We have already said, dear spiritual seekers, that the Tai Chi topics that we, Oliver, channel, depend primarily on our progress in understanding and practicing this skill, so the channeling that we write down is another small contribution to a better understanding of Tai Chi Chuan.
You know, that Tai Chi is multi-layered and thate your understanding of this skill is crucial to progress in its practice. A very important part of Tai Chi is its defensive-combat application, and although we, Oliver, are not trained in the defensive-combat application of Tai Chi Chuan, over the years of practice we have noticed that the movements we practice have a defensive-combat purpose. Some of the defensive-combat applications of certain movements have become intuitively clear to us, for some movements we have found explanations in videos from the Internet, while for a number of movements we still do not know the purpose of their defensive-combat application. But even in this case, the movements whose defensive-combat application we have understood have helped us to make our performance of the Tai Chi form more qualitative, smooth and with a sense of energy during the execution of the form. Without understanding the defensive and combat application of movement, the execution of a form may be precise and smooth, but there will be no sense of the defensive and combat energy that fills the movements during the execution of the form.
In order to perform the Tai Chi form most effectively, it is important to understand the concept of a circle when applying a particular movement. This is much simpler than it seems at first glance, and we will explain it as follows:
The attacker and the attacked, that is you, are in a kind of interaction of physical contact type, during which the winner is the stronger, faster and more agile. Since in many cases the strength, speed and agility will not be on your side, you will approach this type of attack with the defense of Tai Chi, a movement appropriate to the situation, performed in the form of a circle. This means, that you and the attacker form the center and the end point of the circle, which will help you to nullify the strength, speed and agility of the attacker.
The esence is that your point of contact with the attacker, most often the fingers and palm of one hand, is the end point of the circle, while your point of central body balance is located in the center of the circle. Thanks to this, you lead and deplete the attacker's force with a semicircular or spiral movement of the hand with the center of gravity of the body in the center of the circle, which ends with him falling or "blocking" him on the ground. Therefore, the whole point of the described process is that at the moment when the fingers of the outstretched hand intercept and receive the attacker's hand (most often in the area of his wrist), your center of gravity of the body moves and is located in the center of the circle, along the perimeter of which the attacker's force directed at you is depleted. Due to the circular or spiral guidance of the attacking force along the perimeter of the circle, all the force directed at you will be discharged and will put him in a situation of complete impotence against you.
You will form the center of the circle in such a way, that at the moment when you touch the hand/wrist of the attacker with the back of your right hand and accept it with fingers, transfer the weight of your body to the back left foot, and until then your front right foot, rotate in circular manner backwards to the right side by approximately 90°. In this way, you formed a circle with your front left foot in its center, and at the same time removed yourself from the direction of action of the straight line force of the attacker's right fist. If you do not remove yourself from the direction of action of the straight line of his right hand fist, the circular or spiral movements of your right hand (and waist) will not be enough to drain the attacker's yang force, which will succeed in hurting you.
The aforementioned seems like unimportant and implied information, however, we are sure that in many cases the removal from the direction of action of the straight line of attacer's right hand is not explained, and we hope that this short channeling will be useful to you, whatever level and Tai Chi you practice.
We would like to emphasize once again that the above procedure is not a guide to the combat application of Tai Chi Chuan, because we, Oliver, are not trained in this area of its application, but will help you understand at a deeper level the settings on which the art of Tai Chi is based. Another observation that we have notes over the years of practice is that the settings on which Tai Chi is based, spontaneously reflect and manifest in the area of psycho-emotional defensive-combat mechanisms, which is also useful.
The path to a particular goal is never straight and without difficulties, but even so, when you recognize the path you are walking as part of the essence that makes you who you are, then the goal loses its meaning, and the path and you who walk it, become one.
We greet you, Children of the Earth, wish you all the best and wish that you do good to others.
Oliver
December 18, 22nd year Aeon of the Aquarius
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