The distinction, though they know it full well, does not seem important to them, for the bayu is felt to be a reflection of the heart. Managing one's heart is almost the same as strengthening the bayu . The real meaning of the bayu is like energy or power, but the Balinese feel the bayu through the heart. Feeling and thinking are linked and mutually affect one another. Emotional expression shapes and modulates feeling.
Emotional expression is a collective concern.
Conceived as spreading easily from one person to others, the expressed emotions of one may damage the feelings, hence the well-being, of another. Cedang has connotations of luster, radiance, smoothness. Not for sale or further reproduction. An interview with Siberian healers, by Sarah van Gelder Alexandra Tchirkova, Akulina Danilova, Helen Kapulova, and Michael Ilein are indigenous people from Siberia trained in Western and traditional healing. Most of the year they live in the city of Yakutsk, where they work at the Center of Traditional Medicine, but they often return to their villages in the summer to raise food for their families.