Finding Me In A Daily Practice

It was frustrating to hear so often I “should” meditate. Did “they” not know some people have a hard time sitting still and I am one of them – high energy, always in my head.

I was so excited to hear about T’ai Chi Chih, a moving meditation. I thought: I can move and maybe this will work for me. I became one with the practice. My mind was trained into my body, the movement, the weight shifting. I was taught as I moved my weight across the soles of my feet that I was massaging every organ in my body because they are all connected to some point in the soles of the feet.

Moving in this way, this slow shift of weight was very different from working out and amazingly it helped me release the need for medication to relax my body. It activated the energy at all levels: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. How was this possible?

Letting go of trying to understand how it worked was primary. It just worked the energy in and around my body. I often discovered answers to some of my life’s questions as I did my daily practice. After the activation of my energy, it circulated and balanced all energies out to the etheric layers beyond my physical body.

I use the practice to calm myself, to release stress, to find peace in the midst of a very busy life. How does it know my needs? Let go… do a practice and let it do its work. I have been since 1999. Practice TCC. Yes, for me, it is a daily, joyful time and something I do for myself.