Qigong for health covers Qigong for physical body health and mental health. From Qi and Qigong’s perspective, we see the body and mind as inseparable, and both belong to physical existence. Therefore, your body health issues, for instance, cancers, tumours, diabetes, skin problem, stomach and kidney problems, and headaches, are associated with mental health issues such as stress, depression, anxiety, and so on.
Qigong is not to treat diseases per se. It can balance your whole system of body, mind, and spirit to achieve holistic health so that the diseases which are the results of imbalance cannot exist. Qigong practice includes Qigong exercises and Qigong meditation.
In 1968 the Beatles flew to Rishikesh to study meditation, and seven years later a Harvard cardiologist published The Relaxation Response — the true story of how the practice most people do today got deliberately stripped down to a clinical tool.
If sitting meditation has never worked for you, the problem almost certainly was not your mind — it was a mismatch between the tool you were given and what your system actually needs.
Is too much exercise bad for you? The honest answer is no — but most people training without a refilling practice are depleting a reservoir they cannot see. Here is the 70% reframe that changes the whole equation.
The word meditation covers four completely different practices — and confusing them is why so many people feel they chose the wrong path or failed at the right one.
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One English word covers four completely different practices — and confusing them is exactly why so many people decide they failed at meditation.