it takes about a year to learn the Form, by which time, if you've got into a daily practice, you will have fallen in love with Tai Chi, or fallen in love with the principles: relaxation, softness, roundness, turning … when we start practising, we're coming back to the work … but we're also coming back to the pleasure of the work, the simple pleasure … and you'll only feel that if you allow the work to quieten the mind … normally people are tense because they have overactive minds, so if you want to relax the body, you have to quieten the mind … my body is moving and my mind is still in the middle, and the mind is just watching, just listening, waiting, attending …