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How does standing meditation (taiji, xingyi, yiquan) lead to martial arts qualities?

How does standing meditation (zhanzhuang) practice lead to qualities that benefit the practitioner in self-protection situations, like a strong root, balance sensitivity and various experiences of power?

Standing meditation on its own will not lead the practitioner to greater heights of martial ability. However it is an essential tool in the arsenal of training techniques of the internal martial artist.

In a nutshell, before you can control your opponent you must first learn to control yourself. Before you can know your opponent you must first know yourself. Coming to terms with yourself is first found in stillness, then you must seek this stillness in movement, and then later seek this stillness again in a combative situation.

This can be likened to the qualities of balance and grounding (or rooting). Balance in any martial art style is a strict requirement. Likewise, in the detail oriented internal martial arts this is trained in stillness first (zhan zhuang, static postures, drills, etc) and then in the forms, and later in contact elements like push hands and various forms of sparring.

Standing (and it isn’t mindless standing) provides a platform to sensitize and refine our perceptions to these and many other qualities that are necessary for the martial arts and health.

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