(A) to enhance physical fitness
Practicing qigong can regulate yin and yang, harmonize qi and blood, dredge meridians, increase qi and blood, make people's life function vigorous, and achieve the effects of strengthening the body, recovering the sick body and prolonging life. These effects have been confirmed not only by many practitioners, but also by modern medical scientific experiments.
1. Influence on nervous system. Exercise can repair and regulate nerve function. During training, the amplitude of EEG increases in the form of alpha wave, which is concentrated in the forehead (this is the main difference from the alpha wave when the eyes are closed and the pillow is quiet), which makes the left and right brains tend to be synchronized, indicating that the degree of brain function order is enhanced. At the same time, it can also regulate autonomic nerves and strengthen sensory function, motor function and thinking function.
2. Influence on blood circulation system. Exercise can improve the heart, macrocirculation and microcirculation, and also reduce plasma estradiol, suggesting that it has anti-aging effect.
3. Effects on respiratory system. The decrease of oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide output during exercise can reduce the number of breaths and significantly enhance lung function.
4. Effect on digestive system. Exercise can increase saliva secretion, gastrointestinal digestive juice, intestinal peristalsis and digestive function.
5. Effects on endocrine system. Exercise can reasonably regulate the pituitary and endocrine organs of the whole body. For example, the metabolic levels of adrenaline and norepinephrine are reduced, growth hormone is reduced, and blood cholesterol concentration is reduced. Clinically, many patients with endocrine-related diseases such as diabetes, hyperthyroidism and amenorrhea are cured by practicing Qigong.
These experiments show that practicing Qigong has played a very good role in many aspects of the human body. The actual situation is indeed the case. As long as the martial arts method is reasonable and the training method is proper, practitioners can generally get significant effects of strengthening their bodies and eliminating diseases, and the role of bodybuilding is also very prominent. For example, obese people can lose weight through practice, facial freckles disappear, hair loss and regeneration and so on.
(2) Longevity
Many practitioners have proved that practicing Qigong can make people healthy and live longer.
Scientific experiments also found that practicing Qigong can not only regulate the secretion of sex hormones, but also delay the aging process. A Qigong organization in Beijing once tested 300 Qigong practitioners and 300 non-Qigong practitioners aged 60-72, and tested 7 items. The results show that the mental degradation process of qigong practitioners is obviously slower than that of non-qigong practitioners, and a few of them have not even found mental degradation.
According to modern biology, the life span of an organism is 5-7 times that of its developmental period. The development period of a person is 25 years old, so the normal life span of a person should be 125- 175 years old. It is only because people violate the laws of normal life that vitality is destroyed, making normal life unable to be reflected. Practicing qigong is to make people learn to use the laws of life and enhance their vitality, so as to achieve the goal of health and longevity.
(3) Prevention and treatment of diseases
This is the most outstanding achievement in practicing Qigong at present. Through qigong exercise, not only patients with common diseases and frequently-occurring diseases can receive good curative effect, but also patients with difficult and serious diseases, even dying patients, have recovered through practicing qigong. Among many qigong practitioners, there are various diseases. There are many intractable diseases such as various cancers (including liver cancer), ascites due to liver cirrhosis, old paralysis (including paraplegia), deafness (including congenital and drug poisoning), retinal detachment, femoral head necrosis, congenital brain dysplasia, atrophic gastritis, diabetes, hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism, endometrial displacement, emphysema, coronary heart disease, intractable hypertension, arrhythmia and asthma. As for common diseases, there is no need to list them one by one. These patients, including many people suffering from various diseases, have received certain curative effects through practicing kung fu.
Why can qigong practice treat so many diseases and even achieve magical results? Traditional Chinese medicine and qigong theory believe that people get sick because of deficiency of qi and blood or abnormal operation of qi and blood, which leads to imbalance of various life functions. On the one hand, practicing Qigong can make qi and blood sufficient, on the other hand, it can promote qi and blood to flow smoothly, so as to achieve the goals of "qi and blood running, all diseases are not born" and "keeping healthy qi in the interior, and not doing evil". Some people may ask: how to eliminate pathogenic microorganisms (such as germs) in patients? This involves two different medical concepts and mechanisms. Traditional Chinese medicine and qigong focus on "qi", believing that vital qi is sufficient and can circulate normally, and all kinds of abnormal things will be eliminated, and of course bacteria are no exception. In this regard, the fact that many patients have recovered has been fully proved. At the same time, modern scientific experiments have also found that the immune function has been significantly improved after practice, such as the number of white blood cells, phagocytic ability of white blood cells and phagocytic index. Qigong master's external qi can obviously improve the formation rate of spleen lymphocyte activity e rose. Not only that, the outside air can also kill bacteria, viruses and so on. These experimental results have been repeatedly confirmed by many researchers. Since external qi can play such a significant role in the external world, it is conceivable that qi can also play the above-mentioned forces in people's own bodies.
The healing effect of qigong is often the first effect after practice, which can be said to be the primary effect of qigong, laying the foundation for changing one's physical and mental state after practice. Strictly speaking, Qigong is not to "cure" diseases, but to adjust human functions to make them normal. Therefore, there are often "two-way" changes after practice, such as a high drop in blood pressure and a high rise in blood pressure; The heart rate slows down quickly and accelerates slowly; Constipation can make it unobstructed, and frequent defecation can be reduced; Ultra-fat people lose weight, and ultra-thin people gain weight; Wait a minute.
What needs to be pointed out here is that Qigong has a wide range of treatments and good results, but it cannot be considered that Qigong can cure all diseases and solve all problems. Qigong, like other sciences, is not absolute, has a certain effective range, and its effect has to go through a certain process. Those arguments that Qigong can't cure "real disease" are wrong, and those arguments that deify the effect of Qigong are unrealistic.
Intellectually developed
Practicing Qigong can not only enhance people's physique and health, but also stimulate people's infinite wisdom. Because practicing Qigong requires quietness, which is the third state different from people's sleeping state and waking state. For the human body, quietness is not only a kind of rest, which can eliminate the fatigue of the brain, but also enhance the order of human life activities, especially brain activities, thus greatly improving the activity efficiency of brain cells. In addition, according to research, there are about 654.38+0.4 billion brain cells in the human brain, and the utilization rate of the average person is often only two-thirds. A large number of brain cells can't be used because the "lines" between them are not connected, and the order of brain activities is enhanced, which can connect those originally "impassable" lines, so that the potential of the brain can be brought into play.
In the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, Qi is the power to maintain human life activities (physical activities and mental activities), and the quiet state of Qigong is the best state to promote the growth and operation of Qi, that is, "nothing is quiet, and Qi follows". Practicing Qigong can increase human qi, and sufficient qi provides reliable material guarantee for thinking activities, thus enhancing people's thinking ability.
Practicing qigong can make people smart, which is not only proved by the above EEG changes, but also in real life. In China, many primary schools, middle schools and even universities have made experimental observations on practicing skills and increasing intelligence. Generally, after 3-6 months of practice, students' academic performance has changed obviously and their physical and mental quality has also been improved.
In the functional state of practicing qigong, people are also prone to inspiration. As long as the practitioners are diligent and enterprising, and have the courage to practice, there is always inspiration for invention and creation. In this regard, the ancients often described it as "suddenly getting through."
(5) Cultivate temperament and morality.
Most people are emotionally unstable, mostly because of internal deficiency and insufficient nutrition, especially those who are easy to get angry. For example, when people are exhausted, a small stimulus may cause impatience or even anger. After practice, with the full qi gradually, the spirit is nourished by sufficient qi, the function is strengthened, it tends to be stable, and the mood is not easy to fluctuate.
In addition, the smooth flow of qi in the body is also easy to make people cheerful; Energetic, creating material conditions for helping others. In addition, qigong theory clarifies the close relationship between practice and self-cultivation, such as being open-minded and being kind to others, which is extremely important for maintaining and strengthening the spirit of self-neutralization. Therefore, after practicing martial arts, many people have a more harmonious family relationship, a more harmonious relationship with people around them, and a better self-cultivation.
(6) developing potential intelligence
How many functions the human body contains is still unknown. But we can assert that the functions of ordinary people are only a part of them, and there are still many functions lurking in the human body that have not been enabled. For example, the so-called special functions such as hearing, perspective, remote viewing, remote listening, remote control, consciousness perception and consciousness actuation (handling) confirmed by human life science research are actually the activation of human inherent potential. Ordinary people can be stimulated and enabled through qigong exercise.
Different training methods can stimulate and enhance different functions. For example, in hard qigong, the car passes by, the silver gun pokes the throat, the head hits the stone tablet, the stone cracks, and the barefoot steps on the fire. At present, some hard qigong training classes can let students practice the above magical skills in 100 days. It is impossible for ordinary people to treat diseases with external qi, but after learning and practicing intelligent qigong, they can quickly master and skillfully use it. Some students can treat benign tumors with qi, which can make the tumors disappear instantly. There are also some students who have developed the functions of perspective diagnosis and consciousness perception through a period of qigong exercise.
In short, the human body is very malleable. As long as we can use consciousness correctly and actively and exercise through certain methods, many potentials can be developed.
With the progress of the times, China's traditional Qigong and classical Qigong have developed to the level of Qigong, from Qigong to Qigong, and then from Qigong to Qigong, which is the inevitable development of history. Every qigong practitioner must know that qigong is a science, not mysterious, not superstitious. With the deepening of people's practice, Qigong will appear in front of the world as a new science and make positive contributions to the progress of human civilization.