Tai Chi Chuan builds a different body that is termed an energy body. This is true for Yang Tai Chi Chuan, Chen Tai Chi Chuan, or whatever type of Taiji you study. This is assuming you are following certain guidelines having to do with the energy anatomy.
First, of course, one must sink the body weight. But, really, it is not just sinking; you must close your eyes and course your awareness down through the feet. This will enable you to connect a tractor beam to the planet.
Second thing to do, you must shift the weight, then turn the hips. This is the practice of doing one thing at a time, and therefore concentrating all your awareness on one thing at a time. This will ensure that you are not split, and therefore distracted, in your intentions.
Third in this procedure, you must hold unbendable arms throughout all postures. There will be a slight in and out movement of the limbs, a slight wave of the arms, which will cause energy to pulse. Unbendable arms need to draw on energy if they are going to build on energy.
Fourth, you must pulse not just the arms, but the whole body. Start with the legs, go through the waist, and then pulse the arms. Do it in sequence, and learn how to push energy through your body.
Fifth in this procedure, you must learn to relax. Relaxation is the most important thing in all the arts, for energy will travel easiest through that which is relaxed. And, this will lead you to higher levels of the martial arts, for being able to relax creates a body emptiness through which awareness, and therefore energy, will flow.
These are actually the rules for all internal styles. Do these five things with Pa Kua Chang, or Hsing i, or that esoteric form of six immortal chi gung, and your body will become more than flesh. It will transmute into a power body, a kinetic energy body, and it will become capable of feats far beyond the simple physical cultist.
To make this work you must believe that you are more than flesh, that you are a spiritual being, and that there is a link between the flesh and the spirit. That link is the energy body, and that link can be created by following the five rules listed here. That and by following a thorough and patient practice of such arts as Yang Tai Chi Chuan, Chen Tai Chi Chuan, and other such martial arts.
First, of course, one must sink the body weight. But, really, it is not just sinking; you must close your eyes and course your awareness down through the feet. This will enable you to connect a tractor beam to the planet.
Second thing to do, you must shift the weight, then turn the hips. This is the practice of doing one thing at a time, and therefore concentrating all your awareness on one thing at a time. This will ensure that you are not split, and therefore distracted, in your intentions.
Third in this procedure, you must hold unbendable arms throughout all postures. There will be a slight in and out movement of the limbs, a slight wave of the arms, which will cause energy to pulse. Unbendable arms need to draw on energy if they are going to build on energy.
Fourth, you must pulse not just the arms, but the whole body. Start with the legs, go through the waist, and then pulse the arms. Do it in sequence, and learn how to push energy through your body.
Fifth in this procedure, you must learn to relax. Relaxation is the most important thing in all the arts, for energy will travel easiest through that which is relaxed. And, this will lead you to higher levels of the martial arts, for being able to relax creates a body emptiness through which awareness, and therefore energy, will flow.
These are actually the rules for all internal styles. Do these five things with Pa Kua Chang, or Hsing i, or that esoteric form of six immortal chi gung, and your body will become more than flesh. It will transmute into a power body, a kinetic energy body, and it will become capable of feats far beyond the simple physical cultist.
To make this work you must believe that you are more than flesh, that you are a spiritual being, and that there is a link between the flesh and the spirit. That link is the energy body, and that link can be created by following the five rules listed here. That and by following a thorough and patient practice of such arts as Yang Tai Chi Chuan, Chen Tai Chi Chuan, and other such martial arts.
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