Could you tell me about Qigong healing or taoist healing?

Could you please tell me about it and also let me know any internet info sources?

Could you tell me about Qigong healing or taoist healing?
When you practice Qigong, the exercises charge and accelerate the electrons that are part of your atoms. This creates an electro-magnetic field(EMF) in the body. This field is healing to the body. It keeps your organs functioning. Qi means Breath. The breath of life was blown into the nostrils of man and he became a living soul.





If you have inbalances in your body, the EMF becomes stagnant and cannot keep your cells moving. Cells die and new cells grow.





You do Qigong your whole life because you breathe unconsciously. The exercises were developed to accelerate your energy and enhance the living process.





There are people who don't believe the power of Qi exists... well they should all be dead if that was the case because there would be no life in them.





Look for Jerry Alan Johnson. He is a long time practitioner an teacher. Also Kenneth Cohen is very knowlegdeable. Mantak Chia is another.





There are many others.
Reply:Qi has absolutely nothing to do with an EMF! The concept of Qi dates back to the Yellow Emperor in China. Do you think they had any concept of electro-magnetism 5,000 years ago?! This is new-age science BS trying to describe a foreign concept for which it lacks the vocabulary. Report It

Reply:Hi Mr Vegan Death Squad (interesting name), thanks for the info %26amp; your answer. Your answer was interesting, but you didn't give much info specifically about QiGong. I've looked into Daoism a bit already, but i'm interested to find out more about Daoist meditation. Report It

Reply:I'm not sure about internet sources, but a good place to start if you're interested in Qigong and Taoism (Daoism) from a healing perspective is to start learning about Chinese medicine. Qigong and other methods for cultivating Qi are a central pillar of Chinese medicine and Daoism is one of the foundations on which it is based. The books listed below would be great places to start for Chinese medicine and Daoism.
Reply:Inside Tao News/Chi Flows Naturally:





1. Essay: five reasons why qigong is better for our health than ordinary


exercise for us humans struggling to "stay in shape". How can qigong be better


if it doesn't build bulk muscle or tax the heart with an aerobic workout? Taken


from my new Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) section, which will be posted


within a week.





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in the Catskills, 90 minutes from NYC. Start planning now - these low cost


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Dear Souls that are Curious about Good Health,





Question: Why is Qigong (chi kung) better for health than regular exercise or


sports?





Answer:





I think sports and physical exercise is great, it's one way to enjoy your body


and explore its potential. I’ve tried just about every sport. I am a top skier.


I was a professional white water rafting guide, with 40 trips down the Grand


Canyon. I’ve hiked in many of the world’s most famous mountains. I swim a mile


in the Caribbean ocean every day during my winter retreat. I especially love


outdoor sports, as they put me in direct contact with nature’s energy field.





Sports are totally compatible with qigong. But none of the sports or other forms


of exercise I've tried ultimately can compare to the benefits I’ve received from


daily practice of qigong. If I do a sport, I still practice qigong the same day,


as it balances and refreshes me. If possible, I always practice qigong outdoors,


to absorb more natural chi.





Below are five reasons I find qigong to be a superior form of exercise. The same


benefits apply to tai chi, which I consider to be a long martial form of qigong.


But tai chi is longer and thus harder to learn. For this reason I've found


qigong delivers faster and deeper results for most people.





1. Qigong is a whole mind-body exercise.





The main difference is that qigong is not just a physical body exercise, it is a


body-mind exercise. The mind could be defined as our ability to shape energy


into thoughts, feelings, sensations, or other perceptual patterns.





When you exercise the full spectrum of your body-mind using qigong, a completely


different experience happens. You begin to shape energy into flowing patterns of


harmony and balance and peace. You connect your body to the sky above and the


earth below, and your heart opens up a vast open creative space inside the body.





If you practice qigong in a group, you begin to experience the “group heart” of


your fellow practitioners. If you practice alone, it opens a peaceful space in


your heart that is easy and wonderful to share the rest of the day. This whole


body-mind involvement of qigong is also what makes it a perfect complement to


passive sitting meditation.





2. Qigong overcomes our resistance to physical exercise.





Qigong is so much fun, it becomes a “healthy addiction”. People love being


relaxed while they exercise. Many folks tell me they cannot wait to practice it


each day. Unfortunately, most Western people treat physical exercise as


something that you “do to your body” or to your muscles or “to” your heart. They


hate going to gym.





Why do so many people hate physical exercise, and drop it as the first excuse?


Their mind is separated from their body. Hence, there is an unconscious fear and


sometimes loathing of the body. The modern top-heavy mind sees the body like a


difficult and needy child, that cannot really be controlled or satisfied.





Many modern people live in their head, and just visit the lower part of the body


occasionally to get it into shape. They exercise mostly so the head/face will


look good sitting on top of the body. Others can only experience their body


through sex. Then they quickly shift back into their head immediately


afterwards. People engage in sex-ploitation of their own body without realizing


it. It’s much healthier to have a full time relationship between your mind and


your body.





Example: many joggers listen to music as they run in mindless circles around the


block. They are not focused on what their body is experiencing while running.


They ignore the joy of movement or the exhilaration of moving through space.


Instead, they listen to their favorite band because they find their body


incredibly boring to hang out with. Exercise is a chore. They resent having to


work hard, to sweat to get the fat off their flabby muscles. There is no deep


mind-body communication happening during their exercise.





With qigong it’s different. You don’t push the river, you find a gentle rhythm


and you repeat it with slow, relaxed, often circular movements. Different


movements open different energy channels in your body. The process invites to go


deeper. You gradually find the body moves by itself effortlessly, as if


propelled by some invisible energy field. You relax and enjoy a ride on an easy


feeling of flow.





3.Qigong delivers better %26amp; quicker health benefits than ordinary exercise.





I could go on for an entire book all the health benefits that come about from


this kind of relaxed movement. About how ONLY gentle circular movements will


stimulate your lymphatic system, which is the backbone of the body-mind’s immune


system. Jogging and aerobics actually shut down the lymphatic-immune system


during vigorous exercise!





Why would fast exercise cause your immune system to shut down? When you go


running, your body assumes that you need to conserve energy. It thinks (in the


deep instinctual brain) that you are running away from a bear chasing you down


for a meal. Your belly-instinct brain doesn’t see your $200. nike running shoes,


it thinks you are in survival mode, so it kicks the adrenaline on and shuts the


immune system. It considers your immune system an optional at that survival


moment.





So vigorous exercise is not optimal for your lymphatic and immune system. It may


do other things for you, and is certainly better than rotting in your chair!


Does your heart need the “fast” aerobic exercise? According to Chinese medicine,


no. It posits that the heart is already over-worked, and actually needs a


vacation. Qigong gives the heart a vacation by getting the chi meridians and


blood vessels of the entire body to take over the heart job of blood


circulation.





That is why top athletes have low blood pressure – their circulatory efficiency


is so high that the heart doesn’t need to overwork. Chinese sports athletes


already know that qigong training will give them a secret edge over their


competitors, but they don’t advertise it.





Does science back up the claim that qigong offers superior health benefits?


Please check our the research from the past director of the Stanford Research


Institute on the 3500 science studies proving the health benefits of qigong.


http://www.healingtaousa.com/cgi-bin/art...





4. Qigong gives you more energy than you expend practicing it.





You get more energy back from qigong than you put into it. When you do qigong,


you are exploring the natural of perpetual motion. Your body is really a “free


energy device”. Physicists admit that humans expend more energy than they take


in from food, water, and air. But they cannot answer the mystery as to where the


extra energy comes from.





If you practice qigong regularly, it is like making a really safe, profitable


investment. You get all your invested principle back, plus huge interest. Most


physical “body-only” exercise result in a net energy loss. People work hard,


they sweat, afterwards they feel pleasantly exhausted. The addiction here is


different – it is the need to release pent up or stuck energy in the body.





So even this type of physical workout is healthy for you, up to a point. But


consider this: body builders who develop huge muscles often die young of heart


attacks. Why? Because as they age, their heart has to feed blood to all that


muscle, and it gets exhausted early. The big muscles turn to fat, and reduce


efficiency of circulation.





Qigong in my progressive training has you store the extra chi gained in your


bones, tendons, and vital organs – not in the muscles. These require far less


maintenance and are part of the qigong secret to producing longevity.





5. Qigong is easy, fun, %26amp; all ages can practice it anywhere.





You can learn qigong and begin to feel the chi flow within minutes. It’s really


a universal exercise – it’s super easy to learn, whether you are 8 or 80 years


old. You can practice anywhere, anytime – indoors or outside, even in a small


apartment space.





With qigong exercise, less is more. Less effort gives better results - the more


relaxed and soft you are, the more the chi can flow through you. Forget the “no


pain, no gain” exercise theory. When you push the river, you get tired of it


eventually. Ordinary kinds of exercise can make your body strong, but they wear


you out energetically.





With qigong exercises, you can forget the sweaty workout. Stop treating the body


like a dumb sheep that needs to be herded by a head that ”knows” what is best


for the body. Qigong exercise is about appreciating your body-mind, respecting


its intelligence, and giving it love and energy while you are moving it. The


body-mind together keep you young and healthy. Qigong doesn’t push or stress the


body into a hard sweat – it seeks to release stress from the body.





Wishing you love, flowing chi, and radiant health,





Michael Winn








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the Tao as his door, and who becomes change – is a Sage.”





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