How do you summon your "Chi"

[aefibird]

in some arcane foul tome

 

...or should that be "fowl" tome.... *groan*

[Shorin Ryuu]

I usually do some White Crane kata to really bring it out. I believe in it, but I'm still not sure what it is or what the actual reasons behind it are. I actually read an interesting book by Arakaki (forget what it was called, I borrowed it from my instructor) that said ki was simply gravity. It was a really interesting perspective.