What is Qigong exercise?

Qigong is a method of health preservation, which is a method of physical and mental exercise aimed at strengthening the body, preventing and treating diseases, keeping fit and prolonging life, and developing potential. In China, many people are exercising through Qigong, but many people do not know much about Qigong training. So, what are the key points of Qigong training? There are many people who want to know this question.

As the name suggests, self-mind-body training method refers to a type of method that uses the initiative of consciousness to train one's own spirit and body.

1. Qigong exercises contain rich psychological training content: The Chinese medicine classic "Huangdi Neijing" wrote when talking about Qigong: "Be calm and empty, and the true qi will follow. Keep the spirit within, and there will be no disease", "Breathe the essence, be independent and keep the spirit, and the muscles will be as one". The "keeping the spirit within" and "keeping the spirit independent" here clearly express the ancient people's requirements for the spirit in qigong exercises.

The Qigong term "practicing Kung Fu entirely depends on the mind" shows the dominant role of psychological activities in Qigong training. An important part of Qigong exercise is to bring the consciousness into a quiet state of "neither asleep nor awake".

This process of actively adjusting one's state of consciousness from wakefulness to tranquility is also a reflection of self-psychological training. As for various specific methods of practicing exercises, such as imagining that the feet are like tree roots, focusing the mind on the Dantian, "seemingly guarding but not really guarding" the object of concentration, and observing the feelings of the focused part, etc., these are direct applications of psychological perception, attention, imagination, self-suggestion, and self-hypnosis.

2. Qigong exercises the body in two ways: the first way is direct exercise of the body. This is mainly reflected in dynamic exercise. The so-called "external training of muscles, bones and skin" refers to the direct effect of Qigong dynamic exercises or external exercises on the body.

When practicing Qigong dynamic exercises, although the limbs movements appear to be slow and gentle, beginners will still feel physical fatigue after a period of time. This shows that this slow and gentle movement has a strong effect on training the body and physical strength.

As for static exercises, such as standing still, they also have a very strong body training effect. The intensity of this effect also changes accordingly with the height of the standing posture. The lower you stand, the more intense the physical exercise. The second way that Qigong affects physical fitness is an indirect effect.

The starting point of this approach is that practicing qigong causes changes in psychological activities that are beneficial to health. Psychological changes will inevitably cause changes in the body's physiological functions through the nervous and neuroendocrine links, and changes in physiological functions will inevitably cause changes in morphology. This effect is achieved through the psychological-physiological-morphological reaction link.

From the introduction above, we can clearly see that Qigong can indeed exert its unique and special effects on both the spiritual and physical aspects. We can also see from practice that pneumatic exercises play a very important role in maintaining physical and mental health and curing physical and mental illnesses. I hope the above can help you.