{"id":34,"date":"2025-09-20T02:11:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T20:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo2wpopal.b-cdn.net\/logitrez\/4-safety-tips-for-truckers-loading-unloading-cargo\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T15:46:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T10:16:04","slug":"letting-go-in-tai-ji-is-a-metaphor-for-life-in-practice-it-means-releasing-unnecessary-physical-and-mental-tension-to-allow-energy-to-flow-and-find-a-fluid-natural-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taiji.yechte.in\/en\/letting-go-in-tai-ji-is-a-metaphor-for-life-in-practice-it-means-releasing-unnecessary-physical-and-mental-tension-to-allow-energy-to-flow-and-find-a-fluid-natural-strength\/","title":{"rendered":"Letting go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Letting go in Tai Ji is a metaphor for life. In practice, it means releasing unnecessary physical and mental tension to allow energy to flow and find a fluid, natural strength.<\/p>\n<p>Transposed into everyday life, it is the art of letting go of obsessive control, intrusive thoughts and emotional resistance. This does not mean giving up, but adapting flexibly to events, acting without forcing and welcoming the present with calm and confidence. The body learns, the mind calms down.<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Letting go<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"430\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/taiji.yechte.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_single1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taiji.yechte.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_single1.jpg 430w, https:\/\/taiji.yechte.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_single1-248x300.jpg 248w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"430\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/taiji.yechte.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_single2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taiji.yechte.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_single2.jpg 430w, https:\/\/taiji.yechte.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_single2-248x300.jpg 248w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letting go in Tai Ji is a metaphor for life. In practice, it means releasing unnecessary physical and mental tension to allow energy to flow and find a fluid, natural strength. Transposed into everyday life, it is the art of letting go of obsessive control, intrusive thoughts and emotional resistance. This does not mean giving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-taiji"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiji.yechte.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiji.yechte.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiji.yechte.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiji.yechte.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiji.yechte.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/taiji.yechte.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6171,"href":"https:\/\/taiji.yechte.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/6171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiji.yechte.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiji.yechte.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiji.yechte.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiji.yechte.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}