To be honest, Tai Chi adjusts the body’s qi and blood, and is good for any disease. However, if you want to practice Tai Chi, you must find a master who understands it and practice it slowly and relaxedly. Only in this way can you achieve your goal.

Health-preserving methods of practicing Tai Chi:

  1. Physiological benefits

Tai Chi combines traditional guiding and breathing methods, focusing on the close coordination between body training, qi training, and mind training. On the one hand, when practicing, you can exercise your muscles and relax your tendons and activate your joints; on the other hand, you can massage and exercise your internal organs through the coordination between breathing and movement, so as to achieve the effect of strengthening your body.

Benefit 1: Enhance the sensitivity of the nervous system

Practicing Tai Chi requires a calm mind and a determined mind. When practicing Tai Chi, you must first let the cerebral cortex rest (calm mind), and hand over the task of coordinating the functions of the internal and external organs of the whole body to the central nervous system (determined mind), which enhances the sensitivity of the nervous system.

Benefit 2: Unblocking meridians, blood vessels, lymphatic and circulatory systems

Since practicing Tai Chi will not be too short, it can make blood and qi flow smoothly like general aerobic exercise. After practicing for a while, you will feel numbness and numbness in your fingertips, slight sound in your joints, acupuncture, and abdominal rumbling. According to Chinese medical theory, this is a reaction to the smooth flow of meridians.
Through exercises such as hugging, twisting, bending, and twisting, the arteries are squeezed and relaxed appropriately, which can accelerate the blood flow, increase the supply of oxygen, promote the metabolism of the lymphatic system, and enhance personal resistance.

Benefit 3: Improve flexibility, muscle strength and muscle endurance

Tai Chi is mostly done by walking in circles and arcs at a slow speed, with bent legs and half squatting exercises, plus alternating changes in the center of gravity, and the movements are mostly hugging, twisting, and twisting, so that the muscle strength and muscle endurance of each muscle can be improved; combined with multi-directional and large-scale activities such as the following posture and kicking, the flexibility of each joint can be improved.

Benefit 4: Improve cardiopulmonary function

When practicing Tai Chi, you need to keep your breathing natural and solid. Through deep, long, fine, slow and even abdominal breathing methods, you can increase the gas capacity of the chest cavity and the number of times you inhale and exhale carbon, ensuring that the gas can be fully exchanged, and relatively increasing the oxygen intake of various organs. Because practicing Tai Chi requires a certain amount of time (for example, it takes about 20 minutes to practice 24-style Tai Chi four times in a row), such aerobic activities can train and improve cardiopulmonary function.

Benefit 5: Treat chronic digestive tract diseases

Because the joints, muscles and bones will pull, twist, squeeze and relax each other during Tai Chi practice, the internal organs will have a self-massage effect due to abdominal breathing (solid abdomen and chest); plus the increase in the up and down range of the diaphragm, it has a positive stimulating effect on the peristalsis of the intestines; and when practicing Tai Chi, the tongue against the palate and the lips and teeth lightly closed can increase the secretion of saliva and improve the digestive function.
In short, after scientific research from both China and the West, it has been confirmed that long-term practice of Tai Chi can have a certain medical and health care effect on various chronic diseases such as neurasthenia, hypertension, heart disease, indigestion, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, etc. This is an undeniable fact!

  1. Mental Benefits

Benefit 1: Relieve stress

When practicing Tai Chi, you need to calm your mind and focus on your intention, and relax your body. In addition, Tai Chi itself requires both hardness and softness, and coordinated breathing. The amount of oxygen received by various organs is relatively increased. Therefore, after practicing Tai Chi, people feel light, stress is eliminated, and emotions are stable and calm; and because the blood and qi circulate smoothly after practicing Tai Chi, the spirit is also refreshed, and work efficiency is naturally improved. This is undoubtedly a positive help for people who are efficient in everything, have a tense daily life, and are under heavy mental pressure.

Benefit 2: Understand and experience the harmonious and coordinated yin and yang philosophy

Tai Chi advocates the harmonious coordination of body and mind, not forcing oneself to do things that are difficult, and the combination of inside and outside, the distinction between the real and the fake, and the combination of hardness and softness. As the saying goes, “Stillness touches movement, and stillness remains”. This philosophy of understanding the unity of opposites and correctness of yin and yang is the basis of the creative spirit and philosophy of Tai Chi.

Benefit 3: Understand the moral concept of not bullying the weak and not deliberately offending others

The Tai Chi theory says that “self-sacrifice follows others”, which demonstrates the unique martial arts spirit of Tai Chi “I will not offend others if others do not offend me”. Tai Chi advocates using force to fight force, using small force to defeat big force, and all counterattacks are purely in line with the opponent’s momentum, using clever movements and smaller force to add to it, so that the offender loses his accuracy and defeats. Therefore, the true power of Tai Chi is only exerted when someone deliberately invades, and its ultimate goal is only to establish itself in an invincible position, and there is no intention to harm the other party!

Benefit 4: Understand the way of self-cultivation and conduct

Practicing Tai Chi requires “centrality, peace and comfort, calm mind and relaxed body”. This eight-character mantra is exactly the best motto for us to conduct ourselves in the world. By practicing Tai Chi, you can understand the disadvantages of being unrighteous: working hard all day but not getting what you want. As long as you are upright, don’t go astray, and don’t lean to one side, you can feel comfortable; as long as you learn to calm your mind and put aside the burden of life pressure, you can experience the feeling of relaxation!