What on Earth is Chi or Prana Energy?
As the standard of living increases the interest in health is also rising and consequently Chi (pronounced: “chee”) is increasing as well. To understand Chi we must look back to the very beginnings of Oriental Medicine to Taoism (pronounced: “dow-ism”) which means The Way. Taoism is the most influential root of Oriental Medicine. The ancient medicine people or Taoist’s main focus was to observe the ways of the natural laws governing the universe as a method to understand the unseen inner world of our bodies. One of the philosophical foundations upon which their medical theories was built recognized that everything in the universe is composed of two complementary yet opposing energetic forces known as Yin (female) and Yang (male). Yin the female principle is associated with water and represents the earth. Yang the male principle is associated with fire and represents heaven. Yin and Yang, female with male uniting the water energy of earth along with the fire energy of heaven are the two
