The water that never flows suspends, and the hinges of a journeyed door,
they never oxidize. This must to the movement. The same principle is applied
to the essence and the energy. If the body does not move, the essence does not flow.
When the essence does not flow, the energy stagnates.

Confucius

The Chi Kung is an old Chinese system of self-development thought specifically like means that allow all the individuals to assume total personal responsibility for the protection of its health, to stimulate its vitality and to prolong the life, at the same time as it cultivates brings back to consciousness spiritual and the capacity of mental vision. The Chi Kung is based on the fundamental principles of the classic Taoist philosophy, and is simple and practitioner simultaneously.
Practice who learn to dominate it the fundamental forces of the cosmos (the Sky), to balance them with the elementary energies of the nature (the Earth) and to harmonize them with the essence, the energy and the spirit (that is to say the “Three Treasures”) of the human life (the Humanity).
The Chi Kung thus allows the individual to amplify its personal power with the infinite to be able of the Universe.
The majority of the forms of Chi Kung implies diverse degrees of smooth movements or calm of the body, a balance with a breathing rhythmically regulated, everything harmonized with a calm mind, slowed down and centered well. The slow and smooth movements of the body prevent the rigidity and the stagnation that lead to the degeneration and the death.
As King says to Lao Tse in the classic verse of the Tao You: “In truth, rigid and hard being is the way of the death, and to be smooth and flexible is the way of the life.”

Therapeutic aspects of the Tai Chi
Through the years, the practice and the experience try that the Tai Chi is a very effective system to prevent the diseases, conserving and invigorating the health. In this aspect, the therapeutic contribution of the Tai Chi extremely important and is not frequently known. Developed in China, this therapeutic aspect was object search in the United States.
After many years this same interest in Europe and other countries began to pronounce itself. At the moment it insulin-employees have implemented in the Italian Hospital of Buenos Aires for the patients.
It is possible to be said that actually the Tai Chi acts a as therapeutic and can help numerous therapists to discover a greater understanding of the unit of the body and the spirit. The psychosomatic balance that progressively entails the practice of the Tai Chi particularly is adapted to the present conditions in which we lived and who characterize ourselves frequently by a anxious and abrupt inner and outer movement. The Tai Chi is not reduced “simply” to a technique, is really effective means with that they are possible to be remedied a great number of imbalances and to be secured a greater harmony with one same one and with our surroundings. To speak of the therapeutic aspect of the Tai Chi consists of not isolating this aspect of the deep and philosophical sense of the practice.

Benefits
The practice of the authentic Tai Chi allows the man to surpass the tensions, to avoid stress, to replace its energies and to improve its health in just a short time. It develops: serenity, relaxation, vitality, plasticity, concentration, balance and patience.

The preventive paper of the Tai Chi
The practice of the Tai Chi progressively develops to an inner balance between the body and the mind. The energies dispersed in the body bring about the diseases when they circulate in disorderly and chaotic form.
The Tai Chi helps to feel, to unify and to guide these energies. The Chinese traditional medicine attributes to the diseases to a imbalance between the Yin and the Yang. In order to remedy it is necessary to diminish the one that is in excess and to avoid the insufficiency of the other. The harmony of the practice appears here in its psychosomatic dimension.
Favoring this balance and this internal unification, the Tai Chi allows to transform the rotation of tension and depression that one is in the shaken life by which our existence passes. As it says H.D. Thoreau well. “The industrial civilization turns the man into instrument of its own instruments”.
To encounter again this source of unit that can contribute the Tai Chi is not a crease on the same practice, but on the contrary, it offers the possibility of feeling “alive” to act with stability and confidence. The practice allows to prevent the tensions and the imbalances that are born from the agitation of the daily life.
It comes up: stress, the anxiety, the physical and mental fatigue, respiratory, digestive and cardiovascular problems.