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Using Chi Kung
I have found the ideal Chi Kung Exercise to be something called induced chi flow.
I do urge you to research this form of exercise as I believe it is an ideal way to regenerate the body, mind and spirit.
An Introduction
Qigong (or Chi Kung) is generally considered to have been around for 5000 years, but if you think about it...every culture is going to have some form of Qigong, when you define it generically as "working with your Life Energy".
One of the things that I really like about Qigong is that it helps take you out of your mind, which is one of the essentials to being able to go deep in meditative practices. It kind of seduces you into it stillness.
The Chinese medical practitioners found that they could prescribe Qigong methods and Qigong techniques to their clients. Chinese medicine is preventative in its overall attitude—it has a perspective that the doctor almost owes it to the patient to keep them well. That, the doctor is going to fail the patient if the patient gets sick.
So, after noting certain imbalances in their patient's system, the Chinese doctor would prescribe particular techniques to keep them well.
Qigong operates almost like a self-acupuncture system. Chinese medicine sees you as a series of electric flows, bio-electric flows. A Chinese medical practitioner will look for areas in that flow that have become stagnant, look for areas that have become excessive and then help balance that out. Chinese herbs will do that, acupuncture will do that, acupressure, and also Qigong practice.
What benefits can you expect if you take up Qigong?
One of the great, great benefits comes from Qigong's concentration on abdominal breathing. It teaches you to come back to focusing on breathing down in the stomach, rather than focusing on upper chest breathing.
Abdominal breathing brings more oxygen into your system than upper chest breathing. The abdominal breathing style also helps activate the lymph system. Your lymph system is responsible for keeping you clean inside. Affecting your lymph system is not something that most Western exercise stresses very much. (Rebounding does and I've learned quite a great deal from the Rebounders about the importance of the lymph system.)
When the lymph system's sluggish, excessive blood proteins and fluids gather around the cells. The cells are supposed to be in what's known as a "dry" state. When the lymph system is functioning well, the excess fluids and debris are flushed away. Then more oxygen, blood, nutrients, energy or qi can actually reach and feed the cells—and keep you in a healthier state.
You are more vulnerable to many diseases if your lymph system is stagnant. So that's one of the benefits. When the lymph system is functioning well you also generate a relaxation response very easily.
And, part of the problem that we face in our culture is being constantly dis-eased, constantly feeling a little uncomfortable in our bodies, uneasy, wanting to be elsewhere than where we are, not really happy in our bodies.
The lymph system, again, when it's fully activated and you have this relaxation response firing, allows you to feel comfortable with your own body. Start re-living in your body and feel at peace in it.
So, Qigong practice can help just smooth your life out. Instead of being up and down a lot, become more like a gently undulating wave.
From a Chinese Medical perspective, a lot of disease comes from emotional imbalances in your system. And, there is also an element of disease that comes from external pathogens. Well, Qigong is wonderful for starting to balance your emotions. When you start balancing yourself energetically, you automatically begin having an impact on your emotional states.
Emotions—of which there are hundreds—are specific communication patterns we use to navigate the world. Every emotion has its place and use.
However, when certain emotions begin to act like bullies or dictators—fear and anger are great examples—the delicate equilibrium of information processing becomes disturbed.
Another way to think of it: imagine an orchestra where the drums refuse to follow the conductor's lead—and begin to play on their own without regard for the other musicians.
Qigong helps your Inner-Conductor regain control of your emotional orchestra through "energetic re-flow".
Most Western exercise, if it focuses on the internal organs at all, tends to focus on the heart, cardiovascular exercises, and the lungs, and that's about it. In Qigong you'll find that you'll be focusing on the health of your kidneys, liver, and other internal organ systems as being crucial for your overall internal health.
It's not something you're necessarily going to pick up on right away—that your liver is in better shape or that your kidneys are in better shape—but over the years, if you take Qigong up as a discipline, it's something that you're really going to appreciate.
In Qigong, your overall health and vitality have to be addressed from every aspect of your being.
Our interior beings are like children and most of the time we've abandoned those children. Most of our attention in our lives is externally focused. What I've appreciated about Qigong is that it teaches you to take care of yourself before you take care of anybody else. If you want to really help other people, you need to be emulating what you want to help them with; if you are a caregiver the same thing.
If I wanted to sum up Qigong, I'd say that it's "the art of being." It's learning skills to develop yourself as an ongoing work of art.
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