Words have power.

One of the reasons I use carefully chosen keywords as door labels in our memory palace.

To carry on my earlier post on the Taoist term ‘unfolding’…

When I was learning in HK one phrase that really got me to do with the joints was ‘soften to fold’. When we ‘bend’ joints we tend to hold too much tension but to ‘soften’ and then ‘fold’ released excess tension and really changed my perspective giving my form a better ‘Tai Chi feel’.

This why I choose my coaching vocabulary very carefully, as it can make all the difference to a student’s understanding and perspective.