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Keep a movement practice going long enough and your body starts doing it without you. People who have practised for decades describe the form running itself while their mind is elsewhere.

In the early months it takes all your concentration, which is why it feels expensive. Later it stops asking for that, and you get the calm without paying for it in effort. This is worth knowing while you are still in the awkward stretch, because the difficulty you feel now is not a permanent feature of the thing. It is the cost of learning it.

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