Tai Chi News Roundup for June
In the latest Tai Chi news, SeniorJournal.com reports that Tai Chi helps seniors sleep better and can even be as beneficial as a shingles vaccine.
[The study] showed that practicing tai chi chi alone boosted immunity to a level comparable to having received the standard vaccine against the shingles-causing varicella zoster virus.
Stuff.co.nz has an interview with Tai Chi expert Loo-Chi Hu. Loo-Chi Hu is the subject of a documentary called Huloo that is screening at New Zealand International Film Festival in Wellington and Christchurch in mid-July.
Before I learned tai chi, I learned the hard martial art and with the hard martial art your behaviour is hot and you sometimes fight with people. My father advised me to practise tai chi, and since I have never got in a fight.
And lastly, GadsdenTimes.com reports on a variety of meditative practices becoming popular among psychotherapists. Mindfulness Meditation, Tai Chi, Transcendental Meditation, and Yoga are among the most popular.
The National Institutes of Health is financing more than 50 studies testing mindfulness techniques, up from 3 in 2000, to help relieve stress, soothe addictive cravings, improve attention, lift despair and reduce hot flashes.