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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"> kalamondin, dont be hurting yourself on my account! http://www.yangfamilytaiji.com/ubb/biggrin.gif </font> Done! Of course, my stress level is through the roof at present so that probably has something to do with it. Best wishes for your pra...

Hi Chris, I don't think I've learned to relax enough yet! I forgot about it actually, and haven't practiced it since. I tried it just now, just for kicks, and had similar effects as before. Then I isolated it to just my forearms and it made them spasm wildly. Gack. I'm just not ready for this one ye...

Hi Chris, I'd like to second Anderzander's recommendation that you start with relaxing first. I too found Waysun Liao's book in the early years of my practice and started the condensing breathing techniques too early. That is to say, I started practicing them before I'd learned to relax enough for t...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"><B> Did you ever see the film "Wings of Desire?" I'm just savoring the fact that I can rub my two hands together! </B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Yah,...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"><B> Kal: I usually perceive in people an intent to move before they do so. Sometimes I experience it as a wave of energy that washes through me (huh!) a spli...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"><B> [Lakoff] notes that empathic projection enables experiences that one could call transcendent—experiences of being out of one’s body, or of being in the b...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"><B> Have you ever try to expanding your chong ding simultanously fong sung and alone with your ego to resist while you in that mess? with only YI of course. ...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"><B> It all takes place in the realm of meat, does it not? </B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE> "Mmm, burger..." (Homer Simpson)

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"><B>My last posting on this. </B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Bummer--but you're right, I think I do have enough to work on for a few months/years/lifetime. Thank...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"><B>Re: “. . .intent of movement rather then the movement itself.” I’m just struck by the incoherence of this. The “intent of movement” is the intent to MOVE,...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"><B> The whole body is transparent and empty, one forgets about oneself and is non-active - this high level starts from learning to soften hands and wrists. E...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"><B> Training to understand and feel the intent of movement before the movement happens. First in your own body then after a while in another’s. </B></font><H...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"><B> yi reacts with yi, if you are truly empty there will be nothing for it to react with.</B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE> So it sounds like trying to counter at ...

Hi Audi, Thanks for your thoughtful post. <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"><B> Isn't this what Xingyi (Hsing-I) teaches?</B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE> It did rather seem that way to me. I know...

Hi Anderzander, <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"><B> But to counter his Yi you need to sense it and use yours. The method transposes directly from physical / physical to Yi /Yi. The discrepa...