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The ideas of qigong were quickly embraced by alternative therapists. [36] The idea of qi as a form of living energy also found a receptive audience within the New Age movement. [37] When the Chinese qigong community started to report cases of paranormal activity, Western researchers in the field were also excited by those findings.
Qigong is commonly classified into two foundational categories: 1) dynamic or active qigong (dong gong), with slow flowing movement; and 2) meditative or passive qigong (jing gong), with still positions and inner movement of the breath.
TU Ren-Shun; "Effect of Practicing Health Qigong-Liu Zi Jue on Brain Electrical Power Spectra for Old and Middle-aged People"; Xiyuan Hospital of China, Academy of T.C.M. (Beijing 100091) YU Ping, ZHU Ying-Qi, SHEN Zhong-Yuan; "The Experimental Research of the Effect of Health Qigong-Liu Zi Jue Exercise on the Human Lung Function"; Shanghai ...
Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in China is a 2007 book [1] by David A. Palmer, published by Columbia University Press. It is about the " Qigong fever " in the late 20th century in China. Patricia M. Thornton of the University of Oxford described it as "the first serious English-language history" of that topic.
Microcosmic orbit. The history of the microcosmic orbit dates back to prehistoric times in China, and the underlying principles can be found in the I Ching which according to legend was written by the Emperor Fu Xi approximately five thousand years ago or at least two centuries before the time of the Yellow Emperor.
Primordial qigong is a three-dimensional physical mandala, and as such it encompasses all of the primary aspects of Taoist philosophy: the concepts of yin yang, the trinity (heaven, earth and man), the Five Element wuxing theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the I Ching, the bagua and the mystical aspects of numbers."
In qigong practice, the lower dantian, as the source of qi, is also used for storing qi, for transforming qi, for emitting qi, for returning qi, for releasing blockages of qi in the periphery. The area is associated to the tantric swadhisthana chakra In yoga philosophy, it is thought to be the seat of prana (compare with yuan qi) that radiates ...
The term neijia and the distinction between internal and external martial arts first appears in Huang Zongxi's 1669 Epitaph for Wang Zhengnan. [2] Stanley Henning proposes that the Epitaph 's identification of the internal martial arts with the Taoism indigenous to China and of the external martial arts with the foreign Buddhism of Shaolin—and the Manchu Qing Dynasty to which Huang Zongxi ...