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6) Summarizing, your

waist — sinks

shoulders — shrink

chest — withdraws

head — pushes up

tongue — touches the roof of the mouth

hands — feel as if pushing upward

sacrum — circles inward and upward

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Practicing the Five Fists

Hsing-i's five basic forms are also called the five elements (wu hsing), after the five essential elements of traditional Chinese cosmology—metal, water, wood, fire, and earth. Each of these elements is capable of generating or destroying another element, as shown in the diagram below. The lines forming the pentagon indicate generation, while those forming the star indicate destruction.

The FIVE FISTS were originally arranged in the same sequence as the order of generation of elements from metal to earth, and some schools of the orthodox Chung-nan line, such as Wang Shu-chin's, still follow that order, each fist symbolizing an element that generates the next one. Sun Lu-t'ang, Yuan Tao, Chen P'an-ling, and others in the orthodox school, however, reversed the order of water and wood, placing CRUSHING before DRILLING (Table 2). Thus, that is the sequence we have presented here.