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.
Food can bring natural healing. But people think its nutrition fact. The healing in food is not its nutritions, it’s the life qi. If you are in the wrong state while eating, you can get very limited benefits, let alone healing.
The painkillers can eliminate the pain symptoms temporarily. but it can never solve the pain. If you rely on painkillers to deal with pains, you can actually do more damage to your system. You need to understand what causes pains first.
You care so much about your body health by taking all possible healthy food and diet. But what about your mind health? Have you looked out what you’ve been taking into your mind every moment? If you can’t stop thinking which causes stress and anxiety, what you should do.
Do you choose to be a minimalist because you want to live a simple life? Do you think that getting rid of things will make your life simple and happy? If you are unconscious, minimalism will limit your life instead of liberate it.
When your doctor told you that your disease is incurable, what did they really mean? What shall you do if you hear those words from them?
Chinese has a culture of Qi foods. There are a lot of old sayings about foods and Qi in Chinese, for example 人以食为天. Word by word translation is: food is considered as big as the sky. Traditionally Chinese people believe that the best practice for maintaining health is by eating.