Like many other Eastern forms, QiGong represents a harmonious balance of body and mind, and is applied differently for different results. Healing QiGong covers the preventive and self-healing aspect of Chinese medicine. This is especially important for the contemporary management of stress. QiGong can help us see how to control our reactions to stress so that the business of living does not cause us to experience such symptoms as high blood pressure, frustration, or anxiety. While QiGong can help healthy people become even healthier, healers use it to balance 'qi' or 'chi' in their patients, and prevent burn-out and exhaustion.
What is more intriguing is that QiGong enables the healer to tap into a well of healing energy in nature and "funnel" it through his or her body. QiGong exercises increase sensitivity to energy fields and efficacy of treatment. 
These healing exercises and meditations can be practised alongside the regular treatment you are receiving, , and they make it more effective. These techniques are offered at a distance from the body by trained healers, and may be used alone, or combined with massage, acupuncture, osteopathy, and other forms of body-work.
Sportspersons use QiGong to improve strength, stamina, coordination, speed, flexibility, balance, and resistance to injury. Since self-awareness, tranquillity, and harmony with nature are natural side effects of QiGong, it is also sought after by spiritual seekers. This aspect of QiGong has evolved from Taoism and Buddhism. Aesthetic sensitivity is considerably enhanced with QiGong. This is one practice that makes us feel such oneness with nature that it becomes natural to express ourselves through poetry or painting, dance, mime or other expressive arts.
Perhaps what makes QiGong particularly suited to the modern world is how it can bring greater integrity, resistance to stress, better decision-making, and encourage credibility, confidence and team spirit. The implications this has for business are fairly staggering and have brought QiGong recognition as a training strategy for business professionals.
Hi.very good site.so what do your think about the following things:
Seven “ facts “about acupuncture .
Myth: Acupuncture is widely used in China
Truth: Acupuncture is not widely used in China
Acupuncture is not widely used in China as a part of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) - TCM also being a phrase that originated in the 20th century (1954). Acupuncture declined in popularity once scientific medicine was introduced to China.” In 1995 the Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) went to China and found that around 15-20% of the population used TCM (not just acupuncture), and that those people used TCM in conjunction with scientific medicine: what we would term complementary medicine. This level of use is at the lower end of the scale compared to other countries with advanced healthcare systems and it falls well short of countries such as Germany, Canada, France and Australia where the use of alternative remedies is more than twice that of China. China's use of alternative remedies is actually lower than the UK population's - currently around 25%.
Myth:Acupuncture can stimulate the body’s own healing response and help restore its natural balance by “Qi”
Truth: There is no evidence for the existence of this universal energy(“Qi”)
There are no scientific instruments that can detect it. It seemingly can only be detected and adjusted by practitioners. It is not a falsifiable hypothesis (it can't be tested) and as such is meaningless.
Myth: Acupuncture is an ancient Chinese cure that has existed, unchanging, for centuries.
Truth: acupuncture was formalized in a complex way over the past 100 years, mostly in Europe and France and after the Communist takeover in China. Before that time there was no consistent formalization of acupuncture points or what each place was supposed to do. It was largely regional, and the thinking varied from city to city."
Myth:Acupuncture offers specific cures
Truth: Acupuncture doesn’t offer specific cure .
If it has the effect of, say, releasing endorphins through the application of needles, well, many things release endorphins -- a walk in the woods, a 5-mile run, a pinch on the butt."
Myth: Acupuncture can claim to have an effect many condition.
Truth: Acupuncture can only claim have an effect very few condition.
If there is one area that acupuncture can claim to have an effect it's in pain relief. Although most evidence supporting acupuncture can be dismissed as anecdotal, trials have been done where acupuncture does show a pain relieving effect above placebo. The effect is not large, of the same magnitude as taking Aspirin or Ibuprofen, but nonetheless it's there and cannot be ignored.That's not to say that there are not problems with such claims however. Pain is an entirely subjective experience; it cannot be directly measured and the severity felt depends to a large extent on the patient's state of mind; which can be influenced by the practitioner giving the treatment. This leads on to the problem of blinding procedures with acupuncture. The practitioner is always aware of whether he's giving real or sham acupuncture and which patients he's giving them to.The pain relief effect does seem to exist; however, it's not clear whether it's a real effect of acupuncture or a strong placebo effect that's induced in the patient by the elaborate procedure of an acupuncture treatment
Myth: Acupuncture is very safe:
Truth: Acupuncture is not inherently dangerous but being an invasive technique, it is not risk free.
Haematoma may result from the accidental puncture of a circulatory structure. Nerve injury can result from the accidental puncture of any nerve. Brain damage or stroke is possible with very deep needling at the base of skull. Also rare, but possible, is pneumothorax from deep needling into the lung, and kidney damage from deep needling in the lower back. Needles that are not properly sterilized can transfer diseases such as HIV and hepatitis. There is also the danger, common to all alternative therapies, of not seeking proper medical treatment because of an over reliance on alternatives. Acupuncturists are not doctors and will not have the capability of diagnosing a serious illness from its typical symptoms.
Myth: Acupuncture is more effective.
Truth: Acupuncture is not very effective.
The practise is based on untenable principles and the small amount of evidence there is to support its use in pain relief can also be called into question. Although there are claims that it has a mild pain relieving effect, it probably does so simply because it's an elaborate placebo. Whether the mild pain relieving properties are of acupuncture are real or not, most claims for the efficacy of acupuncture are grossly over-exaggerated. If there is a use for Acupuncture, it can only be in mild pain relief. The question then becomes a matter of whether the cost of acupuncture for this mild pain relief can be justified
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