by D_Glenn on Thu Oct 10, 2019 10:06 am
It’s more difficult to want to practice circle turning everyday, then doing taiji. If you don’t practice circle turning everyday then you won’t gain the benefits that it’s designed to cause. So with modern time constraints, it’s hard to do both.
Circle Turning is using constant open and hooking-in stepping along with ‘Scissor thigh stepping’ to squeeze the sacrum on the hook step, then release it on the open step. This combined with the shape of the spine being held in the Turtle Back posture can stimulate an increase of cerebrospinal fluid (csf) flowing up into your brain. Which can bring about some distinct changes in your mental state, but more importantly it helps to clear inflammation, toxins and fragmented proteins that are some of the causes of neurodegeneration. And, ideally, it will eventually start to reverse the natural age related decline of one’s mental faculties, after you get past the healing of damage already done.
In the beginning you will need to spend at least an hour a day to get your body to adapt to doing this, but over time the same thing can be condensed down to even just 30 minutes. The thing is though, that you will become aware of when it turns on, for lack of a better word, but then you also want to spend as much time as possible while continuing to Circle around in this enhanced state. This is why you only want to do a quick single movement when you have to change directions, because you don’t want to disrupt or kink off the flow by doing a form.
It helps to practice in a group where everyone is doing Circle Turning but you can’t be with other people everyday, so it really requires a lot of self discipline. If you practice seven days a week, then you can skip a day or two and get right back to where you left off. But if you only practice a few days a week then you will always be trying to climb over that first hill and constantly losing what little progress you’ve gained.
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D_Glenn on Thu Oct 10, 2019 9:25 pm, edited 1 time in total.