Motion is Lotion

04/03/2013 10:40

For some reason I woke up with a pretty stiff lower back this morning, must have slept in a weird position or something. Being so stiff I really didn’t feel like doing one of my standard taiji sets. Instead I just started moving. I started with a few brush knee’s and then went into white crane, followed by repulse monkey, followed by… I forget.

The thing is… I just started moving. I didn’t think about my stiff lower back, I just played with some forms. I guess subconsciously my mind and body were in sync because after ten minutes or so when I snapped out of my meditation, my back seemed just fine!

I have experienced the “fixing” of my body through taiji so times I can’t put a number on it. Getting the body and the energy moving is imperative for people in our sedative society. Motion is lotion.

Peace

Rod

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Quote of the Week

"Second is mindfulness of feelings, it is at this stage that we work with the chi or fine material energy. The chi is most easily perceived through feelings and this path of practice helps one to bypass the common pitfall of relying on imagination and visualization of the internal energy as this can quickly become a fabricated fantasy rather than a direct knowing of reality in the present."

~Sifu Adam Mizner