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Yang Treatment ~ Examples of yin and yang feng shui treatments are as follows:

Yin metal ~ six coins

Yang metal ~ windchime

Yin water ~ a bowl of water

Yang water ~ a fountain

An active treatment is yang; a passive treatment is yin. Deciding between yin and yang treatments requires a master and even masters differ on such matters. The properties of yin and yang depend upon perspective See Yin and Yang.  

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Wellness ~ an active process of becoming aware of and making choices toward a more successful existence. Wellness is a movement in healthcare whereby physical and emotional issues are addressed before they become acute. See Alternative Healing. 

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Vibrational Medicine / Vibrational Healing ~ according to Richard Gerber: "Vibrational medicine is a diagnostic and healing approach to illness using energy in various forms and frequencies. As a therapy, vibrational medicine is the application of different types of energy for healing, including approaches as traditional as X-ray and radiation therapy for cancer, the use of electrical nerve stimulation for treating pain, and electromagnetic field stimulators for accelerating the healing of fractured bones. Even full spectrum light is used for treating seasonal affective disorders or the ‘winter blues’. However, vibrational medicine also covers the more subtle forms of treatment such as acupuncture, homeopathy, flower essences, therapeutic touch, and that sort of genre. The latter involve using subtle life-force medicine, but they are energetic therapies nonetheless. This is the spectrum from the more traditional to a range of therapies that stress treatment of the whole person, sometimes referred to as "complementary’ medicine". See Mantra.

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Years before anyone had heard of Barack Obama, the HOPE banner was hanging on the outside of my house, facing the church parking lot next door. Those people really need some hope. I believe getting this image into the psychic consciousness of the planet laid the groundwork for Obama’s original presidential campaign and Shepard Fairey’s famous poster honoring him. I am proud to have gotten the psychic ball rolling.

Merging the peace symbol with the word "hope" is a perfect combination, understood at a level where the verbal and non-verbal realms unite ~ it is an image of deep and honest emotion. The color of hope is spring green, light and fresh, and the green HOPE t-shirt is the most successful. It affects women with a magnetic force from across a room, melting their defenses and releasing their truth. The greens, the HOPE, and the peace symbol combine to create a magical and transcendental portal to the center of the heart.

As graffiti, HOPE has never received a cross word. Not even from Christians (whose arrogance has no use for the future). HOPE has been an image cherished far and wide. It works well on traffic signs that have an abundance of directional arrows. It makes me cry inside to see it placed in the most impoverished parts of the city (most soldiers are recruited from the populations of the poor). Recently, even Republicans have requested it for their front yards. Never underestimate the power of hope.

After GREAT MINDS, HOPE remains the most popular image of the (PEACE) WORDS series. After all these years, it continues to spring eternal.

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Tao ~ the way of living in harmony with the natural flow of the universe.  Lao Tzu, the grandfather of Taoism, wrote the Tao Te Ching (poetry) and the I Ching (The Book of Changes which is the preeminent dissertation on the tao and the most accurate form of divination available). Taoism is the only sustainable philosophy on how to live that the world has ever created.

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Tantra (Kundalini) ~ the dynamic force activating the basic charkas of the physical body. Tantric energy or kundalini refers to a force that lays dormant at the base of the spine and is released through certain forms of yogic meditation. The traditional symbol for the kundalini is the cadeusus, the staff of the god, Mercury, which ironically, is the symbol of the conventional medical community. See blessthebody.com Chakra Tonic.

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Tai Chi ~ active meditation. Tai chi, like yoga, is more than an exercise routine. It is a non-violent martial art with all its inherent discipline as well as a Taoist philosophy on how to live. See Tao. See Yoga. See Yin-Yang.