Energy

One of the most radical accomplishments a person can affect is to permanently change their posture. Not only does their energy change as a result, but so do all their perceptions, and the way they are perceived in turn. All changes in you are mirrored, if not initiated, in posture, especially once you start Tai Chi. Your fundamental relationships – the ones you absolutely cannot avoid – are the one with the earth and the one with the heavens. Your posture should be such that it softly receives (yields) energy from both, passing that energy into the heart where it can be offered to humanity through your connexions and your doings. The other fundamental relationship you have – the one that tends to get overlooked – is the one with your own energy. Talking about energy is terribly difficult. The language is not really there, despite poets' valiant efforts to afford it. Our language is founded upon naming things – giving objects unique labels so that they can be referred to in absentia. However, in the world of energy there are no objects (and consequently no in absentia either), there are just fields of energy with areas of more or less intensity. It is all a mysterious business which cannot be stood back from and analysed scientifically. The only way to investigate it is to join it and experience it with everything we have. The more of you you can throw in the more mysteries you will firstly encounter and secondly begin to unravel, and the more aware you will become as a result. This is the way of it. You start investigating energy, a process that begins to wake up energy within, making more available to you. To keep the process going you must throw this new energy into the investigation as well: the process must be all-consuming otherwise it grinds to a halt.