T’ai Chi Chih practice and Incarnational Spirituality

The T’ai Chi Chih discipline coincides with the Benedictine philosophy of a balanced life. It promotes the philosophy of walking in the middle without excesses. It helps us find our center where the connection with God is. It creates within us a deeper understanding of the meaning of “enough.”

There is also a great similarity between T’ai Chi Chih practice and Centering Prayer. Both take us to contemplation, to resting in God, to living in the Presence. The T’ai Chi Chih discipline, when taught along with Centering Prayer, can be described as Incarnational Spirituality, for we are using our bodies to experience our spiritual nature…or perhaps, we could state it this way… we are using our spiritual nature, or vital force, to generate the movement of our bodies.

The T’ai Chi Chih discipline is not a religion and is not directly associated with any religious tradition. It does however, enable the practitioner to get in touch with his or her spiritual nature, thereby affirming one’s religious belief system.

T’ai Chi Chih practice is a joyful way to integrate body, mind and spirit for personal wellness. With the increase in self-awareness which comes with regular practice, we find ourselves living our lives with more focused sense of purpose, greater creativity and a gentle yet powerful energy which radiates love from the very core of our being. This is the gift we each need to cultivate and present to the world.

There is a saying:

First cultivate yourself,
Second, harmonize your family, and
Third, be unified with your country,
And then, the universe will be at peace.

You drop a pebble in the pond, and the ripple goes out……………..