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Health and Well-being (part 2)

Second Part: Tai chi (Tai Chi) Chi Gong (Qi Gong)

Health and the Nature Tai Chi Chi Gong?

Tai Chi translates as the grand ultimate – lets say the very best – and Chi Gong translates as energy work, so we are talking about the very best of energy work for Health and well being. It is a complete and well-established art and science of living, which has undergone much scientific study in the West as well as in the East. It is the practical realization and application of all that is physically and mentally positive. Like many another worldwide revolution practices it had its inception in China, but in recent years it has spread around the world, and now such practices as Tai Chi, are daily routines for many millions outside China.

Tai Chi Chi Gong principles apply common sense reasoning to the solution of the problems of health, disease and cure. The early practitioners found their inspiration in nature, thus the study of Tai Chi Chi Gong might be said to be the common sense study of ourselves as part of nature.

When we begin to become aware of the possibilities of harmonising with natural laws, and how to strengthen our body’s natural immune system then we become able to possess and maintain health and well-being. Tai Chi Chi Gong is a system, which works towards the harmonisation of an individual’s physical, mental, and spiritual well being in accordance with the principles of Nature, the constructive principle in Nature, which restores, and rejuvenates.

On the basis of the above health is the normal and harmonious vibration of the elements and forces composing the human entity on the physical, mental, and spiritual planes, working in conformity with the constructive principle of Nature applied to our lives. Disease or illness then is a dysfunctional or inharmonious vibration of the elements and forces composing the human entity on one or more planes of being.

The primary cause of disease, excepting genetic, surgical or accidental injury to the human organism, is our failure to understand the natural law and how it is affects us personally. The effect of this is lowered vitality and ill health, which hinders or inhibit normal function of our lives.

How can we become more attuned with the Constructive Principles in Nature?

1. Create a lifestyle which as for as possible conforms with nature;

2. Be more efficient and economical with the vital forces which we possess;

3. Carry out breathing and physical exercises which ensure the free blow of blood around the system;

4. Promote the natural elimination of waste matter and toxins;

5. Take conscious personal responsibility for your own health and well-being.

The UKTQF practices are based on the idea that:

1. The primary cause of ill health is disregarding the need to become aware of ourselves in respect to nature;

2. It creates a structure in which to become more aware of this relationship;

3. This structure strengthens the consciousness of personal responsibility of the individual for their own state of health and Well being;

4. Encourages personal effort and self-help;

5. The practices assist Nature’s own cleansing and healing efforts by simple natural means which enhance one’s health and well being, and which are within the reach of everyone.

The above is based upon the concept that there is nothing accidental or arbitrary in the process of health, disease and cure; that every changing condition in which we find ourselves is either in harmony or in discord with the laws of our environment our physical and mental/emotional states. It is only when we begin to become aware of the interactions of these conditions do we begin the process of building a foundation for health and well-being. The individual who learns be in tune with themselves and their environment in such a way that they align with nature will have a greater possibility of a healthy life.

The basic principle of Tai Chi Chi Gong is the freer the inflow of life force into and around the organism, the greater the vitality, the more energy and positive resisting recuperating power. The foundation of this is found in the idea of polarity, which expresses itself in the duality of positive and negative – Yin/Yang. The swaying to and fro of the positive and negative, the desire to balance incomplete polarity, constitutes the very ebb and flow of life.

Ill health can be seen as disturbed polarity. Exaggerated positive or negative conditions, whether physical, mental, or spiritual, bring ill health. Exercise, diet, medicines, and all the other different methods of therapeutic treatment placed on the individual subjected them to either a positive or a negative influence. It is; therefore, of the greatest importance that we who wishes to live and work in harmony understand the negative and positive aspects of our lives.

The more intense the action of the life force, the more rapid and vigorous are the vibratory activities of the atoms and molecules in the cells, and of the cells in the organs and tissues of the body. The more rapid and vigorous this vibratory activity, the more powerful is the repulsion and expulsion of those aspects of nature, which create the environment for ill health.

The Chinese believe that our mental and emotional conditions exert a very powerful influence upon the inflow and distribution of vital force. They submit that fear, worry, anxiety and all types of emotions create in the system conditions similar to those of blocking; these destructive vibrations can congeal the tissues, clog the channels of life and paralyse the vital functions. Traditional Chinese Medicine shows how the emotional conditions of impatience, irritability, anger, etc., have a heating, corroding effect upon the tissues of the body.

In like manner, all other destructive emotional vibrations obstruct the inflow and normal distribution of the life forces in and through the organism, while on the other hand the constructive emotions of, happiness and love exert a relaxing, harmonizing influence upon the tissues, blood vessels and nerve channels of the body, thus opening wide the floodgates of the life forces, and raising the discords of weakness, disease and discontent to the harmonics of buoyant health and happiness.

In this sense life manifests through vibration. It acts on the mass by acting through its smallest particles. Changes in the physical body are wrought by vibratory changes in atoms, molecules and cells. Health is satisfied polarity, that is, the balancing of the positive and negative elements in harmonious vibration. Anything that interferes with the free, vigorous and harmonious vibration of the minute parts and particles composing the human organism tends to disturb polarity and natural affinity, thus causing unhappiness and ill health. The slow even rhythm and calm movements of Tai Chi Chuan for example, help soothe the emotions thereby making the vibrations stronger and the body more resistant to ill health.