What Chi Really Is!

By Al Case | June 9, 2009

One of the big bugaboos in the martial arts is the question of Chi (often called Ki). Chi is that mysterious energy that builds in martial artists until they can do superhuman feats. They can break stone, put out flames at ten feet, cause death in an assailant at twenty feet.

Unfortunately, most of these superhuman tales cannot be proven. Yes, people have been known to break bricks and rocks with their bare hands, and I have seen people who could put out candles from ten feet away. But as for the fabled death touch by not even touching…hey, I’m still alive!

This doesn’t disprove the fact of Chi In my eyes and thought, however. As a matter of fact,tThe things I have seen over time have made me a firm believer in the existence of Chi. Unfortunately, there so many people who do not understand the concept of Chi in our society that their group beliefs alone would cause a a serious stunting of development of Chi in the individuals of mankind

On the basic level, Chi is the source of body energy, and it is located approximately two inches below the navel. This energy can be cultivated by proper diet, elimination of our sins, good exercise, and a generally healthy lifestyle. The benefit of this energy is good health into old age, resistance to illness, and a cheerful outlook on life.

On the mysterious level of Chi, the level at which most people think when they are thinking of superhuman feats, Chi is a matter of properly cultivated thought. This level is developed through disciplined methods which make us able to go beyond what we thought was humanly possible. This disciplined thought, in actuality, is the process of deleting the radio static quality of think from our minds, and leaving us with the calm no static quality of who we really are.

Joe Blow, a good friend of ours, practices a tested and proven method of chi cultivation, which would be an old martial art that has not been robbed of the power inherent in its design and propagation. Through the practice of this martial art Joe Blow starts doing purely and becomes intent solely on what he is doing, which is to say that he stops having the extra chatter of unrelated thoughts while he is practicing the martial arts.

This means that he has no chatter in the mind, that the fact of being a human is put in the background, and the pureness of who he is without a body is enhanced. Some people, during the course of their disciplined practice, even experience their existence from outside the body. But no matter how they experience this occurrence, they are still left with a truth that builds Chi, and tells them who they truly are…and which enables them to perform superhuman feats.

Al Case has practiced the martial arts for forty years. Tap into his Chi at Monster Martial Arts.

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