เสาตอม่อ: EXERCISES FOR ALL SEASONS: CMC 37P Tai Chi Form

CMC 37 Posture Tai Chi Form, red book on head - 08/14/09 (Summer) In this video, I am balancing a red book on my head throughout the entire Cheng Manching 37 Posture Tai Chi Form youtube.com youtube.com www.youtube.com ** The point of balancing something on my head while doing the Tai Chi Form is to remind myself to generate smooth movement from one posture to the next; to eliminate all jerky, uncontrolled, spastic motion from my rendition of the Form. To quiet and calm my mind. If my mind is chaotic, it will produce a lot of jerky, sudden, clumsy movements, which will tend to unbalance the item on my head and cause it to fall off. The Tai Chi Classics state, Tai Chi motion should be "like reeling silk from a cocoon." If one pulls on a silk thread from a cocoon with a sudden, jerky movement, the silk thread will break; therefore, in order not to break the silk thread, one has to pull evenly, smoothly, without any jerks or sudden interruptions. That's how the movements of the Tai Chi Form should be performed, especially if one is interested in circulating chi smoothly throughout one's body to improve health. An unfocused mind which darts about in many directions will send chi in many different directions. When muscles are energized in contradictory directions - - spastic, jerky, clumsy, uncontrolled movements are the result. Balancing an object on my head reminds me to move slowly, smoothly, continuously, without breaks or sudden interruptions. Calm mind = calm chi flow ...