Medical Qi-Gong.

Qi-Gong (pronounced chee-goong), has been practiced in China for thousands of years. Qi-gong, literally, breathing exercises, is the name given to a wide variety of methods for enhancing one's Qi (internal energy or life force). At the end of the cultural revolution, Deng Ziao Peng set about rebuilding much of the cultural heritage in China. He promoted the rediscovery of traditional Chinese medicine, which includes Qi-Gong. Though there are many techniques, the common factors are clearing the mind, breathing slow, deep abdominal and comfortable breaths, and focusing on acupuncture point Guanyan, located four finger widths below the umbilicus (belly button). This is one of the most important points to tonify one's Qi, as stated in the text, Chinese acupuncture and moxibustion. Around the 1980s, leaders of China began to study Qi-Gong from a modern science point of view. It is claimed that Qi-Gong masters can emit energy from their hands that has a beneficial effect on health and healing. In the book Scientific Investigations of Chinese Qi-Gong by Richard Lee, scientific experiments were able to measure radio waves, sound, magnetic fields, and infrared emitting from the hands or bodies of Qi-Gong practitioners. It has also been tested that the practice of Qi-Gong is a right side of the brain activity. There resides the subconscious mind, consisting of sense impressions and memories that affect every cell, organ, bone, and tissue of the body. This is where we experience the alpha state of mind when we sleep as the body is in a heal-and-repair mode.

I had the privilege to study at the Bao-Ding Qi-Gong research hospital in China. I would have to say that even as an alternative healthcare practitioner, my experiences and observations fall under my category of "lunatic medicine."

If, as the Chinese claim, we can direct this Qi through our bodies and awareness, then the Western idea of positive thinking takes on new meaning, especially as it relates to health and healing. Positive thinking or good intentions are magnified when supported by a technique that will deliver and execute intention with profound consequences. That is medical Qi-Gong; the healer goes beyond intention.

David Goldner, L.M.B.T.#1561

CEU Provider

in Medical Qi-Gong Seminars

Treatments for pain and dis-ease

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