I do not believe in Qi

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“I do not believe in Qi!”,”It’s impossible!”, “I don’t believe you can move a person without touching them!”, “It’s all psychological!”. When I heard some people say those things, I thought to myself “Great! Keep saying that, don’t change until you die!” What I was surprised about was those who said it practised Taiji!

Nowadays, many scientists and doctors go to study acupuncture, Qigong, Homeopathy, Fung Shui, I Ching etc. They all want to find out’What is Qi?’. They want to find out how the eastern culture and skill can ‘save’ the world. Through their studies, they have already found that Qi covers many things: infrared radiation (heat), static electricity, magnetic fields, gamma rays and other tiny particle streams. They still need to do more research.
Within the Chinese Culture, Qi is the ‘spirit’. The Chinese character for Qi is made up of two ‘words’: one is ‘rice’, the other is ‘steam’. When we cook rice using water and fire we see steam, so the first time we ‘saw’ Qi was from observing steam. Therefore Qi has no shape, it is not fixed, it is something you might see, something you might smell and something you might feel.
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How to feel the Chi Energy Ball

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Introduction to Chi Gong (Qigong – Khí công)

• Chi (qi) is an ancient Chinese term, which can be translated as energy. Like energy, the word chi is used in both abstract and concrete terms, and applied to both general concepts and specific phenomena. In other words, chi is ambiguous. (People who use the term often have a specific meaning in mind.)
• In the broadest sense of the word, chi is generally understood to be pervasive, present in everyone and everything, but it is not uniformly distributed.
• Chi moves freely around the universe, assuming various forms along the way. Disciplines such as Chi Kung (Qigong) and Feng Shui purport to observe and manipulate chi, for the specific benefit of human life. (more…)

Breath smarter like a Martial Artist, the natural way

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(urbansamurai) Why do human beings find it so hard to behave naturally? You look at any other living thing you care to name, be it a plant, an animal, even a rock can be more natural than your average human being. Somewhere along the line we have allowed ourselves to forget what it means to do things naturally. The consciousness we have evolved over time, the ability to think, although a great gift is also in some ways a curse, even a hindrance in some cases. Breathing, for example. We have forgotten how to breathe, as unbelievable as that may sound. Or rather, we have forgotten how to breathe correctly.

Breathe Smarter
The proper, smarter way to breathe correctly (and I say this at the risk of incurring the contempt of Chris at Martial Development who wrote his own article on the subject) is naturally.
Just to explain. Breathing naturally means breathing through the nose and out through the mouth, whenever possible. It is not always possible to keep breathing through your nose, sometimes you have to take air in through the mouth first, and sometimes you have to gasp for it like a fish out of water.
Martial artists especially would know this. At least you should know it. A lot has been said and written on the subject of breathing over the years, some of it quite illuminating and instructive, some of it intellectualised twaddle. There exists so many different takes on how to breath correctly, especially in the martial arts, that it all overshadows the truth of the matter, which is that breathing correctly means breathing naturally. (more…)