Qigong helps you regulate the stream of vitality by your physique, which straight impacts how you are feeling each bodily and emotionally. The phrase qigong actually interprets to qi or chi, that means “important drive” or “life vitality,” and gong, which implies “practiced talent.”

In response to Chinese language drugs, chi is synonymous with life, and its most important attribute is motion.

When chi strikes by your physique in a relaxed and regular approach, you are feeling wholesome, balanced, and vibrant. However when chi is caught, you are feeling bodily and emotional ache; when chi is erratic, you are feeling moody and unstable; and when chi is sluggish, you are feeling torpid and heavy.

To be able to really feel good, you wish to assist a wholesome stream of chi, and there are numerous totally different ways in which qigong helps you do that.

The most well-liked types of qigong contain sluggish, mild actions that focus the thoughts and loosen up the physique as a type of shifting meditation. The breath naturally turns into deep and sluggish when utilizing these practices because the sympathetic nervous system turns down its stress response and the parasympathetic nervous system activates.

However qigong is not at all times sluggish and delicate.

There’s a faculty of qigong known as Jinjing Gong that entails lengthy stretches of “shaking.” If you apply Jinjing Gong, you leap up and down in place, vocalize with grunts and moans, and infrequently slap or faucet particular channels and organs within the physique.

In the event you’re brand-new to the tactic, you will nearly positively really feel self-conscious the primary few instances you strive it. However the helpful results might be actually transformative, as Jinjing Gong is assumed to assist your physique discharge stress and trauma. In his e-book, In an Unstated Voice: How the Physique Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness, Peter A. Levine, Ph.D., discusses how animals naturally “shake off” stress after probably traumatic occasions, whereas the human inclination is to suppress this primal response.

Apparently, after working towards qigong for some time, many individuals discover that even the slower qigong practices can induce mild tremors within the physique, much like the shaking you may expertise when lifting heavy weights. That is seen as a great signal that caught chi is beginning to transfer and stress is being launched.