Purpose: Extending the physical nature to spiritual nature
Center: Lower Tan Tien with energy reaching to all points
Goal: Enjoyment of the cosmology of natural movement: "I move, so the universe moves."
In recent years, some communities and hospitals in China organized a test to compare the results and effects of doing Cosmic Tour to other kinds of exercise and sports. The results showed that Cosmic Tour is outstanding for the purposes of healing, rehabilitation and preventive maintenance.
As a physical art, Cosmic Tour is not only movement, it is also a body language for spiritual communication with yourself. If you practice it, you will learn to unite and develop your whole body, not just your intellect or your physical strength. For example, a dancer who waves a streamer of colored silk in the air is one with her cloth. Similarly, in Cosmic Tour you move your whole body, not only on the physical level but also on the more subtle levels.
In Cosmic Tour, the circular movement resembles the spiritual maturity of an individual's personality. A mature person will not hit an obstruction but will go around it to avoid friction or damage. Circular movement is the cosmological framework of the universe and life. Because their orbits are defined, heavenly bodies do not collide and thus find endless life and infinite transformation.
The whole set of movements in Cosmic Tour is based on continuous rotation in many directions. Many circles, big and small, are made. This is why it is called Cosmic Tour. The sixty-four movements of Cosmic Tour were developed according to the principles expressed in the Book of Changes and its sixty-four hexagrams.
Cosmic Tour exemplifies the Eight Great Manifestations of nature that are expressed as different energies in the Book of Changes, which is also called the I Ching. The Book of Changes explains the eight arrangements of natural energy in great depth. The pleasure and benefit you receive from the philosophy of the I Ching with the Eight Great Manifestations can be expanded by doing the Cosmic Tour. Are we not making a cosmic tour in our lifetime when we physically enter the world?
It takes approximately 20 minutes to perform Merry-Go-Round, which is a simplified version of Cosmic Tour. It takes approximately 20 minutes to perform Cosmic Tour Ba Gua Zahn.
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