Keiko Murakumo
This book will enable readers to quickly incorporate an all around self-healing and personal development "way" into their lives, based on the fundamental principles and practices of Chinese Qigong. By integrating right diet, gentle but deeply focused movement, breath training, and meditation we can gain a new state of well-being, peace, and personal strengh.
The natural healing ability that we all posses is an energy that has been passed on to us from the cosmos. We can harness this inner power and learn to enact positive change in any circumstance. First, it is indispensable that we carry out
mind-body maintenance on a daily basis to prolong and hold our
good health. Mirrored on my consulting practice in Tokyo, I hope to introduce Qigong as this total system for life enhancement.
After surving ovarian cancer at the young age of 31, and with a deep interest in both traditional and oriental medicine, Keiko Murakumo began practicing Qigong. In 1992 along with several notable Chinese doctors she founded the Qi Gong Treatment and Research Institute. She went on to become an authorized practitioner of Chinese chiropractic treatment, and then studied Chinese Medicine in Beijing.
After returning to Japan, she added Western healing techniques and set up YUN Wellness Consulting. She has helped many clients to successfully loose weight with her Qigong dieting guidance. An instructor of Qigong at fitness clubs in Tokyo, she is involved in various activities to promote the importance of daily health care and healing.
Qigong Diet & Breath
Qigong is a traditional Chinese method of healthcare with over 3000 years of history. Qi means breath in Chinese and, by extension, the energy produced by breathing that keeps us alive; gong refers to continual work applied to a discipline or the resultant level of technique. Qigong is both a medical practice and various forms of traditional qigong are also widely taught in conjunction with Chinese martial arts.
Medical Qigong therapy falls into two categories: internal Qi therapy (Qigong practiced by patients) and external Qi (called Wai Qi) therapy. The former refers to Qigong practice by patients themselves to keep fit or to cure their own illnesses, while the latter is the skill used to treat patients by emitting Qi, with the healer situated in a position away from the individual.
The body will be in a state of harmony if vital energy is perpetually flowing smoothly around the body, unhindered, rather like a gentle river. However, if you are stuck inside working in an office building all day long, your head gets tense, and your neck and shoulders stiffen up. Your body becomes lethargic, your legs bloated, and you end up irritated. This is because your body is cut off from its natural world, and is in a state of energy deficiency. At such a point, you stretch, pat yourself down, roll your neck, upon which your head will become clearer and you feel a lot calmer. This amounts to us adjusting our own vital energy without knowing it, so doing this consciously, and this is what the Qigong method is, ameliorating the path of Qi or vital energy...
Why We Become Obese
Eating is something that without doubt encompasses important psychological elements. This is seen commonly in cases where people maintain a healthy diet when in very happy states, but upon facing adversity suddenly relinquish all restraint, and start to binge-eat. Thus people develop excess appetite due to increased stress from work or other sources, relying on the act of eating as a means to feeling good again..
The 14 Qi Gong Movements
Goals and Benefits
Each of the 14 separate movements has its own name These movements can be adapted to your own particular physical condition.
By moving your body, you stimulate the pressure points, raising the flow of life energy through the meridians, releasing negative energy that your body should expel. You will then harness positive life energy, and in doing so boost the functioning of each internal organ.
Don’t try and rush results, they will come.
When practicing, as much as possible try and relax yourself completely. It’s really essential to be as calm as you can. In the same way that hasty farming does not enable you to bring the harvest round any quicker, any kind of change that occurs in you will happen over extended time. It is essential to remember that it is the very process of continual rather than intermittent practice that nourishes growth and change.
Names of each movement and benefit
Number 1. Turning the ball of light (Connecting the Small Intestine Meridian)
Small Intestine Meridian: Is a pair with the heart meridian, and regulates the small intestine.
