Master Ni & Tai Chi’s Ward Off Energy
Transmitted March 8, 2016
Maintaining the Body Sphere to generate Ward Off Energy
The Horse Stance to rebuild our collapsed Chi Bubble
Body Alignment to fight Gravity, our main Adversary
Residing in the Center to avoid External Distractions
Is Tai Chi a Yoga?
Yoga: any technique that leads to enlightenment
Teacher specializes in technique: Master specializes in enlightenment
Features that make Tai Chi an excellent Yoga
Is Yoga the Tao of Tai Chi?
Words block the Path. Let's do it.
Gazing vs. Focusing: Rods vs. Cones
Master Ni: Importance of Blending Inner & Outer Lights
Wide Soak vs. Tunnel Vision
Balance of Rods & Cones
Connective Tissue System vs. the Nervous System
Transmitted April 19, 2016
The Nervous System
Central Nervous System too slow for basic survival functions
Consciousness: Both Brain & Body – Verbal & Experiential
The Connective Tissue System: a Candidate for Body Consciousness
2 Cognitive Centers for Self-awareness: Body & Brain
Chi Flow & the Connective Tissue System
Musachi & the ‘Empty’ Mind
Reintegrating the Fragmented Body Structure
Links between Chi Flow & the Connective Tissue System
Master Ni & the 4 Alignments of Body & Mind
Tai Chi: Emptying the Body
Connective Tissue Benefits: Spontaneity, Vitality, Love & the Tao
#9 Water as Master Ni'�s Target
- The Necessity of Substituting Water for Fire
- 3 Reasons that Fire must be applied regularly
- Getting lost in the details of Fire
- The Importance of Practicing Water
- Master Ni�s techniques for transmitting Water
#8 Fire & Water
- Master Ni: �Fire & Water purify the 10,000 things.�
- Fire & Water as they pertain to Tai Chi
- The Nature of Fire & Water in China�s 5 Phase Theory
#7 Earth, one of the 5 phases, as it pertains to Tai Chi
- Maintaining sphericity to protect the body
- The Necessity of remaining within our Earthen Walls
- Rebuilding walls & Strengthening the foundation
- The weakest parts of our body wall
- Gravity, our primary opponent
#6: Master Ni on the Tao
- "Must leave home to be Taoist, but can practice Tao and have family."
- �Tao = prenatal spirit-vitality = the union of essential nature and eternal life.�
- �Tao is right in front of you."
- Tao, the Word: Definition & Ideogram
#5: Excerpts from Chinese Alchemy & the Monkey
- Master Ni: Internal chi is life force; external chi is money.
- Only the empty mind is light enough to cross the River
- To realize the Buddha-nature immanent in all beings
- Joining the Internal and External lights
#4: Excerpts from Tao of China
- Hand-eye-brain connection
- The Necessity of Storing and Saving Jing – the Raw, Wild Energy
- Fu Hsi introduces proto Tai Chi in prehistoric times
- Ni: �Author of Journey an avatar.�
#3: Excerpts from Tao of China
- Master Ni: "Always Guard the Center."
- Master Ni: the Biography of a Free Man
- Although not a Taoist, Master Ni is Chinese
#2: Therapeutic Nature of the Chinese Sword
Connective Tissue Email 4-19-16
Greetings,
I am delighted to share a recent article that I wrote called ‘Connective Tissue & the Nervous System: the Advantages of Body Consciousness’. It contains some interesting speculations regarding the potential benefits of deliberately shifting consciousness out of the Brain and into the Body.
It seems that the Brain's central nervous system is simply too slow to deliberately direct certain common activities, for instance the nearly instantaneous responses to a dynamic environment required of musicians, athletes, martial artists or even someone driving a car. Is it possible that we have some kind of Body Consciousness that enables us respond more quickly to environmental stimuli? If so, is there a biological system that can fulfill this role?
Recent discoveries indicate that our connective tissue system could provide this function. This bodily system permeates every cell in our body, in a much more comprehensive fashion than our central nervous system.
Further, it is an order of magnitude quicker in terms of transmitting both information and energy, than the sluggish central nervous system.
Is it possible that the Connective Tissue System supplies the biological network for Body Consciousness? For more details about this amazing biological system, read the article on our Connective Tissue System.
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