PHILOSOPHY of Teaching
What does it mean to “Search the Center?” Why does it work? How can I achieve this awareness?
Search Center is a minimal physical activity between two people who take turns generating and receiving energy. Beginning with soft touches from one partner (the pusher), the other partner (the receiver) concentrates on finding the place in the opponents’ body where the energy initiates from the center. This works because physical movements or touches from the pusher are preceded with an extension of the Chi aura. Being able to sense this extension of the aura is called ‘Ting’ or the ability to listen. With hours of Form and Search Centre practice, ‘Ting’ improves as the body relaxes and becomes softer. Softness and relaxation further enhance the ability to react or yield to the partners physical pushes. Developing softness while yielding without losing the integrity of the ‘form’s’ rooted structure becomes the goal of the yielding partner in Search Centre.
Students can learn to control the direction and strength of Chi aura projections. Chi directed from the tan tien or centre, which is securely anchored by the root, can be focused in any direction. Locating the centre of someone’s energy aura enables the chi to be directed in a forceful way towards their centre causing them to move while only applying a small amount of physical force.
To neutralize incoming physical force, the Chi aura, can be used to softly mirror and accept every movement made by their partner’s Chi shape without physically resisting or pushing back. This can neutralize the physical push if the aura are in contact and one of the aura globes remains anchored.
The Chi aura is similar to the personal space that normally surrounds individuals. Control of the size and shape of this personal space or aura is achieved with feedback from a sensitive partner who has developed a high level of ‘Ting’ or the ability to ‘listen’ or ‘feel’ the shape of the partner’s chi globe.
‘Ting’ is necessary to move to the next stage of reacting to a physical push with ‘fa jin’ or the ability to use “4 oz to move a thousand lbs”.
Search Centre becomes a gentle game that can be played well into the later stages of one’s life. Serious study contributes to a healthy mind and body in elderly students. Henry Wang and a few others demonstrate this incredulous phenomenon of Chi control which can be viewed on You Tube. Go to: Henry Wang Tai Chi School also Adam Mizner Heaven Man Earth.
Search Center is a minimal physical activity between two people who take turns generating and receiving energy. Beginning with soft touches from one partner (the pusher), the other partner (the receiver) concentrates on finding the place in the opponents’ body where the energy initiates from the center. This works because physical movements or touches from the pusher are preceded with an extension of the Chi aura. Being able to sense this extension of the aura is called ‘Ting’ or the ability to listen. With hours of Form and Search Centre practice, ‘Ting’ improves as the body relaxes and becomes softer. Softness and relaxation further enhance the ability to react or yield to the partners physical pushes. Developing softness while yielding without losing the integrity of the ‘form’s’ rooted structure becomes the goal of the yielding partner in Search Centre.
Students can learn to control the direction and strength of Chi aura projections. Chi directed from the tan tien or centre, which is securely anchored by the root, can be focused in any direction. Locating the centre of someone’s energy aura enables the chi to be directed in a forceful way towards their centre causing them to move while only applying a small amount of physical force.
To neutralize incoming physical force, the Chi aura, can be used to softly mirror and accept every movement made by their partner’s Chi shape without physically resisting or pushing back. This can neutralize the physical push if the aura are in contact and one of the aura globes remains anchored.
The Chi aura is similar to the personal space that normally surrounds individuals. Control of the size and shape of this personal space or aura is achieved with feedback from a sensitive partner who has developed a high level of ‘Ting’ or the ability to ‘listen’ or ‘feel’ the shape of the partner’s chi globe.
‘Ting’ is necessary to move to the next stage of reacting to a physical push with ‘fa jin’ or the ability to use “4 oz to move a thousand lbs”.
Search Centre becomes a gentle game that can be played well into the later stages of one’s life. Serious study contributes to a healthy mind and body in elderly students. Henry Wang and a few others demonstrate this incredulous phenomenon of Chi control which can be viewed on You Tube. Go to: Henry Wang Tai Chi School also Adam Mizner Heaven Man Earth.