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Originally posted by Dabdoob:
This exercise is my favorite for some reason 
. I still get confused at it sometimes though, partly because I have to imagine the column [b]inside the torso, while my hands are moving outside, so it becomes hard to move it. Also I still can't imagine both hands together moving the energy, I jump back and forth between the hand going up (moving the energy up) and the hand going down. Hopefully with time I will be able to accomplish that (^_^).[/B]
You're trying too hard. I would be exhausted
if I tried that hard. I started out just
trying to get the motions correct; still
haven't, but pretty close.
I find that at some times I can feel and
visualize energy easily and at other times,
nothing. I feel that my job is to show up.
What happens, happens. Every day is different.
You need to cut yourself some slack.
As to breathing, I find that I can't
always follow Master Lin's breathing
patterns, so I make up my own. I probably
take more breaths than Master Lin does,
but then again he has more years doing it
than I do. I above all do my best not to
feel guilty about my version.
If I can do good today, maybe I can do
better tommorrow, etc. If I don't do the
exercises in some form, I can't get any
good from them. Accept where you are as
being good and go from there.
Gianni
