Movement of Yang and Yin

When most people read a phrase like “movement of yang and yin”, they immediately create pictures in their mind of objects moving through space from one location to another. The movement of yang and yin isn’t that simple.

WARNING: Speculative BS leaps ahead!!!!

The movement of yang and yin also include frequency jumps. If you read my last post, “Training the First Three Palms”, you know that I proposed that the Wind Palm had both yin and yang occurring at the same time in the same space. How is this possible?

I think this is where the phases of jing, Chi, shen, wu, Tao comes into play. Bruce has told us that the lower tan tien connects to everything that controls the physicality and energy that runs the body. This includes the lower emotions (I think of this as including all of the physiology of the chemical and hormonal mechanics that create emotions in the physical body.). The middle tan tien controls and connects to everything that Bruce defines as Chi (Chi with a capital “C”). The upper tan tien connects to and controls shen (spirit). Bruce has also talked about these like they are subtler and subtler forms of energy. He often uses the metaphor of frequencies and musical octaves when he is describing them.

So here’s the leap: the movement of yang and yin includes frequency jumps.

If this is true, it opens up a lot of possibilities for the trigrams and transformation. I would suggest that without an understanding of the tai chi space, it is near impossible to work with the “energies” of the trigrams beyond the single and double-palm changes.

I’ll also suggest that if this is true, the Thunder palm can be performed precisely as a frequency jump from the upper frequencies (in the upper and middle tan tiens) to a lower frequency (the physical in the lower tan tien). This is simply a matter of balance and energy mechanics. The explosiveness of the Thunder palm comes from holding off the transformation as long as possible and from the energy release that occurs. In other words, you don’t try to shake. The explosive nature of that frequency shift creates the shaking.

This is the next step in the progression. Not only are you creating yang and yin in the same space, you are now separating frequencies in that space.

I’m looking forward to seeing the Thunder palm CDs in the fall. I don’t believe the Thunder palm is about physical movement. It isn’t about shaking blubber or sloshing water. For me, it is currently about working with the three tan tiens in very precise ways and starting to understand more of the mechanics of the flow of yang and yin.