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- Kategorie: Ratgeber
- Serie: Stay young with Qi Gong
- Sprache: Englisch
Qi Gong is part of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and is practiced by millions of people around the world today. The goal is to maintain body and mind health and thus lead a long, happy life. This is done with a combination of traditional movements, breathing methods and the power of imagination. Everyone can start learning Qi Gong regardless of age, previous knowledge or constitution - ideally today!
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Seitenzahl: 47
Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021
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Volume 1: The 8 Brocades while standing and the 3 swing exercises
Qi Gong is part of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and is practiced by millions of people around the world today. The goal is to maintain body and mind health and thus lead a long, happy life. This is done with a combination of traditional movements, breathing methods and the power of imagination. Everyone can start learning Qi Gong regardless of age, previous knowledge or constitution - ideally today!
The author has been teaching Kung Fu and Qi Gong at his own school for many years. He had previously learned both arts from European and Chinese masters. His Qi Gong books contain useful knowledge and practical instructions in a compact, easy-to-understand form. Jin means "today" and Dao means "the way".
CONTENT
INTRODUCTION
GENERAL PART
The term "Qi Gong"
The goals of Qi Gong
What are the health benefits of practicing Qi Gong?
The contents of Qi Gong
The Qi Gong points
At what time and in which place should one practice Qi Gong?
What preparations should you make for Qi Gong training?
The Wuji stance
Evoking the Qi Gong state using the 3 preparatory exercises
Massage the eyebrows
Listen
The inner smile
The final exercises
Gathering the Qi
Filling Qi into the body
PRACTICAL PART
The 8 Brocades while standing (Ba Duan Jin)
Brocade: Hold up the sky
Brocade: Draw the bow
Brocade: Connect heaven and earth
Brocade: Look behind you
Brocade: Wag your rump and nod your head
Brocade: Strengthen the kidney energy
Brocade: Boxing and sparkling with your eyes
Brocade: Shake off old energy
The three swing exercises
The Daoist Cloud hands
The first swing exercise
The second swing exercise
The third swing exercise
The Daoist spinal stretching
OVERVIEW OF THE PRACTICAL CONTENT OF THE SERIES
Introduction
This book is part of a series in which I try to share my experience in Qi Gong with interested people and enable them to start practicing on their own. I have always based myself on the following structure:
General part - practical part.
The general part includes some basic knowledge that is important for understanding Qi Gong. I concentrated on the essentials and tried to use an understandable expression.
The practical part only contains exercise instructions that I have been practicing successfully for a long time and which I teach in my Qi Gong school. Furthermore, all exercises are suitable for self-study and can be done safely if carried out conscientiously. Of course, the example of a real teacher and practicing in a group where a common energy circle is formed can never be completely replaced.
The instructions given in the volumes in this series are sufficient material for every need and for lifelong practice.
If, in individual cases, any health risks should be expected due to the individual constitution of the practitioner, it is recommended to consult a doctor.
As far as the rendering of Chinese expressions is concerned, I have not opted for a single method of Romanization (e.g. Yale, Wade-Giles), but always for the commonly used and known form.
Someone who has started Qi Gong training will in most cases not want to stop any more. Once you have felt the pleasant feeling of the flow of energy and learned the ability to control your own Qi, not only will you be very satisfied, but our whole life will be positively influenced by it.
A quote from Laozi, the founder of Daoism, from the 6th century BC, reads:
"Even a journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step."
General part
The term "Qi Gong"
Since there is no uniform or perfect form of transcribing the Chinese characters into the Romance written languages, different spellings for the term “Qi Gong” are conceivable. In addition to the above version, which has become widely accepted, you can also find “Qigong”, “Chi Gung” or “Chi Kung”. The correct pronunciation is something like: "Tschi Gung".
In Far Eastern philosophy, Qi is a very comprehensive, multilayered variable, whereby the term in health work can best be translated as “energy”. In addition, one could also speak of “vital energy” or “life force”. Depending on the context, alternative meanings such as “breath”, “gas” or “fluid” may be appropriate. Everyone agrees that the terms “energy” and “breath” always play a central role.
Gong means "work", "ability" or "skill". One could therefore translate Qi Gong (freely) as “working with life energy” or “being able to deal with energy and breath”.
Incidentally, there is talk of a life force in many ancient cultures. In China it is called Qi, in India Prana, in Japan Ki, the Indians talked about the Great Spirit.
Figure 1
The symbol for Qi commonly used in China today (see Figure 1) consists of two individual symbols. Below you can see the symbol for “rice” and above that the symbol for “fly” or “evaporate”.
The interpretation of this symbolism is that through the Qi Gong practice something coarse is to be transformed or refined into something finer, higher. See also the explanations about the "Three Treasures" Jing, Qi and Shen in Volume 6 of the series. Furthermore, rice or food represents an energy supplier. The body then converts this energy into Qi and lets it flow on its meridians.
A previous representation for Qi Gong included the elements "fire" and a negation. This was to express the transformation of form, movement and being to non-form, non-movement and non-being.
