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Hsing-i gives good health and makes your body strong. Your internal organs are like the engine parts of a car, your muscles like its outer surface. Blood and ch'i are the fuel generating movement. If the engine parts are broken, the car will not run, even if it is full of gasoline and looks fine. Therefore, priority is given to the internal organs, which leads to a natural cultivation of ch'i, rather than to the outer muscles.

Coming from stillness, the upright postures teach grounding by lowering the waist and pelvis, relaxing the buttocks, and bending the legs. The rhythm of the movements provides aerobic benefits, while the alternate training of moving and pausing assists the sense of timing and rooting. Natural coordination is "restored" through movements stressing opposite-hand-and-foot substantiality as well as synchronized same-hand-and-foot movements. Finally, because balance is lost when you place your weight 50-50 between your legs ("double weighting"), Hsing-i depends upon single-weighted, "one-legged" boxing that allows you to distinguish the empty (yin) and the full (yang) and that enhances freer movement.