Tao In You

You will have to know what Chi (qi) is when performing Taoist excercises, from Tai Chi, chi kung to Taoist meditation.

Chi internal energy in our body. 

By practicing Taoist exercises, we learn to harness the chi, allowing it to circulate freely within our body and exercise our internal organs, from intestines to the liver and the lungs, making them healthier.   It also helps our mind to focus, become more alive and nimble, making us stronger inside out.

A simple way to feel the chi is to place your two palms against each other, before your lower abdomen.  Relax your palms, and you will feel a current moving between the palms.  This is the chi.

You can then play with it, as if an invisible ball, like what you see in the Taoisit Exercises video below.

Play With Chi of Tai Chi

Free video tutorial:

Play the Chi of Tai Chi like an Accordion

The moment you start learning Tao exercises like Taichi Chuan, qigong exercises and standing meditation, you’ll begin to hear about chi.

The Tao exercises can help us to stay healthy, very much of it is due to the regulation of chi in our body.  Without the process, the exercises are less effective.   Chi is, therefore, basic to the Tao exercises.

If you are taking up the Tao exercises, it is useful for you to feel the chi in your body.  This does not mean that without the feeling of chi, your Taoist exercises are not working.  What I am sure, nevertheless, is that w ith the feel of chi, you will definitely enjoy more of the exercises. 

Here, I’ll like to share with you a very simple way to feel the chi in your body.

What you’ll have to do is simply to place your two palms facing each another, leaving a distance between them, and hold them in front of you lower abdomen. and then, relaxed. If you can be truly relaxed, you will feel a current of energy between the two palms. The feeling varies from one individual to another. Some of you may feel warmth and strong sensation, other only mildly. In some cases, there’s a tingling feeling, or even numbness.

They are all signals that the chi in your two palms are interacting.

You can play with the chi between the two palms, as if playing with an invisible accordion. See how the chi exercises are conducted in my video tutorial:

Play the Chi of Tai Chi like an Accordion