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Here you will find articles of interest on various aspects of Tai Chi as well as letters from Tai Chi players on their experiences. It is our hope that you will share your reasons for studying Tai Chi Chuan. Your success story could offer the key that starts another's Tai Chi journey. If you have a story you would like to share, or an article relevant to the study or benefits of Tai Chi, please send it to either Bill or Carl above. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on the art of Tai Chi Chuan with others.  

WORDS OF WISDOM
TAI CHI

Tai Chi is a method of meditation and self-integration through slow, relaxed, conscious movement. You exercise the ability to bring yourself into internal harmony and balance. A result of Tai Chi practice is that your body is gently and thoroughly exercised, your emotions are calmed and your mind is restored to peaceful wholeness....

Tai Chi produces the same benefit as meditation with the added positive effects of exercise. With Tai Chi movement, you direct your body with your mind. You utilize sensitivity and intelligence to obtain results instead of will power and exhaustive effort.

Further benefits are:

  • having the ability generate your own
    well-being and balance
  • feeling calm, satisfied, awake,
    happy, self confident
  • having the power to generate more
    energy to do what you want
  • being able to release yourself from
    the grip of worries and tensions
  • developing better resistance to and
    quicker recovery from stress and
    disease
  • increased general enjoyment of life

  • self-confidence based in knowing
    that you have the power and physical
    ability to respond adequately to the
    problems and predicaments in your life

The principles of Tai Chi movement have been developed, practiced and tested over several thousand years and have proven to be of great benefit. The basic principles are:

  • moving with relaxed, conscious,
    natural effort
  • centering yourself: being in the right
    place at the right time
  • grounding: relaxing and integrating
    with the natural environment

  • recognizing and employing universal
    laws and principles that sustain all
    existence

Tai Chi movement is enjoyable. Relaxing into the slow, rhythmical movements provides a pleasant and refreshing interlude to the problems and challenges of the day. Tai Chi revives one's sense of enjoyment and delight of simple activities. Tai Chi practice allows you to refine your inner discipline and empowers your productivity. Satisfaction comes from appreciating the value of your own accomplishments. Over time, with regular practice, you will will find yourself capable of more than you ever imagined.

Let the effects of stress melt away in the graceful flow of movement.

When you play Tai Chi, you are practicing:

Inner and outer harmony,
self-integration and self-reliance,
patience and calmness,
feeling good, well-being,
gentle strength and natural power,
relaxed focus and effective action.

What you practice, you become!

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