T'ai Chi practice lets me get in touch with that part of myself that is non-physical or non-material.
- Is thought a non-physical phenomenon? Some may argue that it is merely neurocognitive activity.
- Is emotional a non-physical phenomenon? Some may argue that this, too, is a biochemical, anatomical event?
- What about chi? Some define it as breath, which of course is physical. But more accurately defined as life energy, it may be an arc toward our spiritual self.
- What about shen? Meant in the sense of awareness or consciousness, shen may be the essence of God that courses through us.
In
T'ai Chi practice, we say
sink the chi,
raise the shen. One ought to circulate in our body, while the other reaches upward and lifts us along with it.
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