Hey Mix. I´d say that it´s good to be aware of what training-plateaus are, too.
Continous training always being hungry to go forward is a very easy trap for us in the West. Often you hit plateaus in your practice where nothing in particular seems to happen, sometimes for a very long time, and then all of a sudden something major has shifted. Or there´s a small change or a big change in one´s system, skill-level or training. I agree with Dmitri there. To quote the Daoist story: it´s about keeping the strings of the Qin taught just right.
To me, that´s one of the many useful things with studying and working with the Yijing. It gives you a much higher appreciation of what it is like to rest in a state without necessarily being hungry to change it. This is a lot more difficult than it sounds. But we are programmed with hunger in the West, so it´s an easy pattern to transfer into one´s training too.
For myself, I feel the change from going out of environments with threat and going back into them. You definitly lose some skills that you are pressed to have in that kind of environment. And there´s a certain amount of adjustment where your skill in adjusting can become critical to your well-being. But you also need to have the ability of the dimmer-switch in this as in everything else in the training.
Glad to hear that you still can walk. I heard that Ma Gui was forced to do the crab-walk, the poor man.
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Sarcasm. Oh yeah, like that´ll work.