TOI, Patna 8/8/2008
Relaxed & Competitive With T’ai Chi
Sensei Sandeep Desali
The words ‘maintain’, ‘enhance’ and ‘heal’ have been the cornerstone of traditional Chinese medicine for achieving health and longevity. Good health can make all the difference between feeling truly alive and spontaneous, and just pulling along. The earlier you take care of your body and mind, the longer they will serve you with little or no trouble.
The second stage of traditional Chinese medicine is aimed at enhancing all your faculties and maintaining all your faculties and maintaining them at their peak, so you can make the maximum use of your talent and lead a full, successful life. To this end, the use of T’ai Chi, Chi Gung, nutrition, and self-massage, as well as herbs and acupuncture is emphasised.
The third stage is healing. If you have nurtured the two previous stages, healing may not be required. However, if you want to use your full potential on all fronts – you will have to go beyond the first two stages and heal yourself from specific health problems.
One of the key principles of T’ai Chi to make the whole body, chi, and mind move like one unified mass, with no parts moving in isolation. This is absolutely crucial for high performance sports and dance.
Emphasis on precise body alignments prevents the flow of chi from being blocked or dissipated. T’ai Chi endows athletes with more perseverance and focus. Proficiency in any martial art demands hard work, discipline and application. Even practicing a short form of Tai Chi can infuse regular rhythms in an athlete’s body and mind, which supplements other rhythms needed in order to develop and maintain athletic skills both during and between competition seasons.
In addition to preventing joint, muscle and spinal injuries, T’ai Chi hastens the normal healing time and extends an athlete’s peak performance years. T’ai Chi’s gentle motions greatly enhance the flow of blood to injured areas and help rejuvenate damaged soft tissues.
By stimulating the central nervous system and increasing your reservoir of chi, T’ai Chi promotes speed, reflexes, power and endurance. T’ai Chi improves hand-eye coordination. Practising T’ai Chi also promotes the feeling of "time slowing down or seeming to stop", which can be instrumental in bringing out better athletic performance. It improves peripheral vision, enabling athletes to become more acutely aware of their surroundings.
T’ai Chi provides ease, adroitness, and springiness to the legs. By rooting energy to the ground and increasing the awareness of the lower body, T’ai Chi gives heavy weightlifters tremendous stability, balance and maneuverability. T’ai Chi reduces internal resistance and hesitation, stumbling blocks which make it difficult for you to change tactics and strategies at will. With this comes the ability to remain relaxed yet alert under all circumstances and instantly release explosive power.
The writer has authored ‘The Small Book of T’ai Chi’. Contact: 26716630, 9887044284. E-mail: taichi-india@hotmail.com
The second stage of traditional Chinese medicine is aimed at enhancing all your faculties and maintaining all your faculties and maintaining them at their peak, so you can make the maximum use of your talent and lead a full, successful life. To this end, the use of T’ai Chi, Chi Gung, nutrition, and self-massage, as well as herbs and acupuncture is emphasised.
The third stage is healing. If you have nurtured the two previous stages, healing may not be required. However, if you want to use your full potential on all fronts – you will have to go beyond the first two stages and heal yourself from specific health problems.
One of the key principles of T’ai Chi to make the whole body, chi, and mind move like one unified mass, with no parts moving in isolation. This is absolutely crucial for high performance sports and dance.
Emphasis on precise body alignments prevents the flow of chi from being blocked or dissipated. T’ai Chi endows athletes with more perseverance and focus. Proficiency in any martial art demands hard work, discipline and application. Even practicing a short form of Tai Chi can infuse regular rhythms in an athlete’s body and mind, which supplements other rhythms needed in order to develop and maintain athletic skills both during and between competition seasons.
In addition to preventing joint, muscle and spinal injuries, T’ai Chi hastens the normal healing time and extends an athlete’s peak performance years. T’ai Chi’s gentle motions greatly enhance the flow of blood to injured areas and help rejuvenate damaged soft tissues.
By stimulating the central nervous system and increasing your reservoir of chi, T’ai Chi promotes speed, reflexes, power and endurance. T’ai Chi improves hand-eye coordination. Practising T’ai Chi also promotes the feeling of "time slowing down or seeming to stop", which can be instrumental in bringing out better athletic performance. It improves peripheral vision, enabling athletes to become more acutely aware of their surroundings.
T’ai Chi provides ease, adroitness, and springiness to the legs. By rooting energy to the ground and increasing the awareness of the lower body, T’ai Chi gives heavy weightlifters tremendous stability, balance and maneuverability. T’ai Chi reduces internal resistance and hesitation, stumbling blocks which make it difficult for you to change tactics and strategies at will. With this comes the ability to remain relaxed yet alert under all circumstances and instantly release explosive power.
The writer has authored ‘The Small Book of T’ai Chi’. Contact: 26716630, 9887044284. E-mail: taichi-india@hotmail.com
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