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(often
misspelled as "Chi-Kung", or "Chi-Gong",
or even "Qi-Kung", it's pronunciation sounds more like
"Chi-Gong")
The term QiGong refers to the practice of "handling"
the Qi, and it includes literally, thousands of different styles
and lines of study.
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Qi Gong is one of China's main contributions to improving the
quality of life and health. It is the basis of Traditional Chinese
Medicine and of the very popular "TaiJi" or "Tai-Chi".
Qi Gong has
evolved through thousands of years of study and research by China's
highest evolved sages and wise men.
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Although recorded
to be much older in much Chinese formal documentation, the oldest
written reference appears in the form of inscriptions on 3000 years
old bronze objects.
It studies the primal interrelation between the human being and
the Qi, and the way these two affect each other.
There are many different styles of QiGong, most of them consist
of practicing mental exercises and specific healing stances and
body movements that strengthen and balance the body as they open
and feed the meridians through which the Qi flows. Some other QiGong
styles use breathing exercises, herbs and sounds.
With the proper instruction, the practitioner can reach deep levels
of conscious contact with the Universe and the restoration/fortification
of the healthy flow of energy in the mind and the body.
With certain differences in form which gave birth to the many different
QiGong styles throughout the millennia, QiGong was used by all kind
of sages. It became the basic practice through which monks and priests
from all traditions and schools of thought were able to achieve
a healthy body, a clear mind and a wise spirit. No matter their
tradition or religion, practice of QiGong gave them the energy support
to achieve the highest purposes of human development.
Although based upon the cultivation of Love, Respect and Truth,
the real QiGong has nothing to do with religion or belief, it has
to do with physics.
For thousands of years the QiGong knowledge was kept secret; available
only to a few priests and monks, but today we have the blessing
and responsibility of living a historical moment of openness in
every sense; QiGong is now being shared with the general public,
mainly
as a tool that efficiently helps in the physical healing process
because that is the area in which it's results can be more easily
measured.
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