Does Tai Chi really help maintain health?

Tai Chi is a very good health-preserving exercise. It can effectively help us elderly people achieve a very good health-preserving effect. It can effectively help us promote blood circulation in the body. It can help us relieve the symptoms of neurasthenia that are often prone to occur in the elderly. It can also help us achieve the effect of cultivating our sentiments. Let's popularize the health-preserving effects of Tai Chi for everyone.

1. Tai Chi for health. Benefit 1: Increase the sensitivity of the nervous system - Practicing Tai Chi requires a "calm mind and focused intention". When practicing Tai Chi, you must first let the cerebral cortex rest (calm mind), and then hand over the task of coordinating the functions of the internal and external organs of the whole body to the central nervous system (focused intention), thereby enhancing the sensitivity of the nervous system.

Benefit 2: Unblocking meridians, blood vessels, lymphatic and circulatory systems - Since the time spent practicing Tai Chi is not too short, it can make the blood flow smoothly like general aerobic exercise. After practicing for some time, you will notice numbness and tenderness in your fingertips, slight crackling in your joints, tingling, and abdominal rumbling. According to Chinese medical theory, this is a reflection of the unblocked meridians.

Through exercises such as hugging, twisting, and knee flexion, the arteries are squeezed and relaxed appropriately, which speeds up blood circulation, increases oxygen supply, promotes the metabolism of the lymphatic system, and enhances personal resistance.

Benefit three: Improved flexibility, muscle strength and endurance - Tai Chi mostly involves slow movements in circles and arcs, combined with bent-leg half-squatting exercises, alternating shifts in center of gravity, and many movements involving hugging, twisting and twisting, which improves the strength and endurance of each muscle. Combined with multi-directional and large-scale movements such as the following posture and kicking, the flexibility of each joint can be improved.

The answer to the question "Can Tai Chi be good for health?" is a resounding yes. Everyone can try to use the Tai Chi health-preserving methods and techniques introduced above to exercise. It can help us improve the breathing difficulties that we are prone to, and it can also help us build a very strong physique and enhance our resistance and immunity.