09 August 2020

Sink and relax. Relax and become heavy. Let the body become its true weight. We don't realise it but our anxious mind keeps us out of the legs, and gives us a false sense of lightness. We want a heavy body and a light mind, not a light body and a heavy mind. An anxious mind is heavy but it makes the body light – it's like nervously walking on eggshells all the time. So we're just opening up to gravity, letting gravity stream down through the body. As soon as you stand upright and bend your legs, you become energetically engaged with gravity, which pulls down through you. And if you get the dantien in the right position, which is usually slightly forward of where it naturally settles, then the heavens will have a similar effect on your heart. And when we turn the waist, we are effectuating a separation between the body and the mind – the good mind not the anxious mind. So gravity is encouraging the anxious mind to relax and disperse, and the turning is encouraging the good mind to come into the centre and find the stillness at the centre, and it does that by throwing the body outward. So four things to remember: gravity pulling down through you, operating mainly on your dantien because that is your heavy centre, your center of gravity; the bum in, so the heart can naturally lift up; the arms and the body and the flesh thrown away from the turning center; and your mature mind – not your infantile anxious mind – drawing into the center around the belly and the spine.

1 comment

taiji heartwork said...

Transcript from Zoom class 200806