![]() ![]() You can also search for “qigong” in the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) databases. If you’d like to read research on qigong, the Qigong Institute has collected abstracts of studies on the subject. Research in this area is not well-funded, and some of these studies have small sample sizes. When it comes to qigong research, there’s some pretty cool stuff. Tension in the fascia is known to slow blood flow and create mobility restrictions as well as impair organ function in completely different body parts. ![]() I’m not saying that this, specifically, is qi, but it is at least a metaphor for all of our body’s literal “life force.”Īs far as energy blockages? Consider the Fascia: connective tissue that lines and connects every bone, tissue, and organ to every other bone, tissue, and organ. Blood and lymph fluid carry chemical energy in and out of our bodies at every level of physiology. With that said, I invite you to contemplate all the very real energies that flow through our bodies. Talk of energetic forces and blockages will put off many a skeptic. What I can teach you is how to start, while also providing you an image of just what qigong is and how it can benefit you over the course of a lifetime.īefore we go any further, I imagine you’d like some proof. Qigong is a practice, with attenuate levels of skill and mastery. This would be akin to writing an article to teach you kung fu. Now, it would be crazy to say that this article will teach you how to do qigong. I believe there may be parts of this practice that are good for us, even if not yet directly backed by science.Īs far as my personal experience goes, in the short time I’ve been practicing, I’ve become calmer but more energetic, and my resting heart rate has dropped below 75 consistently for the first time since I developed adrenal problems in 2017. My reason is this: Qigong was around for hundreds of years before science proved the benefits of sunlight, breathing, meditation, or mobility. Instead, it is to describe qigong as a whole and how I practice it as such. In keeping with this, my aim here is not to dissect qigong into the parts that I already know to have benefit. ![]() China includes it in their medicine system alongside more modern approaches. Qigong is itself a well-researched practice as a single entity. There are many cases like these where qigong guidelines correspond to research-backed modern health practices. This has positive effects on heart function and inflammation that are well-backed by research. Earthing, on the flip side, is the practice of walking barefoot on the earth so you are electrically connected to the earth. ![]()
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