It didn't take long for me to realise that the east and west have completely different methodologies when it comes to....well....everything. The east works together toward common goals, the west work alone for individual ones. The east believe in long term family style relationships, the west are generally more cut throat.
What appealed most was the theory behind overwork. If you work too hard or too long at something, this creates worry, fear, anxiety, subsequent, inaction and unhappiness.
There are so many natural signs that we ignore in order to create a better life for ourselves. Maybe it is a lot more simple than we think. We never give in when we know we are tired. When we're sick we rarely take it easy. We study subjects knowingly hating them in order to earn more money. These negative energies, according to Liu need to stop being ignored. It will work to our advantage if we listen to these energies and do what our body tells us to do in order to keep body, mind and spirit in harmony with each other.
Or, as Liu puts it, Qi- energy, Shen- Spirit and Jing- body. The philosophy revolves around harmony and acceptance.
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Yin/Yang- I always roughly knew what this meant, knew what the little symbol looked like, knew it was good for something. What I didnt know is that you couldnt live without it. You cant live without both strength and weakness in your life. There is always a time for weakness and a time for strength. Out of softness springs hardness and is sometimes essential; especially in martial arts. Moving from slow fluid movements to a hard strike just may well save your life one day and take your opponent by surprise.
Stress- something we all know and love. and yes, he had advice for this too! it is an inhibitor of getting things done, like it or not. It hazes your mind and causes incorrect judgements, an altering of your personality, generally making you a pain to be around. Through meditation you can learn how to eradicate stress or minimise it.
Above all, no mindset suits one person for their entire life, so maybe a switch to a more eastern way of thinking would do us all good, for a while, until the next thing comes along.
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