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"Do qigong. Roaring Lion www.peterragnar.com (800)491-7141 Feel the Qi www.feeltheQi.com (800) 431-1579 National qigong Association (NQA) www.nqa.org (888) 815-1893 Institute of Integral qigong andTai Chi www.instituteofintegralqigongandtaichi.org (805) 685-4670 Qigong Institute www.qigonginsdtute.org 18. DoTaiChi. ShaolinWolf www.shaolinwolf.com The Healer Within Community www.healerwithin.com (805) 685-4670 Santa Barbara College of Oriental Medicine www.sbcom.edu (805) 989-1180 Institute of Integral qigong and Tai Chi www.instituteofintegralqigongandtaichi.org (805) 685-4670 19." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"Depression and Other Mental Disorders in Older Adults_ Effect of a qigong Exercise Programme on Elderly with Depression. Tsang HWH; et al. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2006 September, 21 (9): 890-897. This study determined that qigong, an ancient Chinese practice involving breathing exercises, meditation and body movements, alleviated depression in older adults. When compared with a control group, 41 depressed people over age 65 who practiced qigong three times a week for 16 weeks reported improved mood, self-confidence, self-esteem, personal wellbeing and physical health." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Qigong Qi, pronounced "chi," in Chinese means internal energy; "gong" means exercise. qigong is a gentle physical training practice which combines breathing with various physical movements of the body, mostly hand and arm. qigong and another form of exercise, Tai Chi, have been practiced in many forms for thousands of years. They are mostly taught for the benefit of increasing energy flow in the body, and achieving and maintaining good health and a youthful appearance through stress reduction and exercise." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"That's one more reason to pump iron in the name of prevention. • qigong Remedy ./Vnal swelling and itching is literally an age-old problem. More than 1,200 years ago, the famous Chinese physician Sun Simiao first recorded the ancient qigong exercise remedy for hemorrhoids, which can be done standing, sitting or lying down: 1 Relax the body, but tuck the buttocks in and draw the thighs together with gentle force, as you inhale and touch the roof of your mouth with your tongue. 2 Next, clench the anal sphincter as if you were restraining yourself from defecating." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"This study determined that qigong, an ancient Chinese practice involving breathing exercises, meditation and body movements, alleviated depression in older adults. When compared with a control group, 41 depressed people over age 65 who practiced qigong three times a week for 16 weeks reported improved mood, self-confidence, self-esteem, personal wellbeing and physical health. The Role of Daily Positive Emotions During Conjugal Bereavement. Ong AD; et al. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 2004 July, 59(4):168-176." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Qigong is a gentle physical training practice which combines breathing with various physical movements of the body, mostly hand and arm. qigong and another form of exercise, Tai Chi, have been practiced in many forms for thousands of years. They are mostly taught for the benefit of increasing energy flow in the body, and achieving and maintaining good health and a youthful appearance through stress reduction and exercise." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"National qigong Association (NQA) www.nqa.org 1 (888) 815-1893 Qigong Institute www.qigonginstitute.org WalkingHealthy.com www.walkinghealthy.com Yoga Finder™ www.yogafinder.com 1 (858) 213-7924 Fluorescent Lighting Replace all fluorescent lighting and standard light bulbs with Full Spectrum or LED lighting. EcoLEDs www.ecoleds.com 1 (520) 232-9300 Full Spectrum Solutions www.fullspectrumsolutions.com 1 (888) 574-7014 Foods (Organic) Shop at your local farmers' markets. All chain store or national supermarkets stock foods shipped in from distant suppliers." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.)

"He took GDV readings of healers and a qigong master while they were sending energy, and discovered remarkable changes in their corona discharges. Korotkov then explored the effects of a person's thoughts on the people surrounding him. He asked a number of couples to "send" a variety of thoughts to their partners, while they were standing within close range. Every strong emotion—whether love, hate, or anger—produced an extraordinary effect on the light discharge of the recipient." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.) "Tohate is a kind of mental standoff between two qigong practitioners, one of whom receives a sensory shock and is eventually made to submit and move back several yards without any physical contact from the other. The central question posed by the technique, in Yamamoto's mind, was whether the effect of tohate is psychological or physical: does the opponent move back because of psychological intimidation, or is he knocked over by the qi of his opponent?" - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.) "Do the steps taken by a qigong master to send qi resemble those of a Buddhist monk during meditation? Which mental disciplines ensure that a healer will enter a state enabling him to repair another person's body? Are "masters" of intention graced with special neurological gifts that enable them to use their minds more powerfully than the rest of us, or did they acquire a skill that ordinary people could learn as well? And perhaps most important, what did the neurological study of monks tell me about the effect of focused intention on the brain?" - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Certainly, other cultures did not choose to forgo the powerful tools of subjective perception of the body in their medicine or evaluations of the natural world: consider qigong, meditation, and other therapeutic practices dependent on the embodied mind. And as these cultures came to the attention of the West, so too did their medical systems. For example, from the late seventeenth to the late nineteenth century, westerners began to explore traditional (but even today scientifically inexplicable) Chinese techniques like moxabustion and acupuncture (see Chapters i and 3)." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"One study measured healing energy and the other examined energy generated by a Chinese qigong master during times that he was emitting external qi, the Chinese term for energy or the life force.8 In both instances, the measurements were identical: frequency levels of 2?0 hertz were being emitted by the healers. This energy also seemed to change the molecular nature of matter. I discovered a body of scientific evidence examining chemical changes caused by intention." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"They also enlisted a qigong master from China, who said that he would be sending harmonizing qi energy to the patients. The only criterion, Targ and Sicher maintained, was that the healers believed that what they were using was going to work. They had one other common element: success in treating hopeless cases. Collectively, the healers had an average of 17 years of experience in healing and reported an average of 117 distant healings apiece. Targ and Sicher then divided their group of twenty patients in half." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"Masters of qigong become so good at moving their own qi, Moyers learns, that some of them can direct it out of their own bodies. In the case of martial arts, directing qi outside the body can repel an attacker (the film shows a rather campy demonstration of this). In a medical context, directing qi out of the body and into the body of a patient can act to revitalize his flagging or stagnant qi. In Moyers's companion book to Healing and the Mind, qi is described as a mysterious force, a force that, "as a physical reality . . . makes no sense at all." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"A little time spent on the Internet will reveal many sources about qigong as well as testimonies of illness recoveries. Quantum Touch Quantum touch, or hands-on healing, is an easily-learned skill that can provide comfort, balance, healing, and even postural alignment to the body. Richard Gordon explains in his book Quantum-Touch, that love is the universal "foundation of all healing and the core-essence of life-force."3 Through breathing techniques, body awareness, and intention, a person is able to raise the life-force energy vibrations in their hands." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"When compared with a control group, 41 depressed people over age 65 who practiced qigong three times a week for 16 weeks reported improved mood, self-confidence, self-esteem, personal wellbeing and physical health. The Role of Daily Positive Emotions During Conjugal Bereavement. Ong AD; et al. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 2004 July, 59(4):168-176. Researchers concluded that daily positive emotions, including humor coping skills, were critical in reducing stress after conjugal loss." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Studies of the nature of the healing energy of Chinese qigong masters have provided evidence of the presence of photon emission and electromagnetic fields during healing sessions.22 These sudden surges of energy may be physical evidence of a healer's greater coherence - his ability to marshall his own quantum energy and transfer it to the less organized recipient. Elisabeth's study and the work of William Braud raised a number of profound implications on the nature of illness and healing. It suggested that intention on its own heals, but that healing is also a collective force." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"Both systems therefore postulated a model of the animal economy remarkably similar to those that underpin Chinese and Indian medicine, and practices like qigong and yoga. Their dependence on intangible and invisible forces seems strongly counter to the prevailing materialist trends of medicine and science in the period, and today both are regarded as alternative medicine." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"More than 1,200 years ago, the famous Chinese physician Sun Simiao first recorded the ancient qigong exercise remedy for hemorrhoids, which can be done standing, sitting or lying down: 1 Relax the body, but tuck the buttocks in and draw the thighs together with gentle force, as you inhale and touch the roof of your mouth with your tongue. 2 Next, clench the anal sphincter as if you were restraining yourself from defecating. 3 Hold the breath several counts, exhale, relax and repeat." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"Here's how some of them do it: • When Tom developed the misunderstood neurological condition called dystonia, noted for its sustained muscle contractions and odd repetitive movements, he exhausted every medical avenue until he finally found relief in the traditional Chinese practice of qigong. He's spent the last four years posting his findings on the Internet and volunteering to talk to anyone else who suffers from the disease. • After an unanticipated colon cancer surgery, Linda initially told her family not to utter a word about it to anyone." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"Doctors scoffed at qigong, said we could put Terry in a corner and throw chicken blood on him if he thinks it's helping. Now they're all impressed with Terry's progress. But I've stopped caring what they think."53 The fact that China emerged in the second half of the 1990s as an intriguing new reference point for Americans in search of unsullied ancient Asian mind-body practices is rife with irony. To understand why, we need to appreciate some of the background history." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Exercise I recommend the following exercises and physical activities for helping to reduce stress and improve overall health: Pilates, qigong (meditative exercise), rebounding, walking, and yoga. Balanced Body® Pilates www.pilates.com 1 (800) 745-2837 326 Cellercise® Rebounding - www.cellercise.com 1 (800)856-4863 z c o u - V, X H Intemational Association of Yoga Therapists www.iayt.org z 1 (928)541-0004 Jump 4 Health www.jump4health.com 1 (888) 815-3332 JumpSport® www.jumpsport.com 1 (888) 567-5867 National qigong Association (NQA) www.nqa." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.)

"Institute of Integral qigong and Tai Chi www.instituteofintegralqigongandtaichi.org (805) 685-4670 19. Do a seven- to thirty-day fast. American Association of Naturopathic Physicians www.naturopathic.org (206) 298-0126 International Association of Professional Natural Hygienists (305) 454-2220 We Care Spa www.wecarespa.com (800) 888-2523 DrFuhrman.com www.drfuhrman.com (800) 474-9355 Nature's Secret www.naturessecret.com (800) 297-3273 20. Get "specialized treatments" as needed. Acupuncture. Check your local yellow pages under Acupuncture or Traditional Chinese Medicine." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"By 2004, following several smaller studies of the practice in regional American hospitals, the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (a part of the National Institutes of Health) had added qigong to its portfolio of alternative medical practices worthy of scientific investigation.52 It had little choice: patients were turning to this practice in growing numbers, and testifying to its apparent effectiveness. In 1996, a journalist for the Los Angeles Times reported the story of one of these: "I have seen a miracle," Adams said recently, slowly measuring his words." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) "The ideas of qi and qigong were perhaps quite mysterious to the American audiences who watched that first segment of Healing and the Mind; but in another sense, they were not unfamiliar. By 1993, Americans of a certain age and disposition had been exposed for some twenty years to the Hollywood-made martial-arts films that played with these concepts in various ways (the first of these, Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon, was released in 1973)." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Jahnke recommends a daily qigong practice of 30 minutes to 1 hour. In addition to helping eradicate insomnia, regular practice can reduce stress, improve circulation, and provide increased resistance to disease. Dr. Jahnke says that qigong produces the following health-promoting effects: • Initiates the "relaxation response," which decreases the sympathetic function of the autonomic nervous system. This decreases heart rate and blood pressure, dilates the capillaries, and optimizes delivery of oxygen to all of the body's tissues." - Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac., Alternative Medicine Magazine's Definitive Guide to Sleep Disorders: 7 Smart Ways to Help You Get a Good Night's Rest (Get the book.)

"Tai Chi and Qigong Tai Chi and qigong are two aspects of Traditional Chinese Medicine that have become popular in the West as forms of exercise and stress reduction. They involve specific body movements and deep breathing. Videos and public classes are readily available to help you learn these two systems of movement and relaxation. Visualization The use of positive imagery is a potent tool in the war against stress. The visualization of positive images invokes a relaxation response. Find a quiet, comfortable place and visualize images that make you feel relaxed and content." - James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D., Prescription for Natural Cures: A Self-Care Guide for Treating Health Problems with Natural Remedies Including Diet and Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Bodywork, and More (Get the book.)

"Absorbing energy through the navel center is accomplished consciously through the Chinese technique of qigong. qigong, of which t'ai chi is one variation, is rich in techniques for collecting and building the vital energy stored at the solar plexus or the hara.6 I visited a hospital in China where I was introduced to several patients who attributed their recovery from cancer to the qigong taught there. When I asked how this worked, an elderly gentleman volunteered to demonstrate. He walked a short distance across the small room, swinging his arms in rhythm with the breath." - Rudolph M. Ballentine, M.D., Radical Healing: Integrating the World's Great Therapeutic Traditions to Create a New Transformative Medicine (Get the book.)

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