Build Health Fast In Slow Motion
We are now living a longer life but not always living a better more comfortable life. Aches and pains stiffness and problems with major organs are the lot of most people as they grow older. To address the reason you need to understand that your body is primarily designed to move, that's simply evolution. Physical movement is the biggest pump you have in your body, it shifts far more fluid around your body every day than your heart does. When you move most of your body most of the time your general level of health, and your ability to move freely, without stiffness aches and pains goes up, and when you don't move most of your body your general level of health goes down. The phrase use it or lose it is also move it or lose it.
Regular movement was built into everyday activities when we developed as hunter gathers but now most of us spend too much time in front of a desk or computer screen or driving a car or watching TV. However nature is very efficient, to keep free from stiffness aches and pains it doesn't need you to move a lot, but it needs you to move every part of your body in a natural fashion. If you decide to take responsibility for you health and not just leave it to the doctors the question that comes to mind is: how can you keep healthy, that is to keep moving, with the minimum of effort? It has to be minimum effort because if it is too much effort we just won't do it. The answer is the movements of Qi gong because that is exactly why it has been developed.
How were these movements developed?
Qi Gong movements were the training practices used in the Chinese fighting systems, understandably their fighters were the fittest of their men but when there were peaceful times they adapted those fighting practices for health. They kept the movements that made the fighter healthy and cut out the ones that killed people. In western terms they did what we call research and development. This where you take a product you invest millions of pounds and thousands of man hours and you refine it, test it, refine it, test it and so on until it is pretty much perfect. This is what the Chinese have done with the health movements that you are going to learn. Over hundreds of years and dozens of generations they tested and refined the health properties of each movement. The records show those movements have hardly changed for about 3000 years. So the chances are they are pretty near perfect for raising your general level of health.
It is those movements that I will be teaching for this course. Don't be misled by how simple they are; there is a huge amount of depth and detail which I will gradually go through as and when it is appropriate.
Regular movement was built into everyday activities when we developed as hunter gathers but now most of us spend too much time in front of a desk or computer screen or driving a car or watching TV. However nature is very efficient, to keep free from stiffness aches and pains it doesn't need you to move a lot, but it needs you to move every part of your body in a natural fashion. If you decide to take responsibility for you health and not just leave it to the doctors the question that comes to mind is: how can you keep healthy, that is to keep moving, with the minimum of effort? It has to be minimum effort because if it is too much effort we just won't do it. The answer is the movements of Qi gong because that is exactly why it has been developed.
How were these movements developed?
Qi Gong movements were the training practices used in the Chinese fighting systems, understandably their fighters were the fittest of their men but when there were peaceful times they adapted those fighting practices for health. They kept the movements that made the fighter healthy and cut out the ones that killed people. In western terms they did what we call research and development. This where you take a product you invest millions of pounds and thousands of man hours and you refine it, test it, refine it, test it and so on until it is pretty much perfect. This is what the Chinese have done with the health movements that you are going to learn. Over hundreds of years and dozens of generations they tested and refined the health properties of each movement. The records show those movements have hardly changed for about 3000 years. So the chances are they are pretty near perfect for raising your general level of health.
It is those movements that I will be teaching for this course. Don't be misled by how simple they are; there is a huge amount of depth and detail which I will gradually go through as and when it is appropriate.
Work at your own pace.
Eastern exercises have one big rule. It's called the 70% rule. You only work up to 70% of what you can work, why? if it takes too much effort to maintain it you won't do it. Everyone's body is different, so if you are tired then you sit down and rest. If you feel this is too much for you the first week then you sit down and rest, you have permission to sit down and rest at any point in the class.
Eastern exercises have one big rule. It's called the 70% rule. You only work up to 70% of what you can work, why? if it takes too much effort to maintain it you won't do it. Everyone's body is different, so if you are tired then you sit down and rest. If you feel this is too much for you the first week then you sit down and rest, you have permission to sit down and rest at any point in the class.
You always work at your own level, the lessons only move at the pace of the people in the class. The success is in the system, just become quietly committed, turn up and practice - that's it.
