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I’ve found that, when doing the commencement, that, if my mind is really bad!, that I can actually use Tai-Chi as a way to work through whatever it is that’s bugging me.
I just kinda let all the crap come up and attack, full-bore, and I just go through the movements giving expression to the energy they create.
I’m aware that the ideal is stillness and calm, but I’ve found this as a pretty good way to get at that place eventually rather than attempting to rigidly shove-it-down and try to ignore it or pretend it isn’t there or whatever other imaginal and wishful-thinking that is a blockage by any other name, I try to use the commencement to just let it out.
Hey Cody,
It sounds like you’re on the right track. Trying to “force” your mind to calm down won’t work well in this system. Instead, using the calm movements of tai chi to help “let” your mind calm down is the way the go. It sounds like you’ve discovered this through your own experimentation!
Janak
Problem I’m running into, not so much with the qigong but definitely with the tai chi, is I’ll start getting angry. Like really, really angry; rage and then some.
At first it was showing up as “you’re doing this wrong” or negative self-analysis of the movements but now it is definitely a distraction par excellence. I want to keep up the practice but no matter how I address it it is anger-city.
Is this just releasing toxins? Should I try to power through it in a relaxed manner? I mean, it is a destructively intense experience but I don’t want to fall outta practice before I even really get started.thanks
Cody
I used to get really angry with the bagua empowerment exercises, circle walking with arms in static postures. I’ve met people who felt the same, and others who have not. i figured you just find the places where the anger is.
It is up to you to release it, process and make the energy that is stuck in anger into useful energy. Dissolving. Rebalance.
Your anger must ebb and flow through varying parts of movements… I looked at how the angering postures connect to the liver. More dissolving.
A bit of inspiration gives me the notion that this is something to do with the second chakra.
The reason I see it this way is because I get the sense that, in the circuitry of the Taoist notion of Heaven/Human/Earth (Tian/Ren/Di) that the chakras are more heavenly and the tan-tians are more earthly. But, as you fill up your elixir-fields, it floods over into the more heavenly forms and can start doing a number on anything held/bound-up in their structures.
So, filling up my lower tan tien, with the qigong and tai chi, I figure, there’s bound to be some overflow into the second chakra just by proximity of location. Just a thought.
I’ve been reading that the common viewpoint of ADD/ADHD is that it is incurable. I’ve been wondering if this is the Taoist view; with enough practice can qigong, tai chi and meditation overcome ADD/ADHD (for all intents and purposes, cure)?
Not to answer my own question, but my feeling is yes and no. That it can but if it is a deep enough of a blockage that causes it, it might be a lot harder than it sounds. Maybe even a multiple lifetime type of struggle. Which doesn’t bother me, in fact it makes it easier to address rather than the overbearing sense of I’m not trying hard enough to cure myself! or I’m not using the right method or approach to cure myself. Or the feeling that I “cured” it in the past but it reemerged because I broke myself or did something wrong or didn’t stay at it (rather than realizing the larger perspective).This gives me a greater respect and compassion for those who even have things that society scoffs at as petty and undiagnosable but that is a blockage nonetheless and worthy of multiple lifetimes to adequately resolve. (in fact, I’ve been atrocious about having an attitude of “yea, you can just get rid of it. I ‘did’; why can’t you? All you have to do is a, b, and c… What? you can’t? I must be better than you! or you’ll just have to try harder!! you’re not trying hard enough!!!”)
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