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

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

When chi strikes by means of your physique in a relaxed and regular means, you’re feeling wholesome, balanced, and vibrant. But when chi is caught, you’re feeling bodily and emotional ache; when chi is erratic, you’re feeling moody and unstable; and when chi is sluggish, you’re feeling torpid and heavy.

In order to really feel good, you need to assist a wholesome circulation of chi, and there are a lot of totally different ways in which qigong helps you do that.

The hottest types of qigong contain gradual, mild actions that focus the thoughts and calm down the physique as a type of shifting meditation. The breath naturally turns into deep and gradual when utilizing these practices because the sympathetic nervous system turns down its stress response and the parasympathetic nervous system activates.

But qigong is not at all times gradual and delicate.

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

If you are brand-new to the tactic, you will nearly undoubtedly really feel self-conscious the primary few occasions you strive it. But the useful results may be actually transformative, as Jinjing Gong is believed to assist your physique discharge stress and trauma. In his e book, In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body 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.

Interestingly, after training 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. This is seen as a great signal that caught chi is beginning to transfer and rigidity is being launched.