Benefits

To realize how Tai Chi is beneficial, you should know first that it depends on the power of the healing energy which is inside all of us and which needs only to be realized and channeled properly. The circular, slow and relaxed movements of Tai Chi aim to strength your body muscles, increase their tone and elasticity in addition of giving you flexibility that improves your circulation. On the other hand, Tai Chi is a means to overcome stress and calm the mind. Thus we classify benefits of Tai Chi into physical and mental ones.

Physical benefits

Physical benefits include increasing flexibility of your joints specially spinal ones, strength your muscles mainly leg muscles, reducing pains particularly in back, shoulder , knees and legs. In addition, doctors claim that Tai Chi is the best way for keeping body balance and reducing falls. It also enhanced coordination, and improved fine motor skills, but the greatest function of Tai Chi is improving your immune system, this could be achieved by repairing the mental and spiritual disharmony. This disharmony arises from anger, stress, jealousy and some other negative feelings that affect us greatly and cause disharmony in one?s spiritual being. This in turn reflects on your body energy and depleting it. It ultimately leads to reduce your immune power to fight off different diseases and harmful elements to an extent that you lose ability to resist small, less dangerous pollutants in the air you breathe or the food you eat. That?s why Tai Chi is so important for people with AIDS ?immune deficiency disease?. It is also benefit for those with mental anxiety, arthritis, cancer and other many related diseases can be caused by pollutant elements. As Tai Chi successively keep your body balance and flexibility, western doctors claim that it will be benefit in people with heart problems, stroke victims, chronic joint and back pain , and others with balance problems.

Mental benefits

Any Tai Chi practitioner comes out after his session saying "When I leave, I'm full of energy. I feel peaceful", that proves the relaxation, stressful reduction, sense of happiness and inner peace provided by Tai Chi practicing. Tai Chi also increase your concentration and mental focus as well as improving your memory.

On conclusion

Tai Chi makes you feel the importance of sensing the energy, gathering it, focusing and directing it for a specific purpose in order to maintain health and harmony of the entire being, to heal or to defend.

Citations

1. Jo-Ann Valentine, TAI CHI
   

2. Vincent Chu, Tai chi chuan's internal power, Gin Soon Tai Chi Chuan federation.
   

3. Dr. Keith Jeffery, Benefits of Tai Chi and 4 Minute Fitness,