Qi Gong Benefits and Research
The benefits of Qi Gong can be physical, emotional, and cognitive and can positively impact our overall health and wellbeing.
They can include:
increased calmness (decreased feelings of stress) enhanced immune system
increased energy and vitality (less fatigue) decreased inflammation
improved regulation of emotions improved cardiovascular healthdecreased feelings of depression improved bone health
decreased feelings of anxiety increased strength of respiratory muscles
and more....
As Qi Gong is having positive impacts on people's health, can be cost free, requires no special equipment, can be done anywhere, and is considered to be safe, its practice is gaining in popularity. As a result, over the last years more funding for research is being allocated to study the benefits of Qi Gong practice on many individuals including those with cancer and those experiencing cognitive decline.
Below are representative articles which help to explain Qi Gong, as well as some of the research.
The first article is a good basic one with which to start.
1. Qigong Meditation Techniques: Benefits and How to Do It HealthLine (website) February, 2021
2. What are the Health Benefits of Qigong? This ancient practice is quick and easy to do – and could boost your well-being Cleveland Clinic Health Essentials, September 23, 2020
3. An Evidence-based Review of Qi Gong by the Natural Standard Research Collaboration Natural Medicine Journal, May 2010 NMJ Contributors
4. Evidence Base of Clinical Studies on Qi Gong: A Bibliometric Analysis
Complementary Therapies in Medicine, May 2020 Zhang YP, Hu RX, Han M, Lai BY, Liang SB, Chen BJ, Robinson N, Chen K, Liu JP.
5. Qigong for the Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation of COVID-19 Infection in Older Adults American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, May, 2020
Fan Feng 1, Sylvie Tuchman 2, John W Denninger 1, Gregory L Fricchione 1, Albert Yeung 3
6. Benefits of Qigong as an integrative and complementary practice for health: a systematic review Revista Latino-americana de enfermagen, 2020
Article in Portuguese, Spanish, English
Bruna Francielle Toneti 1, Rafael Fernando Mendes Barbosa, Leandro Yukio Mano, Luana Okino Sawada, Igor Goulart de Oliveira, Namie Okino Sawada
7. A critical review of the effects of medical Qigong on quality of life, immune function, and survival in cancer patients Integrative Cancer Therapies, June, 2011
Byeongsang Oh 1, Phyllis Butow, Barbara Mullan, Amanda Hale, Myeong Soo Lee, Xinfeng Guo, Stephen Clarke
8. Effect of 1 Year of Qigong Exercise on Cognitive Function Among Older Chinese Adults at Risk of Cognitive Decline: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
Frontiers in Psychology, October 2020 Jing, Jin, Yin Wu, Shaohua Li, Suhui Jin, Lin Wang, Jian Zhang, Chenglin Zhou, Yong Gao, Zhen Wang
As with so many things in our lives, the best way to determine the benefits of Qi Gong for you, is to try it.
Perhaps, choose to give it some time.
Time for your breath, for your body, mind, and spirit to experience the lightness, the calmness, the vitality,...