Empty Like a Master, Full of Power

Tai Chi masters are awe-inspiring people rife with lessons to share. Tai Chi, often called an internal martial art, is a Taoist art rooted in the creation of energy, fortitude, and power.

The daily practice of Tai Chi masters is not fierce fighting or sparring. Their daily practice is a slow dance as they fill every movement with this internal power.

They empty, so they can be filled with power.

There are videos of masters of this internal martial art launching people across the room with a light push. It's because they have so much stored, potential energy within every fiber of their being, that a slight opening of the spigot produces a torrential downpour of power.

But, while inspiring, that's not the point.

You see, they don't fight with power. They fight with emptiness. You can't even call it fighting. They are simply responding and adapting, matching any force that comes at them with the exact opposite…emptiness.

They are the living embodiment of the ancient yin-yang, which simply portrays the dance between extreme opposites. Light and darkness, curled around each other without harsh lines. In the darkness, there is light. In the light, there is darkness. They are one in the same, yet they are opposites.

As an attacker comes at the Tai Chi master with force, the master sidesteps, and meets it with the exact opposite: emptiness.

That attacking force simply trips over its own redirected momentum. This master, filled with so much power and force, has no need to use it.

You, as an Awakened Millionaire, can adapt this ancient art form for your own daily challenges, and the challenges lurking in your own mind.

You spent a lifetime honing subconscious thoughts buried deep within you. Victimhood is only one expression of them. As you move about your day, they will often remain out of our conscious view. But if you look, you will see them.

They are in your habits. They are in your perspectives. Your patterns and judgments. Your instincts. Your emotional responses. While victimhood was a large beast occupying much of your subconscious, it is not the only beast you contend with. Doubts, fears, self-sabotage.…

Your doubts are the expressions of your limiting beliefs. Your fears are the expressions of your mental blocks. Your self-sabotage is the expression of your counter-intentions.

They will not simply disappear because you will it, but they don't have power over you if you follow the lessons of the Tai Chi master:

When you feel the creep of victimhood, you don't fight. You empty.

When you feel the creep of self-doubt, you don't fight. You empty.

When you feel the creep of fear, you don't fight. You empty.

When you feel the creep of self-sabotage, you don't fight. You empty.

As you rebuild your relationship with money, your limiting beliefs will poke you, your mental blocks will prod you, and your counter-intentions will push you off balance. As soon as you swear off victimhood for empowerment, you must be ready, because your subconscious mind will rebel.

But, like the Tai Chi master, you don't fight back, you don't push back, you don't hit back. You simply empty. You empty as the Tai Chi master empties when facing an attack:

You match the doubt with understanding. You match the fear with compassion. You match the sabotage with empowerment. You let the doubt fall on deaf ears. You let the fear disintegrate in the love. You let the sabotage cower in the presence of your power, but never by force.

You don't fight back, push back, or hit back. You empty and keep moving, and as you gain more power, your subconscious demons will lose power. You will move forward.