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QiGong vs Western Exercise - The Leaking Of Energy

3/19/2019

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People frequently ask me if I exercise. My response is Qigong - The most powerful form of exercise available to us, in order to actually GAIN lifeforce energy. ​
I have seen a simple qigong practice change the health and lives of so many individuals. (you can get my simply yet powerful Qigong video course here: https://bit.ly/2Ty6pXP )

When people ask me if I run, or lift heavy objects, my bodies immediate response is to laugh...Why would I do such a ridiculous practice of throwing life-force away?

I regularly have well trained athletes come to me, whos life revolves around fitness. I will put these people into very simple Qigong postures, and they will fall over in fatigue very quickly, as internally, their system is weak.(even if they have all the external muscles).

Women suffer the health consequences of over-exercising even more than men due to their liver/blood relationship, which you can read below.

"How Strenuous Western Forms of Exercise Impact health:
Cardiovascular exercise is good for you—or is it? “Cardiovascular” means “pertaining to the heart and blood vessels.” “Exercise” refers to “bodily exertion for the sake of developing and maintaining physical fitness.” If Western scientific studies have proved that negative mental and emotional states are stronger predictors of coronary artery and heart disease than many physical factors, and modalities like stress reduction actually decrease the risk of heart problems more effectively than routine cardiac care, doesn’t it make sense to exercise in a different way—one that really creates health?

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has a real issue with cardio exercise. First of all, there’s the sweat. In TCM, one of the functions of the Heart organ network is to control body fluids. Sweat or perspiration is considered the “fluid” of the Heart, and so if you sweat a lot you are actually unbalancing the Qi, or energy, of your Heart. In the case of perspiring too much and losing too many body fluids, you are creating an energy deficiency of the Heart, which can prevent this organ system from functioning well.

Then there’s the issue of the tendons and ligaments. These areas of your body are completely dependent upon sufficient blood from the Liver to nourish them. Strenuous and excessive exercise, such as intense aerobic and running workouts, is hard on the joints—the tendons and ligaments.
Think about what’s happening inside your body from a different perspective: when you overwork your joints, the Liver has to send more blood to help restore or repair them. On a continual basis, this scenario depletes the Liver’s energy.

And this state is especially problematic for women because the Liver is an extremely important organ in terms of women’s health. It’s a fact that excessive exercise can cause a woman’s period to stop completely. The close relationship between the tendons and the Liver is the reason why. In TCM’s Five Element theory, the Liver is the “mother” of the Heart (the “child”), meaning the Liver supports and nourishes the Heart with its energy. If the mother becomes depleted, how can the child have vibrant health?

More essentially, TCM sees intense physical exercise as spending precious Qi that is very difficult to replace. From the TCM perspective, strenuous, sweat-inducing exercise does not create true health—either Heart health or health in general. Consider for a moment: What is missing from your body once you are dead? Qi, or vital life energy, is the key component. Wouldn’t it make sense then, to pursue a form of exercise that actually increases this life-giving, life-enhancing energy instead of using it up?

Meditation, for instance, has been shown to create positive changes in the areas of the brain linked with emotion. It also increases immune function and blood flow, decreases blood pressure, and generally lowers heart rate.

What Eastern masters have known intuitively for thousands of years is that systems like Qigong, Taiji, yoga, and meditation actually create health from the inside out. These forms of movement are slow (if not stationary), peaceful and resonate with the water-like frequency of the body.
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It’s interesting that well-trained athletes can have exceptional difficulty holding the most basic Qigong postures for more than a few minutes. What’s going on when this happens? It is the quantity and quality of internal energy that is lacking. And from the Eastern perspective, the TCM perspective, Qi is the origin of true strength and power as well as genuine health—body, mind, and spirit."

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I hope todays sharing has benefited you.
Much love.
Chris

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3 Comments
Yenson
3/19/2019 05:45:31 pm

If many athletes have problems holding basic qigong postures for more than a few minutes, can't you say the opposite for most meditators / qigong practitioners? Does qigong help with physical activity or promote muscular health?

There's not much evidence out there on this topic. So having some insight shed here would help me a lot.

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Josh
3/19/2019 07:01:34 pm

interesting, I've been practicing calisthenics (pull ups, dips, push ups, handstands, pistol squats, etc.) for close to 5 years now. I've also been in a process of a constant increase and refinement of body-consciousness (meditation, qi gong, general energy work). I noticed time and time again how my workouts are getting shorter in duration, lighter in resistance and breaks between sets tend to increase slightly, so I'm basically doing less and less work overall and barely stressing out my cardiovascular system anymore (I never sweat anymore either). Then I would sometimes ask myself: am I just turning into a lazy fuck or is this a natural progression due to my increased awareness of my energy? Because I would observe everyone around me pushing themselves to their limit, gasping like crazy, and I'm just sitting there thinking "guys, take it easy man!" I still love working out though, I'm still building muscle and sporting a lean physique, but I ain't busting my ass in the gym one bit these days.

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Josh
3/19/2019 07:07:50 pm

I remember Paul Check (amazing guy btw) teaching how to "work IN" instead of "working OUT" ;)

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