Collected works and current thoughts
When I teach Tai Chi, I try to leave the students with a thing they can do until the next class that is quick, easy to do, and easy to repeat. For example, while sitting in a chair, focus on your fontanel (the soft spot on your head), push that point of your head up using your neck muscles.
While it is probably not obvious, this movement is one small part of rooting, and moving power through your body. It’s also basic physics, and anatomy. So we can talk about the physical body, or the energy body here, there really is a kinesthetic experience when you lock your body down and root. Doing that, and relaxing at the same time, requires paying so much attention to your body, that you can experience a flow stat, and you can do this in a meditate state (as measured by a gadget).
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I am and have been a software developer for some time. I’ve been practicing Tai Chi for about a decade, and in the past few years I’ve been teaching it as a backup for my instructor. Much of my recent experience in software has been around things like agility, lean, modern agile, but really, rapid feedback.
This is important because I try to cross domains all the time. So in software I really care about small batch size, low work in process, and no queues (or handoff). This is an ideal, or a journey, rather than a destination. But it is such an ideal against which I start to take things apart, to understand them.
When I teach Tai Chi, I try to apply those ideas. For example, while off the top of my head, I can think of 16 things (just tried) I could do while standing, before ever starting to move. Trying to do all of that is high work in process. As I teach, I’ll mention 2 - 3 details while working through some exercises, but when we practice the form, I suggest picking 1. Here are a few examples:
- Pull your Fontanel up while pulling your chin back a bit (this straightens the neck, puts the neck on top of the spine, and if you add pulling your shoulders down, it becomes a great stretch over time)
- Grip with your toes
- Keep your tailbone pushing down and tucked under (this pulls the perniem closer to the arch between feet, which both aligns the legs with the spine, and is a key part of so-called rooting)
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Going back to the mid 80s, I started teaching computer literacy courses at a community college, while I attended college.
All of this ha This is going to take a bit to get through. Here’s a high level outline of where this is going. Tai chi teaching Day dream about small batch training ideas Add new habit Add a simple basic element as a habit Once you’re doing it , do it again Make a meta habit of forming habits Working on habits that interrupt habits. It’s a muscle. It can be strengthened. Rather than a muscled, its reinfocced neuron connections. Attachment. If any of this sounds good. And you are a software developer, are you doing Katas? Moderation in all things Paradox Faith is that reality is built on paradox Instability is required Life is unstable - impermanence To live by non paradox likely Leeds to attchsmen obsession Attachment disorder Jot something down
