Categories: Teacher Experiences & Reflections
New Confidence
By: Rich Axline
Lompoc, CA
I was accredited in San Diego, CA in October 1994. I am now teaching my second class. I do feel confident about how I teach the TCC movements. But it has been a challenge for me to do presentations.
I have grown and feel more confident about getting up in front of people now, but I feel that I don’t know enough to be a dynamic speaker. To really turn people on to TCC. To let them know their good comes from within themselves not from outside of them.
TCC for me is wonderful. I don’t have to think much. I can tune the world out and let go and let the CHI be so I can be the real me. The true me. I consider myself to be just a simple man. Maybe that’s why I like TCC so well – because it is so simple to do and so peaceful.
In my very first class we had a fantastic demonstration on how the Chi is working. A student came to class with a problem with her back. I noticed when she came in that she was having difficulty in walking. I asked her if she was all right. She said she was fine and that she was not going to miss any of this class for any reason. She said she had hurt her back earlier and she was in a great deal of pain. So I told her not to push herself or overdo. If she got tired, just stop and sit down. (Besides the Chi won’t flow properly.)
We continued and I didn’t think anymore about her pain. After class was over she came up to me and said, “Rich, my back is better. All of the pain went away.” She felt so much better I had her share her experience with the class.
Then another lady in the class said that she had come to class with a hurt leg and her pain went away also. She said that she had forgotten about the pain in her leg until Marilyn mentioned her back pain going away. She was happy and surprised that TCC works.
Topics: Building a Class, California, Chi and Intrinsic Energy, Injury and Recovery, Personal Stories, Teacher Accreditation
Originally appeared in: June 1995
