Understanding Chi And how to use it in your Kung Fu training

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Understanding ChiAnd how to use it in your Kung
Fu training
Jow Gar Kung Fu
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All my life I searched for Chi which means energy
or life force. Chi is an integral part of Kung
Fu. Taoist philosophies and Taoist Martial arts
are intertwined with Chi and its impossible to
practice one without the other. With the help of
Kung Fu practice you can learn to channel and
feel your Chi.   Chi is the life force or energy
present in all things The earth has it, you have
it, I have it...even Luke Skywalker had it.   Chi
is literally translated as "Breath or "Air", but
is alternatively used to describe the energy or
life force, the immaterial force that permeates
all living things.   Over 12 years ago I began on
a journey to discover if Chi really did exist. I
had been told about Chi, I had grown up hearing
stories about chi and energy. I mean... I
certainly had heard of acupuncture, yet I had
never tried it. I had martial art teachers who
would talk about Chi, yet could not teach me any
techniques on how to become aware of it or use
it. So naturally, as an analytical westerner, I
thought it was all a load of BS, make believe.
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If you have read any of my other writings you
would know, that I was given a book (thanks
Darren) of Master Mantak Chia. It was through
this book that I started systematically
practicing the techniques to awaken and grow my
own internal energy. The further I went down the
path the more I realised how wrong I was.   Of
course along the way I would question myself and
what I was feeling. I would even ask myself if I
was imagining what I was feeling, or purely
creating the sensations with the power of the
mind.   In the end the truth was undeniable. I
had too many physical manifestations and
occurrences, which were impossible to create with
the mind, for me to continue to question the
existence of Chi.
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Sometimes to find out if something is real, you
don't need to watch an experiment, or be told
about the science behind it, you need to be the
experiment.   Chi and Kung Fu are inseparable.
Jow Gar Kung Fu has its roots in the Shaolin
Temple where Chan Buddhism, Martial arts and Chi
Kung became a tool for the monks to attain
enlightenment. Just so the Taoist Martial arts
and Taoist philosophies on Chi are intertwined
and to practice one without the other is
impossible.   In Kung Fu, Chi Kung begins with
correct breath control and breathing techniques,
and ends with mastery of controlling and
combining physical technique, breath and energy
into one unified purpose.

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Training Kung Fu enlivens and invigorates the chi
whether you are aware of it or not. But, it is
only with conscious direction that the chi can be
put to work in improving your martial arts,
vitality and health.   Every Jow Gar hand form in
the Head Academy Kung Fu syllabus from 10,000
Character Fist onwards contains focused Chi Kung
work designed to improve a students awareness
of, and ability to channel, Chi.   While your
practice of Kung Fu can teach you to channel and
feel your chi, without knowledge of other
techniques you cannot learn to magnify or grow
your Chi past the levels you received at birth.
This Chi is called your Original Chi or Pre Natal
Chi, this is the life force or vitality you
received from your parents at conception.   There
is only a few ways to grow and expand the amount
of Chi within your body. All of the methods to
grow your Chi for increased health, vitality and
power in the Universal Healing Tao involve one
particular technique.
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• The First Supreme Inner Alchemy Formula The
  Microcosmic Orbit,
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• The Inner Feng Shui which connects Heaven, Man
  Earth
• ? tian Heaven, ? ren Human, ? di Earth
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• When a Kung Fu practitioner can grow and enhance
  their own Chi, and start to work on mastering and
  balancing it, then they can start to use it in
  the application and practice of their Kung Fu.
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• Power comes from Chi
• Grounding comes from Chi
• Softness and hardness come from Chi
• Expression comes from Chi
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• Without Chi, there is no Kung Fu.
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• I have travelled half way round the world to
  learn it, and spent 10 years practicing the
  Microcosmic Orbit. It is solely responsible for
  changing my life and forever changing the way I
  practice Kung Fu.

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Thank You
Head Academy Kung Fu