NaeGa ShinJang, th heart of GiCheon includes almost all the study about the body and mind

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	NaeGa ShinJang

	The heart of GiCheon We call this “the heart of GiCheon” because it tells everything about GiCheon and also has every study in it. At the heart of GiCheon is NaeGa ShinJang (Nae: inner or myself, Ga: structure, Shin: God or spirit, Jang: palm - inner spirit palm position or that of one's spirit growing near the heavens or being equal to it), a difficult stance that traineeslovingly and deploringly call "The Hardship." It's an awkward looking position that resembles the form a phoenix (a symbol of Korea in ancient times and that of Korean president today) assumes before hatching her eggs - a metaphor of metamorphosis or transformation of one's physical, mental, and spritual entity. How to do The legs are spread shoulder-length or more (considering the proportion of one's height and leg length), feet firmly pressed flat against the floor, and the ankles (toes before) are turned as inward as possible at a sharp angle (the YeokGeun principle), creating one triangle shape. The knees are then bent down to a 90 degree angle and pressed as inward as possible, maintaining a space approximately the size of two fists between them, creating yet another triangle that extends from the buttocks to the heels. The back is arched -- buttocks pushed out and shoulders back -- so that strain is put on the long, vertical muscles that run down both sides of the spine. The arms are then stretched out in front, above shoulder-height, with palms pressed outward and fingertips inward. The ankles, knees, waist, shoulders, and wrists are locked tight in the YeokGeun position, while the shoulders should never get uptight. The eyes are gently closed with face straight ahead and the feet are firm against the floor with power focused at the toe tips. Do abdominal breathing in the static pose (& hold it as long as possible as one advances) Originally, it is said that the nameless GiCheon sages practiced NaeGa ShinJang from sunrise to sunset, while facing the Sun on the East Sea (The sun gazing is practiced for advaced ones). And they didn’t allow applicants (pupils or students) to learn GiCheon unless they could do NaeGa ShinJang for two hours (an hour in ancient Korean time) before they started. When DaeYang JinIhn began to teach GiCheon in the late 1960’s or early 1970’s, he also required people to do it for two hours for training. and was surprised at finding out they couldn’t stand even for a few minutes. Then he shortened the time limit for an hour, later, tens of minutes and today 5 minutes. Meanwhile, the GiCheon master beats students with bamboo rods or even wooden sword in order to stimulate the flow of Gi throughout the body, called "Tah Tong". The Benefits Acupunture & Gi Training NaeGaShinJang has also verifiable healing powers. It stimulates all of the major acupunctural points on the body and opens the Gi channels, making it possible for many ailments and diseases to heal naturally. People suffering from serious ailments such as scoliosis or slipped discs, shoulder pain, cancer, heart diseses, hypertension, arthritis, apoplexy, aging problems, diabetes, chronic headaches, skin ailments and even obesity have all experienced dramatic improvement after practicing GiCheon regularly for six months (100 days) or more. It also intensifies abdominal power by accumulating the Gi in the body, expands and develops three abdomens (the lower, middle and upper abdomen) simultaneously. So students are recommended to invest a lot of time to practice it. Physiological benefits - ideal stretching NaeGaShinJang is an ideal stretching pose that conditions all the muscles and joints of the entire body simultaneously. And so, it not only develops both of the Eum and Yang muscles together, strengthens the bones and ligaments but also improves flexibility of the muscles and joints in the entire body. One can improve strength as well as flexibity of the muscles and joints simultaneously, which is very unique to other stretching methods. One can also have benefits as follow: Stress-relief, Lowered-blood pressure in individuals with moderate hypertension, Muscle relaxation, Relief from arthritis, joint pains, and spinal problems like scoliosis, partial paralysis, sleep disorders, chronic aches and pains, etc. Psychological benefits When one gets stressed emotionaly, psychologically and spiritually, one becomes tense or nervous with the muscles and ligaments in order to reduce the impacts brought by the different kinds of stress. Then one has those impacts accumulated throughout the entire body gradually. unless they are treated.roughout the entire body. By conditioning muscles and ligaments throughout the entire body with abdominal breathing in the meditative status, one can reduce or relieve chronic tension and stress broughgt by different kinds of stress in life. Thus, one can have benefits as follow: Stronger focus and concentration, Reduced tension, anxiety, and stress, Clearer thinking, Support in kicking addictions and other self-destructive behavior, Greater creativity and enhanced performance in work and play, More joy, love, spontaneity, and greater intimacy with friends and family, Deeper sense of meaning and purpose; a glimpse of the spiritual dimension of being, Increase in alpha rhythms, the high-amplitude brain waves that are linked to relaxation and so on. In the mean time, it clearly shows general conditions of one's equilibrium throughout the entire body, such as flexibility & strength of all the muscles and joints, Gi flow between left and right, & upper and lower limb, concerntration on the body and mind, etc. The TahTong and its Benefits One of the reasons NaeGa ShinJang is so effective in treating illnesses is that it incorporates one of the therapies used in oriental medicine to treat patients suffering from paralysis, a treatment called Tah Tong (Tah: beat, Tong: flow). Using bamboo rods, oriental doctors of the long distant past would literally beat patients suffering from paralysis or apoplexy to help stimulate the affected part of the body. In GiCheon too, TahTong is used to treat a kind of paralysis -- paralytic or stagnant Gi. In the NaeGa ShinJang position, a GiCheon teacher will beat students on the back, arms, and legs with a set of thin bamboo sticks, or for more power, one large bamboo rod, wooden stick, wooden sword, and even iron stick. It means that when a strike of the weapon,for example, a stick or wooden sword can be less outstandingly damaged to an experienced practitioner. To the uninitiated, it sounds masochistic, but the pain of TahTong isreally quite mild, especially when compared to its benefits. The stimulation on the skin and muscles breaks through the blocked Gi channels, causing a tingling sensation throughout the body. And in areas where there is a pre-existing injury, TahTong creates a greater feeling of strength and stability -- less hardship, in effect, than before the treatment. It’s importantly used for self healing or healing others. This is also one of the few instances in which the GiCheon master comes into physical contact with trainees during practice and it's believed that the master passes on some portion of his power, some of his Gi, to his students through TahTong. It is said that TahTong would have been performed to only a selected student when GiCheon passed down in the mountains because of its enormous outcome. NaeGa ShinJang is one of the greatest contributions of GiCheon, offering trainees extraordinary benefits. Through it, students learn the virtues of patience and perseverance, and can experience mental catharsis and unimaginable physical and mental empowerment -- something that cannot be expressed in words alone. The Name NaeGaShinJang is a way of discipline of keeping one’s spirit inside the body or becoming spiritually independent against all odds. However,Other names include “GiCheon TaeYang YeokGeun NaeGa ShinJang (TaeYang: the sun - This pose are conducted, originally facing to the rising Sun in the East)” or “MahBeop NaeGa ShinJang" or “Mah Beop (horse riding position).” The latter referring to a method Korean ancestors used to mount a horse. Many of the basic taichi, kungfu, and other martial arts positions are assumed to have been traced back to NaeGa ShinJang. Consider three-dimensional spaceas four main directions: east, west, north, south, up, and down. The divine spirit, or 'Shin' (for NaeGa ShinJang) in Korean, is understood to perceive all of these directions equally at all times and to their fullest extent. The GiCheon practitioner must therefore focus on conceiving of mind and body in this way, ie. in relation to all directions at infinite distance. Ways of improving internal power