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<\/p>\nI have been practicing Qigong daily for almost three years and I would like to tell you about my experience. A friend who was suffering from cancer encouraged me to join the first Zhineng Qigong basic course in Norwich in March 2006.<\/p>\n
Within a month of daily practice I experienced an amazing change in my nervous system which had always been very weak. I noticed how much calmer I had become while teaching 4 and 5 years old children. Because I had become calmer it rubbed off up on them. I used to do half an hour siesta everyday after lunch to be able to work. Now I can sometimes skip the siesta altogether. I have cut out all intake of caffeine apart from green tea and I have just as much energy as before and my sleep is deeper.<\/p>\n
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I had practiced meditation on and off for 26 years before I started to do the Qigong training. I find that practising Qigong is like doing a powerful meditation because as soon as my thoughts take me away from my concentration, I make a mistake in the movement. So it forces me to be a lot more focused. I think I have become a better person to live with as I don’t react to every day upsets so strongly. I seem to manage to take a moment before reacting and decide if it is worth it first. Most of the time it isn’t.<\/p>\n
In fact it is only since I have been practicing Qigong that I have understood the meaning of “being at peace”. I seem to be able to witness myself getting in to a negative emotion like anger for instance and it helps me to control it and stop it. I am less critical and judgemental about myself and others, because it helps me to transform negative thoughts into positive thoughts constantly in my life. If I don’t catch a negative thought on time at least I notice that it is an unnecessary negative thought and hopefully next time I can catch it on time. Qigong is improving aspects of me that I didn’t like. This transformation is really thrilling and exciting.<\/p>\n
Although they still occur from time to time, instead of monthly or fortnightly, they are not so intense and I can still function instead of having to go to bed. I found that doing “Hold Qi up” mentally really helps to cope with the pain and to get rid of the resentment I used to feel about having to suffer in such a way. When my migraines were at their worst for three years running I couldn’t plan any pleasurable activities such as entertaining at home, going out for dinners, to parties, concerts etc. as a migraine would undoubtedly strike. In the past three years, 5 or 6 times I have managed to heal myself by doing “la Qi” and “Hold Qi up” to conquer the pain in order to be able to go out as planned. Things that I wouldn’t have managed to do in the past. All I could do was to go to bed and suffer. I am so grateful to have found a tool that allows me to take my health in my own hands.<\/p>\n
I have had a chronic weak liver and gallbladder since I was a child. Despite all the different alternative medicine I have tried for over 10 years and despite following a strict diet, without animal and diary fat, I was experiencing daily pain in my neck and shoulders. And I had to take painkillers every day which in turn gave more work to my liver, I was in a vicious circle. I have gone through two aggravation periods with low energy and the same pain again followed by long remission periods in between. At the moment I very rarely have to take a painkiller for my neck and shoulders and I have been able to reintroduce a small amount of diary fat in my diet.<\/p>\n
I appreciate the inner beauty of many more people. I feel more and more blessed by an ever increasing number of friends. On the other end I enjoy being by myself more and more. Qigong has been a marvellous gift so far! It is a daily support, a refuge from the activities of my mind, a friend. I am hooked for life!<\/p>\n
V\u00e9ronique Gordon<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"Qigong](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/stu-veronicue-5-liten.jpg\")
V\u00e9ronique, who lives in England, has become more calm and peacefull, which also has influenced her pupils in school. The migraine-attacks are not as often as before and not as intense as they used to be.<\/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-22174","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\/22174","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=22174"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23156,"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22174\/revisions\/23156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}