You spoke of Re-Action, Counter-Action, Inter-Action, Complementary Action and Un-Action. What is this jargon?
Now, what is action? It is not a single movement because there other things like counter-action, inter-action, complementary action. When the action is done, certain other things happen along with it. In Trikonasana, your right hand is down and you press the right hand thumb on the inner ankle to turn your pelvis. Now, the action is in the thumb, but with the pressure of the thumb something happens to the right hand, something happens to the pelvis, so it is something which is a reaction of it. When you create an action, there is a reaction. You should identify what the reaction is. There are positive and negative reactions. Some reactions might be wrong and some reactions might be right. You have to learn to identify the right reaction, and the wrong reaction.
Now, in opening your chest in Trikonasana, it is possible that your buttocks are tucked out - beginners do that, they adjust to open the chest and stick out the buttocks. It is a reaction, but it is a negative reaction. Or we ask them to turn the waist in Trikonasana, they again stick the buttocks out. Or when you ask them to stretch the legs, the chest collapses. Or you ask them to open the chest, and the legs get bent. These are the negative reactions. So, there are negative and positive reactions.
Similarly, there are complementary actions which are not reactions. Reaction is part of physics: you do an action, there is an equal reaction, they say. Action evokes reaction. But complementary action is something that is helping it. Then there are inter-actions: the two things happen together. So in action, there is inter-action, counter-action, reaction, complementary action and then there is un-action. When you are doing something, you will be undoing somewhere. You do something and something is undone. That is un-action, which should not be confused with in-action or no-action.
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