Qigong and Total Wellness

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PRACTICING qigong is but one aspect of achieving and maintaining good health. A holistic approach is necessary to ensure total wellness.  It would be a pity if one practises qigong but has a poor diet and unhealthy lifestyle, and whatever benefits acquired from qigong will not be lasting.

There are already so many with full-blown diseases that require them to take prescription drugs every day. Most drugs do not heal the patients, but just “control” the problems so that no damage to organs occur. Unfortunately, damage still occurs, although at a slower rate than if no such treatments were given. Finally, the patients still succumb, although there is undoubtedly some improvement in quality and duration of life compared with not getting any treatment at all.

A better alternative is to aim for reversing the disease itself, not just the symptoms. By this, the treatment end-point is to have a healthy patient with normal health parameters without having to take any drugs.

This is possible for most health problems and diseases. However, there must be commitment and discipline to give the body all the nutrients it needs to repair itself, and to stop the body from getting all the toxins, carcinogens and pollutants that have been poisoning it all this while. There must be a major and sustained change in diet and lifestyle, including doing sufficientt exercise and other measures to try to recover the healthy state that the body used to enjoy when it was younger.

A key ingredient in achieving good health and reversing any disease is building up the life force or qi in the body. Eating fresh, raw foods can also help increase qi, and also the tremendous difference in the health benefits achieved compared with eating “dead”, cooked or processed foods. Make fruits and vegetables a major item in your diet. If you cannot eat them fresh, at lease eat them raw.

If you have to cook the vegetables, then just steam them and don’t kill the goodness by overcooking. For cooking oil and dressing, choose olive oil or our vitamin E-rich palm oil.   

Honey is another qi-rich healing food. The magic of honey is that the qi is retained over long periods and storage is not a problem.

In Sufi healing, as in most traditional and natural therapies, honey is an essential ingredient of many remedies. Modern science analyses the honey and understands the nutrients, sugars and enzymes it contains, but cannot explain all the benefits reported which are beyond the known benefits of these ingredients.

In Sufi healing, honey has a unique healing energy that permeates whatever food and liquid it is mixed with. Its healing potential is very wide, though much of it is still not understood. No wonder its use as a healing food and medicine has been documented over thousands of years.

Although heart disease and stroke together are still the leading causes of death, to regain cardiovascular health and prevent these diseases is relatively easy (reduce weight, reduce cholesterol, reduce carbohydrate, eat plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, learn to manage stress, and exercise regularly).

Six months of intensive exercise, for example, has been shown to enable 40-year-old men to improve their cardiovascular fitness to that of 20-year-olds. The same is unfortunately not true for reducing cancers. Although the above measures may also reduce the risk of cancer, the improvement is not as impressive. The battle against cancer is far from being won, so any measure that may help should be given serious attention.

Thus the health authorities should support studies to prove the beneficial effects of qigong as there are so many living testimonies of people who have recovered from all sorts of diseases after practising qigong, but there is a dearth of properly conducted studies to translate these testimonies to scientific evidence.

(Article written by Dr Farid Amir Isahak)