From Masters to Mortals: Following the Taiji Path to Non-Duality
The Integration of spirit, mind and body can precipitate subtle changes in your life or have a profound affect through all these levels. This book aims to explore people's experiences with the internal energies of taijichuan.A sampling of accounts already reported:"The feeling of qi is kind of similar, metaphorically, to waking up -- where you blink your eyes -- you're half in dream state, you're half in the real world.""When I'm in a new place practicing [Tai Chi]... It's like an act of love uniting things wherever I am as I celebrate the beauty of a place, or the distance of the place and my being there... Tai Chi is sort of a ritual for me, a connection."
"[Qi]...it was miracle to know that I have it. ...My hands are getting warmer...""Maggie [Newman] described [Tai Chi] as being a kind of movement koan, like a zen koan, and its something you constantly try to perfect, or to understand and try to use to move yourself along."
"...Sometimes when I'm really in tune with the other people in the room there almost feels like there is an arch of energy that is going from the body of the top of the head -- person to person -- and everybody is sharing it."
"When I do the form on a daily basis, I feel like I'm walking taller and that the world is brighter and not as condensed. It gives me the feeling of expanse.""A friend of mine and I made a guys' fishing trip down to the Keys. I got up one morning and where we were staying there was a beautiful spot of land that was exactly between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. ...I started doing my practice, ... And as I turned doing "Fair Lady at the Shuttles," there were 3 blue herons and 4 egrets sitting in a semi-circle watching me. ..
When I finished and started to get ready to walk off, they left."
"When I get into a situation with my day job... or when I'm stressed, I feel like I'm reaching when I'm trying to do something. I find myself falling into a more tai chi physical relaxation form, a mental alertness, a quiet way. So it's really become a lot of what I do almost all the time now."
"I've had vibration in my body...like a cell phone on vibrate. ...It's like a shudder going through your body. When I'm able to let myself become part of everything around me, there is a moment when I actually physically have a wave form -- a general sense of lightness. Just going lighter, almost away from gravity, ... a sense that I could actually float away...
“When the body is functioning towards one end, it [qi] feels like a warm wave going through the body.” In addition:
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Improvements in health, balance, and with chronic pain.Sneezing, burping, drooling, shaking and other releases doing the form. Personality changes: Greater confidence, outgoingness, better moods.Feeling of qi in the hands, warmer feet, direction of energy.Growing sense of intuition, precognition and synchronicity. Seeing or feel auras of people and plants and trees. Avoided accident or injury because "time slows."