What is Tai Chi?

Tai Chi is a dance.

It is a sequence of slow movements which is dedicated to build both the physical and spiritual aspect of your body. It is a dance but you do not need music to dance it. You just need to look inside and listen to the rhythm coming from your inner nature.

Actually it was created thousands of years ago as a marshal art and specifically as a defensive technique. However its marshal aspect nowadays is not that popular. It is practiced by thousands of people around the world mostly because of its miraculous effects on human’s health.

It is often called “meditation in motion” because it combines the body’s movements with the calm and meditative state of mind.

What is the link between Qigong and Tai Chi

TaiChi is one possible way of doing Qigong.

It is often called “meditation in motion” because it combines the body’s movements with the calm and meditative state of mind.

Qigong is usually associated with meditation and in practice is brought to motion of the internal bio energy in the different channels of the body. Thus qigong is not associated with a physical movement. It remains hidden and inner.

For a person who is not initiated in the specifics of qigong a person who is practicing will look like remaining in stillness for hours. However there is motion in qigong. The person is just working with and focusing on the inner movements such as the energy movements in the channels, blood movements in the vessels, cyclic movements caused by breathing.

Thus qigong combines both stillness and motion although motion is not easily seen by ordinary people.

TaiChi combines stillness and motion as well. Its core is to maintain in harmony the rhythmic physical movements of the body and the stillness of mind remaining in a state of inner numbness.

Tai Chi and Stress

Stress is usually associated with misbalancing the internal self regulating mechanisms of the body. Stress is dedicated to bring the body in a state to perform more intensively than normal in order to save your life or find out the solution of a problem.

However this state should be temporary. If it lasts for long it becomes detrimental to all internal processes of the body.

TaiChi is a very good technique to restore your inner balance and as such becomes indispensable technique for stress relief.

Let me share how it works. Humans are programmed to develop spiritually. Many of us do not realize this but the ultimate purpose of a life is to enrich spiritually and move on. Stress distorts our inner harmony on a daily basis, which however is a prerequisite for spiritual development. Yes, no doubt that spiritual development is associated to inner piece and calmness. Thus stress becomes a hurdle on our true way.

On the other hand one of the final outcomes of Tai Chi practice, which has already been proven by many masters, is spiritual development. Thus Tai Chi practice should result in and guarantee restoration of our internal harmony and finding our true nature. This transforms TaiChi into an extremely effective stress fighting technique.

It turns out that by just practicing TaiChi you will naturally fight stress on your way to a further spiritual development.

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