Keep ourselves healthy and disease-free, we must keep our Jing Luo un-blocked, open for healthy and balanced Chi flow. And this is exactly where Tai Chi comes in - to open up the Jing Luo in your body and keep them un-clogged to allow for healthy chi flow. With persistent practice over time, your Chi level will also get enhanced to give you improved vitality. Now you can easily understand why Tai Chi is a perfect tool for achieving perfect health and longevity.
But contrary to the popular Western belief, Tai Chi has not direct link with one’s breathing. In fact, deep breathing is NOT encouraged in correct Tai Chi practice as it will only make one go tense and rigid. In advanced stage of Tai Chi practice, physical lung breathing in the practitioner declines to give away to the so-called fetus breathing (Tai Xi), a state where a person can absorb Chi through the pores and store it in his Dan Tian, the Chi centre just beneath the naval. This all sounds a bit esoteric and mysterious, but thousands of long-standing Tai Chi practitioners can prove its validity.
about the health benefits of practicing Tai Chi, you have to learn about two basis concepts of TCM -
Chi and Jing Luo. Chi
Is the life force supporting the human organism, and Jing Luo is the network ofchannels for Chi to flow around the human body.
The health status of any individual is dependent on the healthy strength, fluidity and balance of such Chi supply and flow. Any pain, discomfort or illness can be traced back to clogged up Chi flow or Chi deficiency. Thus, to