Feeling of time:
2 Feeling of time There is a common experience in Tai Chi . . . . Awareness of the passage of time completely stops. (ITZ) Football player John Brodie: Time seems to slow way down . . . . as if I had all the time in the world . . . yet I know the defensive line is coming at me just as fast as ever. (ITZ) Tom Seaver: As Rod Gaspar’s front foot stretched out and touched home plate, in the fraction of a second before I leaped out of the dugout . . . my whole baseball life flashed in front of me . . . . (ITZ) CTM doesn’t discuss these experiences!
Identity:
3 Identity Auto racer Jimmy Clark: The car happens to be under me and I’m controlling it, but it’s as much a part of me as I am of it. (ITZ) [When judo is practiced properly,] You will become one with him [your opponent]. You and your opponent will no longer be two bodies separated physically from each other but a single entity . . . . (ITZ)
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The target / compass of life:
5 The target / compass of life About how to experience, independent of what we do; it applies to anything we do At the center are deeply shared values or most valued qualities or virtues “ Self-actualization means experiencing fully, vividly, selflessly, with full concentration and total absorption .” (pp. 43-4, FRHN) So mastery, self-actualization is complete absorption / involvement in what is at hand. Continuous improvement is increasing involvement , moving toward the center whenever possible CTM doesn’t discuss this range of experience!