The Gift Of TCC

If I were a master chef, T’ai Chi Chih would be the basic ingredient serving as a foundation for daily living. From personal experience and student observations, daily practice not only clears out mental cobwebs but also releases emotional baggage and clears blockages and toxins.

While in the Philippines recently, I worked with high level governmental organizations and NGOs (non-governmental organizations), foundations, organic farming communities and families. No matter what lecture or workshop I was giving on health and wellness, disease prevention, pain relief, stress management, relationships or self-healing, TCC was always welcomed by the participants. In fact, every group and private client expressed how much they immediately felt a difference after practicing even just a little bit of TCC. This ranged from people needing some relaxation to those healing from severe trauma and abuse.

One group was very special – a bunch of about 70 young girls recovering and healing from sexual exploitation and abuse. The original plan was for the sponsor group to treat them to lunch, followed by fun and games at the amusement park. When the park opening was delayed, the leaders asked me to teach something that would help their trauma healing. So I demonstrated and taught TCC. When I followed up with them during private conversations, the students shared how much better they felt afterwards: Mas panatag na ang kalooban ko. (I feel more at peace within myself.) Nakatulog ako nang mahimbing (nang walang masamang panaginip). (I was able to experience deep sleep without horrible nightmares.) Pakiramdam ko, kaya ko nang magsimulang magpatawad. (I feel like I can begin the process of forgiveness.) Naramdaman ko na may nagmamahal sa akin. (I feel that I am loved.)

I am now excited to continue to discover more experiences of balance, harmony, integration and holistic transformation from my personal practice and from students at the TCC Center in Albuquerque – as well as from fellow TCC teachers, teacher candidates and the whole community.

When the sculptor is asked, “How do you create such beautiful works of art?,” the sculptor replies, “I just remember the beauty that is already there, and then I chip away what does not belong.” I am filled with joy to know that TCC helps us release what is not ours so that we can reconnect with who and what we really are, so we can remember the wholeness that we have always been all along.