Tai chi is an ancient Chinese martial art and exercise that has shown to improve health and wellness.  Harvard medical school has said that “Tai Chi is not only meditation in motion, but medication in motion.”  There have been several studies that Tai Chi has been effective to help with balance, heart conditions, immune system, and stress reduction.  It is a fantastic exercise and martial art.

Master Lu at Master Lu’s Health Center in Salt Lake City has been teaching and practicing Tai Chi for over 40 years.  Master Lu’s Health Center has classes throughout the week to help you learn and experience the health benefits of Tai Chi.

When practicing Tai Chi there are several essential elements to pay attention to when practicing.  When you follow the essential principles to the best of your ability, your Tai Chi practice and skill will deepen. You will also feel better, energized, and balanced.

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The Essential Principles to Tai Chi Practice

  1. When Tai Chi Chuan is practiced, you practice according to principles of the abstract and the concrete. The excellent changes you make are in accordance with natural tendencies. During practice you should feel no imbalance—up or down, left or right, high or low, forward or backward—each movement must incorporate certain principles. Movements of you hands, eyes, torso, waist, and steps must all be consistent. In turn, the spiritual essence of power you feel will accumulate.
  1. Your body will follow natural lines that continually change. You should do each movement calmly, as you employ the natural tendencies of movement externally for the limbs and internally for the organs. Following the natural lines introduces eternal happiness.   The heart introduces the qi, the qi moves through the body, and through an entire cycle in which it exercises the bones, the tendons, and the muscles. The hand, eye body movements, and stance are well tempered. Proceeding from the heart, through practice, this refinement is achieved; an endless natural energy fills the body.
  1. When you practice Tai Chi, don’t be sloppy. The internal and external are one; breathing and movement never separate. Moderate your temper for this is an accomplishment. Anyone can practice Tai Chi, the old, young, or infirm. Don’t practice in an imbalance way, for this will cause exhaustion. Don’t practice to the point of physical distress for you will have a chance of injury.
  1. To practice Tai Chi you first must be committed. Later, constancy of purpose must be used. Be sincere and investigate thoroughly with diligence. In four months, the heart gains an impression of Tai Chi. Within six months, the whole body and mind come to enlightenment. Lightness of heart develops, as well as a free and relaxed intelligent energy. The spirit comes to move in accordance with the qi, and the body is exhilarated and at ease, filled with ample strength. A thorough understanding comes upon the body and an exquisite state of being. Eventually you achieve a divine understanding.
  1. Tai Chi is practiced not only to maintain the body, but also to prevent or remove invisible sickness. Where drugs may be ineffectual, Tai Chi may control sickness. The body and mind together look after the health in accordance with principles of physiology and hygiene.
  1. When you practice Tai chi clear the mind of worldly thoughts. The spirit and heart become peaceful; the whole mind is devoted with a settled, inflexible will. Move your feet high and low, extend and bend slowly, steadily, and gently. Inhale and exhale in an even way. If the center is stable, the skill will become level and even the movements are arranged with what is right.
  1. Practice these three principles of movement:

From the beginning to the end, be consistent and unchanging. Practice daily, in the morning and evening. Study and imitate a teacher’s style, contemplate his carriage. Gradually, the vitality will become excellent, and the energy doubles. This phrase of the process is incomprehensible, though natural, and exquisiteness of energy is the result of the process.

  1. As you practice Tai Chi, pay attention to these points:

The qi sinks to the dan tian (the area below the stomach)

  1. Exhale through your nose, and inhale to fill the diaphragm. The temper stays even. The root of movement is in the feet. The energy is dispatched to the legs, and the waist is the controller. The energy moves through the arms and permeates the hands and fingers. Movement up and down, forward and backward, to the right and the left, internal and external; a unity of body is accomplished. Every movement is a change in perfection. The energy first opens out and expands, then embraces and gathers a profound silence again and again.   The effect is long lasting: if the effort does not slacken, the self becomes satisfied with the genuine meaning of movement.
  2. Do not practice Tai chi after drinking wine: that would be of no benefit. Do not practice after having eaten to satiation: the intestine is constricted, and practice will injure the stomach and intestine. Do not practice when very hungry, for this will inure the stomach wall. When practicing Tai Chi, don’t cry for crying opposes the qi. When practicing Tai Chi, don’t laugh, for laughing is uneven with the qi. Don’t practice when angry, for this will make the qi contract. Don’t practice Tai Chi if there is a feeling of melancholy in the heart, for this practice will be unsuitable. Practice is most rewarding when done in the morning. Intermittent practice is of little benefit. Excessive practice will lead to fatigue. Regard with the eyes, and remain firm when at rest.

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With the New Year coming, you may be setting goals to improve you health and wellness.  You may want to lose weight, help your pain, improve your energy, and be more balanced.

To help you achieve your goals and improve your health. Master Lu’s Health Cente in Salt Lake City is offering wellness packages that will include acupuncture treatments and Tai Chi classes.  These packages will help your pain and improve your overall health.  Our goal to help you feel better and to improve your quality of life.  Give us a call or come by today to learn more.

 

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Tai Chi is one of the oldest forms of exercise practiced around the world. It was originated in China, and up to this date millions of people practice Tai Chi all around the world. One of the great benefits of Tai Chi is that it will improve you health and wellness.

Paul Brennan’s translation of Master Chu Min Yi’s book Tai Chi Boxing Photographed written in 1929 said this statement about Tai Chi and health cultivation:

Boxing arts are essentially a form of physical education, and so health cultivation is naturally a major emphasis. However, this is not represented well by the hard labor of external stylists, and only Taiji Boxing really has the capacity for health cultivation. Regardless of weak or strong, old or young, all can practice it. It is best for us to be able to develop our bodies uniformly, complementing the regular physiological processes within our bodies. Because strenuous exercise does not conform to these processes, it is typically rendered counterproductive.

Hence the movements in Taiji Boxing are unusually delicate. With each movement, the whole body is in motion, and thus no part of the body gets harmfully overworked. Furthermore, because the movements are gentle and nimble, they can regulate the temperament and cultivate one’s character, and because they conform perfectly to physiological processes, they can develop the body uniformly. While practicing, you do not need to put forth undue effort, and so even if you are old or ill, it is not difficult to do. Therefore the claim that it “prevents illness and prolongs life” is truly not a bunch of empty words.

 

Grandmaster Yin Chian Ho said: “Tai Chi is practiced not only to maintain the body, but also to prevent or remove invisible sickness. Where drugs may be ineffectual , Tai Chi may control sickness. The body and mind together look after the health in accordance with principles of physiology and hygiene.”

As we can see from older teachers, Tai Chi has always been a way for health cultivation.

Some of the many ways Tai Chi will help you as you practice includes the following:

Harvard medical school has said that Tai Chi has been known for “meditation in motion”, but it may be also be known for “medication in motion.” It will heal the body both physically and mentally.

Modern research has shown that Tai Chi has been good for many different health conditions:

All ages and skill levels can practice Tai Chi.   Tai Chi will help you feel more energized, balance, and vitality. The more you practice Tai Chi deeper your appreciation you will feel and the benefits will be great.

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We highly encourage you wherever you are to incorporate Tai Chi within your daily exercise regime. If you never have done Tai Chi before it is never too late to start.

 

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Master Lu has been practicing Acupuncture and Chinese martial arts for over 40 years. He was one of the first Licensed Acupuncturist in the state of Utah. He was trained in Taiwan in both Acupuncture and Chinese martial arts mainly Northern Shaolin Kung Fu and Old Yang Style Tai Chi. Master Lu was also twice national champion for full contact fighting in Taiwan.

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