Tai Ji forms include three key components: movement, meditation, and deep breathing. These three components emphases on the three regulations of body focus, mental focus, and breathe focus. When the gentle, flowing movements are accompanied by deep breathing, it promotes serenity. The combination of self-awareness with self-correction of the body posture and movement, the flow of breath, and stilling of the mind could comprise a state which activates the natural self-regulatory or self-healing capacity, stimulating the balanced release of endogenous neurohormones and a wide array of natural health recovery mechanisms.
It is important to have the right postures and to transit from one posture to another with the right techniques when learning the Tai Ji form. Right postures will allow the most efficient use of energy in self-defense and improve the circulation of internal energy. To transit from one posture to another correctly improve the balance and the alignment of your body.
If you just start to learn the Tai Ji form, it is wise to spend a little more time to have the postures right. Remember to pay attention to the alignment of your body and the center of your weight. Especially pay attention to how the center of your weight shifting when you move from one posture to another. Tai Ji’s form was not only designed based on dynamic physic theory and traditional Chinese mediation principles. You can most out of it when you do it right.
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