Saturday 30 May 2009

Taichi

I am not sure what this subject is or how to spell it. Its an ancient art of......

1.) Taiji (in pinyin format) or T'ai-chi (Wade-Giles transliteration), a concept in Chinese philosophy




Taiji 太極 (literally "great ridgepole") is a Chinese cosmological term for the "Supreme Ultimate" state of undifferentiated absolute and infinite potentiality, contrasted with the Wuji 無極 "Without Ultimate". Taiji is best known in the West from the name Taijiquan (or T'ai chi ch'uan) 太極拳 "Supreme Ultimate Shadowboxing".


2.) Tai chi chuan, a Chinese martial art often shortened to "Tai Chi" or "Taiji" in everyday use


Focusing the mind solely on the movements of the form purportedly helps to bring about a state of mental calm and clarity.


This is not for me as it says this. I hate discrimination.

The study of tai chi chuan primarily involves three aspects[citation needed]:


Health: An unhealthy or otherwise uncomfortable person may find it difficult to meditate to a state of calmness or to use tai chi as a martial art. Tai chi's health training therefore concentrates on relieving the physical effects of stress on the body and mind. For those focused on tai chi's martial application, good physical fitness is an important step towards effective self-defense.

3.)Tai chi chih, a westernized, standardized version of Tai Chi

Nothing much there?



Now I bin thinking about this for a while. And I got a course from the internet, just the introductory free course. I bin trying it out and started to think like this:

If you stand upright and start raising your arms up along your body to your shouldors, very slowly. Do you feel a pressure agaist it. Say for instance you stop half way to your shouldors and stop. Wait a bit and you will feel that the opposing pressure is gone? Now curl your arm forword as if you are holding a ball.

Now relax in that position, until there is no pressure on your muscles. Now think about shrinking that ball with both your hands. And while shrinking this imaginary ball you should feel the muscles in all your body. The day you go through all the muscle right down to your skin; that day you will have such a tingle in your whole skin that; some have died. Beware of this practice to the extremes.

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