It teaches adaptation to all situations: emptiness and fullness, rigidity and flexibility, catching and releasing, taking and giving, and movement and stillness.
如「雲手」，模仿天空雲朵的形態與變化。「金雞獨立」，模仿雄雞以一隻腳站立的姿態，是一種美妙的平衡訓練。還有「轉身擺蓮」，仿一朵蓮花迎風搖擺。「太極拳」靠仿效它們操練身心，而幫助人們回到自然的地位。