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Strength through fearlessness of death.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Last June I blogged about maintaining calm in the eye of the storm. In my view, the deepest calm will come not from becoming a hermit but by learning to be calm in the most otherwise stressful situations, and by continuing to test one's calm in such circumstances.  For fourteen years I have practiced the internal martial art of t'ai chi chuan, which focuses on the strength of calmness, relaxation, and softness, so that instead of expending brute force and muscular energy, one summons, stores, and uses the internal energy of chi/energy/breath. Analogous goals of t'ai chi practice are to be as soft as water so that the opponent has nothing to push against, but to have the devastating strength of a tidal wave; to be as buoyant and yielding as a beach ball in the ocean; and to be as pliable and firmly rooted as a plant being blown by fierce winds without being uprooted...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on March 11, 2009 (boomark / email).