Many conditions that would be restricted in most exercises can actually be improved by practising t’ai chi. Health is much more than the absence of illness. It is a positive, harmonious state of vitality, a state of integration, a wholeness of oneself and in the whole world around. T’ai chi can teach to take health into our own hands by staying fit (with exercises and daily walks), by breaking the habit of negative thinking which distracts and fuels the machinations of the mind generating more unnecessary stress. Creation is vital for realising individual health and development. In practising t’ai chi, I can start creating a wholesome outlook to assure tireless energy, an interest in living, keeping old age at bay, thereby remaining valuable not only to society but to myself. This is encouraging since we live in a (Western) world which conditions us to believe that, at 60, we are old and worthless to society; that poor health is likely to be our way of our retiring life – a detrimental word in itself which implies self-effacing.