My Pocket Tai Chi Quotes

“Make Tai Chi Breathing Part of Your Day To get your body back in balance during a stressful day, take a minute and do some tai chi breathing. A few moments will settle you down. Because of your body’s muscle memory, the more frequently you interject tai chi breathing into your day, the more quickly and effectively you will feel the effects.”
― Adams Media, My Pocket Tai Chi: Improve Focus. Reduce Stress. Find Balance.

“(called Shaolin Kungfu) had been more forceful, but it took on more graceful mannerisms after his life-changing experience in nature. He called it Wudang 32-Pattern Long Fist, which developed into tai chi chuan as we know it today.”
― Adams Media, My Pocket Tai Chi: Improve Focus. Reduce Stress. Find Balance.

“Harmony, a calm attitude, and receptivity to increased mental clarity became aspects of martial arts to which warriors aspired. The warrior was able to blend this embodied art of inner harmony with the outer force of battle—to be in a warrior’s conflict, conducting the business of war, but still filled with inner peace. They were in the midst of life while in the midst of death. It was from this need that tai chi chuan (which is today’s tai chi coupled with martial arts) was born.”
― Adams Media, My Pocket Tai Chi: Improve Focus. Reduce Stress. Find Balance.

“In the beginning of all things, there is oneness, and then the oneness divides into two forces—the female force of yin and the male force of yang. Tai chi is located in the nanosecond of the division of yin and yang. Chuan means “fisted hand.” So tai chi chuan means “supreme ultimate fisted hand.” (The “chuan” is now dropped because the “fist” portion of the term is rarely the focus.) WHAT IS TAI CHI?”
― Adams Media, My Pocket Tai Chi: Improve Focus. Reduce Stress. Find Balance.