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How often should you practise qigong? The honest answer is less about intensity and more about a simple daily plan — plus what a full year of mornings can build.
Am I doing qigong right? For most practitioners that’s the wrong question — here is the one that actually tracks whether the practice is working.
Is qigong something you do or build? The name of the practice already answers the question — and it changes what a single session is for.
Why does holding your arm out start to hurt when nothing changed but time? A two-minute test that explains what qigong is actually built from.
What does kung fu really mean? Not fighting — the same word for skill that only time can build sitting quietly inside “qigong.”
What does gong mean in qigong? The character 功 shows work plus strength — not the effort itself, but what the effort produced.
What does the qi character mean? What the character 氣 actually shows: steam rising off cooking rice — invisible, real, and it does work.
Is the chi in tai chi the same as qi in qigong? No — two different Chinese words that only look alike once written in English letters.
Qigong or chi kung — same word, two spellings, from two different systems for writing Chinese sounds in English letters. Neither is wrong.
How to pronounce qigong: the two sounds — chee, falling, and gong, flat and high — that almost everyone gets wrong, and why.
What to do when emotions come up during qigong: four plain steps — keep moving, keep breathing, don’t chase it, finish and close — plus why a held group field makes it easier.
Can emotions be stored in the body? Not as objects waiting to be found — as qi that never finished moving. A non-clinical look at the child who lets go and the man who does not.