In every movement there is an essence being expressed. A fundamental to what it shows, teaches, reveals, or otherwise suggests. There may even be a few – internal movements, external movements, energetic movements, spiritual movements – all in one ‘move’. In the Original Method of internal arts what we are learning is how take ourselves through the process of learning and change, using the context of the practice as the vehicle. We aren’t learning Taiji, we’re learning about the way we learn Taiji. Perhaps the context we have for picking up something is to be excessively repetitive, applying force again and again. Or maybe we’re lazy and barely examine it, saying what we have is good enough.

Original method is a short-circuit for this patterning giving us the ability to reset every time we practice

There are numerous personal obstacles we face along the way, and this suggests the beginnings of the lifestyle change arts. Making the time, having the interest and inclination, the ability, and good fortune to study a deep and endless network of material.

The healing mechanism of the practices and the evolutionary process are deeply linked to this ability.

Most DVD’s, instructional manuals, courses, teachers, and classes teach you how to learn the subject matter as the result, but typically not how to learn from the essence so you can teach yourself. When there are discussions about inner and outer form revealed, it is my belief that it pertains to this topic.

When this process of learning is re-learned, or we forget our ‘acquired learning’, it can be applied to anything. The challenge for ourselves then becomes transposition: taking what is learned from the practice and applying it to life.

Our practices can grow when we choose to value our view as much as the learning of method.