Practice Each New Day!

The efficient circulation and harmonization of chi through T’ai Chi Chih practice on a regular schedule, contributes strongly to health maintenance and spiritual unfoldment. Knowing this, why would one not practice?

I know of long-time teachers of T’ai Chi Chih who have experienced life-enhancing, self-transforming results, who have surprisingly stopped practicing and teaching. Why? Well, the rational mind can formulate many reasons and excuses I’m sure, yet from the overview there is no good reason or excuse for discontinuing an involvement that enhances one’s life. The conditioned mind, supported by emotionality, can be very persuasive in its influence to stifle potential growth and self-transformation. The ego-self tends to resist spiritual awakening and transformation, but we must sometimes muster the fortitude necessary to counteract this tendency by agreeing to consciously march on.

Are we really sincere about knowing vital health and growing in spirituality? Are we willing to do what we must to assist the process of self-transformation? T’ai Chi Chih practice can move us steadily and progressively toward spiritual unfoldment and dynamic health. The key factor in this ongoing process of growth and transformation is: the cultivation of chi. Daily practice helps ensure that chi is thoroughly circulated, harmonized and refined. The mind-body is accordingly benefited. The character and quality of our chi is the foundation of our individual life. Our mind-body is constantly nourished and influenced by chi.

When we practice each new day, we are assisting self and world evolution. If we feel a resistance to practice, we can be sure that it is the conditioned mind that is reluctant to participate in useful transformation and spiritual awakening. If we give in to resistance we only put off our potential good. What is the nature of chi, the transformational force? It is ever creative, dynamic, responsive, nurturing, healing and prompting evolutionary change. We can either resist this influence or we can learn to work with it by becoming more refined receivers and transmitters of it. T’ai Chi Chih is a definite way that we can work with this evolutionary force for improved functioning and personal fulfillment. Daily involvement brings cumulative results.