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Prisons

Check out Judy Trethway's Qigong Prison Ministry and also read a description of the organizer of World Tai Chi and Qigong Day teaching Qigong in Folsom prison as well as Tai Chi being introduced to the Kansas State Correctional Facility for women.

Psychotherapy and Chronic Pain

Psychologist Michael Mayer discusses the effectiveness of Medical Qigong for a range of conditions, especially some chronic illnesses that are not being treated effectively by western medicine. Watch a preview of his talk or buy the DVD.

tai chi for arthritis - youtube?

tae kwon do

fundamental to qigong is being as good at healing as fighting -- like leading and following climbing.

QI press releases

Spontaneous Qigong

constant shaking creates vibrations destroying energy blockages -- vibrations are directed by your Qi. your body heals itself.

richard article

Dancing qigong

emei shaking

overview of the science of qigong - powerpoint presentation

schools, children - francesco, gaspar casper, hiruko

Links to more teachers

IIQTC, NQA, Qigong Alliance, WTCQDay

The Science of Qigong and Energy Medicine
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The medical benefits of Qigong are well documented elsewhere on the QI website. But what about the scientific basis of Energy Medicine? For an overview of Energy Medicine and list of references, see Qigong - Energy Medicine for the New Millenium (.pdf). Dr. Daniel Benor has written many papers on Energy Medicine, including Energy Medicine for the Internist. Professor Julia Tsuei, M.D. has described the Scientific Evidence In Support Of Acupuncture and Meridian Theory.

 

roger's paper?

 

for example, vic's questions. my paper. tsai research. shin lin.

 

how unsafe is regular medicine - iatrogenic deaths, drug deaths - what is more natural - helping your body heal itself or using drugs and technology.

 

United States Government and Qigong

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National Institutes of Health

List of NIH Grants for Qigong and Energy Healing Research:

List of grants for Yoga and Meditation research
List of grants for Qigong, Zen, Taiji, and Reiki research

 

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

In recognition of the need to amend conventional medicine, Congress formally established the Office of Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1993. In 1998 Congress expanded the mandate and responsibility of the Office by creating the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. The importance of CAM is evidenced by the investment of over $161M in NCCAM and other CAM research at NIH in FY2000 (NCCAM 2001). The NCCAM budget has been increasing yearly from the initial outlay of $2M in 1992, and the estimated 2005 budget was a fifty percent increase over 2001.

White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy

In March 2000, the President and Congress responded to public demand and public need by creating the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy. The Commission's mandate was to develop legislative and administrative recommendations that would help public policy maximize potential benefits, to consumers and American health care, of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies - chiropractic, acupuncture, massage, herbs, and nutritional and mind-body therapies like Qigong, as well as a host of other approaches. The main goals were "...to engage Americans to participate actively in their own care; to stimulate research that will fairly test promising new and ancient approaches; to fully inform all health professionals and the people they serve about what is, and is not, known about CAM therapies; to make sure safe and reliable products are available to all Americans; to expand all Americans' options for safe and effective care; and to promote the study of approaches that may save us all money as well as enhance our health and well being." Read the final report of the White House Commission on Alternative and Complementary Medicine (.pdf).

Healthy People 2010 Report

Healthy People 2010 is a set of health objectives for the Nation to achieve over the first decade of the new century. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotionrevisions to previous data. Over the past 100 years, the Nation has seen a great deal of change in the leading causes of death (see figure 8). At the beginning of the 1900s, infectious diseases ran rampant in the United States and worldwide and topped the leading causes of death. A century later, with the control of many infectious agents and the increasing age of the population, chronic diseases top the list. The report's bottom line is that seventy percent of all disease is preventable, and what better way to do that than through Qigong.

 

Western Medicine's Increasing Use of Qigong and Energy Medicine
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what do universities, health centers, hmos, like stanford offer in terms of CAM + EM

andrew weil. university of arizona health science center. program in integrative medicine.

placebo

mind does affect matter or psychosomatic has a bad name, unfortunate

pyschoneuroimmunology - pert's book

georgetown university - getting into the medical system. qigong and acupuncture at Stanford.

The Stanford University Medical Center has clinical services, including Medical Qigong and Medical Acupuncture .

 

Spiritual Qigong
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Health benefits and spirituality are built-in to any Qigong practice; they just might not be obvious to the practitioner at the time.

portal to presence

francesco podcast

ipod, bird wings flutter, hum of city. ipod takes away hum, but you lose the bird wing flutter. nervous system engaged. to disengage it, use tolle quote: time to presence, etc. how? use Q, the portal to presence.

Medical Qigong Therapy is qigong in a clinical setting.