Finding Chi

I have had a few very special moments in my life most of them were when I saw things in nature.  Glaciers in Alaska, grizzlies in the Rockies, the stars on a mountain top in Montana, a scuba dive in Majuro in the Marshall Islands, waterfalls in Honduras.  I felt something's that I couldn't explain, a sense of wonder a connection with nature.  I am not sure what it is but there was something that was more than myself.

I had an experience like that yesterday but the feeling I had was something that was very different than anything I have ever experienced. I was at Silent River Kung Fu's annual boot camp.  The boot camp in itself is an experience that is amazing.  This is the third year that I was able to attend and each year the experience is life changing.

This year something incredible happened.  I was able to feel my Chi.  Until yesterday Chi was an abstract concept that I understand intellectually. I have heard others describe it and was able to watch others experience Chi on my travels to Taipei. But for me it was such an advanced concept and a state of being that I could only understand it at the intellectual level and not at a spiritual level.

We started the day with a meditation walk and I was able to get myself into the moment.  I was truly just with the birds the trees and the dog barking. We were then put through numerous exercises to try and cultivate our Chi.  I was able to stay in the moment and then it happened. I felt my Chi.

I am not sure I can truly describe it but I felt that I had incredible power in my fingers and it was extending beyond my body.  I could feel it moving through my body. There was such an energy it had to have come from the earth as Chi has been described to me.  That kind of power could not have possibly come from me.

If I never learn anything more from my Kung Fu training I was able to experience a state that I think will be hard to match.  I am going to focus and train hard to get back to that feeling and state of being.