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leave it behind at the river

Posted by Fiona Anderson. on Sunday, February 16, 2014,
So many things happen in life that are annoying, but to live a stress-free life, you have to learn how to "leave it behind at the river". 

The saying being from the story of the 2 monks crossing a river. One carried a lady from one side to the other. A way down the road, the other monk asked the first one why he did that, when they weren't even supposed to talk to ladies. The first monk said he'd left her behind at the river, where the second monk was still carrying her.

Anyway, today my knees...
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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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