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Translated from Tung Ying-chieh’s Taichichuan Explained by Wu Ta-yeh and Wu Teng Shu-hsien.

"Taichichuan can be practiced any time, whether during walking, standing, sitting, or lying down. The method is to use the mind to get the feeling. For example, when you casually take up a cup of tea, try to differentiate the feeling of using strength to take it and without using strength.

"In walking, test the lightness and firmness in your feet. In standing, test the difference between flexing the knees and straightening them, or the difference between applying strength at one foot and at both feet. Try to get the various feelings in your daily activities."

Translators’ Note: Many other specifics may be added. For example, you may differentiate between doing any work (e.g. in pushing a shopping cart) with raised shoulders and elbows and with dropped shoulders and elbows.

In driving a car on a fairly straight road, compare the feeling at your shoulders and elbows when your two hands are at 10:30 and 1:30 O’clock on the driving wheel and when your hands are at 9 and 3 O'clock. The difference is even more obvious if you trunk is short.

Having trained yourself in a placid mind during Taichichuan (even during the fast movements), you should always try to have this placid mind in your daily activities. Examining your daily activities according to Taichichuan principles will lead you to use the least effort for maximum work.

This will also give you less tension and fatigue. Regularly doing the exercise with serenity and correct postures will make it easier for you to maintain correct postures in walking, standing, sitting, and other activities. You may even cultivate a more serious attitude in your activities. Being trained to balance on one leg, you will have less chance of falling.