{"id":22247,"date":"2004-08-10T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-10T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/?p=22247"},"modified":"2020-12-25T16:46:02","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T15:46:02","slug":"magdalena-improved-her-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/magdalena-improved-her-lifestyle\/","title":{"rendered":"Magdalena improved her lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I took up Qigong several years ago I did not actually realize the poor state I was in. I was a feeble social welfare secretary with only enough energy to cope with what I had to do and I would count the days until my holidays or free weekends. My energy levels were more or less non-existent and my greatest wish was just to sleep.<\/p>\n

\"After In 1997 I joined my first Weekend Course but I did not start to practise in earnest and in a goal-oriented way until around New Year 1999-2000. My understanding of it has grown step by step when I had joined my first Summer Course. A clear result after the Summer Course is that I knew what was right for me, I simply made the “right” choices without thinking about it. I met my present boyfriend (he also became a Qigong practitioner) but I would not have realized that he is the right man for me if I had not known myself better. I have gone through several relationships of short and long duration and they were not nice ones. After many trying separations I did not dare to get myself into another relationship. Now I felt more safe, more peaceful and again more interested in sharing my life with another person.<\/p>\n

I also started to change my diet and eat things which were good for my body. My physical self-esteem was increased, while before I would think that my body was not good enough, and that there was something wrong with my hips and stomach. They existed only to be slimmed down to nothing. Nowadays I like my body, it has become strong and flexible and I have a much “kinder” and more accepting attitude toward my physical attributes.<\/p>\n

My lifestyle changed without my having to make any difficult decisions, I just gradually started to live my life the way which is the proper one for me. I started to listen to my self and what I wanted and I skipped those late nights out partying, which did not lead to anything worthwhile in the long run and which I had actually grown tired of a long time ago. I did not have to think about what was the right thing, it simply came as a result.<\/p>\n

When I started to practise I did not have any idea that Qigong would affect me in so many different ways. I was probably in too bad a shape and lacked the strength to understand and share the possibilities of Qigong. As I look back in the mirror at myself, the person I am today versus the person I was before I started to practise in earnest, there is a great difference. There are many changes on the physical and mental levels. On the physical side there is my legs and knees which have been straightened out and I am able to stand absolutely straight with my feet together, something which I could not do even though I have been a “Friskis och Svettis” (a kind of work-out) enthusiast for many years. I also had an incurable enormous swagger which is completely gone. My disposition is different and I can plan far ahead because I know that my stamina and pleasure in doing things will keep. My attitude toward difficulties and problems is different and I am much more secure and confident as a person. In my line of work, which is often characterized by difficult decisions, I am much clearer and calmer when I meet clients and in difficult encounters.<\/p>\n

The way ahead was not always that straight, it has been a process and it still is a work in progress, but rather a nice one since I am so curious about how far it is possible for me to develop myself and my qualities.<\/p>\n

Magdalena Magnusson<\/strong><\/p>\n

34 years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"MagdalenaMagdalena had no stamina, she was not happy with her physique and she had problems in her relations. Since she started practising Zhineng Qigong many things have changed in her life.<\/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-22247","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\/22247","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=22247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23064,"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22247\/revisions\/23064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}