The low-grade anxiety which, let's face it, we all endure, is, I suspect, not so much due to the death of God, or disconnexion, or being subsumed into the bland populace (the Democracy Blues), but the nagging suspicion that the world we live in is not only unsustainable, but collapsing around us. Taijiquan, this wonderful art of the yielding root, then becomes indispensable.