Simple Solutions to Global Problems? - Tai Chi & Qigong

According to modern medical research between$20 billion would be hardly missed. We'd still easily
70 and 85% of all illness leading people to doctorsbe able to afford clean water programs and global
is caused by stress (Kaiser Permenente twentyeducation programs that could also help stabilize
year study). The United States annual health carethe world, making us all safer and healthier. Global
costs exceed one-trillion dollars each year. Thishealth is affected by poverty, as nations in
means that effective stress managementextreme poverty pay little attention to
techniques, if provided to people en masseenvironmental laws, and may hunt extinct animals
through education, business, healthcare, etc. in anor decimate rain forests in order to earn money
aggressive national campaign to train our citizensto eat and live on.
in such techniques, could save our nation aloneA few billion dollars could pay for the one hundred
hundreds of billions in health care costs year aftersquare miles of solar cells in the Mohave desert
year.that experts say could supply "ALL" of the
Tai Chi & Qigong have been proven overelectrical needs of the United States, and perhaps
many centuries, including in emerging moderncreate technology that could be exported
medical research to be powerful stress reductionworldwide. Also, by supplying all the electrical
technologies. The results of this are found inneeds with cheap renewable solar, we could
studies like the one at UCLA indicating that Tai Chiexplore more efficient and effective electric cars
practitioners doubled their immune resistance tothat could be fueled by electricity supplied from
viral infection. Many studies also show Tai Chi cansolar collection, creating an absolutely non-polluting
provide cardiovascular benefit, lowering high bloodeconomy eventually. In a world where oil
pressure, and providing an effective gentleproduction has peaked and will only dwindle and
rehabilitation therapy for those with heart disease.become more and more expensive, this is an
So bottom line, we know stress costs usexciting possibility for all of us to have cheaply
hundreds of billions annually in health care costs.fueled personal transportation that will never run
We know that Tai Chi & Qigong can helpout.
millions lower stress levels and the deleteriousGlobal health & personal health are more
health effects of that stress. Yet, there is to dateclosely related than one might think at first glance.
no aggressive national effort to spread theHolistic solutions are simple and make a great deal
knowledge of these health tools to the massof sense, once we look into the heart of
population through public education etc.possibility, unclouded by cynicism that tells us we
This is a tragedy, not only because of theare victims of "what is." We are not victims. By
unnecessary health problems people suffer, butallowing our minds to explore possibility we
for other important reasons as well. If the worldimagine, "image-in" a new more expansive reality
employed these tools on a massive scale andthat could make our lives not only healthier, but
began to save the trillions of dollars they could bemore exciting and profound. Einstein wrote,
saving, major global social and environmental"imagination is more important than knowledge,"
problems could be addressed with that money.and those words were never more true than
It is estimated that for a mere $20 billion annually,they are today. Dare to imagine what is possible,
we could end starvation on the planet, which couldand the veil separating reality from that vision
lessen the pressure on societies that spursbecomes thinner with every new person willing to
instability and violence. If we saved trillionsstep beyond the walls of limitation.
worldwide each year on saved health care costs,