Chi and Bio-Electrical Energies
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Bill Glasheen
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It's enough to make you want to give up all the science and believe in chi!
- Bill
It's enough to make you want to give up all the science and believe in chi!
- Bill
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Bill Glasheen
- Posts: 17299
- Joined: Thu Mar 11, 1999 6:01 am
- Location: Richmond, VA --- Louisville, KY
Chi and Bio-Electrical Energies
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When it comes to posts like these and publications and/or teachers that espouse these views, these days I tend first to be quiet. What you'll find is a lot like someone who sees the same thing you do (sometimes sees it better), but they just use a funny language to say it. If the person knows their stuff (from an application standpoint) and uses these paradigms to communicate their thinking, sometimes they do have something interesting to relate that you can go home with.
The problem I have with it all is that I know enough to know there really can't be a unifying theory like chi. Too many things that people use to describe via chi can be explained with a number of entirely different mechanisms. So the language is kind of neat and even informative in isolated pockets. But it doesn't jive for me once I know how a few things here and there actually work from a medical perspective.
That being said, I find the language inoffensive and even helpful on occasion. As Bruce Miller himself sometimes says, it's a lot easier just learning the chi theory than it is getting the medical background to truly understand how much of this stuff works. Perhaps we eggheads can take a hint, and use our own metaphors and analogies now and then to get a message across to a lay audience.
- Bill
When it comes to posts like these and publications and/or teachers that espouse these views, these days I tend first to be quiet. What you'll find is a lot like someone who sees the same thing you do (sometimes sees it better), but they just use a funny language to say it. If the person knows their stuff (from an application standpoint) and uses these paradigms to communicate their thinking, sometimes they do have something interesting to relate that you can go home with.
The problem I have with it all is that I know enough to know there really can't be a unifying theory like chi. Too many things that people use to describe via chi can be explained with a number of entirely different mechanisms. So the language is kind of neat and even informative in isolated pockets. But it doesn't jive for me once I know how a few things here and there actually work from a medical perspective.
That being said, I find the language inoffensive and even helpful on occasion. As Bruce Miller himself sometimes says, it's a lot easier just learning the chi theory than it is getting the medical background to truly understand how much of this stuff works. Perhaps we eggheads can take a hint, and use our own metaphors and analogies now and then to get a message across to a lay audience.
- Bill
Chi and Bio-Electrical Energies
I just wonder if adding unsubstantiated theory enhances learning. What generalizable priniciples are there behind this striking stuff? They're few and I don't think they need much theory behind them. The rest can all be practical: want the arm not to work? Hit here. Why isn't going to stick in their heads as well as a numb arm for ten minutes.
Example: heart two, inner bicep along the ulnar and median nerves. Striking would sensibly numb up the skin and muscles served by those areas (although blasting the arm in some non nerve areas can also incapacitate, another reason to avoid the explanation). One can name them all, but it doesn't make the strike more practical. Hence I leave it at 1) it works 2) interested parties hear there's a big nerve there. Seems to satisfy the curiosity and it's easy enough to learn.
Example: heart two, inner bicep along the ulnar and median nerves. Striking would sensibly numb up the skin and muscles served by those areas (although blasting the arm in some non nerve areas can also incapacitate, another reason to avoid the explanation). One can name them all, but it doesn't make the strike more practical. Hence I leave it at 1) it works 2) interested parties hear there's a big nerve there. Seems to satisfy the curiosity and it's easy enough to learn.
