• Eat A Helthy Diet For The Right Reasons: Rather than eating right for the promise of looking better in your jeans, you should make a commitment to eating foods that will boost your energy level and keep your system running smoothly. This is because what you eat can not only impact your short-term and long-term health, it can affect your stress levels. If you're hungry ur malnourished, you may be more emotionally reactive to stressors, or may not have the reserves to handle what comes up as efficiently as you would if you were operating on a full stomach of healthy food. Watching what you eat can be a stress management tool as well as a health preserver.
• Make Sleep A Priority: Make a commitment to get enough sleep at night. If you haven't gotten adequate sleep, you may be less productive, less mentally sharp, and otherwise more prone to the effects of stress. Carve out a full eight hours, avoid caffeine after 2pm, and adopt a calming technique such as meditation, and let your body restore itself each night. You’ll feel better all day.
• Watch What You Put Into Your Body: Avoid putting unhealthy substances into your body; nicotine, excess alcohol, and even excessive caffeine can take a toll on your health in the long run, but also make you feel lousy overall in your day-to-day life. Find healthier ways to manage stress, and you'll enjoy double health and stress management benefits!

The Benefits of Exercise

I could (and will) go on and on about all the things exercise can do for you, both physically and mentally. The great thing about it is that you don't need much to get the benefits. Even just a few minutes a day can improve your health, well-being and help you:

• Lose weight
• Reduce stress
• Relieve symptoms of depression and anxiety
• Reduce your risk of heart disease and certain types of cancer
• Boost your mood
• Give you more energy
• Help you sleep better
• Increase bone density
• Strengthen the heart and lungs
• Improve your quality of life

Revealing An Ancient Wisdom

“When Qi flows freely along the meridians, people are free from illness; If the Qi is blocked, the pain follows.”

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Blockages - Deposits of Chemical Waste - Causes of Chronic Illnesses

A blockage can occur in any location in the human body. Symptoms of a blockage manifest as a slowing of the flow of Qi and blood. Thus, when there is a blockage, the local metabolism slows down and the body structure becomes less energetic. This slow-down makes the local body systems less capable of removing chemical waste by blood or lymph and causes further deposition of chemical waste in the same area. These activities will repeat themselves indefinitely. Once the local energy level falls below a certain threshold, the onset of a chronic illness is near. If it is not treated, the condition will worsen over time. For example: Healthy muscles should have a very relaxed and soft muscle tone. A joint should not be enlarged. If you discover that your elbow is enlarged and your muscle is hardened, it will be painful if you press on it. These symptoms indicate a blockage in your elbow.

The Relationship of Blockage and Illness - Chinese Meridian Systems

With any physical or emotional illness, a blockages will be found some where in the body. These blockages may or may not occur next to the troubled organ or structure. Fortunately, Chinese meridian systems explain most of these relations by laying out the blockages or acupuncture points systematically, which enable us to treat headaches by using points on the patient’s foot, for example. Most importantly, results are profound. 

Points to remember during qigong practice

1.Breathe naturally, softly and rhythmically, and do not draw out your breath with force.

2.No matter which posture you may practice, position yourself in a way that you can feel your whole body fully relaxed.

3.Try to integrate movement (dong) and stillness (jing) in your exercise program. Generally speaking, Taijiquan is a kind of moving exercise in qigong. So besides doing static qigong exercises, it will do you good to practice a little Taijiquan or some other active forms of fitness exercises

4.Be patient and persevere when you practice qigong and do not seek immediate results.

Although qigong can be used to keep fit and cure disease, it is no panacea. Good results can be achieved only when we combine it with other methods of physical training and medical treatment in a way that best suits the conditions of each individual.

Qigong Anesthesia

On June 21, 1980 at Shanghai No. 8 People’s Hospital, a unique surgical operation took place which made world news. A qigong master, Lin Hou Sheng from the Chinese Medicine Research Institute stretched out his right hand and pointed his index and middle fingers at Yin Tang (an acupuncture point) between the eyebrows of the patient. Through his fingertips he emitted wai qi (externally projected qi) from a distance of about 3 centimeters on a 29 year old female patient. After three minutes, he nodded to the surgeon who then picked up his sharp scalpel and commenced a surgical operation on a thyroid tumor.

The patient received no additional anesthesia, remained conscious throughout, and did not show even the least sign of pain during the 140 minute operation. When awalnut sized tumor was removed and shown to the patient, a smile lit up her face. Lin Hou Sheng using emitted Qi for anesthesia during surgery.

This was the tenth thyroidectomy in little over a month performed with qigong anesthesia at the hospital. Lin, age 41 at the time, has used emitted qi to treat successfully such varied conditions as stomach ulcers, hypertension, urinary incontinence, and protrusions of lumbar vertebra. Since the mid 1980's, due in part to the attention generated by Lin, renewed interest in Qigong and Qigong healing developed into a national fad in China.

More recently, Dr. Wan Sujian, a Chinese army doctor and Director of the Institute of Chinese Daoist Medical Qigong in Beijing, has gained worldwide renown for his success in treating thousands of paraplegic and quadriplegic patients with External Qi Healing. Dr. Wan’s army hospital has also searched throughout China for children who exhibit special Qigong healing abilities and has brought them to the hospital for further training as Qigong therapists.

External Qi Healing (Wai Qi Zhi Liao) is not usually a primary health care choice for most people. It is mainly resorted to when other conventional treatment methods have failed. The fact that External Qi Healing is successful when nothing else works points to its special value and importance as a limb of Oriental medical practice.