Formosa Neijia

I purposely left the acronym “TCM” out of the title of this post in hopes that someone might actually read this one. I’ve noticed that my posts on TCM-related topics aren’t too popular. That’s too bad. I hope that readers would not avoid the TCM posts. I think there is lots to say on [...]

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The following is a book review of the famous Huang Di NeiJing – The Yellow Emperor’s Internal Classic — translated by Peter Unschuld, a leading figure in Chinese translations of classic TCM material. As many of you probably know, the NeiJing is THE original book on TCM, so this is an important discussion. The book [...]

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One of the main things that the TCM-qi paradigm brings to the table is a fairly well developed vocabulary that can then be used to describe IMA and qigong mechanics. If you think about it for a minute, there are many, many terms that are tossed around that come from this paradigm: wuji, yin-yang, san [...]

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I say that because there’s a huge gap between theory and practice. Everybody knows about the yijing, yin and yang, etc. but how does all that tie in with training? The missing link between the philosophy and IMA training is TCM theory.
Many people look down on the the qi paradigm, as I did, for many [...]

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Considering my recent injury and my TCM friend’s miraculous healing of said injury (full story here), I thought I’d share my other two experiences with TCM and related therapies. This post shows a slightly different view of TCM.
About four years ago, I switched careers and became a newspaper editor. Along with the switch came some [...]

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One of the most amazing things happened yesterday. Here’s some background.
I’ve been working pretty hard lately. Three-hour sessions of kua squats, lots of Chen style, sword cuts and form, xingyi, bagua, etc. have become the norm for me.
After practice Monday, I was sitting here in front of my computer and I shifted a little in [...]

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