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Spiraling has many layers. Ultimately in Bagua the goal is unity and integration – connection. But a hand and foot can be connected by either an expansive force or a condensing/binding force – yang and yin.
Every palm change can focus on one of these forces or the other from moment to moment. So, I can perform the single palm change while emphasizing the expansive forces or the yin, binding forces. Why do we choose? Why not do both at the same time.
And that is where spiraling can be useful. You can have half of the spiraling expanding and half condensing at the same time. The balance of these two forces produces power and by emphasizing one more than the other you can switch very rapidly between yin and yang with whole body unity. In the Lake palm when you condense the form into the palm movement, you can express this nicely between the hand and the foot. The spiraling forces both expand and condense simultaneously.
I’m not sure if this is the way it is supposed to be done, but it is an interesting possibility.
This. That. Both this and that.
Yang. Yin. Both yang and yin.
They’re all the subject of the first seven palm changes. But, where is neither this or that? Where is neither yang nor yin?
What if it is the board on which the game is played? The stuff that yin and yang appear within. Then, wouldn’t all of the yin and yangs we create simply be our body of individuality, the collective, sum total of everything we create and manipulate? No manner of thinking will free you from those bonds.
But what if you could follow the very fabric? Be the board.
So many questions…
In this post I was working on the spirals going through the body as one big spiral with two sides. Think of the yin and yang surfaces of the body dividing the body in two halves and one half is an expansive spiral while the other half is a yin binding spiral.
Spiraling can be looked at from segment to segment as well where the opposing circles are connected either by a yang expansive force or a yin binding force. This is where organizing around the bones vs the joints is differentiated.
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