PSYCHOENERGY ASPECTS OF TRAINING AND PRACTICES WITH RESPECT TO THE OLD-TIME HERITAGE OF CHINESE MARTIAL ARTS

Abstract

This second article is essentially the second part of a unified text on the philosophical and psychological characteristics of ancient Chinese martial arts (Wu Shu), framed within an existential-phenomenological consideration. The article concretizes the styles and techniques of various martial representations in a training-practical plan, conceptualizing the mystical-applied meaning of discrete visualizations of qi energy and the productive meaning of the overall complex of qigong exercises. Also highlighted in a cross-cultural context are some of the connections/influences of Chinese masters' practices with some other martial arts of the East and West.