Firstly, let’s talk about what Qigong is.
Qigong, also known in ancient times as Tuo Na or Qi Gong, essentially refers to exercises related to breathing. It wasn’t until after 1950 that it was uniformly called Qigong.
Exercise is extremely important for life, and the importance of exercise needs no further elaboration.
So, what types of exercises are there? Ancient people classified exercise into three categories:
We should know that modern medicine classifies seeing as vision, hearing as auditory perception, smelling as olfaction, and touching as tactile perception, whereas ancient people considered them as movements.
This difference is due to different classification standards and does not imply right or wrong.
The ancients did not specifically elaborate on how many kinds of movements there were under each category because they continually discovered more types of movements within each category.
Modern kinesiology has also not been able to summarize the total number of human movements fully.
Sin embargo, the ancients identified the two most important movements in the human body: breathing and heartbeat.
In other words, the ancients believed that breathing and heartbeat were more important than any other movements, including running, push-ups, etc. Good breathing and heartbeat are more beneficial to health and longevity than any other type of exercise.
We know that humans are formed from the combination of a fertilized egg.
On the 18th to 19th day after the formation of the fertilized egg, the heart appears, and around the 22nd day, the heart begins to beat. From that moment until a person dies, the heart never stops beating.
It’s not an exaggeration to say that the heart is the most laborious organ in the human body.
The main way to exercise the heartbeat is to reduce the burden on the heart.
For instance, through dynamic exercises, we can assist the heart in contraction or expansion, making it expend less effort during these actions, thereby reducing the heart’s burden.BreathingThere are two types of breathing:
For example, when we sleep, breathing happens naturally without brain control. Sin embargo, when a person is awake, the brain can control breathing to some extent, such as the length, depth, and holding of breath.
Additionally, breathing can also sense the quality of external air, making lung movement the most complex form of human movement. In modern society, when we talk about exercising, we often only refer to muscle training and overlook the importance of breathing and heartbeat exercises.
Dynamic exercises combine limb movements with breathing to influence the heartbeat, thereby achieving the purpose of exercising the heartbeat.
Some theories in Qigong differ from modern science, such as those concerning the dantian, meridians, acupoints, and skin texture. Since modern science cannot observe these organs with instruments, it considers them nonexistent. Sin embargo, this is due to differences in experimental methods; in reality, these organs do exist.
For detailed descriptions of the dantian, meridians, acupoints, and skin texture, please refer to my articles “The Position and Function of the Dantian” and “The Process of Discovering Meridians and Acupoints.” Here, I will briefly describe them.
The dantian is considered the first organ to die when a person dies.
We know that in natural death, not all organs die simultaneously; there is an order. The first area to die is a region an inch and a third below the navel, and from there, death spreads to other parts of the body until the entire body finally dies.
Of course, if a person dies from illness or external injury, the order of organ death differs, but that is another topic.MeridiansMeridians can be explained as follows: if the skin of a living person is peeled off while ensuring the person remains alive, and the air is forced into the mouth and nose (similar to inflating a basketball), the body will inflate.
Acupoints, in contrast to meridians, can be explained as follows: if the skin of a living person is peeled off while ensuring the person remains alive, and the air is extracted from the person’s mouth and nose, the body will curl up like a lobster.
The most important movements for the human body are breathing and heartbeat. The method to exercise these functions is Qigong, similar to how running is used to exercise the legs and push-ups are used to exercise the arms. Qigong is simply a form of physical exercise. Sin embargo, this method of exercise is more beneficial for health and longevity than any other form of exercise.
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