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October 2009

Clear’s Internal Push Hands

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I have begun calling the primary Push hands method we practice Clear’s Tai Chi Internal Push Hands method. I originally learned the method from Ma Yeuh Liang when he was 95 years old. He and his wife (Wu Yin Hua) were the head of Wu Style Tai Chi and were the senior living Tai Chi masters by age, years of practice and knowledge in the world at that time.

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Tai Chi Push Hands Fighting Benefits

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Push Hands is not Self Defense but it builds a lot of attributes that are highly desired for self defense in terms of understanding speed, strength, position, balance, breath, receiving, diminishing and diverting power and mental and emotional states under stress

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Tai Chi Push Hands for Self Defense

Tai Chi Push Hands for Self Defense is a bit of a controversial subject…

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Mind Body Spirit Health Benefits of Tai Chi Push Hands

Following are Mind Body Spirit Health Benefits of Tai Chi Push Hands

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Tai Chi Push Hands for Competition

Tai Chi Push Hands for Competition is a Tai Chi practice whereby two practitioners will make arm or/and body contact in some form and then attempt to push, pull or otherwise unbalance each other. There are many ways to play and many different reasons to play.

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Tai Chi Push Hands for internal development

At Clear’s Tai Chi we practice Tai Chi Push Hands for internal development and internal skill enhancement. We rarely play Tai Chi Push Hands for competitive purposes due to the fact that we mostly focus on skill development and Push Hands for internal development.

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Lower Dan Tien

Having said this my next statement will prove most controversial but is not said lightly or without much research.

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Dan Tiens

I recently saw a reference to Dan Tiens that refer to them as energy gates. Dan Tien translates as Field of Elixir, and it is generally thought that it refers to a pool of Chi energy. I personally consider them to be energy gates and after looking into it I now see that there are a few others who are doing the same.

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Chi Flow Adjustment

A Chi Flow Adjustment includes the following:

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Body Trauma -Tension & Pain Release

Impact Body Trauma can and often does occur when a person is in a car crash or takes any unexpected impact such as from a fall or accidentally running into something or someone. This impact tends to get locked into the body because the recipient holds the tension in the viscera and fascia small connective tissue inner muscles that are all over the body between organs and various larger muscle groups.

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