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14 May 2011

Hercules and Antaeus

What do you think about Hercules and Antaeus and their fight Sheila?


Antonio del Pollaiolo
Hercules is a positive symbol, strength with intelligence, and no brute force like Antaeus.
This is exactly what happens in Tai Chi Carlo, what you do? You lift up the diaphragm to move the other energetically. Antaeus is a strong man, he must use the ground to be strong, what does a Tai Chi master with strong people? He lifts them up pulling up the diaphragm and inverting their ground polarity. So this is the ancient Tai Chi statement: lift several pounds with only some oz of weigh.
More deeply Antaeus is our external way of acting, our muscles and strength stupid approach to life, Hercules lifts to the sky his Antaeus part, he reverses it and wins in himself his ego side freeing his energy.

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