"Don't insist, don't resist" - this is where the magic happens

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So if I borrow Aaron for a second, he gets on my right shoulder. So if I try to push back at him with this kind of energy, I feed his energy in destabilizing myself. If I run from it, I just create a momentum. But what I do is, now if I try to do this, I also give him a firmness. So when he goes to push me, I just release down. You see, he's starting to push himself away from me. Now let's get in here so that you can see. So as he goes to push, I release down and coil in.

If he keeps pushing, then I coil out. I receive into here, and then I press, and I coil out. It pushes him out, essentially. Now if, say, you don't have to use that much strength just to get the point across. So say he like takes my arm and like pulls me sideways. I can't pull back against that. I can't straighten my head up and create a dweelah or a stretch between the head and the hand. But I can go, right, and turn, and this causes him problems. Now what's interesting about it is I don't have to consider if he's pushing or pulling me. So if he were to push on me, and I try to push back, but if I just go like and do the move, I don't have to consider like what strength he's trying to apply on me. And what this does is it frees me up from anxiety and expectation. I don't have to think in terms of expectation and anxiety. I simply move from center to center to center and via release. So root, middle, tip. Coiling in to coil out. I'm exaggerating the movements to coil in, to coil out, to coil in, to coil out, to coil in, etc.

Throughout the whole form. So in reality, I just release down in.

Like that.

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