What is Chi
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What is Chi you ask...It's Energy and Vibration
Energy encompasses both positive and negative forces, with electromagnetic currents flowing through every living being and constantly seeking balance.
It's You
By understanding how Chi energy flows through your body, mind, and spirit, you gain the key to cultivating the vitality and well-being we all seek.
After 2,500 years of evolution, TCM has become a very rich and sophisticated system of rational medicine with a great diversity of theories and applications. But, in its essence, it seeks to understand and facilitate harmony in human life.
It is based on a very simple principle: any system that is in harmony tends towards health, well-being, and sustainability. A system that is in disharmony tends towards illness, DISease, suffering, and collapse.
What is a system in TCM?
A system is comprised of everything that creates and sustains it. Everything is interconnected and interdependent. If all of the parts of a system are in harmony with one another, then the whole system is in harmony. Disturb one thing and you create a disturbance that ripples through the whole system.
This principle applies to any and all systems. For example, it applies as equally to a human being as it does to a family, community, or the environment. So we must take care to consider our actions and to take things as a whole.
What are the fundamental concepts?
Two concepts that are unique and fundamental to Chinese medicine are Chi (usually translated as "vital energy") and yin and yang (the harmony of all the opposite elements and forces that make up existence). These two concepts form what we might call the "roots" of Chinese medicine.
Springing from these roots are the basic principles and theories about the dynamics of Chi and yin and yang, which form the "stems" of Chinese medicine.
And resting on these principles is the all of TCM theory and application, such as the causes of patterns of disharmony, which form the "branches."
What is Chi
TCM starts with the concept of Chi (pronounced "chee").
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Chi (Qi) is energy in the very broadest sense possible.
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Chi is universal.
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Chi embraces all manifestations of energy, from the most material aspects of energy (such as the earth beneath your feet, your computer, and flesh and blood) to the most immaterial aspects (light, movement, heat, nerve impulses, thought, and emotion).
Life, it is said in the Chinese medical classics, is a gathering of Chi. A healthy (and happy) human being is a dynamic but harmonious mixture of all the aspects of Chi that make up who we are.
Chi is in a state of continuous flux, transforming endlessly from one aspect of Chi into another. It is neither created nor is it ever destroyed; it simply changes in its manifestation.
In order to talk about the relationships between the various aspects and manifestations of Chi within a given context, Chinese philosophy employs the concept of yin and yang.
What are Ying and Yang
In the Chinese perspective, given the importance of "taking everything as a whole," all things are relative.
A thing can be understood only in relation to something else. This is the essential idea behind the use of the terms yin and yang.
Yin and yang are terms used to describe relative opposite qualities or manifestations of Chi. If yin is form, then yang is function. If yin is material, then yang is immaterial.
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Yin refers to aspects or manifestations of Chi that are relatively material, substantial, condensing, solid, heavy, descending, cold, moist, cooling, dark, passive and quiescent.
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Yang refers to aspects or manifestations of Chi that are relatively immaterial, amorphous, expanding, hollow, light, ascending, hot, dry, warming, bright, aggressive, and active.
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