Health Benefits
The Health Benefits of Tai Chi Chuan – from Master Gary Khor’s Book – “Tai Chi Qigong for Stress Control” 1993
The health benefits of Tai Chi are many and varied. Below is listed several of them.
- Highly effective in maintaining the cardiovascular system, normalizing blood pressure, and improving circulation.
- Tai Chi benefits to pumps of the body – heart, lungs, and muscles.
- Tai Chi improves immunity.
- The correct posture utilized in Tai Chi aids the digestive system and the joints of the body. It can alleviate back pain and headaches.
- Joint mobility is enhanced, thus improving blood flow through them.
- Tai Chi benefits the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.
- The reproductive systems are exercised during Tai Chi.
- Tai Chi exercises the body, mind, and spirit. It can help you balance your thoughts and emotions, to be calm, and to find stability.
TAI CHI – THE WALKING MEDITATION.
“Without actually practicing the true essence of Tai Chi, the so called walking meditation of Tai Chi can never be achieved”, says Grand Master Henry Sue ( 9th Degree Gold Sash in Southern Preying Mantis Kung Fu ).
Tai Chi Chuan, or supreme ultimate boxing, is one of the finest products of Chinese Philosophy and Culture. Based upon the principles of the I Ching and philosophies of Lao Tzu, Tai Chi is a system of rounded fluid, balanced movements to be practiced daily for health and peace of mind. Tai chi has always been called a form of internal Kung Fu. It is widely practiced as a non-competitive form of martial arts based on thought and consciousness guiding movements, combined with precise breathing.
The Chinese believe Tai Chi actually stimulates and invigorates internal organs like the heart and liver, as well as muscles, tendons and joints. Tai Chi is calming on the nervous system and at the same time energising.
To gain the true benefit of Tai Chi requires time and practice, and importantly correct teaching to guide a person to what Tai Chi actually represents. According to Grand Master Sue, the Queensland President of the Australian Kung Fu and Wushu Federation ( the AKWF is a nationally recognised body governing the standards of Kung Fu schools and instructors ), “Performing the movements of Tai Chi is not Tai Chi. The practitioner must understand and integrate movement with feeling, timing and rhythm, and breathing to give air and life to internal organs of the body. Without actually practicing the true essence of Tai Chi, the so called walking meditation of Tai Chi can never be achieved.”
