The mind is our own worst enemy. What makes it this way is thinking, or a certain excess of thought we call worry. The natural state of the mind is bright and empty, aware only of what it perceives: the body and the space it's in, with no ego generating excess content. Usually the only way to stop this worry is to distract the mind with something else – drown one noise with a louder one. We attempt to settle the worry through meditation and return the mind to its natural state. In Taiji we call this process yielding – turning our worst enemy into our best friend.