Commit to Training Strong Intention and Patience
By Raven Cohan
By Raven Cohan
Humanity has a great need to find varied means that help us to develop ourselves. We can do well to commit to important intentions we’d like to establish in our lives with a patient demeanor. Utilizing refined techniques to help us to find those often-elusive ideals can be what our civilization needs to advance as humans on the planet. Many people all over the world have begun to discover the Ancient Chinese arts as a means toward that objective. Students want to discover what is involved in learning practices such as Qigong, Tai Chi and other related skills from the East. In beginning a Qigong practice, curious students will find that developing their intention can be explored through using concentration to memorize a form and repeating many exercises that help them to learn a form.
Frustration and tedium may well visit a great number of these people who might not consider themselves to be “naturals” in learning such an art as Qigong and the many thousands of practices that fall under that grand category. Should only the naturally talented and already patient continue? Do we have to give in and create easier short cuts? How does one develop the skills necessary to One: concentrate enough in order to commit to a practice that in itself can teach commitment? Two: find ways to help newcomers get to the point where they can be convinced that slow movement is a genuine way to move through frustrations in order to build patience and stick-to-itiveness? Three: better see the movements of any form one hopes to study so that they are perceived as learnable?
Let’s first take a short look at the modern people who approach the Ancient Techniques of China. In modern China and other Eastern countries, monks and nuns and others still can be found who train a great many youngsters to meditate at the age of six years old, (but this is becoming less common.) Those youngsters who come from meditation so early and go on to Martial Arts and Healing Arts practices have a rich background that prepares them for training of their intention to command their bodies to move in specific patterns. They later understand they are made stronger in an energetic or physical way, or both through such training. (Comparatively, in the West, there are not as many people who have such rich backgrounds that can make it easier for them to learn Ancient Arts.) In the last quarter century (or for an elite few, half of a century or more,) Western mentality has more broadly infiltrated into the East. Our Western impatience and our less consistent study habits that are being adopted into Eastern mentality might be replacing a more healthful approach to learning Ancient Remedies. (For example, in China in the squares, as many people can be seen doing ballroom dances as Qigong.)
I posit that during early stages of learning Tai Chi and/or Qigong, it is necessary that all people are informed that they are encountering a challenging study that will take a lifetime. ( Continued on tab "Article 1")
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