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Felt like sharing some sensations and feelings I’ve been getting in relation to these four energies in the hopes of helping others (also, being a “raw-beginner”, as Bruce put it, marveling in my…aptitude?, or maybe just my imagination)
Peng: Feels like the effortless evaporation of water into clouds, rising invisible and unseen and yet amassing.
Ji: Feels like a fog rolling in, across the surface of the ocean toward the shore.
Lu: Feels like standing in the shallow surf coming in just as it begins to dissipate and turn from coming in to going out, and as it goes out building and building and burying your feet in the wet sand.
An: Feels like the effortlessness of a stone sinking in water.
as the saying goes; hope this helps.
Energetic sensations vary for everyone, but some similarities usually exist.
Very beautiful descriptions!
Thank you kindly.
I’d love to hear how others experience these energies, might help unleash the different potentials therein. Revealing the totality of them through how they’re experienced.
Just as a bit of something, I think I’ve found a kind of intuitive pulsing that my body wants to do in commencement.
In Peng, I feel the need to keep my wrists limp and then engaging the wrists during Ji, disengaging/going-limp-wristed during Lu and reengaging the wrists during An.
Just feels right.
I find myself flip-flopping between following this wrist-action or doing the first thing I hit upon that really gave me strong energetic sensations, the kind I described; which is best?
Now I get the sensation (certainly from exposure to those Tai Chi Classics videos) that peng works best (I don’t feel resistance as I was) when I feel an equal sort of downward motion/energy/an.
I put this with the feeling when moving from peng to ji, that i would find myself (even at the beginning I was doing this) moving directly to an.
The sense was that in that intentional energy of ji was a sense of lu, and even as I tried to engage lu as an actual physical movement I would go to a very strong feeling of an that felt like condensation on a glass of water or windows during rain (also, the sense of Peter Gabriel’s second album “Scratch” came to mind, only with palms facing out), where my fingers and hands were the condensing water streaming down.
I suppose this has to “fill up” in order for me to properly engage lu, because even as I try, I keep feeling like a strung-out yo-yo; there’s nothing to lu when I try to do the physical motion. As if the intention is enough and that the energy to physically move to becomes an at present.
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