by shawnsegler on Mon Aug 17, 2009 3:00 pm
Made a great simplification yesterday. Another one of those things that changes the way you do everything. I've been spending a lot of time lately trying to slow down and generate all the techniques from the stepping and with the waist. I've got things down to the point where my balance is stable enough to be able to feel that and spend less energy on where my mind is in the body...trying to just keep my mind in the hands and the feet and to feel the central equilibrium.
The problem was I was still trying to feel my central equilibrium by following the position of my spine in relation to gravity but between keeping the mind in the hands and feet and trying to "just allow" for balance to take place by feeling the spacial relation of my spine to the rest of my body it was splitting my attention to much and allowing for gaps and stutters to take place where I'd have to reorient my balance.
So anyway, yesterday I realized that rather than putting my mind in my spine, I was relaxed enough now that I could simply concentrate on where up and down was gravity-wise I could just sort of feel where the center of the earth was through my feet and do the "as if suspended from above" thing from the top of the head and so have this constant imaginary gravity line that I don't need to concentrate on and can simply feel my spine moving around. Less places for the mind to be= much more efficient balance. It's awesome, so now I can relax yet even more and just conentrate on a gyroscopic sort of vertical yin yang of my spine moving around the central equilibrium line that I can sense, and a horizontal based on the extension of my limbs and the movement of the dantien.
Anyhoo, I think it's pretty cool.
Best,
S
I prefer
You behind the wheel
And me the passenger