check
1. Relax
2. do your elbows relax and roll in while changing
position?
3. do you keep your chin in, neck erect, torso
upright?
4. where do you look?
5. how about your fingers, palms, fists?
6. do you drop your shoulders?
7. do you cave your chest in?
8. do you bend your knees, not reaching?
9. do you move slowly? maintain continuation … are
you pulling the silk thread from the cocoon?
10.
are you breathing naturally? keeping air in the
balloon while releasing energy?
11.
how about your weight shifting?
12.
do you observe the Quiet moment in the beginning
and ending faithfully?
13.
are you sure you try to harmonise your movement with
your breathing?
14.
do you plant your feet firmly – standing, moving? your toes the right degree –
45 or 90? do you feel secure, stable, comfortable?
15.
do you coordinate your arms-legs, hands-feet,
elbows-knees? do you harmonise your movement-breathing, breathing-mind as they
should?
Finally – do you concentrate with an aware, detached, and easy mind?
Slowness – distinctness of movement and attuned to calmness of mind.
Swimming in air – feel the air, the body has become lighter and more pliable. This feeling of buoyancy and suppleness derives from firmly rooting the feet and using the body in dry swimming.
Linkage – the flow – keep the Qi running through pulling silk – must pull slowly, easily, and steadily.
Tranquillity – the mind literally embraces the postures and vice versa.
Breathing – not to be too concerned about breathing, but focus on the techniques of the postures and then incorporate the breathing. Ultimately, the breathing becomes such an intrinsic part of the exercise that you will not even have to think of it.
Develop good habits based on the principles you have learned.
The results depend on correct teaching, perseverance, and natural talent.
Finally – do you concentrate with an aware, detached, and easy mind?
Slowness – distinctness of movement and attuned to calmness of mind.
Swimming in air – feel the air, the body has become lighter and more pliable. This feeling of buoyancy and suppleness derives from firmly rooting the feet and using the body in dry swimming.
Linkage – the flow – keep the Qi running through pulling silk – must pull slowly, easily, and steadily.
Tranquillity – the mind literally embraces the postures and vice versa.
Breathing – not to be too concerned about breathing, but focus on the techniques of the postures and then incorporate the breathing. Ultimately, the breathing becomes such an intrinsic part of the exercise that you will not even have to think of it.
Develop good habits based on the principles you have learned.
The results depend on correct teaching, perseverance, and natural talent.
