Realize the Strength of Seijaku

Reprinted with permission from The New Mexico T’ai Chi Chih News, September, 1999.

The energy that is flowing through your body is the reason why you are alive. If you like being alive, cultivating that energy is the greatest activity that can be performed and the greatest way to cultivate the energy is via T’ai Chi Chih performed in the Seijaku manner.

Why do we do T’ai Chi Chih? To circulate and balance the chi. The circulation of the chi increases the body’s energy level and the balancing of the Yin and Yang energies causes sickness, created from imbalances in the Yin and Yang energies, to fall away. The mind has an effect on the body. Just talk to someone who is in a stressful job and ask him or her about his or her blood pressure. The body has an effect on the mind and a body that is in balance, without sickness, causes a sense of well being or even joy in the mind. That is why we do T’ai Chi Chih.

Seijaku is advanced T’ai Chi Chih. Hard and soft principles are applied to the T’ai Chi Chih movements to create a tremendous chi flow. This chi flow is stronger than in T’ai Chi Chih. It has been said that if T’ai Chi Chih were a 75 watt bulb, Seijaku is a 1000 watt bulb. Seijaku is a powerful discipline.

Seijaku will help improve your T’ai Chi Chih. By applying hard and soft principles to the T’ai Chi Chih movements, you will dive deeply into each movement and learn what it is to move softly. You will also learn the JING and other meditations designed to move the chi through the body. There are also some helpful breathings to learn in Seijaku.

If you are serious about cultivating energy and you are serious about T’ai Chi Chih, then learning Seijaku is strongly suggested.