Comments on: Visualization as a Tool to Learning Taiji http://www.dontow.com/2007/10/visualization-as-a-tool-to-learning-taiji/ Sat, 06 Sep 2014 02:39:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Don http://www.dontow.com/2007/10/visualization-as-a-tool-to-learning-taiji/#comment-279928 Sat, 06 Sep 2014 02:39:45 +0000 http://dontow.com/wordpress/?p=85#comment-279928 Dario,

Yes, please feel free to cross reference.

Don

]]> By: Underlying Foundations of Taiji Movements: Perspective from Martial Applications | Don Tow http://www.dontow.com/2007/10/visualization-as-a-tool-to-learning-taiji/#comment-29 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:44:00 +0000 http://dontow.com/wordpress/?p=85#comment-29 […] Similar to the previous item, strictly speaking this is not a movement, but it is also an integral part of every Taiji form and movement. To increase the effectiveness of his moves, the Taiji practitioner needs to concentrate on the task at hand. This means that his mind must be alert and be involved in what he is trying to do. His mind is involved in sensing the opponent’s movement, in figuring out the opponent’s intentions, and in determining his own counter movement. All this is of course happening very rapidly, but with proper training and practice, the analysis in the mind becomes almost automatic and second nature, and the execution occurs almost instantaneously. That is why in practicing Taiji, the mind should be leading the form in the sense that the Taiji practitioner’s mind knows what he is trying to do, and why he is doing what he is trying to do. Furthermore, the mind can be used to visualize the forms, and thus helping to learn the forms and in correctly executing the forms. (For a more detailed discussion of visualization, see my archived article “Visualization as a Tool to Learning Taiji.” […]

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