Dolphin Instant Tai Chi

De: George Ho, Rebecca Ho, Jennifer Ho

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

The principles of Tai Chi as well as those of all forms of Dong gong, like Chan禪 walking and Jing gong, like meditation, can be applied to many activities to enhance the integrative body-mind training. In Chan禪 meditation the main principles of Tai Chi have been infused into the four dignified modes of daily activities i.e. during walking, standing, sitting and when resting in a lying down posture. This booklet has added swimming as one more dignified mode of activities to improve on the effectiveness of the Dong gong. The idea that swimming is as good as Tai Chi actually first appeared in the 1940 book “Cheng-tzu's Thirteen Treatises on T'ai Chi Ch'uan ", the 5th Treatise claims, “打太極拳猶如陸地游泳 Practicing Tai Chi is like swimming on land." For further detail please watch my YouTube video, which could be searched with the title “Dolphin Instant Tai Chi" is THE EASIEST TAI CHI TO LEARN, Swimming is like doing tai chi on land ”(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnvpAFp0Vnk)The unique feature of Tai Chi, the Pang弸 form of power, which is concretely represented in my design of this new form of exercise DITC, by the water buoyancy, in which the therapeutic effect of exercises is enhanced by triggering the various innate body reflexes, like the head neck reflex and the swimming reflex. The therapeutic effect of reflexes has been empirically proven in an experiment using rats that were made to suffer an ischemic stroke. The initial practice among students of Dolphin Instance Tai Chi has reported encouraging results. The therapeutic effectiveness of DITC is objectively monitored and measured by the benign changes in blood pressure and fitness improvement. The occipital weightless (Ding Tou Xuan頂頭懸) feeling claimed by many Tai Chi masters has a partial scientific foundation. In my book, Med Rehab Tai Chi (Ho 2010), I have collected extensive research evidence showing the scientifically based theories that prove the therapeutic effects of Tai Chi, Chan禪 meditation and yoga. However, these practices are originally designed not for health enhancement. Tai Chi is a form of martial arts and the founders of the various forms of Tai Chi were famous for their ability to hurt people, not for their health and longevity benefits. Zen and yoga are religious rituals and the purpose of their religions is not health, too. Longevity and wisdom are just the side effects of their enlightenment. In Med Rehab Tai Chi (Ho 9) I have indicated, “Prolonged practice of using the reflex to move the body like a snake will have some health enhancement effects on the body. When the Dantian of the lower abdomen is activated and strengthened intensely enough the practitioner will feel that the body is straight and elastic with the sacrum connected to the neck and as a result, the head will feel as light as if it was floating in the air.” This empirical finding of occipital weightless feeling by Tai chi masters several hundred years ago was scientifically proven in the occipital portion by a German, Rudorf Magnus in 1926. He has proven that the head position imposes a muscular tone on the rest of the body in posture and movements. This involuntary reflex is now named after him as the Magnus & De Kleijn reflexes, or as the head-neck reflex. He obtained a Nobel Prize for this finding (Magnus 33). The practice of Tai Chi intensifies this reflex as the equivalence of the whisker triggering reflex used in the UCI 2010 study of treating induced stroke in rats. The practice of using the Dantian to govern the body movements in Tai Chi has strengthened this reflex so intensely that accomplished Tai Chi practitioners have the heads so balanced that they do not feel the weight of their heads at all. One clinically observed good side effect of Dolphin Tai Chi is its effectiveness to promote a good night's sleep, especially among patients with mental depression. When it is combined with Treadmill Ram Tai Chi in walking the effect is even better.