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While the West focused its attention upon the external, the East focused on the internal. Both East and West advanced very far in their opposite study. The Chinese listened very closely to the needs and ways of the body and developed a unique understanding to it—an understanding which enables remarkable control and usage. Chinese martial arts is one example. Summing up strength and releasing it in a sudden smashing blow may seem remarkable to westerners but represent a tiny fraction of what is possible. More sophisticated are the soft styles of physical discipline which do not rely on strength but body mechanics. In these arts, each form, each movement is efficient. There is little waste of either movement or energy because attention is paid to the total body and the total situation. Not only is ones own body used with maximum efficiency, but the enemy's power is diverted and turned against himself.

The Chinese have developed, too, even subtler control of the body in a unique, and seldom heard of art called Ch'i Kung. In this art they generate and control the body energy and achieve a profound mastery of the body.