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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)
