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Indifference to discomfort

In last weeks class you had started talking about the bones training and how when you start to do the bones training there is this mental aspect where you are not bothered by certain feelings inside the body. Normally when I do the standing and try to feel the transverse and pearls couples I feel like I need to stand tall and do other things in order to feel the couples, if I don't do those things I won't feel the couples. The stretch of the couples also feels somewhat unconfortable.

Yi - Mental Expectation

One of the best, and most frustrating, things that I have been realizing is that I have to STOP DOING this stuff to approximate the models. It's also that most liberating things. This is not some amazing insight that I have had. This is simply the teaching as given by sifu. But, I am hard headed and overly ambitiousto try to produce some effect. I thought that was the thing because other systems use that approach. This is the very thing that sifu is pointing at that makes any system with that approach are "dead ends". Not that they don't produce skills.

Bone Basics - Gravity vs Gravitas

bone cross section

This is a weighty topic. When students first encounter the bones, they laugh. Bones don't make sense. I say:

"Bone Training is weird. You enter a strange and uncertain place. With gravity there is no Yin/Yang. How could there be when gravity does not vary? To separate meat from bones requires great and sustained efforts of mental transformation. Your body's state of bony separation never varies. Our expectations are what varies. At this time, to perceive bony cues is virtually impossible."