Sometimes learning even one part of the form to a higher level may engender the ability to go beyond our usual limits and expand our proficiency in other areas.
Mastery of each sequence brings benefits as a result of the experience. The quality of one’s consciousness evolves as one’s form evolves.
This is just common sense, and may apply to any area of endeavor, not just to T’ai Chi.
If we are confused by the complexity of any part of the form, (often the first moves), then we may carry this confusion with us as we perform our form.
However, if we master one part, (again, often encountered in the beginning of the form), this feeling of mastery, competence, and equanimity then may enable us to rise to the occasion and really “Be there”, fully participating in each moment of the form and thereby able to clearly see and learn from (evolve) our form in each moment.
This “Learning trance” may be likened to being “In the zone”, “Riding the wave”, or the experience of being totally immersed in the moment, in a Zen like state in which much is possible that might not be as accessible to us at other times.
This “Peak experience” has been described in many other disciplines in which excellence may be achieved.
Systems
As we learn about how our system can work more effectively, the same principles may be applied to other systems.
With T’ai Chi, we train our body parts to relax, come into balance, and move from the center with all parts participating and working together and helping each other.
We may then apply these principles to effectively work as part of a group of people, (Students working on a project, etc. …), a county, a state, a government (country), a planet, solar system, galaxy, cluster of galaxies, a universe.
An understanding of how all systems work is perhaps one of the more useful (Important) benefits which may accrue from the study of T’ai Chi.
Healing, (Powerful Prayer)
Pray for what you need, and include the phrase “I am ready.”, so it doesn’t take twenty years.
