It wont be ease, so I am going to try.
Below I bring you a quote from a Chinese Medicine book , I am studying from. This post has several attempts in one go, hence the difficulty. The quote brings an example, through which I would like to talk about an aspect. Yet would like to highlight another aspect of nei gong as well. And how risky it is to mix terminology.
” A Kidney Yang Deficient person can be paralyzed by fear. The unknown incapacitates his or her ability to move and mobilize. Such a person will tend toward passivity and lack an ability to assert himself and herself. He or she can be controlled by other people or institutions, easly take blame , and feel guilty. He or she experiences a disporportionately large sense of responsibility for comparatively small amount of volition. ” The pattern of the human ladscape.
So firstly it is about to show an example how an organ disfunction, or current inner or outer environmental factors can determine how we are. And after a period of time we solidify this viewpoint, well, „this is how i am”. To me this is exciting, as to be able to see, that actually changing these factors „this how I am” also changes. Acupuncture, shiatsu, tuina or herbal medicines can easily bring these changes. It all seems to me such a viewpoint shift. As before people believed how they were certain personalities with certain traits, now it is all liberated by the vast amount of experimental art of chinese medicine.
Qigong and Chinese medicine is mixed up too much.
Borrowing terminology is risky and can lead to confusion. Channel, organ names, energetic arreas, point names and area names and so on. Also many times fitting in chinese medicine theory to replace lack of qigong understanding.
So is the situation talking about nei gong and qigong practise.
Nei gong obviously will bring a lot of byproduct that can be seen as improved health and indeed it is very important overall to be heatlhy enough to practise. Yet the alternative scene mixes up terminologies and expect everything to heal or imporve. Yet, the timing and placement can be wrong. Sometimes we need to get relatively healthy enough to practise nei gong to its true potential, and sometimes practising nei gong will bring extraordinary health.
The calamity again is mixing and confusing terminology and practises.
For example certain qigong practises can improve Kidney health, but for one it is an indirect effect , for two the practise itself has nothing to do with the Kidney organs directly temhsleves. Yet as a byproduct with time and diligent practise and applying correct qualities and timing it may happen that the Kidneys will improve.
Self diagnosis is problematic anyway. Now that from my basic studies and case studies I see how much herbs can effect on health, I can see how much damage also people cause themselves when self diagnose and use herbs according to internet informations. People make themselves sick with healthy , trendy diets and self medicated herb use.
The same apply to qigong teachers claiming to heal people from diseases with their prescriptions, or simply leading people astray by false teachings and promises. There is qigong therapy i am sure, but it requires someone who’s profession is to be a chinese medicine doctor and a well experienced qigong teacher. Without these, those claims are blurry.
Certain qigong or dao yin practises in certain conditions are not healthy, same as certain herbs and foods also damaging to heatlth under certain conditions… Study something diligently with discipline long enough is probably a good indicator. False teachings with inappropriate intentions behind may also lead to health problems. And it is up to each individaul to apply clarity and distinguish.
The point is porbably be able to differentiate, take things humble, and study properly the given area, let it be qigong, nei gong, herbs or chinese medicine. Wish less confusions for us, and that a lot can be done by focus and discpiline too.
