History of Qigong

Qigong has been part of Chinese history for 7000 years, from Simple Qigong in ancient time to established Traditional Qigong to Modern Qigong. Thousands of different Qigong systems have been developed throughout this time, such as Daoist Qigong, Confucian Qigong, Buddhist Qigong, Martial Qigong, Medical Qigong, Folk Qigong etc.

Qigong has permeated every part of Chinese culture.

As a matter of fact, it has become the essence of the traditional Chinese civilisation – Dao and Qi culture.

Dao and Qi are an inseparable part of Chinese

civilization, being the origin and the driving force

behind it.

Levels of Qigong

Qigong used as a technique or method – focus on the method and practice itself with little or no theoretical understanding and basis

Qigong study – with theories where the methods, practice and applications are based upon Qigong theories

Qigong science – with comprehensive and systematic methods and theories built upon holistic views of the universe and human life

Definition of Qigong

Based on a holistic view of the universe and human life, Qigong is a practice that can help achieve the purposes of knowing, changing, and elevating life through a training to focus the consciousness inward on the internal activity and life itself, and through work on Shen (“consciousness” to be very simple), breathing, and body and its applications.

Zhineng Qigong

Yuan Tze Human Life Science is taking Zhineng Qigong

as a method.

Zhineng Qigong was developed in the early 1980s

by Professor Pang Ming at a time when the Chinese government encouraged the popularisation of

Qigong in an effort to reduce medical costs and

maintain good health amongst the Chinese

population. Its exercises are relatively easy to learn

and very effective and his methods spread rapidly throughout China. Practitioners learn and practice a

series of movements that make up a particular

“method” or exercise. The daily practice of these movements increases vital energy and unblocks the energy channels of the body to bring about a free flow of Qi. Improved health is the outcome, since all illness is associated with lack of Qi and blockages in its flow.

Zhineng Qigong uses both body and mind to enhance health and heal illness. At series of movements and postures are carried out in a meditative state of deep relaxation. Each series is part of a systematic method of practice that an individual can choose to follow more or less intensively, to cure illness or simply to remain in optimal health. Numerous studies in China and internationally have demonstrated that the practise of Qigong improves lung capacity, improves the transportation of oxygen to the cells and their utilisation of it, improves the functioning of the circulatory system, makes cardiac muscles more efficient, increases digestive juices, adjusts internal secretions and regulates the glands, increases bone density, slows aging and increases longevity.

While the first and most obvious benefits of Zhineng Qigong are an improvement in physical health and a sense of wellbeing, its practice also has a powerful effect on the mental faculties. Many of its practitioners not only are cured of their illnesses and attain a much better level of physical health but also develop their mental faculties and can use them to benefit both themselves and others. Some become powerful healers, many are able to better achieve in their chosen field.

Zhineng Qigong is a form of moving meditation that

lays equal emphasis on the body and the mind and

that involves both dynamic and static gong, i.e., both

movement series and standing postures. It consists

of an integrated series of methods and exercises

that together work on the whole body and organs as

well as the mind/spirit (Shen). Depending on an individual's particular health problems it is possible

to focus on particular exercises or parts of a method.