Your Infinite Tai Chi Journey

I created this Infinite Tai Chi training programme and my other courses primarily to assist as many individuals as possible to awaken to their true-selves. But before we can awake, we usually have to balance and heal both our personality-self and our body.

Outlined below are eight key stages that most Infinite Tai Chi practitioners will go through on their journey to enlightenment. Of course, each individual will unfold in their own unique way, and some practitioners may therefore experience one or more of the later stages of awakening relatively early on in their own practice. So please do not see the following outline as anything more than a rough, but hopefully helpful, guide to your own unique path of awakening and healing.

Please follow your own heart-centred intuition, strengthen your motivation to practise, vow to continue along the path no matter what, and above all keep plugging into the divine love and light that are waiting to guide you all the way home. If you do all of this, you will not stray too far from the true path and each stage of your journey will be filled with joy and gratitude beyond your wildest dreams.

1 Balancing Your Energy

Most people down on earth are living from their three lower energetic centres, or chakras (base, sacral centre and solar plexus). They are also unbalanced energetically, and this causes all sorts of problems in their lives, including health problems. Most human beings have not yet balanced yin and yang within them, but a yin-yang balance is the foundation of health and happiness.

You need strong, balanced energy and a sound mind to awake from the endless drama of universal human suffering. Some people are too weak to awake. Others are too aggressive. Infinite Tai Chi has been created to balance and strengthen your inner energy. Without this foundation, all your prayers and good intentions will be wishy-washy, because you will lack real willpower and focus, and without these, you will stand no chance of fulfilling your deepest desires this lifetime.

Once you reach some level of harmony, or balance, within yourself, you will undoubtedly become less angry, fearful or depressed. You will of course still face many problems in your life, but you will handle them with much greater ease. Without balance, or internal harmony, we have no poise, or grace, and we become so stressed out! In this world, we very seldom see individuals who have true inner grace and a totally healthy, peaceful, energetic presence. There is something wrong with all of us. But our Infinite Tai Chi practice can really assist us to balance and harmonise ourselves on many different levels.

2 Cultivating Vitality and Chi

Through your diligent Infinite Tai Chi practice, you can also begin to create some level of vitality or radiant health. You can cultivate a very attractive brightness in your aura. Young children have natural vitality, but as we get older, our primordial chi begins to dissipate, and so we lose this natural vitality. Just sitting and watching TV for several hours a night can sap our chi, because our energy is leaking outwards.

Eventually, as you keep practising your Infinite Tai Chi and Infinite Chi Kung, layer after layer of chi should begin to permeate your internal organs, your muscles and your joints, and you will also create much more internal vitality. But you should not just aim to cultivate a lot of chi, because your system may still be too weak or unbalanced to handle it. You need to be physically strong, grounded and energetically balanced, or too much chi can leave you feeling high, and even manic. However, once you can safely hold more chi within your system, you can begin to expand your consciousness beyond the concrete three dimensional world.

Most people believe that this world is concrete and very real. For example, we believe that money is a limited physical commodity. But if we learn to see money as energy, rather than as a concrete substance, we can learn to let it flow in order to increase our abundance. If I need £10,000, I actually give away £1,000 first, to create a positive flow of energy. If this idea scares you, you will never be rich! Money is just energy. If it is not flowing into your life, you have created some sort of energy block around yourself.

The whole universe is supporting your growth and evolution. How can you possibly say you do not have the time or the money to pursue your awakening path? The universe always loves you, and wishes you nothing but joy and abundance, but you do not love yourself, or trust yourself and this is one key reason why you may find yourself sabotaging your own awakening. But as you cultivate more and more chi and raise your energetic vibrations, your increased vitality and self-confidence will become priceless assets on your awakening and healing journey.

Cultivating chi does take some time and effort, but it is well worth it. Once you can hold the chi, you can really begin to deepen into the Infinite Tai Chi form and into your Infinite Meditations. When you can cultivate, hold and control the chi, you can also extend it out to others, and the more you share this incredible energy, the more you will have it.

3 Opening Your Heart Centre to Love and Light

If your heart centre is still closed you will find it almost impossible to open up to the true beauty of life. But when you begin to open your heart centre, you also start to find true love and lasting joy in life. Most human beings never have more than a glimpse of true love because they are stuck in their three lower centres, rather than living from their three higher centres. Whilst your three lower centres of consciousness are still unhealed, you cannot stay in love for long, and you cannot help but be self-centred and even selfish.

There is no point in condemning selfishness in yourself, or anyone else, just as there is no point in condemning a snake that bites you. Selfishness is just instinctive until we heal and awake. At this moment of our evolution, human beings still have to kill and rape and steal. This is just where we are at in terms of collective evolution. As much as we might all love to be Mother Theresa, we just cannot sustain that kind of unconditional love and compassion for long. Before we can dwell in love like a Saint, we first have to heal ourselves step-by- step.

True unconditional love has nothing to do with love as a human emotion, but true love does trigger your emotions, and when you first taste this spiritual love, you may well feel as though you are ‘in love’.

You probably think that love never lasts. This is not true. Real love is eternal. The problem is that you have not yet reached a level of consciousness at which you would experience love continuously. However, even if you only experience true love for a moment or two, for example during one of our group meditations, you will notice that at that moment, all your fear subsides. Spiritual love has a very high vibration, and when you are totally bathed in this love, you just cannot experience even a twinge of fear.

4 Personal Empowerment

As you progress through this course, you should notice that every six months or so your personality and your energy levels have changed. Your tai chi form should change every six months, and your energy should also keep changing because of your practice. Past-students often say to me, ‘Your Tai Chi form has changed’, and I say, ‘No, the form hasn’t changed, but I hope I have!’ If you are not changing, you are not growing.

At the foundation level of our practice, you should begin to become a much more balanced and peaceful individual. You should notice that you are complaining less, and that you are developing a much more positive ‘can do’ attitude to life. You should begin to be less fearful and you should also notice that you are physically and energetically stronger and more vibrant.

Please don’t be a negative person. Don’t be a painful grump who pumps negative energy into your environment. Don’t be a victim of life. Your ultimate goal is to become a Master of Life. Train yourself to be a strong, warm positive personality. Personal development is the foundation stone of spiritual growth and awakening. I have known some beautiful spiritual practitioners whose fundamental outlook remains ‘I hate life’. This resentment and bitterness has to be healed before you can awake fully.

5 Spiritual Awakening

If you have a strong, healthy constitution, high levels of intelligence and good karma, you are truly blessed because you need all of these to awake spiritually. If you are reading this article, you probably already have some level of spiritual awareness, and a longing to know the truth, or you would never have been drawn to read about this course. My writings just would not attract you at all.

I suspect that you have already done some kind of personal development, and you may well have already tasted a moment of divine grace and are now desperate for more. You are hungry for spiritual awakening and you want to overcome all limitations to shoot up to the divine. Your personality-self may resist your awakening every step of the way, but your true-self has only one goal; to return home to Love Itself.

6 Spiritual Healing

The awakening path is full of love and light and blissful moments of grace, but as you awake, your inner pain and darkness can no longer hide. When the light reveals your hidden darkness, the awakening journey can certainly seem challenging and hard. All your unskilfulness will be revealed by the light, layer by layer, and you must be careful not to drown in this. So whenever your pain arises, please tell yourself, ‘This too will pass’ and nurture yourself with unconditional love and compassion.

Healing your inner darkness will usually take several years. This Infinite Tai Chi training course does not deal directly with this. However, it does give students a strong foundation for practice, so that when they are going through their healing they will have the strength and discipline and energetic tools to see it through.

7 Selfless Service

Once you have healed and cleared most of your inner darkness, you will have only one goal left in life: to serve others. You will not have to make a conscious decision to do this. When the time is right, this desire to serve will just naturally rise up in you.

When you realise that you are not just a separated personality-self, but an integral part of Life Itself, you will naturally love everyone and want only to assist them in their own awakening and healing journeys. You may not always love someone’s personality, but you will see their essence, and this you will always love. When you reach this stage of your journey, you will not be able to bear anyone suffering, but this true compassion will just flow naturally from the core of your being, without being tinged by any self-pity or fear.

Once you reach this level of awakening, you will have great power based on your near constant inner peace and strength. Higher intelligence can now use you to perform miracles. You simply become an open channel for higher intelligence, or love or light, to shine through you and awaken and heal those around you.

8 Enlightened Being

A true spiritual Master actually merges totally with ‘the light’ or Life Itself. This is the highest level of awakening that you can reach whilst still on this earth. When you reach this very advanced stage of awakening, you are not primarily a doing person, or a thinking/ feeling person, you are simply ‘Being’. It is impossible to describe this fully enlightened state of awareness, or consciousness, in words. You can only wait until you experience it for yourself.

Meanwhile, if you long to awake, please do not delay your awakening journey for even a moment. Until you free yourself from your own suffering and self-sabotaging inner programming, everyone on the planet is imprisoned alongside you. On the other hand, as you begin to awake, you assist the whole of humanity to awake, because all minds are joined. There is therefore no greater service you can perform for humanity than to dedicate your life to your own awakening journey.

© Jason Chan & Jane Rogers 2012