Term for "sensing alignment with Tao"?

[aintmt]

In the past few years, I have increasingly experienced a kind of internal signal for which I lack a good descriptor. During daily qigong, in both prescribed sequences and "no-form" practice, I sometimes make a familiar gesture in a new way, or spontaneously make a new-to-me movement. (Some of these get incorporated into the daily forms.) Especially if the movement is more extreme in force or extension than usual, I may question its utility or safety. And if it feels particularly good, I might be wary of hedonism. Often, though, the inner voice says something like this is good or this is right and fitting, or even this is necessary - whether or not comfortable or familiar.

My current framing is that such signals arise when action and intention align with some aspect of Tao - physical conditioning, healing, mind/body integration, some more subtle opening or connection. Assuming that this is a liminal indication that I'm belatedly learning to attend, I wonder if there is a term of art for such perceptions.

I also have the perhaps-simplistic understanding that there is no "entering" or "surrendering to" or "embracing" Tao, since everything (including apparent separation or turbulence) is also Tao. So maybe the experience is not one of a signal per se, but the diminution of perceptual and conceptual noise. As someone said of one Zen koan:

  Mu! is not a negation
  It is not a command, nor even an instruction:
  It is an invitation
  To relax

Reference points: Greek kairos for "the critical/correct moment" (as distinct from chronos, time generally) apparently derives from the precise instant when a loosed arrow will find its mark. In the Eightfold Path, "right mindfulness" and "right samadhi" seem especially relevant. And from Shakespeare: "There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune..."

So - can anyone here please help with existing words or phrases (in any language) that describe or define these experiences, in any field of activity (or stillness)?

Thanks in advance for your attention and guidance.

[Lairg]

45 minutes ago, aintmt said:

since everything (including apparent separation or turbulence) is also Tao.

 

In my view such a proposition should be subject to experimental testing - despite my Christian upbringing teaching me that faith is more important.

 

In my observation the Tao does not encompass all of Existence.    So I choose carefully.

 

47 minutes ago, aintmt said:

the inner voice says something like this is good or this is right and fitting,

 

I had such an inner voice and it took me at least a decade to identify it.   It was a good voice, but eventually I outgrew it.   Something about standing on my own feet.