The following the introduction is from Tai Chi for Everyone, available in paperback at Amazon.com and as a digital download at Lulu.com.

Tai Chi teaches a person how to guide his own natural healing energies. Tai Chi practitioners believe that obstructed currents of energy cause a person to lose his sense of harmony with nature, and with it, the ability to maintain proper health.

Stimulating and restoring circulation can restore lost vitality. Tai Chi can return a body to normal, healthy flow with its no-impact movements and emphasis on daily practice and meditation.

The aim of Tai Chi training is to make the individual at one with nature and universe. The purpose of studying the art of Tai Chi as a moving meditation method is to restore in that individual a natural ability to self-heal and place the mind in a condition where peace and harmony replace illness and despair.

Practitioners of daily Tai Chi movements can free themselves of negative self-images and loss of flexible movement. Tai Chi should not be looked at as merely a simple way of curing and repairing the frailties of the human body but also as an opportunity to direct one’s life toward a more appropriate lifestyle which includes well being, as well as, “well-feeling.”

It is the hope of this writer that all who come to know more about the world of Tai Chi will come to know more about themselves and their place in the universe.