by XiaoXiong on Sun Jul 27, 2014 12:45 pm
San Ti internal distribution of intent. First practice left side forward. Right hand and foot are full. The mind is inflating the whole right side and emptying the left. So the left is very light and agile and the right is very solid and rooted. Head stretching spine crown point magnetic, pulling itself upward. Now the right foot and the corresponding left palm are yang. The foot pushing against the earth, the hand stretching out pressing forward as the elbow presses down. If you do these directions clearly at 90 with your intension then you have activated the right meridian. The right hand is magnetic seeks the ground and should feel like an anchor for your hips to connect to with the mind. This should help stabilize the balance from wobbling once you clearly separate the intent into yin and yang. The last and final thing is to make the empty left foot magnetic so that it is light yet feels as if it is picking up the floor under it. Just imagine if your foot were glued to the floor and you wanted to lift it up with your weight centered in the other side of the body.
Emptiness should feel light and mobile and fullness should be heavy and inflated with the presence of your intent. Magnetic is recieving energy or concentric in anatomical terms. Electric is emitting energy or eccentric. Concentric means toward the center, eccentric is away from the center. The center is the joints the muscles are acting on. So you have to define through practice and index your mind to know, what does yin and yang mean? Remember the three planes anatomical diagram? Three pairs of things you can switch between. How about inside and outside? Thumb across the fingers to the pinky. Radius ulna, Hand elbow, knee foot, inside leg, outside leg, back line front line. Squeeze like to squeeze the ball or expand like you are pressing on the ball evenly from the inside. Anybody got any more pairs of things that you can make yin and yang? Maybe mental stuff?
Jess
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XiaoXiong on Sun Jul 27, 2014 9:28 pm, edited 3 times in total.
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