Beyond the studying, knowing and learning comes the doing, practicing and sustaining.
T'ai Chi builds confidence by practicing in a step by step, mastery fashion. I am grateful that I learned one movement at a time, with our instructor giving us a class, plus a followup session, in a given week. The idea is to master a movement as best as possible, before learning the next. Also, while some practitioners are positively hardcore, that is, working out several hours a day, there simply isn't a need to do that to gain the full benefits of
T'ai Chi. Whatever few minutes we can devote to practice must be sustained over time, that is, repeated daily without fail. In time, the movements that seemed so difficult and awkward become fluid and natural.
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