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[I:http://freearticlepool.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/AlCase8.jpg]There is actually a good definition for this thing we call Chi, one which explains away all the mystery. The problem is that internal energy has been a catch basket for whatever that people don’t understand. The truth is that Chi responds very well to the definitions available in simple physics.

When one considers the field of internal energy they must understand that there are several layers inherent within it. These layers actually exist in stages, and they follow certain rules and adhere to certain methods. To understand the potentials contained here one must consider that water is first ice, then water, then steam.

On the first level Chi is solid, it is the material which makes up bodies. That chair you are sitting in, it is made of frozen chi. So is the refrigerator and the TV.

On the second level, the one most people are most familiar with, intrinsic energy is a liquid like type of energy. Root your stance, move your body in a way that promotes generation and circulation, and you can feel the chi moving through your body. Interestingly, this chi actually moves through the solidity of your body.

The body is solid, but there are relative stages of solid. Consider the body a stove, and the arms hollow tubes, and it is easy to imagine, and thus create, the rules of how to move Chi energy. The real technique, of course, lies with comprehending and actuating the third level of intrinsic energy.

The third level of chi is thought, and this is the stuff by which you move the energetical substance through your body. Thought is interesting stuff, because people believe it is sentences and words and such. Thought, however, is not words, it is the urge behind the words.

What grunt of notion causes motion? What momentary impulse is behind all the sentences that try to describe intrinsic energy in a million different ways? What notion moves us, from worm to country?

To move energy through the body one must learn to consider the universe on progressively abstract levels. One must move the objects of reality with muscle in the beginning, and then progress to less effort and more intention, and finally utilize perceptions to the point where one can actually perceive the grunt or whim that actuates all motion in this universe. In the end, it is the effortless non-energy of perception that enables us to understand chi, and to move it by concept and notion, and this effortless, light method is the realm of excellent Tai Chi Chuan.

Al Case has practiced Tai Chi 4O+ years. You can see what he knows about Internal Energy at Five Army Tai Chi Chuan.