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The balance is of fundamental importance in various diseases affecting them, such as those related to the brain because they increase the risk of a fall, studies in China has been determined that the balance can be improved by the practice of Chinese martial art of Tai Chi .

Health professionals have studied and used the Tai Chi as a way to improve balance and minimize falls among elderly patients and in healthy patients with excellent results.

A study of 136 people in Hong Kong suffering from diseases related to the balance as Alzheimer’s, stroke, MS, etc, were included in groups practicing Tai Chi, with a contrast group who exercise walks, breathing exercises, and mental.

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Chi Gong is a psychophysical exercise system, which covers a broad spectrum of areas for action, as there are religious schools, martial and medical, but in this case we will refer to the ability Chi Gong healing that corresponds to the medical school.

Represents a complete health system for the Chinese, which combines physical training with the prevention and therapy from the viewpoint Chinese medicine, with all the richness of Eastern philosophy.

“Gong” means work, self-discipline, achievement, or domain, which seeks the cultivation and deliberate control of a higher form of vital energy called “Chi”, representing whether an ancient philosophical system of harmonious integration the human body with the universe.

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According to Chinese medicine, the human body is part of the natural world and shares the characteristics of nature. The five main meridians share the nature and energy of the five elements. The liver meridian and sharing the same nature as wood and wind. The heart meridian is related to fire and heat. The spleen meridian goes with the land and humidity. The lung Meridian shares the same energy as the metal and the drought and the kidney meridian is related to water and cold.

The cycles of Shen and Ko explain the relationship between the elements. Shen described the cycle of generative relationship between the five elements: fire burns wood, the fire feeds earth, earth produces metal, metal can be melted and the water allows the growth of wood. The emotions of these elements have the same generative (Shen) and the same relations. The liver can generate joy (fire). Joy (heart) leads to the self-confidence (the earth). Self-confidence leads to empowerment (metal), which induces the motivation (water) and motivation can once again give the feeling of accomplishment.
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How will influence the practice of Tai Chi to prevent and improve these disorders? If practiced correctly, Tai Chi Harmony works and fluency in the various aspects of the person attending to both the physical, vital and mental.

Its effects will especially in the wonderful vessels are the meridians that serve as reservoirs of Qi and regulate the other 12 main meridians (which vitalize the body according to the five elements) picking up the excess energy they may have and sending energy when Idle. Read the rest of this entry »

Traditional Chinese Medicine is based on the concept of Qi. The Qi is the energy that gives life to everything that exists.

We get the Qi:

1 – The energy that our parents gave us to conceive, “Heaven above”
2 – Qi Sun and Earth that we take through breathing, water and food, “Later Heaven”
3 – In addition we can absorb directly through certain energy centers.

In humans, circulating through the acupuncture meridians to influence the blood circulation (responsible for nourishing every cell) and the nervous system (responsible for directing the operation of each part of the body, the consciousness of every cell).
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a movement that combines breathing and meditation exercises taken from ancient martial arts in China. Tai Chi is essentially harness the power of Ying (which comes from the earth) and Yang (which comes from the sky) is coupled through physical exercises to form a movement formation that provides balance and harmony. To start the Tai Chi exercises, can be prefixed with the movement meditation to quiet the mind, then do a light warm-up with the movement for blood circulation. Focus your full concentration to the abdominal area just below the navel, which is the center of gravity. After that, do formation movements according to Tai Chi teacher. Perform each movement with deep breathing. If you are diligent in doing Tai Chi exercises, you can feel the following benefits:

Increase flexibility and strength
Breathing becomes more powerful. We breathe, we often only use the top of the chest and out in a way like panting, just to get oxygen to survive. That means that during this our bodies often lack of oxygen. As a result the function body’s organs do not work optimally.
Enhance immune function and spirit. Tai Chi movements calm effect that can reduce stress. This situation makes the body a chance to replace cells damaged body to speed up the recovery process of the body and disease problems.
Increasing the ability to concentrate.
Sex arousing. Flexibility and concentration which is part of Tai Chi makes perfect body relaxation experience. These conditions enable the alias endomorfin your sex hormones while increasing the sensitivity of nerve endings strung throughout your body.

Low Impact

Tai Chi gymnastics is a sport that kind of low impact with no negative side effects at all, focusing on the smooth circulation of body fluids, regular exercise is recommended for very experienced health care

A team of researchers found that the practice of the Chinese exercise for the mind and the body reduced pain and improved function and mental health of people with knee osteoarthritis.

Some of these benefits were maintained for one year after the start of the study, ie, months after people had suspended the exercises.

“The Tai Chi group had developed a general feeling of well-being, suggesting that there would be synergy between the physical and mental components of this discipline,” he wrote in Arthritis & Rheumatism Chenchen Wang’s team, School of Medicine, Tufts University in Boston.

“The results are promising because there are few long-term effective treatment for osteoarthritis of the knee,” he added.

Osteoarthritis of the knee is painful, debilitating and increasingly common as the population ages. While strength exercises are recommended for these patients, “have limited effect on pain and physical function, and no change in the psychological effects,” the team said.

Tai Chi was shown to improve strength and balance, relieve pain and reduce depression and anxiety in people with chronic diseases, but evidence on the benefits in patients with knee osteoarthritis is not conclusive.

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