| I remember wandering around Flushing one | | | | themselves, knocking down opponents with one |
| morning, which is a predominantly Asian | | | | finger and other amazing feats. |
| neighborhood in the borough of Queens, New | | | | Since we all hold the energy of chi within us, it is |
| York, and seeing a group of people performing | | | | possible for anyone to learn how to harness it |
| something that looked like dance in slow motion. I | | | | with practice. My belief is that in order to |
| have seen the same type of ritual in Central Park, | | | | accomplish anything great in life it has to be |
| and even on my trips to Sweden, and Japan. I | | | | practiced over and over until it becomes like |
| later learned that this dance was called Tai Chi and | | | | second nature to us. It is at that time where we |
| is a very powerful technique of harnessing your | | | | can actually begin to understand it and do |
| Chi. | | | | something amazing with it. This technique can be |
| It would be wise for me to explain a bit more | | | | used to transform the lives of others as well as |
| about Tai Chi for those that are not very familiar | | | | your own, and is very powerful. Shaolin monks |
| with it yet. It is a way to connect with and | | | | found that by combining the postures with |
| control the supreme power that we all hold within | | | | meditation, anyone an connect with the |
| us. In the phrase Tai Chi,Tai translates to | | | | knowledge of nature and the divine power. |
| supreme ultimate, and Chi to energy (power). This | | | | The important thing to understand is that all |
| concept of invisible life force and energy is not | | | | energy is magnetic. When we pass away it was |
| new, and has different name all throughout the | | | | proven that a small amount of energy escapes |
| world. | | | | from our bodies and we do in fact lose a small |
| Many centuries ago, shaolin monks created a | | | | amount of weight upon that exit. Realize that you |
| series of movements deliberately to build and | | | | body has energy flowing through it and visualize |
| channel this energy. The postures themselves | | | | your center as a magnet. The magnet is drawing |
| were adapted from animal movements, and when | | | | energy to you, and with practice you will start to |
| performed in a slow dance, kept the practitioners | | | | summon more energy and eventually even |
| healthy and elevated their spiritual and mental | | | | control it. Remember this skill, as it should become |
| powers. There are numerous legends of the | | | | a part of your life, and you will be doing a lot |
| monks turning large stone columns into powder | | | | more with it. |
| with their bare hands, jumping up on trees, healing | | | | |