Ancient Health Science: How Do Tai Chi and Qigong Work?

Western medical science is only beginning tothis 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 thatways this energy gets blocked, one by an
has been done so far indicates that T'ai Chi andexternal accident, obviously if you break your leg
Qigong are very powerful health tools that canit will affect the way the energy flows through it.
save each of us and our society a great deal ofHowever, 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 ofknow this is the most common way, because
"bio-feedback", "visualization", and "classicalmost research indicates that about 70% of all
conditioning" techniques that can not only provideillnesses sending us to the doctor are due to
powerful adjunct therapy for most maladies, butstress.
also can teach us tools that may head offAt you can find a free Sitting Qigong exercise in
physical illness long before it actually occurs. Therethe Free Lessons menu that will enable you to
is a newly emerging science of medicine knownbegin to actually feel this experience of energy
as psychoneuroimmunology, which is the study ofand energy blockages. If you book mark it and
the mind's influence over the body. This newuse it daily, you will likely find a significant shift in
science, although new in the West has actuallythe quality of your life.
been practiced and refined to an extremely highTai 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 QigongChi's motions replicate most of the motions the
are centuries or even millennia old, and in factbody is capable of performing in the normal day's
provide the backbone of healthcare in Chinaactivities, and thereby it begins to trigger the
today, even though China also employs all therelaxation responses of flowing life energy into
wonders of Western medicine. T'ai Chi and Qigongthe everyday tasks we perform.
is a form of Traditional Chinese Medicine, andAgain, since 70% of illness is cause by stress, this
therefore based on the same principles asincorporation of stress cleansing techniques into
acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine'sthe fabric of our lives can be a powerful
(TCM) herbal medicine. The premise of alltechnology for everyone to learn. These were up
Traditional Chinese Medicine, whether it'suntil recently ancient secrets of China, but today
acupuncture, herbal medicine, or T'ai Chi andare available to people worldwide who take the
Qigong is that there is a flow of subtle energy, ortime to learn them.
bio energy, flowing through the body, and when