What are Infinite Arts?
Please don’t believe everything you may have read about Tai Chi, chi Kung and Meditation. Those arts can really only make sense to you once you have practised it for a while.
Tai Chi, Chi Kung and meditation are now being scientifically researched in the West and proven to be very good ways of improving your overall health and well-being. At first Tai Chi & Chi Kung seemed very exotic and strange to Westerners, but now they are becoming more mainstream in our society. Infinite Tai Chi, Chi Kung were created only 25 years ago – by Jason Chan.
When I was about twelve years old and living in Hong Kong, my father initiated me into the martial arts, and when I was about 17, he initiated me into Tai Chi. However at that time, I was a Bruce Lee fan and I did not want to practise Tai Chi very often because it was so slow. So I concentrated on learning other martial arts, and when I was in my early 20s, I became a martial arts instructor.
Then, when I was in my late 20s, I experienced a spiritual revelation whilst I was meditating with a group of older English ladies. A lot of light poured down on me and really shocked my nervous system .It was so powerful that my whole consciousness was filled with an incredibly bright light. After this experience, I realised that I needed to strengthen my nervous system so that I could hold this light without being wobbled by it! This is when I started to meditate diligently and to practise yoga and tai chi to open up my energy system and strengthen my body.
From my late 20s to early 30s, I experienced several years of spiritual opening and transformation. Gradually, I began to be drawn more and more to the practice of Tai Chi and eventually I was inspired to create Infinite Tai Chi primarily as a tool for spiritual awakening and healing. Nearly 30 years later we now have hundreds of qualified Infinite Tai Chi teachers in the UK and Ireland and even around the world.
The Three Treasures: Jing, Chi, Shun
Jing (physical essence)
In order to hold chi in your physical being, you need ‘jing’ or physical essence. Young children usually have plenty of jing. They therefore have boundless physical energy. But adults have far less jing, and so they become much more easily tired and physically washed out.
The vibrations of our physical existence are basically too low for our ease and comfort. Physical matter is heavy and tends to drag our spirit down so that we feel trapped and ill at ease. Moreover, if we are not careful, our jing dissipates more and more as we age, until we become really frail, tired and elderly.
But there is so much we can do to preserve our jing so that we can stay radiant and physically strong even in our 80s or 90s. You may have seen some Taoist masters on You Tube performing Tai Chi or Chi Kung. Sometimes the blurb states that the Master is in his 90s, or even older, and yet he looks so physically strong and supple.
So cultivating jing, or physical essence, is the foundation level of your Infinite Tai Chi & Chi Kung practice. You need to strengthen your jing so that you can cultivate more internal chi in order to connect to your spirit. Life always longs to support you, but it is your responsibility, and yours alone, to create a pure strong vehicle to channel higher vibrational energy down into your physical life.
Chi (universal energy)
Chi can also be written as Qi (or Ki in Japanese – as in Rei-ki
Chi is an underlying life force that supports all forms of life. Although chi naturally permeates everything, you have to cultivate it in order to enjoy the benefits of radiant internal energy. You have to expand your capacity to raise and then hold the chi so that you can use it to nurture your whole being. In Infinite Tai Chi & Chi Kung we always move with the chi. It is not just a slow dance or a soft form of physical exercise for the elderly!
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Without some chi in your system, you cannot sustain your physical life. When you die, all the chi dissipates from your body until it is lifeless. So conversely, as long as you have some chi in your physical form, your body just cannot die!
Chi is usually invisible to the physical eye because it is not part of the three dimensional world. But none of us lives in a physical world only. We also live within an energy field that surrounds our physical being and once we learn how to strengthen and purify that energy field or aura we will begin to lead a much more positive and helpful worldly life. However, cultivating chi is not just about empowering our personality-self so that we can lead a more fulfilling worldly life. Cultivating chi also really assists us to connect to Spirit.
Shun (spirit)
You need to bring your mind within to connect to spirit or ‘shun’. You need to nurture your spirit in order to have any chance of finding lasting happiness or fulfilment in life, and so we always ask students on this course to look within. This is why Infinite Meditation is such a key part of our training programme. Once you learn how to calm your mind and look within, you will find that you do not exhaust yourself so much, and you can begin to rely on an inner intuition to guide you safely through all of life’ many challenges. So we always ask you to sit still on a daily basis, look within, hold the chi or universal life force, and nurture your ‘shun’ or spirit.
We all need to connect to a spark of light deep within us, if we want to find the secret to lasting good health and vitality. At the moment, most of you are like 40-watt light bulbs. You cannot hold too much light in your systems without blowing a fuse. The universe has tremendous amounts of energy for you to draw on. But first you have to practise being able to hold it. You have to expand your capacity from 40 watts, through 60 watts to 100 watts and beyond.
The Healing Power of Radiant Chi
Eventually, when you can hold radiant positive chi in your whole system for more than just a moment or two, you can begin to heal yourself on many different levels.
According to Taoist Masters, many physical illnesses, such as ME, as well as some very negative mental/emotional states such as depression, are closely related to chi depletion. When your system lacks chi, you can become very weak and washed out. On the other hand, some individuals can have an excess of impure or unbalanced chi in their systems. This unbalanced chi can then become trapped or inflamed in their physical body, and imbalanced chi can even cause major physical problems, including tumours. Cancer cells do not lack chi, but the energy within these cells has become very aggressive and destructive. If this occurs, your own internal chi can start to attack and destroy you.
Dark, negative chi can be very hard to purify. So you need to make sure that you keep replenishing your internal chi, so that you never run out of it, and at the same time you need to purify the chi, so that it does not turn on you aggressively. One way to purify chi is to hold an inner smile whilst you are cultivating it, for example whenever you are practising Infinite Chi Kung or Infinite Tai Chi. You do not have to smile physically, but you should always do your best when you are practising to open your heart centre and think positive, loving thoughts that will create an inner smile within you.
As you cultivate chi, you can also tune into nature and all the nature elements. Nature has a lot of chi, and a much higher, purer energetic vibration than most human beings. This is why a walk up a mountain, or around a lake, usually helps us to unwind and feel wonderful. Whenever we tune into nature through our mind and our breath, we will tend to become much calmer and less stressed. So as we practise Infinite Tai Chi & Chi Kung, we tune into the natural elements –water, fire, air, earth and spaciousness. We tune into each of these five elements at different stages of the Infinite Tai Chi Form & Infinite Chi Kung practices, but our ultimate aim is to bring all of these elements together in one beautiful, harmonious, natural flow of life.
The Benefits of Your Practice
This three-year training course is not an academic course. You can read a lot of books about Tai Chi & Chi Kung and watch a lot of videos and thus become a Tai Chi & Chi Kung scholar, But I am not training you to become Chi Masterminds. I am aiming to train outstanding Tai Chi & Chi Kung practitioners who will eventually go out into the world and make a real difference. So the most important aspect of this course by far is your own practice. If I could give you just one piece of advice as you begin the course it would just be: practise, practise, practise.
I no longer worry, or judge someone negatively, if they begin this course with very little apparent ability to move gracefully or strongly. I know from many years of teaching experience that if someone practices long and hard enough they can overcome almost any innate weakness or imbalance. I have had one student who was born with one leg significantly longer than the other struggle with great courage to overcome her natural disadvantage to qualify as an exceptionally gifted and compassionate Infinite Arts teacher. I have also witnessed students triumph over very serious physical illnesses to complete the course with flying colours.
So please never say to yourself that you are just no good at tai chi, or that you will never overcome your inability to remember the basic moves of the form, or your inability to balance on one leg. Simply keep practising, day in and day out and I guarantee that sooner or later, you will become a beautiful Infinite Tai Chi & Chi Kung practitioner. One day you will graduate from this course to become a fully-fledged member of our Circle of Light, and then you will go out to create your own circle of light in your own unique way, and thus make a real difference to a world that desperately needs to become enlightened.
© Jason Chan & Jane Rogers