| YES! Chi Kung can be regarded as one of the | | | | (S) and (P) control each other. |
| precautionary therapies because Chi Kung trains: | | | | Intent breathing parasympathetic nerves those |
| 1. Nerve system | | | | functions we can't control in our daily life to go at |
| 2. Secretion system | | | | the good direction. |
| 3. Micro-circulation system | | | | From what I mentioned above (that is from |
| 4. Self-healing system | | | | science), we can see that the only thing we can |
| Most people are too lazy to do something about | | | | control directly by our intent is breathing, |
| their lives because they don't have the knowledge | | | | breathing is something like a bridge connected to |
| to sense the danger or probably paying too much | | | | both sides, one side we can control directly, the |
| attention to money and power when they were | | | | other side we can't control directly. So, in Chi |
| young. "I am O.K., Why I take the trouble to do | | | | Kung practice, we use our "intent" together with |
| those things?" What they don't know is if they | | | | breathing to make the parasympathetic nerve |
| don't do those things, they might not be O.K. | | | | system exited and press down the sympathetic |
| There are two kinds of nerves inside our bodies, | | | | nerve system so that the blood pressure |
| they are: | | | | decreases, the heart beat slows down, the |
| 1. Zoological nerves- those which control the | | | | secretion increases, the saliva increases, the |
| muscles, you can do what you want. | | | | peristalsis increases which are all good to our |
| 2. Vegetative nerves- those which control some | | | | health to balance going at just the opposite |
| automatic physiological functions, e.g. heart beat, | | | | direction due to the mental pressure coming from |
| body temperature...etc, which we can't control | | | | the office, the family, the money, the bills --- etc. |
| usually. Every body understands the first kind, in | | | | That is Chi Kung. In the common sports they |
| the gym we work with the first kind. What about | | | | train only the muscles, they can not train this. In |
| the second kind? Is there any exercise we can | | | | the classic Tai Chi system which is a martial art |
| work with the second kind? Yes, Chi Kung is the | | | | system, practitioners were trained both ways, |
| one! | | | | physical and mental, that is why Tai Chi was |
| Most people believe that they can do nothing with | | | | regarded as an internal martial art system. The |
| the second kind, but they are wrong, first try to | | | | classic Tai Chi people can fight very skillfully and |
| understand that the second kind can be divided | | | | live long.When your body is in Chi Kung situation, |
| into two subgroups: i.e. | | | | your brain wave will be in the frequency of which |
| Vegetative nerves- | | | | is from 8 to 13 vibrations per second. How to do |
| (S) Sympathetic nervous system | | | | it? Start from "Lesson One". |
| (P) Parasympathetic nervous system | | | | |