eastern philosophy places more emphasis on inner health. In the east, the strength of the inner soul through lengthy daily prayer and oftentimes half-hour-long rhythmic singing or chanting is very apparent, while the outer physical appearance may seem not powerful to the eye; in the west, however, the physical form seems powerful but the inner soul I believe has less strength. One can see from just this example how there might exist imbalance in human health due to cultural divide -- or just circumstance -- and that if one were to try to remedy the possible imbalances they might improve their longevity which is worth any amount of effort.

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Elissa Rubenstein

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