A friend of mine wanted to know, “What is this Qigong thing you are now doing? What is all this hubbub about?” she asks.
“Do you have to take off your clothes?” she asks.
“No. You stay fully clothed and lay on your back on a massage table and then just relax,” I say.
“Is this one of those laying-on-of-hands sort of things?” she asks with a bit of trepidation in her voice.
“No. There is little if any touching involved. It is not at all like what you see on TV with an evangelical preacher commanding the evil spirits to go away. This is about tapping into Qi energy and getting it to move to where it needs to be. Qi energy is the energy that helps you heal as well and be well.
“Sounds like voodoo medicine to me,” she responds. “I don’t believe in that shit stuff (OK, she said shit, but I'm changing it to stuff).
“It is not voodoo. It is about healing energy, the same energy in an acupuncture treatment. To me this is an expansion of medical knowledge. It is about energy and directing that healing energy, to where it is needed most. It is a way of tapping into your own internal energies and guiding them to where you need them. It is similar to how acupuncture works, but without the needles. You don’t have to believe in it to have it work. It just does."
We left the conversation there, hanging in the air. She may or may not come in for a treatment, and that is OK. Either way is OK. Qigong as just another option for keeping you well, or getting you to be as well as you possibly can be.
Qigong is a complimentary option health and wellness issues. It is complimentary to other health care modalities, including western medicine. It is a way of getting and keeping your body, mind, and spirit to be balanced and in working order.
It really does work! You don't even have to believe in it to have it work.
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