What Doesn’t Kill Me…

HERE is an archival copy of me performing the 108 movements of the Wu Style Tai Chi form, absolutely free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3LYIGMNXjw&t=2s

Recorded thirty years ago, it is still an excellent resource. I want everyone to have access to the world’s most popular health and fitness movement system. Why? Because your ability to move with ease in a life of stress is essential to your joy and creativity, as well as your ability to function at higher and higher levels. Friedrich Nietzsche said: “What doesn’t kill me, makes me stronger.” It is important to note that, like all simple statements, this requires inquiry.

Allow me to modify this: “What doesn’t kill me, SO LONG AS MY MIND AND BODY AND HEALTHFULLY ADAPT, makes me stronger.”

There. Stress is the pressure of your life. STRAIN is when that stress becomes more than you can handle. It is “strain” that hurts you. STRESS is needed for your mind, heart, and body to grow stronger: so long as it does not exceed your body-mind’s capacity to adapt.

This is a huge, deep, wide subject. And there are countless thousands of books, lectures, and articles on the subject. How do we cut through it? If life involves stress, and your rewards in life will depend largely on how much stress you can take before it becomes strain. To live gracefully, with joy and the capacity for service to your community, your family, and your deepest most sacred dreams.