Op deze plek worden diverse artikelen gezet ter lering en vermaak. "Tai Chi may well be called 'medication in motion' because of all the myriad health issues it can prevent or even treat."
- Harvard Health Publication -Voorkomende effecten tijdens de beoefening van Qi GongTerug naar de Bron met de Tai Chi Tao / Qi Gong - methodiek
En hieronder nog een paar (korte) berichten over de voordelen van Tai Chi.Tai Chi helpt tegen depressie!
Tai Chi helpt bij fybromyalgie!
Lees ook eens de volgende artikelen over hoge bloeddruk (en meer):
Heb jij ook een hoge bloeddruk?
Tai Chi helpt tegen hoge bloeddruk! Lees dit artikel, waarin o.a. staat:
"About 1/3 of the American population suffers high blood pressure (hoge bloeddruk). Tai Chi is proven to be a beneficial therapy that not only has no bad side effects, but dramatically improves (verbeterd) immune function (immuunsysteem), respiratory function (ademhalingsfunctie), lowers (verlaagt) the incidence of anxiety (angst) and depression (depressie), and profoundly improves the balance (balans) of practitioners. Tai Chi does more, but for our purposes here these profound realities are enough to show exactly why it is truly unbelievable that Tai Chi is getting so little scrutiny (onderzoek) in medical research dollars, when it can save so many from chronic suffering and perhaps some from a lifetime of chronic costly medications."Er zijn diverse simpele en doeltreffende methodes beschikbaar om de bloeddruk te reguleren als onderdeel van Tai Chi & Qi Gong. Deze eenvoudige methodes zijn door iedereen in zeer korte tijd te leren. Geen bijwerkingen!
Ook interessant in "Worldwidehealth":
Artikel met informatie over o.a. osteoporose, angst, depressie, hormonale schommelingen, stress, valpreventie.
Lees ook dit artikel over Tai Chi en Qi Gong, waarin o.a. staat:
"Studies have shown that Tai Chi can lower high blood pressure, and profoundly boost aspects of the immune system, while improving balance and coordination far better than any other known exercise. Tai Chi can reduce or eliminate chronic pain or limited mobility, while lessening the incidence of anxiety, depression, or overall mood disturbance."Valpreventie!
Tai Chi als valpreventie!
Lees ook eens dit artikel over valpreventie.
StressMedical research reveals that 70 to 85% of illness in industrialized nations is due to stress - which is why Tai Chi and Qigong are being utilized in medical school training around the world today.
But, why are modern people so over stressed? Because the world is changing faster than ever before in history. Our generation is facing a bone-jarring relentless change that will only get faster and faster. Now, change can be good, and it is certainly inevitable. Our challenge as humans, is to learn how to surf the waves of change, enjoying the ride, rather than being slammed down by the waves of change.
Tai Chi and Qigong are multi-faceted and multi-dimensional treasures that offer our world so many other benefits. Here, we'll look at one of those - their ability to facilitate change in a changing world.
"Tai Chi & Qigong will play an important role in global awakening."
– A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle –No matter what you opinion on these changes, one fact we all must agree on is that: Our world is in transition. It is inevitable because there are nearly 4 times more people on the planet than when many of us were born. One cannot pretend to live in a world that no longer exists. As the world changes around us, it would be futile to try to stay the same. Lao Tzu saw this centuries ago, when change was coming at a tiny fraction of the speed we are facing today. (As you may already know, over the centuries, Lao Tzu's Taoist philosophical insights have formed the core of "tai chi and qigong" philosophy as well.)
”If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching –Tai Chi and Qigong forms are metaphoric models to enable practitioners to "loosen" in order to "flow through the constant changes" life washes us upon like shifting tides. These ancient mind-body arts are designed to "loosen" the mind, heart and body to flow through the forms of our various meditative techniques. For example, a Tai Chi form isn't Tai Chi. Even an entire series of Tai Chi forms are not Tai Chi. Tai Chi is the evolving flow of transition. Forms are only snapshots. Anyone who's taken a trip to a beautiful place, and been severly dissapointed by the photo's inability to reflect the majestic beauty of the nature we witnessed on our trip - knows the difficulty in quantifying what Tai Chi or Qigong are. For, they are change - nebulous - evolving – undescribable.
"The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao."
- Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching -As Lao Tzu wrote, all of life is connected. By loosening ourselves emotionally and physically, we enable changes - needed change - to flow more easily into our world. Right now the world is gripping, because massive relentless change feels like the world if fallling apart. Our generation is facing more rapid change than any other in human history.
In my popular book, "The Complete Idiot's Guide to T'ai Chi & Qigong," I describe Tai Chi and Qigong as a "centering tool" that is not unlike stepping to the center of a fast moving merry-go-round. When you move to the center, things feel calmer. You feel less like throwing up, even as the world spins faster and faster around you. Tai Chi, Qigong, and other mind-body teachers offer our world a way to "loosen" so that the coming changes can flow through us most easily - yes, just as we train to relax and allow our Tai Chi or Qigong forms to flow through us. But, as Lao Tzu also pointed out - each of us is a microcosm of the whole of society - so as we individuals loosen and breathe through change, that enables our society and planet to more easily flow through it as well.
When these highly effective, and proven, mind-body tools are utilized on a massive scale, through public education, workplace classes, and healthcare, the world will save trillions in future health care costs. This can help take alot of strain off our future changes, and enable a more "graceful transition" to whatever our world is evolving toward.
Bron: Bill Douglas, Founder of World Tai Chi & Qigong Day
Stress kan zich opslaan in je lichaam en als stress niet wordt ontladen kan stress allerlei ongemakken, pijn(tjes) en uiteindelijk ziektes veroorzaken. Dit heeft alles te maken met stagnaties in de Qi stroom. Wordt deze stroom weer op gang gebracht dan is genezing mogelijk. Krampachtig geestelijk vasthouden heeft ook in zich om stagnatie te veroorzaken, ook in lichamelijke zin (bijv. obstipatie). Regelmatig kun je zien dat tijdens de uitvoering van ontspannende bezigheden, zoals Tai Chi of Qi Gong, mensen spontaan beginnen te gapen of dat plotseling emoties vrij komen. Dit is een goed teken, zodat vastzittende spanning en emoties kunnen worden ontladen (losgelaten). Mensen kunnen wel schrikken van het feit dat deze opgeslagen emoties zomaar aan de oppervlakte komen en schamen zich daar wellicht voor. Niet onlogisch in de maatschappij waarin je altijd maar sterk en stoer moet zijn. Stoppen met deze ontspannende oefeningen is op dat moment toch niet erg handig om het zo maar even te zeggen, aangezien het lichaam de juiste signalen heeft afgegeven om weer te kunnen helen. Doorgaan met een ontspannende bezigheid blijft dus toch mijn advies. Dit dan wel weer in balans met je overige activiteiten. Een weloverwogen keuze maken in je activiteiten kan derhalve ook heel ontspannend werken. De buitenwereld is yang en ontspannende oefeningen werken yin. De balans hierin vinden zorgt voor o.a. stabiliteit, flexibiliteit, rust, ruimte (in je hoofd), kalmte, weerbaarheid, preventie en kan genezing in werking zetten.Ziran Qigong is een methode om de stress te ontladen. Binnen de stuctuur van de oefeningen is het belangrijk dat de ademhaling en beweging zo spontaan en natuurlijk mogelijk worden uitgevoerd.
Ziran zou je kunnen vertalen als de "methode van de niet-methode". Het Chinese begrip zi ran betekent letterlijk "zelf-zo", dat wat er gebeurt volgens de regels van de eigen natuur, een groeiproces in plaats van externe manipulatie. Bijvoorbeeld een boom groeit zi ran; golven ontstaan zi ran; een kind groeit en ademt zi ran. Het Chinees voor natuur is da zi ran, "het grote zelf-zo" of "de grote spontaniteit". We maken ons bepaalde methoden eigen om andere, disfunctionele methoden af te leren en nieuwe mogelijkheden te ontdekken en het lichaam een grotere keuzevrijheid te geven. Naarmate je langer oefent zul je ontdekken dat je dagelijkse gewoonten op een natuurlijke manier veranderen, zonder enige dwang.
We staan daardoor weer dichter bij onze (eigen) natuurlijke staat van zijn, hetgeen je eigen mogelijkheden weer laat zien en ontplooien. Als gevolg hiervan zul je niet meer onbewust meelopen met de massa, omdat dat nu eenmaal zo hoort. Je acteert weer vanuit passie, vanuit je hart, in plaats van het geplaveide weggetje af te lopen. Of je wordt je daarvan in ieder geval van bewust als je dat doet. Verandering in leefomstandigheden komt weer binnen je bereik en laat je op een positive wijze nadenken over wat je elke dag doet of wilt doen (mindfulness). Je intuïtie (gevoel) gaat weer ontwaken en de ratio (ego) komt weer in dienst te staan van je gevoel. Met als gevolg een hogere mate van welbevinden. De hogere mate van ontspanning die je ervaart tijdens en na de oefeningen kan een signaal van het lichaam zijn dat er blijkbaar iets moet veranderen in je huidige (destructieve) leefomstandigheden. O.a. vermoeidheid, ongemak, pijn etc. continue negeren leidt uiteindelijk tot lijden; acute of chronische ziektes. Het lichaam is eigenlijk ons waarschuwingssysteem, echter wordt niet meer altijd op waarde geschat.Bron: Pieter Gilles
In ancient Chinese literature, there are numerous Buddhist stories of great Zen Masters being outwitted by farmers. Some might be tempted to say "simple farmers," but farming is not so simple. People who depend on nature have to base their decisions on complex interactions between people, plants, animals, climate, geology, and other aspects of the environment. By contrast, modern people's decision-making processes are too simplistic, based on the false assumption that people should only consider the effect that their decisions have on other people, as though human actions have no ecological consequences. For those who think that natural wisdom only comes from other cultures or countries, take a look at this beautiful quote (from an anonymous source), calledAn Old Farmer's Advice
Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong.
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.
Words that soak into your ears are whispered...not yelled.
Most of the stuff people worry about ain't never gonna happen anyway.
Forgive your enemies. It messes up their heads.
Keep skunks and bankers at a distance.
The biggest troublemaker you'll probably ever have to deal with, watches you from the mirror every mornin'.
Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.
A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.
Meanness don't jes' happen overnight.
Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you.
It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge.
You cannot unsay a cruel word.
Every path has a few puddles.
When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.
The best sermons are lived, not preached.
Don't judge folks by their relatives.
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll enjoy it a second time.
Don't interfere with somethin' that ain't botherin' you none.
Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.
If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin'.
Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.
Always drink upstream from the herd.
Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin' it back in.
If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around.
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.Bron: Kenneth Cohen
... and more from Kenneth Cohen.
I recently had the honor of presenting at the leading Chinese Medicine symposium in the United States, the Pacific Symposium in San Diego, California. To my delight, there were about 700 very enthusiastic students in my lecture “Qigong for Cancer: An Evidence-Based Approach to Chinese Energy Medicine” and about 200 in my beak-away 3 hour workshop on Primordial Qigong. At the very end of my presentations, we were treated to a full double rainbow, one of which I captured with my camera.
Attendees, mostly acupuncturists, were probably surprised to see on the opening page of the Symposium website that all 63 hours of course work at the Symposium were approved for California continuing education units “except Ken Cohen’s lecture.” The background story brings out some absurdities in U.S. education and professional licensing. My lectures have been hosted by numerous medical schools, hospitals, and medical organizations, including the American Cancer Society, the Mayo Clinic, the American Association of Medical Acupuncture (M.D.s who practice Chinese medicine), the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, the University of Arizona School of Medicine, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, and so on. Physicians and nurses are able to get continuing education credits for my programs. Yet acupuncturists cannot. Why? My course was rejected by the California acupuncture board because treating cancer with qigong, EVEN AS COMPLEMENTARY THERAPY, “falls outside the scope of TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) practice.” By law, TCM doctors are only allowed to treat the side-effects of conventional (and sometimes unproven) western therapies. They can treat the nausea, pain and discomfort that follow chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery. But they cannot, legally, treat cancer directly, and have little access to any supportive evidence, unless it is offered not-for-credit and outside of standard TCM school curricula.
I explained to the students in my lecture that I am not a physician and cannot offer medical advice regarding the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of disease. Yet, it is my PERSONAL OPINION, that the evidence for the effectiveness of qigong far exceeds that of many standard western interventions for cancer. And I don’t give a damn about being politically correct. I received a hearty round of applause, and warm email feedback continues to pour in.
Of course many skeptics claim that qigong is “only placebo,” the power of positive beliefs and expectation. But then how do we explain why External Qi Healing (qi projected from the hands of a trained healer) works on mice, rats, and cell cultures? We presume that the mouse doesn’t believe in the power and charisma of the healer!
And if we are to cry “placebo,” let’s be fair. At least 1/3 of all healings attributed to western medicine are due to placebo, the natural course of the disease, or other unknown factors. A leading scientific methodology expert from the NIH told me, “When both patient and physician believe in the efficacy of treatment, the level of placebo effect jumps to 2/3.” I am certainly not denying the miracles of western medicine. It is can be absolutely life-saving if you have a bacterial infection, diabetes, are injured in a car accident, for some cancers, and for a host of other conditions. But we should not demand 100% evidence-based effect for qigong when we don’t make the same demands of medical science. And if you think that western medicine is supported by better research or “statistically significant” results, think again. Read this just published article from Science News "www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/335872/title/Odds_Are%2C_Its_Wrong". “It’s science’s dirtiest secret,” the authors tells us, “The ‘scientific method’ of testing hypotheses by statistical analysis stands on a flimsy foundation.”
To put it simply, unproven therapies are given the stamp of approval, while many clinically effective interventions are unapproved, non-reimbursed (by insurance), and rarely funded, whether for research or public education. This is a terrible disservice to the patient and a betrayal of the Hypocritic, I mean Hippocratic Oath.
Meer studies...Recent studies have shown the stress-busting benefits of Tai Chi, a popular form of an ancient Chinese martial art that is essentially a combination of movements and positions that flow into one another. In fact, Tai Chi was linked to reduced stress in two separate studies last year-one in the British Journal of Sports Medicine and the other in the Journal of American College Health.
-- Beirut-Online, Nov 11 2011
http://www.beirut-online.net/portal/article.php?id=10077Rewiring the brain to ease pain.
HOW you think about pain can have a major impact on how it feels. That's the intriguing conclusion neuroscientists are reaching as scanning technologies let them see how the brain processes pain. Neuroscientists are finding that mind-body approaches, such as tai chi, are effective in diminishing chronic pain. Source: The Australian
-- The Wall Street Journal, November 16, 2011
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/lifestyle/rewiring-the-brain-to-ease-pain/story-e6frg9zo-1226196565549Research has shown that regular physical activity can help prevent dementia, heart attacks, strokes, Type 2 diabetes and certain cancers. The American College of Sports Medicine recently released evidence-based recommendations about the quality and quantity of exercise. The ACSM recommends "functional fitness" activities such as Pilates, tai chi and yoga. These combine balance, stretching and muscle strengthening, and they can improve your agility and body control.
-- The Washington Post, Nov. 28, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/consumer-reports-experts-advice-on-exercise-includes-some-dos-and-donts/2011/10/07/gIQA2lXq4N_story.html12 fun ways to kick a cold.
Tai chi, the graceful slow dance you do alone, can rev up your body's illness-fighting defenses by as much as 47 percent and even triples the protection you get from a flu shot. The secret to tai chi's elixir-like effects, scientists suspect, lies in its slow movements and controlled breathing. Tai chi marshals the power of both to fight germs. It also eases stress and helps you to sleep better. All this contributes to a healthy immune system. To find a tai chi class, visit worldtaichiday.org.
-- Mother Nature Network, Nov. 23, 2011
http://www.mnn.com/health/fitness-well-being/stories/12-fun-ways-to-kick-a-coldMental health problems can start in childhood.
Jodi is now 21 and doing well. She doesn't take medication. Exercise, yoga and tai chi help, as do Chinese medicine, acupuncture and massage therapy.
Ottawa Citizen, Canada, Nov. 26, 2011
Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/Mental+health+problems+start+childhood/5770624/story.html#ixzz1gHi7unGWStaying active during cancer treatment and maintaining a positive outlook could help ward off some of those symptoms, Bower said. Her research team has been testing the effectiveness of yoga as a treatment for fatigue and tai chi for insomnia.
-- Reuters, Aug. 11, 2011
http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/08/10/us-insomnia-cancer-idINTRE7796QH20110810
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