Whilst meditating this morning my mind was connecting the chi to the breath. As I breathed in it moved it from the lower dantien through the coccyx, up the back, over the head where it collected between the in and out breath and as I breathed out I sank the chest to drain it down from the tongue back down to the lower dantien.

I found myself naturally drawing the line with my hands in front of the body and that drew a mental image of the shape of Daruma meditating in the cave. (I wish I could draw, AI can’t make the shape I wanted).

When I did the Yang Chen Fu 108 form, my hands automatically drew the shapes that my internal system was making them do and stimulating, storing, moving and discharging the chi.

When I can make these connections in the still, wordless mind in meditation, it enhances everything I do in movement giving me profound insights that I can never fully describe in words.

In the beginning we need to programme the basics with thought, then we practice until we can internalise the skills until we become them and then we are able to rely on insights from our deep, wisdom mind.