As important as genetics?

If you are going to have children, consider the impact of excess yin and yang on your child.  Let's say that both partners in a relationship are extreme excess yang from consuming meat and salt.  If they conceive a child under those conditions the child could be born with an excessively yang constitution.  Since babies are already yang this excessive yang could manifest itself as a disease or syndrome.

We haven't talked about "constitution" yet but essentially it means the state of balance that you have when you are born.  A person could have a yang constitution.  Such a person would tend to be small and compact, intense, tight, etc.  A person with a yin constitution might be large and expanded, loose, and very easy going.  A person who has a balanced constitution would be centered in the middle of these factors.  Obviously there is a continuum between the two extremes.

Much research needs to be done in this area but it stands to reason that passing an extreme unbalanced condition to your child could have serious consequences.  We need to consider the importance of passing balance to our children biologically as well as socially.  By ignoring this issue we could be exposing our children to needless danger.

This issue was mostly taken care of when the cultures of the world were intact and unspoiled because the very fabric of each culture was developed to successfully live in a particular geographical location.  Over hundreds of years, each culture "learned" how to live successfully in their place.  Many developed a genetic pattern that was also tied to the location.

Today every race and ethnic group has scattered themselves all over the globe.  So there are millions of people living in places where biologically and culturally the methods that they know that brought them success in their geographical place of origin may not be appropriate to their new location.  So it is much easier for people to become unbalanced in places where their traditional way of living no longer works to their advantage.  Unfortunately it takes hundreds of years to develop new successful cultures the old fashion way.  It takes even longer to develop new genetic patterns tied to a new location.  We must be conscious of these dynamics and account for them.

Genetics is important but the balance of yin and yang may be as important in the future of our human race.

Thanks for reading.