When practicing tai chi for health, is it better to go faster or slower?

We see taijiquan enthusiasts playing taijiquan in the park in our daily life. Taijiquan has a certain effect on the health of the elderly. So when playing taijiquan, we will find that many people's movements are slow and soothing, practicing taijiquan is it really necessary to maintain a slow speed? Taijiquan is practiced to maintain a state of tranquility, relaxation and stability in our body. If we go too fast, our subtle points are affected.

One, the role of taijiquan health

Taijiquan is one of our traditional Chinese boxing. In the process of playing taijiquan we can hone our mind and experience the three states of tranquility, determination and relaxation in the body. Taijiquan is essentially the mastery of static thinking in a dynamic process. Taijiquan can help one to focus one's attention, and Taijiquan requires one's whole body and mind to be put into it, so that one can feel oneself absorbing the essence of heaven and earth and applying it to one's inner absorption.

Second, the taijiquan? Slow?

We see a lot of people who play taijiquan move very slowly, this is because in the past when the teacher taught taijiquan posture is a move by move teaching, a repeated teaching to a steady basis. In Taijiquan? Slow? Also because it is a staged way of practicing, in the beginning to ensure that you learn how to play taijiquan, so there will be a certain fallback in speed. From the point of view of health, taijiquan's slow also corresponds to the softness in health, slow for progress, not to pursue its power explosion, purely just on the cultivation of the mind.

In the process of playing taijiquan, we pursue slowness in order to concentrate our whole body and mind in this exercise, and secondly, it is the pursuit of softness in the cultivation of our health to overcome rigidity with softness. Taijiquan in the heart to nourish their nature is its fundamental purpose, through the initial learning of a move slowly learn, solid foundation, and then this for the refinement of the daily process of playing taijiquan to cultivate their nature of mind, the body to play a certain role in health care.