Now that you have completed the "breathing tutorial," and the "sitting qigong relaxation therapy experience," and now a couple of "tai chi movements" on the video tutorial, you are probably feeling much better than you had in a long long while. I'd be willing to wager you are definitely feeling the best you have since the market began collapsing a few weeks ago.

Okay, now don't stress out about that. Continue coming back to the free video tutorials on the above pages every day. Keep expanding the sensation of safety and ease those exercises provide. http://www.WorldTaiChiDay.org also provides a national and international directory of Tai Chi and Qigong teachers and schools, which is free to both you and teachers worldwide, to help connect a stressed out world with stress solutions.

Now, Tai Chi isn't a drug, and it won't make your problems go away. Our world is changing, and we may need to change too. What we will find, is what Mr. Jagger told us long ago, "You can't always get what you want. But if you try some time, well you just might find . . . you'll get what you need."

Decades ago, back when I was first learning Tai Chi in Southern California, like millions of others, I'd get stuck in the 405 freeway traffic each morning. A morning DJ would come on between songs and do what he called the morning mantra. He'd engage all of us on the freeway to join him in chanting, "EGBOK, EGBOK, EGBOK." EGBOK was the acronym for "Everything is Going to Be OK."

I don't know what America or the world will look like on the other end of this crisis. But one thing I do know is that the Chinese character for "crisis" is made up of two other characters, one "danger" and the other "opportunity." Our world is changing. A danger is that we will hold our collective breath, tighten our gripping fists, and resist change that is necessary for our world to evolve into its greatest mutually beneficial potential for all involved. An opportunity is we learn time tested tools to relax, and breathe, and open to change as dynamic surfers of a new world.

As far as the crisis, it always was and always will be true that . . . this too shall pass. Our only choice is, do we get beaten and victimized by the changes coming at us, or do we allow them to evolve us into something wiser and more true than we were before.

Now, all together, take a deep breath, and when you let that breath out, let every cell in your body let go, letting your shoulders relax down and away from your neck. Two more nice full breaths, and on that sighing exhale as every cell lets go right at the deepest roots of your being, let the morning mantra flow through your lungs, throat and mouth, "EGBOK, EGBOK, EEEEGGGGBBBBBOOOOOOOOKKKK."