If someone asked me, 'Do you believe in UFOs and life on other planets? Is there anyone out there?'
I would say, 'Yes! I believe.' Why am I talking about UFOs and life on other planets? What have
they got to do with Qigong? I will explain the connection, step by step.
When you learn about Qigong you will come to understand the basics of Chinese medicine,
which uses natural methods to treat and heal and to balance the internal organs through herbs,
massage, moxibustion, acupuncture and Qigong. The first four types of healing skill mainly depend
on others giving you treatment, but Qigong is a way of self-healing. All five, however, are based on
the principles of Yin and Yang -a question of balance.
In the West, people take medicines or drugs, vitamins and high nutrition foods in an attempt to
make themselves healthy. Gradually the body becomes saturated with these substances -which are
already present in a healthy body -and after a while the body becomes reliant on them. As a result, if
people forget to take their pills or 'health food' or other props, they become weak and tired. The body
starts to lose its normal functions and can no longer produce its own energy. The search for different
or stronger medicines and specialist doctors continues until there is nothing and no one left who can
offer any help. What a very depressing way to try to become healthy and to treat our ailments!
Once when my mother came over to England, I took her to a fish and chip shop to try some English
food. While eating she asked, 'Whydoesn't the fish have any bones?' A good question! Fish in their
natural state obviously have bones, so why don't the fish served up in fish and chip shops have any?
The reason is that Western people remove the bones to make it easy to eat. Everything in modern
society is geared towards making life easy so we do not need to work hard to get what we want.
Eventually we will lose the natural original way to live by becoming so distanced from nature, even
in the way we eat fish. Did you know that fishbone shave all the essence of the nutrients? Chinese
people like to suck the marrow from the bones.
The Chinese philosophy known as 'Dao' is the right way. It holds that everything has its own way,
from a stone to a piece of paper to a human being. In other words, everything must be natural, and
natural means balanced.The Scripture of Change (Yi ling or I-Ching), which is 'around five thousand
years old, first laid down the concept of Yin and Yang. Since then it has played a very important part
in Chinese culture. The Yi ling says: 'Wuji creates Taiji; Taiji creates Liang Yi, two forms; two
forms create Si Xiang, four images; and four images create
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Bagua, eight situations.' What this means is that from nothing comes something, something creates
Yin and Yang, Yin and Yang create c four images, and four images create eight situations.
The universe started from nothing. From nothing it became something. When something is
created there must be two forms, two faces or two different situations -for instance, if one is the
front there must be an opposite, the back. If one side is right, there must be a left to balance. So if
we know fire, there must also be water to balance it. Male and female balance, tall and short, dark
and light and so on -there are two different situations to balance the whole universe. If there is
only one of something it will become too strong Of too weak and will disappear by itself. For
example, if there was only fire in the world, one day the world would become too hot and burn
out.
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