3 Benefits of Qi Gong

Introduction

What is Qi Gong? Qi Gong (aka Chi Kung) is a form of internal exercise that consists of three layers: form, breathing, and visualization. The term "gong" in qi gong stands for form or art, and the term "qi" in qi gong stands for energy, the cosmic energy of the universe. "Qi" is called "chi" in Chinese, and "ki" in Japanese, as in Aikido. Anyway, qi is the energy that you work with when you practice qi gong. Why should you consider practicing qi gong? You should consider practicing qi gong for the benefits that it can bestow on you, namely, better health, internal strength, and spiritual growth.

Qi gong can make you healthy

Qi Gong can help you improve your health. All you have to do are few simple qi gong exercises religiously everyday. In a sense, it is like a physical exercise in the sense that in order to make progress and maintain that progress, you must exercise every day. That is to say that you must practice the appropriate qi gong form together with its accompanying breathing and visualization exercises every single day to benefit from qi gong practice. Over time you will begin to see the benefits of this internal exercise just like you eventually see the benefits of all of your external exercises from the exertion you perform in the gym or at home. It doesn't happen over night. It takes time, work, persistence, and commitment. What are some of the benefits of practicing qi gong? To name a few: You can clear the toxics from your body. You can strengthen your organs--your heart, lungs, kidney, liver, and bones. Also, you can cure, some qi gong masters claim, diseases that Western medicine say are incurable. Examples are cancer, diabetes, and ulcers.

Qi gong can make you powerful

Qi gong can help you improve your internal power. The exercise might be gentle and simple, but the results are unbelievably powerful. One qi gong exercise I read about is called pushing mountains. All you have to do is extend your arms out gently and contract them in the same way while breathing and, at the same time, visualizing yourself pushing a mountain away from and to you. However, you must perform this simple exercise every single day. By doing this easy yet powerful exercise, it is said that you will eventually break stones with your bare hands. This is the internal power, qi, aye, cosmic energy that is behind the incredible breaking power of karate, kung fu, and other martial arts. By learning to manipulate your chi energy, you will be able to withstand punches to the stomach or strikes to the head or midsection without blinking an eye, winching in pain, or getting hurt.

Qi gong can lead you to the realization that "I and my father are one"

Last, qi gong help you grow spiritually. It opens what it called the third eye, that is, your latent psychic abilities. It is said that many advanced qi gong masters have powers of clairvoyance, psychokinesis, precognition, and the like. Not that they strive for those abilities, they are just gems that come along the way as they make their way to the ultimate prize of achieving Oneness with God, the Universe, Nature, the Tao, Buddhahood, or Cosmic Consciousness.

Summary

Qi gong, it turns out, is not merely simple internal exercises that allows you to improve your health. It is not merely internal power that allows you to perform eye-stopping feats of absolutely incredible strength. Nor is it merely spiritual meditation that leads you down the path of Oneness with Nature, God, or the Universe. On the contrary, qi gong is all of this and more.