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World Impact Possibilities

Seniors and Chi.
Seniors can find no better exercise in the world than Chi Exercise.  Chi Exercise may help build bone mass and connective tissue, with zero joint damage, according to some studies.  Other studies show that Chi Exercise is twice as good as any other balance exercise in the world.  Since complications from falling injuries are the sixth largest cause of death among seniors, this is a very big deal.  For seniors with chronic conditions, there are many maladies that Chi Exercise can help treat. 

Women and Chi:
There are many reasons why Chi Exercise is the ultimate exercise for women.  Its ability to cultivate both elegance and power are two of these.  In today?s working environment where women are competing in the workforce with men and trying to break through the glass ceiling, Chi Exercise?s ability to cultivate an inner sense of confident power can be very helpful.  However, there are many biological reasons Chi Exercise can be helpful to women as well.

Men and Chi:

Just as Chi Exercise can help women to develop their powerful dynamic side, Chi Exercise helps men develop their passive or receptive side as well, thereby helping men to become better homemakers and parents.  Chi Exercise helps us let go of old self-concepts and prejudices, just as it teaches us to let go of tensions and fears.  As our physical bodies relax and become more fluid, we become more flexible mentally and emotionally as well.  However, Chi Exercise can help you be that big strapping stud of an athlete as well.  In fact, maybe it can help you keep up with the women who are today advancing in every sport.

Children and Chi:
Each day our children in many ways are learning new ways to do everything, both at home and at school.  Kids today are under tremendous stress because the world is changing very fast, and they will see changes we never dreamed of in our lives.  Therefore, the best tool they can be given to launch out upon the world with confidence and health is Chi Exercise.

Kids are the embodiment of change, and change can be very stressful.  Their minds and bodies grow at phenomenal rates, so they are constantly having to work with new and different bodies, making coordination and balance a big issue.  Chi Exercise, with its emphasis on balance, is well suited to address all of these challenges.  Chi Exercise works to integrate the mind and body, skeletal and muscular systems, and left brain and right brain.  In physical terms, this centering is built around an awareness of moving with good posture and from a low center of gravity.  Gifted athletes are people who are naturals at this kind of self-awareness and movement.  Since most of our kids are not naturals, Chi Exercise can be a most effective way to help your child prepare for athletics and to simply be comfortable in their rapidly changing bodies.

Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
is a growing problem not only with children, but adults as well.  Chi Exercise may be a wonderful adjunct therapy for treating ADD because it augments many of the mood management techniques recommended for ADD suffers.  Drs. Edward M Hallowell, M.D., and John J. Ratey, M.D., experts on the management of ADD wrote, ?Exercise is positively one of the best treatments for ADD.  It helps work off excess energy and aggression in a positive way, it allows for noise-reduction within the mind, it stimulates the hormonal and neurochemical system in a most therapeutic way, and it soothes and calms the body.

Addiction and Chi:
What is it that the addict craves?  Ultimately, it is life energy.  When a smoker gets a cigarette or an addict gets their fix, the first thing they do is sit back, enjoy the moment, and relax into the pleasure of their cigarette of fix.  This moment of relaxed focused awareness opens their mind and body to an increased flow of Qi or energy.  This is why a raging drunk can have so much energy, even when filled with alcohol.  The problem is the cigarettes or drugs are destroying your body to open up to Qi and when the drug wears off, the body clamps down, squeezing off the flow even more.  So, learning to open to Qi in a healthy, expansive way is one means for healing an addiction.

Many people using Chi Exercise to rehabilitate from drug abuse problems like the fact that Chi Exercise gives them something to replace the old habits with.  Rather than just denying themselves the high they loved, they are growing toward a new life as Chi Exercise helps them improve each and every day.

Chi Exercise?s promotion of letting go of the past and relaxing into change can be helpful to adults in today?s job market.  If you look at many long-term Chi Exercise practitioners, Chinese or Western, you will find very vibrant people, often at the pinnacles of their professions.  Chi Exercise practitioners do not fear and run from change, but find it essential to a full life.

Law Enforcement and Chi:
Chi Exercise is now being taught in prison, as well as in court-sponsored rehabilitation programs.  Chi Exercise?s ability to build self-esteem, heal childhood trauma, and manage potentially violent stress makes it an incredible coping tool for anyone trying to change.

Law enforcement officers work in constant danger ad often see only the worst sides of people.  This can be very stressful.  Historically, stress-related maladies like alcoholism, drug abuse, coronary heart disease, diabetes, and suicide have been problems within law enforcement.  Chi Exercise may be an effective multipurpose way to help law enforcement officers deal with job-related stress.

Sports and Chi:
Chi Exercise is the ultimate sports training tool because its goal is to cultivate balance, calm and power, the basis for excelling in any physical activity.  Chi Exercise can enhance any athletic performance.  Chi Exercise?s cultivation of awareness of the center of gravity can be especially helpful for surfing, skateboarding, snow boarding and skiing.  Many golfers discover that they can drive the ball much farther after practicing Chi Exercise for only a few months.  Chi Exercise?s relaxed motion allows the limbs to be swung with no muscle resistance.  This in turn allows the entire force of the body?s center of gravity to be projected outward through the hands and club into the ball. 

The same force used in golf is brought to bear in tennis and racquetball.  If you play tennis or racquetball, you will also find an increased sense of control.  Sometimes tennis players will describe a sense of slowing down, as if Chi Exercise practice made the game seem a bit slower than before.  Tennis players will also often discover less pressure in the knees after practicing Chi Exercise. Consciously moving from the center can bring less pressure to bear on the knees when coming to an abrupt halt because when the head of upper body leads the movements, the knees must work harder to stop your momentum.  Chi Exercise can also give you an off day exercise that is soothing to the joints, but still keeps the mind and body working together at a find edge.

In baseball, Chi Exercise?s ability to improve balance is excellent for infielders, who must move on a dime and reach outward to make plays.  However, pitchers are probably the greatest beneficiaries of Chi Exercise training.  Just before going into a pitch, pitchers must for a moment hold their balance on one leg.  This moment of balance is the most crucial point in a pitcher?s windup and can determine both force and accuracy.  Therefore, the amazing balance improvement Chi Exercise provides can be the most powerful weapon in a pitcher?s arsenal.

In the 1970s, the world was surprised to see a 19-year-old Canadian win the World Karate Championship.  His secret was Chi Exercise. The centering, balance, looseness, and focus Chi Exercise promotes will greatly enhance the power and speed of any boxer or martial artist. More than any other exercise, Chi Exercise promotes increased reaction speed because it is therapy for not just external muscular performance, but for the mental and neural processes as well.

Me, The World and Chi:"
The Taoist philosophers took a holistic approach to the world, meaning that they saw each little thing as kind of a model for bigger structures.  For example, each cell in our body makes up the whole body, as individuals we make up our family; our family makes the neighborhood, which make the city, state and society.  Therefore, the most powerful contribution we can make the world is to be the healthiest we can be, physically, mentally and emotionally.  If our health heals the world around us, then a healthier world around us also heals us.