Tai Chi as medicine

[Hendrik]

The bottom line is; Can taijiquan help with my condition? People want facts, assistance, real word action as opposed to fairy tales so anyone who can provide the goods, as it were, is the master.

the fact is as soon as one could loosen the physical body, silence the inner chatting and speculating thinking, and breathing naturally (meaning natural lower abdoment breathing with effortless).

The Qi got to surface and one can sense it as a heat accumulation then heat flow.

HOWEVER,. DO NOT intent to increase the heat or control it....etc. Just know it is there. it ok it is there and it ok if it is gone. Intenting and forcing or trying to create different heat phenomenon is a direction to get into trouble in IMA training.

ONe often running fire and get into demon due to strong intention and forcing things......

BE REALLY REALLY CAREFULL.

If you find yourself forcing things, just acknowledge your self " oh I am forcing things again." and go back to focing relaxing the toes or fingers or fall into sleep or even do prayer, that is Let Go and Let God. DO NOT FIGHT with your self .


Stay in that state the body will heal.


instead of thinking and arguing and proving.....etc, which is wasting of life. Do it and get the benifit.


Try this lay on a hard floor with a pillow which enable you to see your toes comfortablely.
in a very comfortable manner, loosing your toes one by one , you feel warm feeling on your toes and angkle if you practice long enough, the loosing your fingers one by one.

at certain point you will feel num or warm with your toes and fingers. That is the state one needs to get into in the begining of doing Taiji. stay in that state if one fall a sleep that is ok.

the spine , waist, croch ... are automatically align with laying on the hard floor. ( Must Never lay on Ground because one doesnt want the Ground's qi to damage one's body. second floor floor is good but not the ground floor ground)


See for yourself, how is doing this loosing of toes and fingers bring you into the state of loose physical, silence mind, and natural breathing.


But you have to wake up slowly after your body is in that state. first rup your face, then your lower abs area before you get into any daily life action.

and NO SEX ACtivity more then five hours before and after the loosen practice because we want to avoid draining of our energy while in sexual activity. also sexual activity needs to be cutting down big time because the art is shutting down the energy use in sexual activity to re build the body.


the above simple practice is the first practice in taiji, but one did it laying down and get a feel before do it in standing which is much difficult to loose or relax.