Thinking occupies the mind and gives us a sense of control. But our energy remains unengaged, and so we are anything but in control. It is the contention of taiji that the body and the energy have their own intelligences and sensitivities, which come into play only when the mind is relaxed and quiet. Such relaxation is the opposite of "pulling yourself together," it is relaxing the mind apart from itself, from thinking, and letting it become the energy it is. It then simply fills the body, which wakens, energized and fresh and, wonder of wonders, natural: soft, gentle, loving and totally connected.