What is Guiding Technique (Qigong)

It should be Guiding Technique rather than Guidance Technique. Guiding is an ancient Chinese medical therapy as well as a method of health maintenance. Guiding is the earliest type of qigong in China, and is now a more scientific and rational form of qigong, safe and less prone to deviation, combining movement and static, channeling qi and blood, and having a strong effect on health and fitness.

Specifically, guiding refers to the movement of the limbs, consciously guiding the qi and blood along the meridians to run smoothly, so as to have a tendon, blood, qi and other effects. The art of guiding does not overemphasize how to guide the internal qi along the meridians, but focuses on the natural flow, through the movement of the limbs so that the qi and blood according to the laws of nature along the natural route that it should go through. It requires breathing that is naturally attained rather than artificially controlled, and the same is true of intention.?

Expanded Information:

The Internal Canon of Medicine mentions the following conditions that are suitable for Guiding and Attracting therapy The disease is "impotence, syncope, cold, heat" and "interest accumulation", but also need to be carried out with the "press Qiao" (massage). Zhang Zhongjing's "The Essentials of the Golden Chamber" emphasized the treatment of "heavy stagnation" in the limbs with "guiding, vomiting, acupuncture and moxibustion". Hua Tuo's "Zhongzangjing" also pointed out that: "guide can expel guest evil in the joints"; "it is appropriate to guide but not guide, then make people evil invasion of the joints, solid knot is difficult to pass".

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