What was this lady doing…She tapped and sort of hit each shoulder, then with both hands she began tapping at different segments of her body, starting from her chest, then going down to her stomach segment, then up again, etc. What is this? Is this tai chi? What are the BENEFITS? Why is it being done while walking, because I had also seen a man doing it a few years back.
It looked very intriguing, hope your answers can clarify things for me. Thanks.
It is a way to wake up the Chi in different parts of the body.
Tapping and slapping can wake up the stuck areas of energy in the body.
The benefits are really just more fluid energy though your body.
This can translate into relieving muscle pain and stiffness.
http://www.taichifinder.co.uk/
http://www.ezytaichi.com/Chen%20style%20tai%20chi.html
Martial artist.
Report Spam/Abuse
it could be ancient chinese secret! but honestly the asian and alot of western civilization are not big on medicine we use here in america….it could of been simply to relieve a cramp or she could have OCD
http://www.taichifinder.co.uk/
http://www.ezytaichi.com/Chen%20style%20tai%20chi.html
Martial artist.
Report Spam/Abuse
Sounds like a modification of Tia Chi. I saw a lot of this when I was working in China.http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Philosophy/Taichi/what.html
http://www.taichifinder.co.uk/
http://www.ezytaichi.com/Chen%20style%20tai%20chi.html
Martial artist.
Report Spam/Abuse
It’s not tai chi, which you’ve probably witnessed. In tai chi, which looks like a slow form of floating dance, the hands never touch the body, although they do collect and release energy.
This lady was tapping acupressure points along meridians. Meridians are energy lines running from the head, in some cases, down through the body to the fingers and toes. In traditional Chinese medicine, these lines affect all the major body organs such as the heart, the lungs, the liver, the kidneys, the gall bladder and something known as the triple burner.
Meridians were mapped almost 2,000 years ago. Along each meridian there are numerous pressure points, where the energy can best be accessed and the particular organ can best be gently stimulated. This can be done with acupuncture needles, with acupressure, where the therapist uses his or her hands and thumbs, or simply by tapping onself, as your lady was doing.
Shiatsu is a Japanese variant of traditional acupressure treatment, but it recognizes the same Chinese meridians and their pressure points.
There are nearly 150 main pressure points, and several thousand minor ones. A good acupressure therapist has studied a lot of anatomy!
Western medicine has never recognized the existence of the energy meridians, and it’s true that pathology will find no evidence of them. Yet everyone alive has, at some point in time, practised auto-healing through touch. You know when we have a small accident or very minor injury, say something bangs our arm or we bend a finger the wrong way accidentally, we instinctively assuage the pain by immediately putting our own hand on the bobo? This is a transmission of “good” energy into the injured tissue.
http://www.taichifinder.co.uk/
http://www.ezytaichi.com/Chen%20style%20tai%20chi.html
Martial artist.
Report Spam/Abuse