| ong Work? | | | | premise of all Traditional Chinese Medicine, |
| Modern scientific research is now catching up the | | | | whether it’s acupuncture, herbal medicine, |
| ancient health sciences of Tai Chi & Qigong. | | | | or T’ai Chi and Qigong is that there is a |
| Given that most of our illness is caused by stress, | | | | flow of subtle energy, or bio energy, flowing |
| the potential benefits that these ancient solutions | | | | through the body, and when this flow gets |
| offer our lives is increasingly important for | | | | blocked or obstructed our health systems are |
| everyone to know about. Western medical | | | | diminished as a result. There are 2 ways this |
| science is only beginning to understand what | | | | energy gets blocked, one by an external accident, |
| T’ai Chi and Qigong offers us. However, | | | | obviously if you break your leg it will affect the |
| just the tiny amount of research that has been | | | | way the energy flows through it. However, the |
| done so far indicates that T’ai Chi and | | | | most common way that energy gets blocked is |
| Qigong are very powerful health tools that can | | | | by internal unmanaged stress. We know this is |
| save each of us and our society a great deal of | | | | the most common way, because most research |
| money and personal suffering. | | | | indicates that about 70% of all illnesses sending us |
| Both T’ai Chi & Qigong are a | | | | to the doctor are due to stress. |
| combination of bio-feedback, | | | | At you can find a free Sitting Qigong exercise in |
| visualization, and classical conditioning | | | | the Free Lessons menu that will enable you to |
| techniques that can not only provide powerful | | | | begin to actually feel this experience of energy |
| adjunct therapy for most maladies, but also can | | | | and energy blockages. If you book mark it and |
| teach us tools that may head off physical illness | | | | use it daily, you will likely find a significant shift in |
| long before it actually occurs. There is a newly | | | | the quality of your life. |
| emerging science of medicine known as | | | | Tai Chi brings this qualitative shift to another level |
| psychoneuroimmunology, which is the study of | | | | by physicalizing it throughout your entire body. Tai |
| the mind’s influence over the body. This | | | | Chi’s motions replicate most of the |
| new science, although new in the West has | | | | motions the body is capable of performing in the |
| actually been practiced and refined to an | | | | normal day’s activities, and thereby it |
| extremely high level in China in the form of | | | | begins to trigger the relaxation responses of |
| T’ai Chi and Qigong. | | | | flowing life energy into the everyday tasks we |
| Although, new to Westerners, T’ai Chi and | | | | perform. |
| Qigong are centuries or even millennia old, and in | | | | Again, since 70% of illness is cause by stress, this |
| fact provide the backbone of healthcare in China | | | | incorporation of stress cleansing techniques into |
| today, even though China also employs all the | | | | the fabric of our lives can be a powerful |
| wonders of Western medicine. T’ai Chi and | | | | technology for everyone to learn. These were up |
| Qigong is a form of Traditional Chinese Medicine, | | | | until recently ancient secrets of China, but today |
| and therefore based on the same principles as | | | | are available to people worldwide who take the |
| acupuncture and Traditional Chinese | | | | time to learn them. |
| Medicine’s (TCM) herbal medicine. The | | | | |