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