Rep urges senior citizens to take up Tai Chi exercise
MIRI: Senior citizens are encouraged to take up Tai Chi Qigong exercise to maintain their health and be active in their golden years.
Piasau assemblyman Datuk Sebastian Ting said that persistently practising Tai Chi not only helps maintain one’s health as the slow but powerful exercise is believed to be able to help treat ailments, practising it in group encourages elderly people to socialise more.
“There is an old saying that, ‘Money cannot buy friendship and health’. Therefore, Tai Chi Qigong that has been known to promote health, encourages elderly people to make friends with people of their age. Sharing their feelings with each other, the good and bad, instead of keeping it inside; socialising with people could actually help maintain one in a healthy mental state,” Ting said at the Miri Tai Chi Qigong Shibashi Recreation Centre anniversary dinner last Saturday at a local hotel here.
He looked forward to see more senior citizens taking part in the healthy event.
As a form of encouragement, Ting pledged RM2, 000 each to seven clubs under the Miri Tai Chi Qigong Shibashi Recreation Centre, so that they could organise more activities this year. More than 200 members from around Miri, Kuching and Brunei attended the anniversary dinner. Present were Miri Tai Chi Qigong Shibashi Recreation Centre chairwoman Regina Huang and her exco members.