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I’ve been working with the central chi and the three tan tiens for weeks. I’ve been concentrating on keeping the extremities connected to the lower, middle, and upper tan tiens. For the last couple of weeks I was trying to figure out why my left side wasn’t connecting as well as my right. Once I understood, I noticed a big change from initiating movement from the limbs to initiating movement from the viscera. Specifically the smooth, involuntary, visceral muscle.
Ida Rolf (Rolfing)
said something like
Where you think the problem is,
it ain’t.
I think that applied here. I kept working the left side not realizing how much I was favoring the arm and leg and the spine. Finally realized the problem was in the middle between them, but it practically had to hit me over the head before I understood what I was doing wrong.
Just as an aside, this is what powers Tsuan Chuan in Hsing-I. Previously in my posts on Posture Details, I described a very mechanistic movement of the internal organs. Although that is accurate, it isn’t what Bruce does. That was only an earlier step. Gaining control of the smooth visceral muscle is where you really start working with the internal organs for power.
I’d also add that the internal organs are essential to producing the kind of power Bruce has. In the Toaist principle of first open the top, then the bottom, then use the top and bottom to open the middle, then the middle really allows the top and the bottom to reach their full potential – the internal organs are one of the meanings of middle.
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