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<\/p>\nI started practising qigong about one and a half years ago. By then I had been curious about it for a while. At a place where I often go to have tea they arranged an information meeting about qigong, and what I heard there made me feel that it might help me to get better. We live in a house with many stairs, and I had noticed that I was finding it increasingly difficult to negotiate those stairs and that my joints and my body were growing stiff. I had actually begun to wonder how long we would be able to stay in our house. Last autumn I also had great difficulties sleeping. I often read until the small hours and had to take sleeping tablets, and then I was like a zombie next morning and couldn’t get started doing anything. I had lost my spark, was in a low mood and didn’t feel really happy despite the loving care I receive from my husband and our dogs.<\/p>\n
Qigong has improved my life. My husband tells me that on days after the weekly group practice I have more energy and do things that I have postponed for a long time.<\/p>\n
Several people in the practice group told me that you don’t really know what qigong is all about before you have taken the summer course, and I fully agree with them. I was a little worried about sleeping on the floor in a classroom with a number of people I didn’t know, and, to be honest, I like staying at comfortable hotels with floor heating in the bathroom and thick, warm towels! But it all worked out beautifully! I am staying with eight wonderful women, and I get a lot of thoughtful help and support from the contact persons from my practice group at home, who are also here at the course.<\/p>\n
Here at the summer course I am sleeping better than I ever did, and I wake up early with a clear mind. If someone had told me before the course that I would get up at six o’clock and be alert and prepared to start practising at half past six, I would have thought they were joking \u2013 but I did, and it was easier day by day. My posture is much improved, and during the course I have learnt to stand more steadily on the soles of both feet.<\/p>\n
My doctor has told me that I suffer from IBS, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, and I often have long periods of stomach pain and feelings of swollenness. At home I focus a lot on my stomach, and there are days when I hardly dare leave the house. Here I have simply not paid any attention to it at all! A few years ago I fell and injured my shoulder, and I now find it much easier to lift both arms above my head.<\/p>\n
I have benefited enormously from the positive atmosphere here at the course. I have begun to think more positively. I have learnt a great deal from observing how all you wonderful people here treat each other. Here I get to spend some precious and unique days in the qi field, and I happily make the most of it.<\/p>\n
Now I’m looking forward to going home and continuing to practise to stay in the state of wellbeing I have achieved during the course. While I have had to accept many intellectual challenges in my professional life, I now face the stimulating challenge of developing a calmer and more harmonious mind by doing the soft and comfortable qigong exercises.<\/p>\n
Ulla Thagg Fisher<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"Ulla](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/stu-ulla-thagg-fischer-liten.jpg\")
Ulla dont have sleeping problems anymore and she has energy to do things that she has postponed for a long time. She got a better posture and her IBS, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, has not bothered her during the summer course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-story","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonny Eliasson","author_link":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/author\/jonny\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23120,"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22138\/revisions\/23120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}