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Browsing Archive: August, 2013

Stand up for health!

Posted by Fiona Anderson. on Tuesday, August 20, 2013,
I have been struck by the sheer number of people in motorised wheelchairs that I see every day... combined with tv adverts for circulation boosters and the like.

From my perspective as a former couch potato, I think plain truth is: use it or lose it! 

One of the most basic exercises you can do in most tai chi styles, is standing in a horse stance (legs like you're riding a horse, knees slightly bent), with your arms in front of you (as if you're holding a giant dinosaur egg pointing away from ...
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magazine article for Your Voice

Posted by Fiona Anderson. on Friday, August 16, 2013,
Recently I was asked to write something encouraging for people with mental health issues, to show them there is hope!

This has now appeared as an article for the magazine Your Voice Extra (of the charity "Rethink Mental Illness") at:

http://yourvoiceextra.tumblr.com/

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Reducing stress

Posted by Fiona Anderson. on Sunday, August 11, 2013,
Since I started tai chi, my stress levels have gone right down. I put this down to several factors: just putting my mind in the movements, took it away and out of negative thoughts; increasing the mind/body connection decreased the intellectualisation of every event; progressing through the form and then through the levels gave me a sense of achievement I wasn't getting elsewhere. 

On top of these things, training with people from all different walks of life, meant that I couldn't talk shop w...
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Patience

Posted by Fiona Anderson. on Saturday, August 10, 2013,
Our society is a very impatient one. People seem to want instant gratification, instant responses, instant results.  I read somewhere that learning anything well takes 30,000 hours of practise.

Two opposite approaches, and two opposite types of outcome. With being prepared to  put in the time, you are demonstrating not only patience and persistence, but also that you are aiming for a meaningful life as a result. (*)

Anyway, patience with yourself is key to learning stuff. Not just don't worry ...
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Kindness

Posted by Fiona Anderson. on Friday, August 9, 2013,
To  be good at tai chi, you need to learn to be kind to yourself. Many people understand about being kind to others being a good thing, but then neglect themselves.... Think about back at school - did you learn best from the teachers who humiliated you or those who were kind to you? Well, it's the same with tai chi, if you have kind teachers and learn to be kind to yourself, your tai chi will improve.

Start by making opportunities to  say something kind to someone else every day, then up this...
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