I’ve mentioned before I’ve taken two Tai Chi courses, and still haven’t been able to practice the art the way I wanted to! I never saw myself as graceful, and as long as I envisioned myself as clumsy, It ‘was what it was’! I’ve bookmarked many a UTube on the practice, and still haven’t been able to achieve what I thought was how I was supposed to perform this incredible healing art.
Well, the tide has turned today for me on this subject. I listened to a video today which covered, among other things, the art of breathing. Most of my meditation courses deal with this as well, but for some reason, the presentation I was working with today reached that part of me where I felt my own ease and grace and alignment and it hit me like a ton of bricks! I’ve been trying to do something the way I have observed others doing it, instead of doing it the way it feels TOTALLY COMFORTABLE for me to do it. I do not need a class for me to move my body the way my body knows it can move and wants to move to achieve that feeling of alignment, being in tune, enjoying my own movement just as I choose it. It’s no different than dancing like nobody’s watching!
I’ve been brought to another awareness of how easy it is to put oneself in a pressure cooker, or rush toward a finish line which doesn’t exist. It’s Grace and Glory to wake up a bit more and feel the purity of my life and the privilege of living it.
I quoted years ago, ‘my life is by my own design’ and this means much more to me this day. Freedom abounds…choices are abundant…joy is the continuous discoveries that we make that fit like a second skin. Oh what a glorious 360-degree picture.
Now you know what a true sigh of relief feels like..It’s breathing us in
and breathing out, at your own rate…and acknowledging it feels so good. ~Gaya
Blessed Be. To All Be Blessed.
I have learned the importance of deep inhaling and exhaling on a very regular basis. I too think Tai Chi is wonderful. The slow movements are so much more beneficial than the quick movements of regular exercising.
Thank you for your comments, Pearl. I do think it is so important to get in touch with ‘our insides’…it is there where we are touching the Hand of God. When we have that closeness with ourselves that we finally begin to find the peace which nothing and no one on the outside can reach. It is our own clarity… when our heart is reached by our all-knowing Soul-Self and we FEEL our Real Truth. My desire to perform Tai Chi like the studious ones of that practice was ego-based. I realize this now. I guess what I was saying in this blog is that my own body/mind/spirit knows the rhythm which is best for me. It is the ‘inside rhythm’. Breathing is the same.