Generation and Distribution of Qi

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2006

At a conference of practitioners and scholars of Chinese Medicine held in Australia recently, it was reported that China has, in recent decades, spent an inordinate amount of resources on experiments to determine the existence and nature of Qi. The nub of the report was that China is easing up on this research. The veracity of the claim that these experiments are slowing down for lack of concrete breakthroughs is not confirmed in this article. The quest to define Qi continues, with there being no breakthroughs that we know of.

Religious Studies Review, 2009

not hold a lot of water for believers, even if it might in academia. Despite this struggle, Sax shows powerful empathy and respect for ritual healers, genuine desire to understand his subject on its own terms, and a firm belief in the urgency of challenging modernist dismissals of other systems of healing. Calling for a "hermeneutics of the body," not just of text, and for an intercultural rethinking of notions of agency, rationality, knowledge, and wellness, Sax invokes diverse thinkers, from philosophers of science to performance theorists and medical anthropologists. Light on jargon, with some wonderful anthropological description, this work will interest specialists and nonspecialists alike.

Religious Studies Review, 2009

not hold a lot of water for believers, even if it might in academia. Despite this struggle, Sax shows powerful empathy and respect for ritual healers, genuine desire to understand his subject on its own terms, and a firm belief in the urgency of challenging modernist dismissals of other systems of healing. Calling for a "hermeneutics of the body," not just of text, and for an intercultural rethinking of notions of agency, rationality, knowledge, and wellness, Sax invokes diverse thinkers, from philosophers of science to performance theorists and medical anthropologists. Light on jargon, with some wonderful anthropological description, this work will interest specialists and nonspecialists alike.

氣 Qi (also ch 'i, chi, ki) is the traditional Chinese concept of energies such as electricity, heaven, earth, wind, and spirit. 1 In addition, qi is believed to be the "life force energy that flows through the body," possessing numerous bioenergetic properties. 2 These include emotion, thought, heat, light, magnetism, sound, and electricity. Qi comes from "the food we eat, the air we breathe, the energy fields in and around us, and it is also inherited." 3 Cultivating and balancing qi, a process known as 氣功 qigong (also ch'i kung, chi gung) "energy work" or "energy skill," is the central focus of Traditional Chinese Medicine, but also has martial applications as well. Studying and understanding the nature and history of qi is an important part of training in the martial and traditional healing arts.

2016

Since the second half of the twentieth century, the concept of Qi (气) has spread through Western society thanks to Chinese and, more generally, Asian arts. Qigong, taijiquan, calligraphy, acupuncture, and martial arts have contributed to the globalization of this “traditional” culture. The term, usually translated as “energy” or “breath,” belongs to a discourse that has become common to a number of practices centered on the subjective relationship between mind and body: for example, practices of wellbeing and care, the contemporary dance and martial arts scenes, and spiritual techniques of contemplation. “Breath” can refer to Qi in Chinese arts, prana in Indian yoga, pneuma in various Greek techniques, and esprit (“mind” or “spirit”) in French biblical texts.

n Traditional Chinese Medicine we learn the theories of yin and yang and the relationships between the two: (1) opposition: that all things have two aspects; (2) interdependence: yin and yang create each other; (3) mutual consumption: yin and yang control each other; (4) inter-transformation: yin and yang transform into each other. These relationships can arise in health and in illness when Yin and Yang have been left in an unbalanced state for a period of time. However, when the balance is impaired for a long enough time another possibility occurs: the loss of relationship between Yin and Yang, and their separation. It is this process and stage that is often poorly understood. Many assume that once this happens, death is the inevitable result. Contemporary Oriental Medicine® (COM) and Contemporary Chinese Pulse Diagnosis (CCPD) are used to diagnose this 'separation' in its many varied stages from mild to moderate to severe and can intervene accordingly to reestablish the re...

Medical Qigong - Road to awareness and longevity, 2019

Imagine ability to control all aspects of your given life energy as you wish, using only the power of your mind. To use it in such way in order to restore and maintain health, slow down aging, or protect yourselves against injury. Such ability is simply explained as understanding and knowing transformational processes in nature.