I had my Tai Chi class with Graeme last night and I'm very much starting to feel the benefits. I really, really love it, I have to say. Having been away on holiday the last couple of weeks not practising it, I noticed a difference in my self (feeling not quite as calm as I had been).
I'm very fond of the moving forms of mediation - much more so than seated meditation. I find it easier to still my mind whilst also using my body to move chi energy - maybe it provides some extra focus but I feel like I've been basking in an oasis of restfulness after a Tai Chi session!
Could it be my Tai Chi can replace my Tetley tea though?! Over the years, I've been on a mission to reduce the amount of caffeine I drink because we hear so much about its ill effects and how we'd be better off and less moody without it (although I'm not sure how convincing I sound if you've read The Oracle of the Teabag).
Admittedly, with the two to three cups a day I currently drink I can't say that I feel this has a negative impact on me - I drink lots of herbal and green tea aside from this and I really enjoy a good cuppa! But I definitely revel in the associations with tea also, the Coronation Street connotations!
Ah well, we all have our vices and I'm not sure 3 cups of tea a day ranks that highly in a top ten of very bad behaviours, at least not when I think back to some of the vices I used to have (this is where I go strangely silent, of course). Tai Chi and Tetley tea for me at the minute, then. It may change the more in tune with myself I become, but for now, I'll take both please, only one with milk.
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