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Tales from the Dark Side

The body runs by electricity.

When your brain wants a finger to move, it sends an electric message to your finger telling it to "move."

If you have a chordless phone in your house, you can send messages from your phone, without a chord or wire, to your phone's receiver, then it travels down wires to the other person's house.

So, these electric signals from your brain are like phone calls to your finger.

If you injure your right arm, this can cause it swell up and hurt. This "hurt" pain is a bunch of phone calls from your arm to your brain saying, "Hey! I'm hurting down here!"

If it hurts a lot, then it sends a lot of phone calls to your brain.

These phone calls make it hard for other messages from your brain to get to your finger.

In Tai Chi, there is an ancient technique called, "Dim Mak."

The Chinese words "Dim Mak" translate to "Death Touch," in English.

This refers to injuring someone in just the right place so that their electric wires in their body are blocked off. Some spots carry a lot of electric messages and by blocking them the person can get sick or weaker.

We don't practice or teach Dim Mak in Tai Chi Kids, but it is important to understand because sometimes we get accidental injuries that cause other injuries and these are similar to Dim Mak.

If you do get an injury in your left shoulder, you might notice that your left arm is also hurting and "throbbing" with pain. This is because your shoulder injury is blocking the qi "chi" energy and now your arm is unhappy.

Our whole body is wired together so let's have happy bodies by having happy electric wires everywhere.

Master Zhen Shen-Lang