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I went back through some of the Module 12 videos looking for clip that captured the essence of the Wind Palm. So, watch Module 12 video lesson 29 from 0:30 to 0:50. That combined with the place where he talks about the Wind Palm being a yin/yang palm is it. I’ll post that section when I find it again.
If you just keep it simple, the two strikes that Bruce taught in New York make perfect sense. You can go back to my earlier post and recall that Bruce taught one strike which was also taught in Module 12 – the brain slap. This is the body being soft (yin) and the inside being hard (yang). The yin within the yang. Bruce mentions that you can also make the outside yang and the inside yin. That’s the second strike he taught in New York but didn’t teach in Module 12. It is the drawing cut. So the palm is making a solid shape and the inside is closing into the central channel.
The form is playing with the etheric field and you perform all of the typical variations like both sides close in, both sides open up, one side closes while the other opens, and vice versa.
If you keep it simple, it is simple. Not easy to do, butt simple.
The quality of the change is a smooth transition from yin to yang and yang to yin. It is gentle, continuous, and could be consider the opposite of the change in the Thunder Palm which is extreme and sudden.
I finding that the Wind Palm mixes yin and yang, but it tends to separate a lot of things. I find the physical and etheric bodies being segregated for example. The body becomes a relaxed as possible while the etheric is expanded very actively, or the physical body is made strong and expansive while the etheric absorbs inward using yin. The body can be split into halves where one half is absorbing while the other expands.
This is mixing yin and yang by separating them, clearly distinguishing them.
This morning I got a different take on the Wind Palm Change which is similar to the way I originally approached it but builds on everything I’ve been doing lately. So Module 12 video 19 the first minute. Bruce summarizes the goal. It is interesting because I think all of the palm changes have the same goal, but how they get there is different. In the Wind Palm I’m seeing how I can use the crossing from one side of the body to the other to target any where in the body. The crossing of the arms in the form where we literally reach across the left and the right sides of the body to compress the middle is exactly it. Duh!
What you may not have noticed and what I couldn’t do before was stay connected to both ends: both the compressing sides and the expansion, AND never disconnect from it. The flows don’t stop. They change, but they don’t stop. The emphasis of in and out may change, but the flow is always continuous and always in both directions (ultimately in all directions).
The Wind Palm can target any where. You can use it equally to explore chi moving in and out of the liver, a side channel, left to right, up and down, front to back, or center to periphery.
This is probably another reason why it is so hard to grasp the real purpose and meaning of the palm changes. They quickly move from the particular to the universal.
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