Guidelines and Memory Joggers
"Bread for Your Head"
1. True success is attracted and
defined by the person you
become. What kind of person do
you want to be ?
2. Live your own life not somebody
else's.
3. Live consciously - In order to live
without regret, practise to
become aware and mindful of
every moment of your life and of
the effect that your words, actions
and non-actions have on both
yourself and others because you
cannot undo what has been done.
4. Live in the moment - Moment to
moment. We may or may not
have many l lives, but the one
that counts is this one.
Live in the moment, in the here
and now because all moments
are transitory (in existence for a
brief moment in time)
5. Experience, savour, enjoy and
appreciate every moment of your
life because once gone it is gone
forever.
6. The only stairway to heaven is
the one you build for yourself
here on earth.
7. Look Inside - You are responsible
for your own consciousness,
happiness and contentment,
turn your gaze inwards to find
them.
8. If you want to be free all you have
to do is let go.
9. Yin and Yang - Appreciate the
duality of all things, the
inextricable union of opposites,
that balance is the first step
towards harmony and that
harmony is an everchanging state
of balance.
Understand the coexistance,
interdepedence and continual
interchange, interchangeability
and transformation between
opposites whose nature dictates
that they cannot exist one without
the other. Yin cannot exist without
Yang and Yang cannot exist
without Yin. We could not
understand and appreciate heat
without the existence of cold or
the value of light without the
existence of darkness and vice
versa.
10. Appreciate the simple and
apparently ordinary things in life
as well as their imperfections,
you can learn a lot from them.
11. Value Emptiness - Learn to
appreciate that the apparent
usefulness of what is is
often found in what is not - The
usefulness of a cup is in its
emptiness, the usefulness of a
room is in its empty space.
12. Wu Wei (Non action) - The
avoidance of unnecessary
action. Conscious and deliberate
non action is an action in itself.
13. Avoid unnecessary argument,
aggression, conflict and
violence.
14. Before you judge anyone else,
their choices or lifestyle, walk a
mile in their shoes.
Training Guidelines
1. Focus on improving yourself, your
own abilities and capabilities,
compete with yourself and the art
rather than with others. Make a
decision to get better every day.
2. Stillness is an aspect of
movement; without stillness the
concept of movement would not
exist. Therefore practice stillness in
order to truly understand
movement.
3. Remember that you can win by
losing or appearing to lose, you
can overcome by yielding.
Memory Joggers
1. Within movement there is
stillness and within stillness
there is movement.
2. Where there is rising there is
opening and where there is
sinking there is closing.
3. The hips are weight bearing
joints.
4. The knees are weight
transference joints, let your
weight, force and energy flow
through them, not into them.
5. Find the straight in the curve.