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02/19/2025

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles had an enormous effect on my childhood. Like many kids who are the product of the 1980's and 1990's, I was heavily indoctrinated by a simple cartoon that played every afternoon after school. Even now, well into my 40's, I can still hear the theme song in my head blasting out in typical late 80's rock fashion and I cannot leave my faucet running without hearing Michelangelo's slightly heavy-handed message about conserving water. This rabbit hole of 80's consumerism eventually led me, and my younger brother and two cousins, to beg our parents to allow us to take martial art classes. We spent months harassing our parents as we just had to learn the martial art skills that our cartoon half shelled heroes were masters in. They were SO cool!
For those who cannot tell, I am Asian, which, and I know this may come as a shock, this tends to come with Asian ancestors. So when we begged to learn martial art, these same ancestors insisted that a requirement for us to learn how to do all the “awesome” things we saw on TV was that we had to learn from someone who also taught, and would teach us, Tai Chi. I cannot tell you how disappointed we were when we heard this and we all voiced a collective groan of, “Aw Tai Chi? BUT it's SO slooooow!” We wanted to flip, we wanted to move so fast no one saw us, and we wanted to do things like high kicks and fast punches faster than the blink of an eye. Despite this we agreed to these conditions and after a few weeks of searching we found our “Shifu” who taught us both Kung Fu and Tai Chi in a large park in sunny California.
Kung Fu and Tai Chi, for those who are unaware, are very different creatures. One is fast, while the other is slow. One is purposeful, while one is energetic. One focuses on quality and depth of slow movements, while the other is more about controlled use of high energy movements. In some ways, they are opposites, but as I grew in both years and skill, I realized a grain of each existed in the other. It really wasn't until I became an acupuncturist that I realized that my Asian ancestors had a method behind their madness when they required us to learn Tai Chi. Ultimately my Asian ancestors wanted us to keep our Yin and Yang balanced.
This is kind of the American way, isn't it? We glorify life in the fast lane and make it sexy and appealing. We thrive on the thrill and the speed of life, on the high energy and high intensity, but discount or even eliminate the slow and steady. In acupuncture terms, the lives we live here in the United States tend to be one of high Yang, and very little Yin. Through the years I've had a number of patients come into our practice that are always going, always doing, always moving and they take very little time or, in some cases no time, to slow down. They put priority on the instant versus the things that take time and patience. They focus on the work out rather than the warm-up or recovery. Half of the people I question about slowing down and purposefully stretching to help with lubricating their tendons and ligaments or just doing slow coordinated movements to help with proper muscle engagement, sheepishly tell me they just don't do it. They often complain that it is “just so slow” or “takes too much time.” As my second Tai Chi teacher used to say to me, “We are humans doing, not humans being.”
The problem with focusing just on Yang is that eventually it will deplete your Yin. When the balance isn't kept, and the one side is focused on over the other, that forgotten side (Yin) will be sacrificed to create more of the other (Yang). Think of it like that classic cartoon steam boat that runs out of coal to burn. The animated mouse or duck sailor then starts to pull parts off the boat to fuel that boat's fire driven engine just a few more lengths further, until they finally cross the finish line and finish the race but at the sacrifice of most of the body of the boat. Does this look cool? Is this awesome? Sailing in fast and just a bit further on a skeleton of a ship seems like a funny end to a story in a cartoon, but a horrible way to live.
Are you always on the go? Do you live life in the fast lane? Do you only do endurance or only do runs and workouts to feel that intense burn? Do you avoid mobility, stability or stretching with workouts because it's just too slow for you? Do you work 60 hours a week or just go non-stop? I would challenge you to look at your life and really see how much your Yang life has affected your health. You could be a boat being torn apart to just to make across that next finish line, but wouldn't you rather gently and gracefully cross the line as a more whole ship? I don't know about you but I, and especially as I get older, work hard to focus on Yin time a bit more. Yin time has a lot of power to it that you may be missing out on. It may not be as cool or awesome looking as Yang, but at least I, for one, want to cross my finish line with more of my parts intact, and I'm pretty tired of late 80's rock theme songs anyways.
(Great… Now I'll never get that song out of my head…)