Beginners Guide to the Development of Internal Feeling in Tai Chi

Recognition of body feelings - ultimately the only way we can tell in detail what is going on inside us is to feel it happening.
Beginners Guide to the Development of Internal Feeling in Tai Chi

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Readers may recognise some of them and hopefully will be encouraged in looking for their own internal feeling.

With internal feeling we are able to take control of our own development and my suspicion is that ultimately, rather than this complicated list, it all just gets brought together in the everyday experience of living in your own body, with awareness of what is going on.

Slow practice enables us to stretch these movements out so as to study how our body feels when moving.

By improving the body mechanics of posture and movement we can improve our balance and reduce the antagonistic action of muscle groups allowing ourselves to feel the slight changes in tensions more easily.

i.e. to feel how they behave and how we behave in relation to them.

A way of consciously connecting to our feeling of what is going on in our body and of our interactions with others.

By comparing internal feelings now with correctly remembered feelings we can relate internal changes to external performance.

Repetition – allows us to become comfortable with particular movements and to compare the feelings of what is happening inside from one repetition to the next so that we can make positive changes.

Recognition of body feelings – ultimately the only way we can tell in detail what is going on inside us is to feel it happening.

These changes contribute to a more fluid feel to the body.

“Hands on” corrections are a major factor in developing internal feeling.

Cultivating a calm body – by relaxing of tensions we can more easily recognise the internal movements or other activities and eliminate the unwanted ones, which interfere with fluidity.

We can literally feel where we come in the spectrum.

Changes – come about in the body leading to an improved ability to listen to the sensations occurring in the body and improvements in our ability to move fluidly and with power.

Coupled with physiological changes, which enable us to use the body in a much more finely poised and balanced manner.

Changes in the makeup and operation of our bodies – which muscles and other soft tissues operate, how, when, and why.

Spontaneous movement – change or development – the ability to move in a new way, the experience of suddenly finding a body movement or range of movement that did not previously exist.

Connection – feeling of linkage between separated parts of the body.

e.g. from abdomen to hand, also feeling of a peng pathway from any part of the body to the ground.

Notice your body and emotional feelings during your normal activities such as walking down the street or standing in the queue at the supermarket.

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