{"id":16532,"date":"2020-03-30T09:37:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T09:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qilabs.world\/?p=16532"},"modified":"2020-03-31T17:36:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T17:36:32","slug":"taiji-im-alltag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qilabs.world\/en\/taiji-im-alltag\/","title":{"rendered":"Body? Here we go! Or..."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Zack, there's the bicep. Shapely, a real bump. Boom, the quadriceps. Seen anything better? Pants are getting tight, hey. We work out, sweat, blow and moan. Feel the 50, 100, 150 kilos we've chosen to put on our shoulders. Take something in your hand that's just around you (no, not the dumbbell), say, the bag of waste paper that's supposed to go down to the basement. It weighs maybe five kilos. What does your arm weigh?<\/p>\n

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So? What did you feel? The waste paper or your arm? (By the way, the arm weighs about 4 kilos at 80 kilograms body weight.)<\/p>\n

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This is one of those thoughts to get rid of the \"esoteric\" touch that terms like body awareness and attention have attached. Yeah, good terms, but not psychic. Here, anyway.<\/p>\n

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The lynchpin of attention<\/strong> is the brain. An organ that responds to what's coming at us. That's a lot any second. The things that the brain focuses its attention on become conscious. If we cut our finger, the brain becomes active by letting the finger retract or causing you to stop cutting the onion. (Yes, yes, at the same time the brain, together with various messenger substances, activates the healing of wounds, etc. Our body (biomass!) is just complex). What you can say: Wherever the brain's impulse comes from - if you think of the delightful evening last night while cutting onions, you are more likely to cut your finger (the brain cannot do two things equally well at once).<\/p>\n

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And those who want cookies, get the cookies<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Have you seen movie Kung Fu Panda?<\/a>With Panda Po, who likes to eat, talks too much and is chosen to save the world? And who has the odd adjustment disorder to his new role? His focus: cookies. Life can be that simple, the thing with attention and self-defense ...<\/p>\n

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Perceive what?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Body awareness. Another one of those things. The ones who move light most of the time are children. Although they (probably) don't even notice, they just do. If they have to come up from the ground, they roll and spiral around a bit - and then they stand up again. We grown-ups first think about it, try it on the right side, then on the left, using a folding knife (incredibly useless effort!) or the hand of a friend. And above all with a lot of groaning. We have forgotten. Forgotten how to move efficiently and easily. We like complicated. What we must not forget is that we were children once, we rolled and spun around. This can be recalled. What you can recall is how your own body (biomass) works (we have to \"know\", we don't do simple). Not every joint can do every movement: The shoulder, for example, has more directions of movement than the elbow, but taken together the construct arm is unbeatable!<\/p>\n

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And old Chinese movement methods are supposed to change that? After all, they connect body and soul. Coupling guided, controlled movement with what you are about to do.<\/p>\n

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What does that have to do with lifted weights and a clean six-pack?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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First, the author also does both (studio and Taiji, she \"must\", she is already 50 and likes to be painless). The question she has is: Where to put the power that the weights build up? You can abound, of course. Maybe it would be interesting to see what goes beyond that? Can I transform the chosen \"load\", which brings me pure power, into dynamics? Try out what a small change in hand position means in terms of force development? How I become permeable and at the same time defensive?<\/p>\n

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Or how to open glasses more easily? <\/strong><\/p>\n

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How can attention and awareness of what the body can and cannot do help us in everyday life?<\/p>\n

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(Schraub)Glas Erbsen \u00f6ffnen<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The lid of the screw glass does not move a millimeter (we have already hit the floor). Then proceed like this:<\/p>\n

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