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    The Benefits of Legendary Arts
    For Everyday Life through to Elite Performance

    by Fully Alive

    Zen meditation, Chi Kung (Qigong), Tai Chi Chuan and Kung Fu – all names that can conjure up legends and mystery. But are these practices relevant in today’s world?

    Actually, there have been huge developments in neuroscience, epigenetics, neuroplasticity and the understanding of how the mind directly affects physical health over the last few years. This information shows clearly and directly how these old practices did and can still play a role in good physical and mental health. So, what is their story?

    The story of Shaolin Cosmos Chi Kung and Kung Fu, in fact of all of these energy practices including Tai Chi Chuan, began around 1500 years ago. It is also the beginning of the story of Zen. An Indian Prince called Bodhidharma travelled from India to teach Buddhism in China. He found the monks were not healthy or “vital” enough to get the benefits on offer from their meditation and Kung Fu training.

    What Bodhidharma did next changed the course of history and, as a result, many of our lives today. Rather than teach the monks the various yoga and martial arts exercises that he had learned, he developed a completely new set of exercises and approach - Chi Kung - or “skills in using energy”.

    This practice resulted in improved health, vitality and mental clarity i.e. the monks didn’t get sick, they had lots of energy and their heads were not cluttered with unhelpful thinking. The simple, time-efficient approach transformed the monks physically, energetically and mentally, giving them the platform for their work, Kung Fu and meditation. Over time, thanks to the success of these exercises, the Shaolin Temple became one of the most powerful spiritual centres in the history of the world.

    From the beginning these sometimes mysterious arts had to deliver practical benefits – reduce pain, clear illnesses, improve health, give people more energy and help them to have a less busy mind. And they have been doing that for people for over 1500 years, when done correctly.

    These benefits seem like they would be useful for anyone. For more serious athletes or meditation practitioners the ideas of “marginal gains” and the avoidance of “junk miles/time” are now well discussed and understood ideas. Good health means less time having to lay off training. More energy means the new types of HIT [High Intensity Training] approach can be embraced more easily. The skills of relaxing mean HIT can be undertaken safely. And an uncluttered and relaxed mind and body mean more focus and that all systems operate more efficiently. The Chi Kung approach developed and passed down by Bodhidharma achieves these things in an efficient and effective 15 minute daily practice. And these skills and benefits build with sustained practice.

    Grandmaster Wong Kiew Kit is an example of someone who teaches the original arts in a practical way, which he has been doing for the last 50 years. He understood that for most people, doing an hour’s daily meditation or exercise, isn’t practical, and often not helpful. From the skills and techniques passed down from his Shaolin teachers he has distilled these legendary arts into a practical, everyday form – which means people can still get the benefits Bodhidharma envisaged 1500 years ago

    For more information on training these arts in the UK you can visit [this website] [or here]
    Last edited by barrys; 19 January 2017, 12:43 PM.
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