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Carole,
Is it true that the LAN (Local Area Network[s]) sing in Lansing, Michigan? ;-)
Macrobiotics, and the traditional medicine and philosophy of the non-macrobiotic oriental cultures, define yin and yang differently, so one might be a little careful when getting involved in macrobiotics to not try to compare the two (cultures).
In macrobiotics, the direction of yin (heaven's force) is centrifugal and the direction of yang (earth's force) is centripetal.
Whereas, in traditonal oriental medicine and philosophy, yin is (earth's force) centripetal and yang is (heaven's force) centrifugal.
If you or your friend already believe in traditonal oriental medicine and philosophy and you still wish to learn about macrobiotics, then that difference is one thing you will need to consider.
The yin/yang body types are only a part of macrobiotic diagnosis, however, whereas one's present condition as well as constitution, what one 's dietary history, present diet, one's work, lifestyle, climate, season, etc., all contribute to how a person is evaluated and how that person can heal themselves
Naboru Muramoto (in his out of print, "Healing Ourselves") describes yin/yang body types towards the end of his "Diagnosis" chapter, and I would like to share it here but it won't do you much good if you haven't yet learned much about what macrobiotics is or about what are the general characteristics of yin and yang in most common phenomena.
What do you know about macrobiotics, so far?
Thank you, very much.
Bruce Paine
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