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Breaks are important for everyone. These are the times to gather energy. Who works without breaks is quickly exhausted. It is like running without catching air. Then you are soon out of breath. It is like standing still for an instant, to prepare for what is to come. This is how to act thoughtfully, avoid mistakes, do more, without wearing yourself out and more efficient. In daily life we need breaks. We have to plan them. Otherwise our life is all over with before we even noticed. Zhineng Qigong helps us in the meditative part to insert these breaks into our life. A break is an interruption of a sequence by an action. We are doing something, helping ourselves. Posted in German by detlef,  translated into English by dolores  

In the midst of life's turmoil deep inside, an island of tranquility, an ocean of composure, gentle waves and a light breeze, a quiet heart and an alert mind, grow from conscious acting. Sense and nonsense, side by side, treasuring and paying attention to small things, but don't lose yourself in details, pondering, awaiting, the darkness clears, light falls onto your path and shines for you. Set your gaze to the aim and go forward.  

Why is it so important? Let your gaze roam about consciously through the window into nature, into the vast landscape, just for the blink of an eye-lash, the fraction of a second. Your heart feels this moment of tranquility and treasures it. How precious are some moments. Moments of stillness in the midst of your daily life, where your own melody chimes, that what makes you perceptibly you. May your day have many such moments.  

With Zhineng Qigong you can influence too high or too low blood pressure and regulate it. This is not to replace medical drugs. I myself have a slightly increased blood pressure. My doctor gave me a medical drug. I swallowed it for some time. Medical drugs work constantly, without interruption. I did not want to accept the side effects. I discontinued to take them and informed my doctor. The risk is entirely mine. With or without medical drugs the blood pressure is not the same during the whole day - physical stress causes short-time peaks. This is normal, no problem for healthy persons. Daily Zhineng Qigong practice regulates it. Too low blood pressure is normalized, too high blood pressure is reduced. To what extent medical drugs are still required, is the task of a doctor. Often a less strong medical drug or smaller dose of it is required. Zhineng Qigong works also on the mind. You can control qi with your mind. Qi flows into the direction you tell it...

Zhineng Qigong is a qigong method. Astonished I once witnessed how an archer's exercise was taught. The practitioners were told to take a posture as if an archer draws his bow. Then you should imagine that qi flows. It was a static posture that I saw. I am sure that none of the practitioners had qi flowing. Qi is not only life energy or power of life but also a mental power. What does it mean for this exercise. In the archer's posture you have to use your mind to relax mentally, to become quiet, to relax the muscle tension and then to activate the qi flow mentally. You cannot ask this of beginners, they will certainly have tensions in the posture and then qi cannot flow. Totally apart from whether they are able to activate the qi mentally, that is to let it flow. This is too complicated. I could do the exercise with qi flow, but to do that I would have to practise this exercise. This is a closed exercise, not an open one, it does not belong ...

Why translate when even in the Chinese language the meaning is not fully contained in Qi. Previously, it stood for power of life or life energy. Today it means air, breath or steam. Dr. Pang Ming says: "Qi does not contain all of it. Once there is a better word for it, we will take that. Until then let's use Qi." We therefore keep Qi and don't translate it. Who once felt Qi, knows what it is. We do not practise to feel Qi. If we would expect that Qi would hardly flow. Then the disappointment is great. An example that I have seen. Someone rubs his hands against one another, moves with his hands over his face and says: "Do as I do and you will feel Qi." This is frictional warmth when the hands are in contact with one another, not Qi. We practise Zhineng Qigong to let Qi do its work. We do not need to feel the Qi flow. Posted in German by detlef,  translated into English by dolores  

An everyday tale: In a tropic landscape people protect themselves at night against mosquitoes with a net. What astonished me on my second stay in China: My friend had no mosquito net over her bed. She showed me with her finger how a mosquito flies towards her and then at some distance suddenly turns round and flies away from her. She had avanced greatly with Zhineng Qigong and her personal qi field and Gong Fu were so strong that mosquitos avoided her by far. Therefore she had no more need of any mosquito net.