Source: Hilda Wei Williams http://www.chikung-unlimited.com/Benefits.html
Without Qi energy there is no qigong. It is integral to why we practice qigong in the first place. And it is difficult for most people to conceptualize. To put it simply, it is a vital force or healing energy that is responsible for not just life, vitality, and health, but also personal development.
And it is the same life force that we employ when we transcend the physical plane to the higher levels of consciousness. At the highest level, we use only the yinian , mind power, also known as the yi consciousness to channel the life force.
Traditional qigong practices rely heavily on the cultivation of the Qi energy because of the many benefits that this healing energy produces.
It is the healing Qi that TCM doctors stimulate with acupuncture needles, acupressure massage and moxibustion. It is also healing energy tapped from the environment that the healer channels and transfers onto the person being healed.
Beginning students often tell me they feel tingling in their fingertips and attribute it to the beginning manifestations of this vital force. That is only a superficial experience. There are many different sensations, just as there are many different types of Qi energy and many of these sensations are far greater or subtler, and much more difficult to describe in words.
Instead of just physical well-being or specifically focused aspects of health, traditional qigong views health at a much deeper, holistic level, focusing the Qi energy for whole mind, body and spiritual health, longevity and healing.
And instead of merely increasing relaxation and concentration, traditional practices also seek to transcend the here and now, to attain a higher consciousness and to develop psychic power and abilities beyond what most can only imagine.
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