Excerpt from QiGong:Essence of the Healing Dance (Garri Garripoli):
I was sitting by the ocean one late summer afternoon, watching the waves rolling in and feeling the rhythm of my breathing, when suddenly I became aware of my whole environment as being engaged in a gigantic cosmic dance…I “saw” cascades of energy coming down from outer space, in which particles were created and destroyed in rhythmic pulses; I “saw” the atoms of the elements and those of my body participating in this cosmic dance of energy; I felt its rhythm and I ‘heard” its sound, and at that moment I knew that this was the Dance of Shiva, the Lord of the Dancers, worshiped by the Hindus. - Fritjof Capra
A single, dancing thread ties the people of the world together into a cohesive fabric. This is our humanness and morality. We are ll born with a similar challenge, borne from the blessings of ownership of this complex physical body. No one escapes this common karma. That’s part of the trip of life on this planet. With this ownership, or should i call it “rental,” comes the sometimes immense responsibility of health maintenance. For some, this task goes by almost unnoticed, save the required food and water going in and waste products coming out. This is a charmed karma, of course. For the rest of us, stewardship of this incredible biological machinery takes constant attention. It doesn’t matter whether our skins is dark brownish or yellowish or whitish or any combination. It doesn’t matter if our genetic makeup affords us a small, slender carriage or a large, dense one. The fact remains, inside we vary very little. This is one thing that ties us, that binds our should to one another. We all can relate to headaches, to bellyaches, to sprains, to being tired. We all can relate to the challenge and fears of disease. Our ultimate death secures our mortality and, thus, gives value and sacredness to life.
The ride that is this life reminds us that the body uis but a leg of the tripod that upholds our existence. Married to a soul and a mind, the body provides us with carnal pleasures and serves to reflect our overall spiritual and mental condition like a polished mirror. Secured to a mind and a body, the soulcan begin to express itself fully through the myriad experiences it needs on this Earth. Married to a body and a soul, the mind can soar as it gathers knowledge and carves our path of self-discovery. Within this three-legged creature, we dance. To the extent that we can discover our own, unique balance, we are whole…and once whole, we can truly dance like the free spirits we are. Qigong (Chi Kung) calls us to the dance floor of life.
Qigong (pronounced “chee gung” ) is an ancient Chinese health-care system. The word Qigong is made p of the Chinese character Qi, which and mean breath or energy, and Gong, which can mean “exercise” or “work.” Its roots can be traced back thousands of years, from inscription on tortoise shells, carbon-dated back to 2500 b.c., and to silk drawings of exercise movements found in tombs some four thousand years old. These windows on the past reveal that human nature hasn’t changed all that much — our need to slow down and get in touch with our body, mind, and spirit was as evident then as it is now. To slow down, to become at peace with ourselves is the key to healing. Similar to Yoga, and actually the foundation of Tai Chi, Qigong is a combination of exercise and meditation. It can be thought of as “moving meditation.” Qigong uses deep, diaphragmatic breathing in conjunction with slow, synchronous, Tai Chi like movements to bring our body, mind, and spirit into alignment and balance. It is estimated that over 80 million people practice Qigong regularly in China today.
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