Tag: Tai Chi

Tai Chi Mysticism

Beginning: Standing with feet together breathing slowly and deeply contemplating the Tao.

Yin and Yang: Shift the weight to right leg, step to the side with left leg. Shift half the weight back to the left leg leaving fifty percent weight in each leg. Yin and Yang come into being.

Cosmos: Move through the form. The multitude is created. Flow through the Cosmos. 

End: Return to the Tao standing with feet together.

Chi Biology

Is Chi the expression of the nervous system or is the nervous system the manifestation of Chi?  There are mind body practices such as Tai Chi, Meditation, Visualization, Healing Touch, Prayer, Qigong and Yoga that have a positive impact on the nervous system and over all health and well being. The placebo effect may engage the same healing process through the nervous system.  

https://www.graduate.umaryland.edu/gsa/gazette/February-2016/How-the-human-body-uses-electricity/

Electricity is everywhere, even in the human body. Our cells are specialized to conduct electrical currents. Electricity is required for the nervous system to send signals throughout the body and to the brain, making it possible for us to move, think and feel.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/factfiles/nervecellsandnerves/nerve_cells_and_nerves.shtml

Your neurons carry messages in the form of electrical signals called nerve impulses. To create a nerve impulse, your neurons have to be excited. Stimuli such as light, sound or pressure all excite your neurons, but in most cases, chemicals released by other neurons will trigger a nerve impulse.

Nervous system – Nerve Cells and Nerves

Function: To transmit messages from one part of your body to another

Neurons: Messenger cells in your nervous system

Nerve impulses: Electrical signals carrying messages

Neurotransmitters: Chemicals released by one neuron to excite a neighboring one

Millions of messengers Your nervous system contains millions of nerve cells, called neurons. Neurons are highly specialised to transmit messages from one part of your body to another.

https://qbi.uq.edu.au/brain/brain-anatomy/types-neurons

Motor neurons of the spinal cord are part of the central nervous system (CNS) and connect to muscles, glands and organs throughout the body. These neurons transmit impulses from the spinal cord to skeletal and smooth muscles (such as those in your stomach), and so directly control all of our muscle movements.

https://www.webmd.com/brain/what-is-nervous-system#1

Everything your body does is connected in some way to your nervous system. It tells your heart to beat. It tells your lungs to breathe. It controls the way you move, the words you say, and how you think and learn. It also controls your senses and memories.