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Easy Chinese Exercises, A Rich Health Resource

You can be older, healthier and happier, yes, you certainly can.

Do you know what it feels like to be able to rely mostly on your knowledge of you own body’s resources to remedy your health conditions?
Or even prevent them…

After all, what’s the point of longing for longevity if one is in suffering? Not so much, I think!

Having and knowing about the resources one has at one’s fingertips is our real wealth, at some level.
Yes, I am talking about getting to know the principles of and being able to apply simple methods to exercise our body to get it running like a very finely-tuned sports car engine.

These principles can be learned easily and are very interesting as they are so simple and logical, I’d say very natural. Chinese Medicine offers us (and has offered the Chinese people for several thousand years), some simple health practices through easy exercise routines that apply these principles.

What are these principles?

I’ll just name a few:
The Alternation of Stillness and Movement

They follow each other and one enhances the other. Look for stillness in movement and movement in stillness. Now, this might seem very theoretical and strange, but simply put, one has to get balanced in one’s life and too much stillness makes our energy stagnate and illness ensues, while too much movement makes our energy scattered, depleted and illness also ensues.
One has to learn to alternate these for our own benefit. It is very good to move our body in a predetermined way (more about this below). It is good to sit still after an exercise to be able to feel the sensations, our well-being and integrate it in our consciousness so we can keep a record of what the exercise brought to us. The ‘predetermined’ way I mean is what the Chinese know so well how to do. Their exercises can in fact be called ‘forms’, as each movement has a particular purpose within the form, aiming at a predetermined result or goal.

The practice of Tai Chi is a good illustration – not the only one – of these principles. Each movement of the form (predetermined movements) – although they all affect the importance of each other – harmonises the energy circulation and enhance the health of a particular organ.

Gentle and Rhythmic versus Hasty, Violent Movements

Slow, regular and consciously performed movements promote our energy as we do them – even recycling our energy – and therefore we can go on…forever almost! Rapid and violent movements have to stop quickly as they exhaust our energy pretty quickly, leaving us having to recuperate – and perhaps even stagnate.

The Circularity of All Natural Movement
The natural movement of almost everything in the universe, eg the planets, tends to move in circles, following a circular pattern, such as the stars and the planets and so do the energies of the human body.

All the movements of Tai Chi forms are a series of circles that reflect this eternal, cosmic law.

Francoise Bonhoure is a qualified senior in Tai Chi, Qigong, Chair Exercises for Seniors, Dance Meditation, Massage etc.