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.
Can you learn qigong from YouTube? A video can teach you how to open a practice. It cannot see your shoulders climbing, cannot see you holding your breath, and it almost never shows you how to close what you opened.
Qigong is safe, and qigong is sharp — the sharpness is why it works. Five plain rules keep a real, effective practice from becoming a rough one: don’t force, don’t chase sensation, don’t practise exhausted, close what you open, and slow down when something feels wrong.
Anger sent your qi up. A hard day drained it. A walk brought it back down. You have been moving qi your entire life — you just never had a name for it, or a way to do it on purpose.
Someone tells you to go for a walk when you’re stuck in your own head, and it works. Here’s the qigong mechanism behind it — and why that ordinary advice is qigong you were already doing without a name for it.
In Chinese, anger is called sheng qi. The common gloss stops at “to make energy.” The fuller meaning is qi rising — and it explains the hot face, the pounding head, and why you can’t think straight when you’re angry.
Should you chase heat, tingling, or a wave up the spine in qigong? What should qigong feel like, what sensations actually mean, and a better question to ask.