Benefits of Qigong

Qigong is extremely useful for people of all ages.  These energy movement exercises can benefit children, young and old adults, athletes and sick or invalid individuals.

The integration of Qigong and Everyday Life can provide a number of benifits.

• Promote health physically and spiritually

• Anti-aging and prolong life

• Rehabilitation

• Pediatrics

• Women's health

• Sports

• Paralysis

• Energy healing

• Education

• Improve sexual performance

• Prevent addictions

• Spinal cord injury cancer, immune deficiency diseases, AIDS

• Mental Health

 For children, Qigong is especially good at developing the kinesthetic sense, helping them to sense the body's relationship to the space it inhabits. Qigong, when taught patiently in small doses and with sensitivity to children's capabilities, will encourage the development of their attention spans. Qigong will also introduce children to an inner awareness of the body. Children who learn Qigong will continue to understand their personal physical reality through sensation, rather than abstracting it, as we are mostly taught to do in the maturing process.

Qigong benefits adults in the same ways it does children.  Qigong gently relaxes the stiffened joints of sedentary adults and compels the circulation of energy Qi throughout the entire body without causing undue sweating or fatigue. Consequently, general health improves.

Qigong reinforces stamina in both athletes and adolescents, toning the joints and providing strength for brief and intense muscular exertion. Moreover, it strengthens the Qigong student's capacity for concentrating, providing the ability to visualize the most perfect or efficient gesture for any given situation.

With people of a more mature age whose physical capabilities are beginning to diminish and whose endurance is no longer what it was, and even for those people of a truly venerable age, Qigong is even more advantageous. At that time of life when stiffening joints and tightening muscles diminish an individual's physical capabilities and flexibility, in cases where the cardiovascular system is failing or respiration is weakened, and even when physical disabilities suffered as a result of rheumatism confine an individual to an armchair or to walking with a cane, Qigong can prove to be a lifeline. In these cases Qigong is the most potent and rapidly effective path to physical rehabilitation. The energy that is circulated through Qigong practice provides new sensations of well being and gives the practitioner the possibility of real physical improvement, which will considerably slow the aging process.

Qigong is of great help to sick people and invalids, giving them the means by which to rediscover the life energy that has been consumed either by their struggles against the illness or the process of repair in which the body is engaged. It has been scientifically established that Qigong stimulates the immune system and is favorable for the healing of inflamed or degenerated tissue. Qigong has a calming effect upon the nervous system and is therefore beneficial in the treatment of anxiety, insomnia, and depression.

Qigong encourages the revelation and realization of personal potential. The work of a painter can suddenly express a profundity that it lacked before. In the Orient the practice of calligraphy is combined with the practice of Qigong. A dancer's movement can be illuminated with a new level of grace, her movement and her energy through increased body awareness. A singer practices Qigong to improve the purity of her voice; a thinker makes use of it for its intellect‑stimulating powers. The seeker will employ it to find his path to the truth. Qigong is not an end in itself—it is a means available for anyone seeking to improve him or herself.  

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