Is Qi Gong real?

Question

I just saw this clip on youtube and it shows a demonstration

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruB0yghbcUY&eurl=

Answer 1

Hi Juju,

Is Qi Gong real? Sure it is. I do not know about some of the things I see in demo's. Some of them seem a lot like parlor tricks and some of them are.
Having said that, I do know that instruments sensitive enough to measure qi have been developed. One article I read stated that the qi being emitted from the practitioners hands registered in the infrared range. Scientists have also now been able to measure the electromagnetic variance at specific acupuncture points. I have felt qi, my patients have felt it, and I have used qi in the treatment of my patients with positive results. I also have seen the result of striking someone whose qi is at a high capacity, it was more painful for the one doing the striking. Their hand began to throb painfully and swell.
Based on what I have seen and experienced I believe qi is real however, I do not go in for parlor tricks. Qi is a part of live, with it you live without it you are dead. Simple. Qi is not mysterious, it simply is.

Jim

Answer 2

I think it is. I have seen some people doing Qi Gong and they start shaking violently as if having an eplepsy standing, but its supposed to be just the air around them moving

Answer 3

It's real, but it takes a long time to develop and is harder than many other things to demonstrate as real.
Acupuncture works on babys, horses and dogs, where attitude has much less of an influence. Qi Gong is based on similar principles to acupuncture.

Answer 4

Absolutely. I have seen demonstrations by masters and have felt the changes in energy around them. I have seen some of the masters perform feats of incredible strength and physical resistance to injury. I have even witnessed Qi Gong masters that could generate sufficient heat in their hands to ignite pices of paper into flame from as much as 18 inches away.

Answer 5

To all such questions, I answer that I don't know for sure what is going on, but it is interesting that these kinds of things are always performed with the performer's impliments. David Copperfield could do the same stuff without much set up. He doesn't even claim to have any "chi power." Now, if one of them set up a test in a controlled environment at a major university, to be studied by grad students, that would be a lot more interesting and believable.

Answer 6

It depends on what you believe Qi or Chi to be. If you see it as relaxed movement where the antagonistic muscles is relaxed so as not to hinder the contraction of the agonist, and see it as using the back and abdomen to provide strength rather than local muscular contractio, then I think it is real.

If you see it as a mystical energy which cannot be seen, felt or tested by science then I would ask what evidence is there for it's existance?

Answer 7

For my ally is Qi Gong, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel Qi Gong around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. May Qi Gong be with you.

Answer 8

Qi Gong is a real type of martial art, it comes from the Chinese fighting arts as does Wu Shu and Tai Chi Chuan. but it also uses the Cloisonne (chinese medicine) balls as focal points for certain practices.

it is one of the 18 major forms of Kung Fu Martial Arts from China, but it is one of the more non aggressive types of martial arts, and is mostly used as relaxation, toning and strengthening the body, but can also be a very formidable fighting art.

Answer 9

It is real....qigong is the art of breathing...you gather air in a certain part of body making it so hard that it is almost invulnerable...there was once a qigong master who could let a 5000kg truck run over his stomach...and he was still right as rain...qigong also improves your strenghth and agility...if you learn the art of qigong,someone can punch you hard in the stomach and you would not feel any pain...that is the prowess of qigong....its motto is learn to breath before you learn to fight...pls "Qi" means air in chinese...

Answer 10

I thought you meant the Star Wars character played by
Liam Neason
lol