A Time to be Still

Dmitry Sokolik suggests a simple but profound observation on our perception of everyday experience understood from an understanding of the harmonious interplay of opposites, yin and yang. Yin is like winter when the earth is dormant restoring itself ready to burst into life as summer yang begins. Sololik (2023 p.20) states that a yin time in our life may feel like 'we have no strength, no desire and ability to accomplish things. A sense of worthlessness can easily appear in such a state. People seem unhappy about us, reinforcing this kind of retrospection and depression of ego.' Yet a somatic - embodied experience of the natural flow between opposites can help us accept each state and remain calm. This calmness can prevent us from becoming stuck in any one state, we have an innate knowing that we can remain quiet and await a very different time of activity. As Sololik suggests we then don't 'exhaustively swim against the current of the river of life.'

David Hunt Tai Chi 24/12/2023

Sololick D (2023) In the beginning - tai chi: Tai Chi Chaun & Internal Arts, Journal of the Tai Chi Union of Great Britain, no70 December 2023.