About relaxation
Tai Chi Chuan:
the art of doing things one by one.
the art of leaving things undone.
the art of elimination of the non essentials.
Relaxation is a state of relative freedom
from both anxiety and muscle skeletal tension.
It is easy to become frustrated in a culture that embraced selfishness as the way of life
There are a vast number of escapes,
All predicated on the beliefs that life is too hard and that it demands relief.
People desperately think of relaxation as a way out,
as a retreat from the pain and pressures of our lives.
That’s nonsense.
True relaxation embraces life, does not declare 'time out' from it.
Some people fight against their own life;
To fight is to perpetuate conflict,
to 'try to relax', to 'do' is not to relax.
Relaxation is accomplished by doing nothing at all.
Make time to do nothing at all. Pamper yourself.
To sit on a river on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden.
In the Taoistic sense it can be said that the mark of
a successful man is one that spent an entire day on the bank
of a river without feeling guilty about it.
How beautiful it is to do nothing and then to rest afterward.
There's never enough time to do all the nothing a
successful man wants to do.
Deep relaxation is always multidimensional:
surrender, acceptance, without ego, trust, freedom,
joy, union with existence...
Life will have the quality of dance to it.
Your martial applications will have the quality of dance to it.
If the body is relaxed, mind also listen but we cannot start with the mind.
When the mind is relaxed, heart also listen but we cannot start with the heart
Relax into the spine.
The cardinal principle in Tai Chi Chuan is relaxation.
All Tai Chi forms, especially more martial forms cultivate real and deep relaxation.
If they did not, what purpose did they serve?
For serious students relaxation must flow through all dimensions of live.
Relaxation must flow trough all dimensions of life.
What's the use of our stress?
Our stress is an ignorant state, it believes that everything is an emergency.
Nothing is permanent, not even our stress. Not even our troubles..
Life is a cosmic game; we have to play the game.
A Taoistic advice will help: "Don't think, just relax and enjoy the game".
In Tai Chi the important thing is the rest we take between two deep breaths.
Chinese philosophers about stess: