Qigong - Unity of body, breath and mind - within the flow of nature
Miss Peng Shu, age 11 from JiangXiNanTeng, trained by her grandmother competes with Yang Style Tai Chi
"The implication is that body, breath and mind exert a reciprocal influence on each other. For example, when the body relaxes, the breathing rate slows down and the mind becomes calm. Body, breath and mind unified also suggests that the Qigong practicioner seeks a state of inner unity or wholeness in contrast to a feeling of inner discord and fragmentation..."
From Chinese Medical Qigong, Tianjun Liu, O.M.D., Editor, Published by Singing Dragon, London and Philadelphia, 2005, 2010
From Chinese Medical Qigong, Tianjun Liu, O.M.D., Editor, Published by Singing Dragon, London and Philadelphia, 2005, 2010
I recently found the textbook cited above "Chinese Medical Qigong" and found it closely paralled my thinking on this subject of Qi. Though it will take me a month to read it carefully, below I'll recount some of the research and thinking I find. (Sept. 17, 2012)
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