When I start getting sick, I get uncoordinated: dizzy, fuzzy-head, weak, sometimes shaky limbs, and a feeling that everything is just a few millimeters off from where I think/feel it is.
Then I get a fever. I let it run rampant and do not bring it down with medication. Fever is an important component to healing. How I interact with it is a kind of Qigong. Most times, I drink lots of water, help the fever along with heat, and sleep.
When I get better, my energy levels rise again, I'm no longer dizzy or fuzzy headed, but I still feel slightly weak and uncoordinated, as though my nervous system shrank slightly.
This feeling is something I consciously work at preventing and/or correcting. A healthy nervous system means a healthy internal diagnostic system - which means early warning for injury, illness or infection.
So I do my Qigong. I find that by doing a form, it's possible to reclaim my coordination very quickly and I feel completely better soon after.
I do static relaxation Qigong during injury healing, moving Qigong for injury rehab, moving Qigong for joint health and core work, and either static or moving relaxation qigong for mental-emotional rebalancing and stabilization.
One of the benefits of Qigong is posture correction. Posture is a vital component to maintaining and developing good health. Correcting poor posture can alleviate many symptoms, including, in come cases, High blood Pressure. Proper posture also requires less energy to maintain, freeing up reserves for anything and everything from muscle exertion to brain work to metabolic and immunologic enhancement.
I therefore find Qigong to be practical for health.
Last edited by Xiao3 Meng4; 10-06-2010 at 09:31 AM.
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