I am embedding a video of the physical principle I believe can explain John Chang's chopstick demonstration in the previous post. In the video embedded here you will see a pendulum maintaining a balance against gravity. The vibrating of the saw back and forth is providing the force into the pendulum and straightening it against the outside force of gravity.(It could've been more stable if it was more fast!)
John Chang is doing a similar approach, Vibrational energy (yin) is given off from John Chang to the Chopstick strengthening it against the force that would normally bend and eventually break the chopstick when you push on it in. The vibration is molecular and invisible to the eye, and probably MUCH faster than the saw!
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Pushing the chopstick through a table
A popular video on the internet is John Chang pushing a chopstick through wood like a man hammering in a nail, I will share my thoughts on what makes it possible. My theory is this is common physical phenomena makes it possible! Yet, John Chang himself is the amazing one to find the way to use the phenomena himself.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
The concept of Chi/Qi/Ki
Known from Chinese traditional medicine, Chi, is referred to as an energy within our bodies. Living creatures possess the quality of chi. The concept is not proven under western science, and skeptics are abound with criticism of the concept. I am lead to believe in the concept of Chi because of my own eyes seeing it action.
The idea is that Chi travels through your body and gives relaxation or strengthto the individual. Open heart surgery without anesthesia ? (while the person is still awake!) It has and is still being done today in China. The concept of chi has been in China for some time, and culturally lead to their own practices based on the concept of chi. The method done in the open heart surgery is referred to as acupuncture. This is not exclusive to heart surgery, it has many applications.
Another source of chi practice is from yoga exercises. Maintaining tough stances increases the strength of flow of the chi in the body. A sign of this is the heat felt from exercises.
Combining the two, and seeking a connection between yoga type chi and acupuncture chi, my mind comes to the hypothesis: acupuncture helps chi move while yoga helps chi build up.
The heat is the sign of chi moving in the body, and acupuncture is for conducting the heat. Needles are inserted into the key locations of the body for the heat to move. They conduct heat outward from the body from the metallic properties of the needle. The body has natural mechanisms to maintain body heat, which work even at the cellular level. The stress is not so great to affect a large system of cells, they will place needles in the subject that are not heated or chilled (sometimes they will heat the needle to inject chi).
The importance here is two qualities of chi, heat and conductance of heat, one does not exist without the other.
It is like electric potential and copper wires. The electric potential will not create electricity without a conductor for it. Human bodies are natural conductors, the blood stream is our natural conductor carrying fluid around different temperatures distributing the temperature differences.
Placing needles into the body can affect the temperature of our conductor. People with ailments have the needles inserted to correct their problems, such as back pain. The chi is said to be 'blocked' and so the needle lets the heat out, the body cells then need to generate heat, the cells get energized and fix the pain and the problem.
The idea is that Chi travels through your body and gives relaxation or strengthto the individual. Open heart surgery without anesthesia ? (while the person is still awake!) It has and is still being done today in China. The concept of chi has been in China for some time, and culturally lead to their own practices based on the concept of chi. The method done in the open heart surgery is referred to as acupuncture. This is not exclusive to heart surgery, it has many applications.
Another source of chi practice is from yoga exercises. Maintaining tough stances increases the strength of flow of the chi in the body. A sign of this is the heat felt from exercises.
Combining the two, and seeking a connection between yoga type chi and acupuncture chi, my mind comes to the hypothesis: acupuncture helps chi move while yoga helps chi build up.
The heat is the sign of chi moving in the body, and acupuncture is for conducting the heat. Needles are inserted into the key locations of the body for the heat to move. They conduct heat outward from the body from the metallic properties of the needle. The body has natural mechanisms to maintain body heat, which work even at the cellular level. The stress is not so great to affect a large system of cells, they will place needles in the subject that are not heated or chilled (sometimes they will heat the needle to inject chi).
The importance here is two qualities of chi, heat and conductance of heat, one does not exist without the other.
It is like electric potential and copper wires. The electric potential will not create electricity without a conductor for it. Human bodies are natural conductors, the blood stream is our natural conductor carrying fluid around different temperatures distributing the temperature differences.
Placing needles into the body can affect the temperature of our conductor. People with ailments have the needles inserted to correct their problems, such as back pain. The chi is said to be 'blocked' and so the needle lets the heat out, the body cells then need to generate heat, the cells get energized and fix the pain and the problem.
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