Thank you.
Heart
If you need to take more breaths per movement, this is also ok. Your breathing may actually be slower, but depending on how slow you move, you still may require more breaths per move. Just time yourself to hold your breath, when you are supposed to, and coordinate that as shown. Seven steps is better with the rhythmn of breathing in and out with each step, to support the bellows effect of energy moving up and down with each step and breath. You can slow it down, relative to whats comfortable, regarding your breathing.
love,
gallen
Consider perhaps doing the active exercises along with the tape/CD #5.
In this way, Chunyi starts you out and give a little bit of guidance and segways between the exercises without all the explanations and temptation to follow at his speed.
The other benefit to this is that your session is an hour, rather than the 25 minutes on the video.
If one just has a half hour, they could do what we do everyday at Learning Strategies:
Monday & Thursday
side 1 of tape 5 (stopping after a little ways into the Joining of Yin & Yang, and doing the Harvesting Sequence)
Tuesday & Thursday
Side2 of tape 5
Wednesday
Small universe, Self Concentration, or the Euphoria version of the Self Concentration Exercise.
Much Love, Shawn
In that case I feel it is more important to tune into the sense and feel as appose to the quantity of the repetition. I feel more benefit if I take the time to tune in as oppose to just going through the movements. I suspect that Master Lin is so tuned in that he instantly feels the energy therefore his pace is much faster than mine. I hope this helps in someway.
Gallen and Shawn, thanks for your input too. I will be experimenting with your suggestions.
I love this stuff!
Heart
My pace isn't the same everyday. The best is when it is slow, but forcing it to slow down doesn't seem to improve it. Getting into the right state mentally so that slow feels right is when I get me best experiences.
Have fun on your own, but you're never really alone.
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