Self-Defense: Flowing Fun Beats Sour Seriousness
By Steven Smith 18 Apr 2011
And if you’ve experience Flow, you know.
However you discovered it, do it more because it provokes a deeper kind of awareness…an awe of the energies and mysteries that surround us.
It’s likely that, partly as a response to the great terrors that lurk deep inside the truth of being human and partly as a response to the amazing relief and sensuality hidden in any simple motion — giggling, laughter, or great guffaws begin to emerge from one who connects with the Great Flow.
Or Taiji.
Or whatever you want to call that Awe-filled experience.
Here’s a way to get there: use drills. And when you drill your drills look for 3 simple things to provoke that awesome flowing Taiji-y experience.
The next short show shows you how.
Drilling Drills the Taiji Way
Here’s the 3 Things to Do:
- Create Win-Win and Win-Win Scenarios.
- Flow.
- Discover Fun.
Obviously, there’s 3 Things to Not-Do too:
- Don’t Have a Loser.
- Don’t Stop-Start the Drill (if you go back to 1 technique at-a-time visions).
- Don’t Be So Serious, Fool!
See that’s not so hard. The part that requires some toughness? Time. Keep it going for some time, until you break habits and shatter the shroud of sour self-defense seriousness.
