Foundation: November 2007 Archives
Our class tonight was almost exclusively around the concept of energy and mental force. We started with some silk reeling exercises. Master Li made us do larger circles first - hand going down around the leg, coming back up (from the back), stretch the muscles next to the spine, and then collapse on the front. Then we made the circles smaller and smaller, to the point that it was just making little circles in the front-side of the body.
Then we moved to hand-moving (like cloud hands, but only one hand) silk reeling. He was emphasizing on how this is not the muscles of the hand moving, but the internal energy manifesting into a whole body movement, and a mental force driving the hand. The hand dissolves into waves of energy: Imaging a much fatter hand, like beads, and your hand is the string in the center. Your hand is part of it. Any muscle/physical energy is in fact a block in the path of the energy - you have to let go of the physical muscle force to let the energy flow. Just apply the minimum energy that keeps your hand up - nothing more. The rest is your mental force and focus moving your hand. Imagine the flow of blood in your hand - the flow will in fact will be stimulated and you will feel the heat.
Notice that this is not focusing on maridians. If you focus on maridians you're focusing on one part of the circulation in the body. This is about whole body.
Now, when you stop in a posture, you mentally lock into "reaching" for something. Your body stops, but your mental force moves. Moves to reach out to that point in infinity - which does not really exist. It's in your mind.
Then we moved to hand-moving (like cloud hands, but only one hand) silk reeling. He was emphasizing on how this is not the muscles of the hand moving, but the internal energy manifesting into a whole body movement, and a mental force driving the hand. The hand dissolves into waves of energy: Imaging a much fatter hand, like beads, and your hand is the string in the center. Your hand is part of it. Any muscle/physical energy is in fact a block in the path of the energy - you have to let go of the physical muscle force to let the energy flow. Just apply the minimum energy that keeps your hand up - nothing more. The rest is your mental force and focus moving your hand. Imagine the flow of blood in your hand - the flow will in fact will be stimulated and you will feel the heat.
Notice that this is not focusing on maridians. If you focus on maridians you're focusing on one part of the circulation in the body. This is about whole body.
Now, when you stop in a posture, you mentally lock into "reaching" for something. Your body stops, but your mental force moves. Moves to reach out to that point in infinity - which does not really exist. It's in your mind.
