I Seek

What causes disease and pain?  What causes 

respiratory disorders, cancer, high blood 

pressure, heart disease, headaches, digestive

disorders and arthritis?  After reading about

Qigong I am inclined to believe that this is the 

result of prolonged stress.  Scientific research

has in fact proven that prolonged stress is the 

culprit when it comes to the above disorders.

Having an Ancient art also tell me this, simply

makes me wonder and want to explore further.

Stress comes from all directions, primitive man 

had stresses like the weather, disease, family 

relations, food supply, shelter, disability and the

fear of death.  Sounds awful doesn't it?  Yet that

is nothing compared to the new stresses added

that we have to contend with in our modern day.

  Such as: Loans, school, employer 

relationships, noise, pollution, politics, war,

 anxiety and crowded environments.  We might

think we are used to these stresses, however,

this does not lessen their harmful

effects.  Stress obviously causes physical and

mental tension, we internalize things we can't

change which becomes muscular tension.

Imagine, there is probably a muscle in our 

bodies that has become almost perpetually

flexed because of 9/11.  Before then that part of

us was always relaxed.  This has to have an

effect on us.  In this state our Chi or Qi becomes

sluggish and has difficulty flowing between the

internal body and between the body and the

environment.  This is a physical and mental

condition the Chinese call: ''Wai qiang nei gan.''

This means:  ''The outside strong, the inside 

rots.''  Qigong is the answer!