China is the home of Qigong. Qigong has been practised for more than 4,000 years in China, it is one of the main contributor to China’s most complete and effective systems of preventive health and medical treatment.

“There were no officially sanctioned qigong activities in China until its rehabilitation in 1978, after the end of the Cultural Revolution. However, one woman, Guo Lin, an artist (landscape painting) and cancer victim from Guangdong province who had cured herself by practicing qigong during the 1960s, was brave enough to teach other cancer patients in the parks of Beijing as early as 1970.” She was diagnosed with uterine cancer In 1949 and had been on and off of the operation table for more than 6 times, and her health condition worsened as days went by. As a last resort, she looked upon Qigong she had practiced during her childhood days as a therapy for cure. Through her research into ancient Qigong masters’ methods and modern Chinese & Western medical & scientific theories and discoveries, she remarkably created a new set of Qigong technique and her cancer was cured after ten years of practice and experimenting. Her ‘New Qigong Therapy’ inaugurated a new, collective form of qigong teaching and practice that would later be adopted by most qigong masters. Guo Lin can thus be said to have triggered the qigong wave of the 1980s.

In 1971, armed with this new technique, Madam Guo Lin started to spread the new technique free of charge at various parks in Beijing. Her first student, a worker who suffered from serious heart disease, was cured after practicing her qigong. Her second student, a factory worker, was cured of his stomach cancer after a year of assiduous practice under Guo Lin’s guidance. Since then more than one million people suffering from cancers, lupus erythematosus and other difficult and complicated chronic diseases & ailments in Chna have benefitted and been successfully treated. She organized the learners into practice groups and taught them the theory and practice of her ‘New Qigong Therapy’, teaching different techniques to different patients depending on their condition.

Today, Guolin New Qigong has spread to America, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia and Malaysia etc.

Video clips of learning Guolin Qigong and handbook will be uploaded very soon!

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During the Cultural Revolution, Guo Lin was “accused of fooling people and of engaging in superstitious practices, Guo Lin was expelled from Dongdan Park. Two of her assistant trainers were arrested and imprisoned for twenty days, her home was searched, and her qigong material confiscated. Between 1971 and 1977 Guo Lin was interrogated seven times by the Public Security Bureau. In spite of the harassment, the number of people who came to practice with her grew, until she was able to train coaches to lead practice groups in other parks, and an informal organization of practitioners was created to study and publicize her method. Interest was so great that she abandoned a plan to emigrate to the United States, where her daughter was living.”

Excerpted from Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in China by David A. Palmer

I found this book on Amazon, a practitioner and teacher of Qigong left his review:

“I don’t like giving book reviews because people can slant the sales of someone; but being a practitioner and teacher of Qigong and have studied some of the methods and with some of the teachers listed in the book, this book is so good that I feel compelled to step up and give my 5 stars to it. ”

This book outlines a important part of modern qigong history and its roots.
Not a book to study from but rather a step back into the whole qigong fever craze that Dr. Palmer defines from a field practitioner level. He takes you from the beginning and to the end of its great era in China. This book would for sure be a great movie if it could be recreated.

It describes a lot of the great things in qigong as well as the not so great such as the “Qi for big money teachers”, which exist today in the west. This book should be a shining example for would be teachers and groups what not to do and why Qigong practices need to be free from Governmental, Associations & so called Qi expert’s controlling agencies.

The book also outlines the rise and fall of FLG and how FLG destroyed the whole open qigong training & practice in china. How the PRC had banned Qigong training in china and how it has reduced to a sports exercise only.

A book that you will read over and over again a must have if you practice any form of Qigong or Taijiquan.”

The important formula of her success was based on:

1. This Qigong recommend and encourages patients to synthesize with traditional Chinese and/or Western Medical treatments, (e.g. radiotherapy and chemotherapy) to obtain maximum benefits, as this exercise helps to reduce the side effects while increasing the red and white blood cells to strengthen the immune system.

2. This technique let patients breath in large volume of oxygen. Research done by Dr. Lai at America Institute of Cancer Research has found that the cancer cells can be destroyed if a patient breathes in eight times more oxygen.

3. This technique allow the “inner energy” to circulate through the body’s vast network of energy channels, and by way of movement guidance expels stagnated and polluted energy from our body and “replenished” our body with atmospheic clean energy. By this method, it enhances and promotes self-immune and healing functions of our body.

4. This technique stimulates secretion of saliva from the glands beneath the tongue. Known as “Golden Brew” or “Sweet Dew“, it is highly beneficial to the stomach and is regarded as an immune function by the traditional Chinese Medical Practitioners for more than 4,000 years. This saliva should be swallowed from time to time as it collects in the mouth.

References:

Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in China by David A. Palmer

http://www.guolinqigong.net

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