Step back and Listen

One important quality of the mind when engaging with the Internal Arts is to be able to step back and listen. It’s only a difficult thing to do until the quality of it has arisen within you, after that it’s just there.

How to explain this quality, you simply get out of the way and listen to all the changes happening within your body as you engage with your practice. This will allow you to continue progressing in the right direction, because weirdly enough, every time we step in and try to do something it usually ends up getting messed up. The directions from the mind usually come with faulty instructions, instead we try our best to get out of the way and simply listen to the Qi as it changes what needs changing.