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I am frequently asked about the metaphysical aspects of being a Qigong healer. I
personally believe too much emphasis is placed on the metaphysical realities of
energy based healing. With regards to Medical Qigong, Dr. Jerry Alan Johnson
said it better than anyone I have heard on the topic. The following quotation is
from Jerry's book, Chinese Medical Qigong Therapy: A Comprehensive Clinical
Text. This book is probably the most complete English text on the subject of
energy healing in the world today. It is rapidly becoming the bible of Medical
Qigong healers everywhere.
personally believe too much emphasis is placed on the metaphysical realities of
energy based healing. With regards to Medical Qigong, Dr. Jerry Alan Johnson
said it better than anyone I have heard on the topic. The following quotation is
from Jerry's book, Chinese Medical Qigong Therapy: A Comprehensive Clinical
Text. This book is probably the most complete English text on the subject of
energy healing in the world today. It is rapidly becoming the bible of Medical
Qigong healers everywhere.
Metaphysical Dimensions of Medical Qigong Healing
The dictionary describes "metaphysical" as "the study of psychic phenomena
beyond the limits of ordinary or orthodox psychology." There are other dimensions
of reality that are very tangible, and access to them is only limited by fear and
ignorance. Since theories on the nature of the mind and spirit cannot be easily
verified or disproved by intellectual analysis or scientific experiment, sometimes
certain kinds of knowledge are disbelieved, ridiculed, and dismissed. The
advanced energy theories that are presented in this textbook are based upon the
5000 years of cultivation and experience of Chinese medical healing. The
energetic form of Chi is neither good nor evil, it is simply another aspect of matter.
The ancient Chinese Qigong masters refined the ability to analyze and diagnose
these different forms of energy into an effective healing modality.
The existence of energy and its multidimensional patterns is embraced and
accepted by many other cultures and societies, with the exception of Western
conventional thinking, which is unfamiliar with this unorthodox approach to healing.
These energetic realms, which form the reality of the Medical Qigong doctor's
clinical healings, are actually normal perceptional skills that the doctors have
developed and trained within themselves. These doctors have simply rediscovered
and trained their sensitivity to energies that they were open to during childhood.
These energies encompass more than just the physical world. These perceptive
skills and abilities of Shen are actually our natural, energetic "Birthright," and have
been with us since birth. Shen Gong skills, and all psychic powers, lie within the
Eternal Soul of an individual, although in most people these skills are undeveloped
and largely unused. Often we fear the most of things we understand the least. It
has also been my observation that individuals are taught to ignore these skills
because of one or more of the following reasons:
1. They have become frightened of them, because as children they were told that
these abilities do not exist;
2. They were told that such abilities were evil, or 'of the devil;'
3. Unable to understand them, they do not know how to integrate them into their
personal lives;
4. They may fear the emotional and spiritual responsibility of knowing the truth
about themselves and others; or
5. The known is familiar and therefore more comfortable than the unknown and
new.
Sometimes, even facing our own human potential alarms us so greatly (fear
bordering on terror) that we are willing to deny empirical evidence that these
paranormal skills and abilities are real.
We live, therefore, with a paradox. These paranormal abilities seem to be part of
our nature, yet they can disturb us so greatly that we often violently reject them.
Medical Qigong doctors are healers who have learned to accept these paranormal
abilities and direct their energy, spirit, and psychic skills towards the focus of
alleviating pain and suffering. They are "wounded healers" who have learned to
face their fears, and have the courage to walk through and overcome them.
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