and it is incredible and i remember it's nearly about was it nearly 20 years ago i did one or two sort of intro experiences to it and a bit of movement and stuff and you know like life um takes us in different directions at different times i didn't really get around to it since then but you know i was always thinking it's a nice practice so uh today before we started the podcast as well uh carmel thank you so much i got a little bit of tai chi as well in which i just feel i actually do feel nice and grounded and a bit more relaxed and a bit more sort of slower down actually as you say as well because i find we can be just racing either you know physically and our brain can be you know an overdrive a lot in society the way everything is nearly 24 7 isn't it as well and

Yeah, absolutely.

I find that there has to be another way.

And the other way is it's really our minds are so busy and we're so bombarded, as you say, Karen.

morning noon and night with so much information and we're overloaded with information so we live in this super information age however that's not good for us because if we overload our minds with all this information stuff and we've no room we're not able to process all this and everything is happening so quickly that our bodies need to be able to catch up and in order to live our best life we don't even feel any energy going through our body we feel the energy from the mind stuff on the outside so people get their sense of energy from all the stuff that they're on the internet or whatever, on YouTube or all this, social media.

And what's missing is really this lovely internal energy that when you do a practice like Tai Chi, that it slows you down you can actually feel that you're able to breathe in and out and you can feel this energy going through your system which gives you a sense of that you're much more than all this mind stuff and you're you're not just a cog in a wheel or you're not just somebody who's part of this big consumer society where it's just all to get stuff and more stuff and accumulate more and at the end of the day it's not the accumulation of more stuff because eventually we have too much stuff so it's to accumulate this energy inside that this very real calming energy that has such a quality to enhance our sense of well-being that's really what i found the more i was able to slow down now it didn't happen overnight so it's and to be honest it does not happen overnight but the more i realized that There's a lot more to what life is about is really this feeling of being connected to yourself first of all and being connected to everybody around you and feeling part of that you are very worthwhile and that your presence on this planet is very important and significant.

and that you are connected to everybody else and that you can make a huge difference.

asking is given and if the answer is going to always be a no if you don't ask and you know it's not really a no is it, it may be not right now or whatever it is isn't it and if we do ask it might be a yes and it can open so much different areas for