ShinNa Tai-Chi Blog

[Path to Mastery 3/26/10 – Wk28 D5 (Str 9.12.09)(Ph2 11.15.09)] Sang’s World: Training is an interesting experience. Of course, when we train in our school we believe every moment is training, and we take time to work on our connection and our alignment, movement, breathing, relaxation in everything we do, while not working at it.  The idea is to feel all that while not thinking about it.  To just be.  This is when you are the most natural, most powerful.  In case you want to try this, you have to aim to ‘feel’, not think.  If you are typing, and you are thinking about relaxing your forearms, and breathing through your fingers, you will have trouble in life.  You have to not think about it and just feel your way through it.  Have fun doing it! And then there is of course focused training where you are working on developing specific qualities.  By either practicing the form, or conditioning or pushing hands, you can limit some of the other var...

[Path to Mastery 3/12/10 – Wk26 D5 (Str 9.12.09)(Ph2 11.15.09)] Sang’s world: What is thankfulness?  Thankfulness is the emotion you feel when you feel eternity.  When you feel eternity, you are truly in the moment, where you are in the flow of time, where ironically the passage of time becomes irrelevant.   Today I was driving down the road, and I had noticed that there was a sense of calm, peace and pleasure in my body.  I was enjoying the sun streaming down on all of us with its beautiful rays.  The sky was still high and clear enough for the light to create this crystal like atmosphere that I love so much.  It was beauty.  Then I realized that I was very grateful.  That in itself was not special, but what struck me was that this was the same sensation I get when I am relaxed and when I am meditating or just breathing from moment to moment.  That’s when I made the connection.  I realized that the physical sensation of rel...