People who do taijiquan tend to use abstruse formulations like "borrowing energy from the universe" and "connecting with cosmic energy" to describe the phenomenon of qi. Chen Chang-po elaborates on the idea of energy transfer by applying the concept of "action" and "reaction."
練太極拳的人有所謂「向宇宙借能量」，「跟天地能量相通」等看似玄妙的說法，根據陳章波的解釋，太極拳的確運用了天地能量之中的「作用力」與「反作用力」。