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Luohan Qigong

Treasure for health

by Jose Beneyto

Luohan Qigong. Treasure for health Jose Rafael Beneyto Galbis

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The author declines all responsibility for any injury or accident that may occur to the reader by reading or practicing the material contained in this work. It is recommended that before any physical activity, an expert in the subject and/or a doctor is consulted.

Luohan Qigong / Jose Beneyto. 1st ed.
ISBN 978-1974283743

To Nria and Irene, my authentic treasures.

My sincere thanks to those people, both Westerners and Orientals, who have transmitted their knowledge to me.
Especially Jose Fernandez, for teaching me most of the things I know about the Luohan system, and also Javier Snchez, my first teacher, for allowing me to enter this fascinating world.

Chinese Qigong (chi kung) is very well known for the health benefits of its practice, and Luo Han Qigong is one of the schools of this fascinating tradition.

Among the books and articles that I have read about this art, I consider this as one of the best. It explains very clear all the basic principles of the system in a way that everybody can understand, even if you are not a practitioner.

For many years Master Jose Beneyto has made a deep study of the system, and I have to say that he is one of the most qualify persons to write about it. His experience in the practice of the system together with his understanding of its principles converted him in one of the top Masters of the world.

I hope this book will be just the first one of a series of books about the Lo Han system that will spread this tradition over the world.

Jos Fernndez

Its very likely you know the benefits that regular moderate physical exercise brings to you.

You probably also know good reasons to perform breathing exercises.

And you are probably also aware about advantages of practicing concentration and meditation exercises.

Well, if you know all these things, imagine for a second an activity that offers you the benefits of these three; appropriated physical exercise, different kind of breathing exercises, and concentration/meditation exercises practice

Well, this is what qigong offers you, and more specifically, Luohan qigong!

We usually remember our health when we have any trouble with it. Then we look for solutions either in conventional medicine or in the complementary one.

Increasingly, healthy life habits are insisted as preventive methods to take care of our health. Correct feeding, moderated physical exercise, correctly breathing, appropriated rest, etc.

And here is where the qigong practice can help us. In fact, as youll see later, this is one of the biggest objectives of qigong; to preserve our health.

And in this, I can assure, Luohan qigong is an authentic treasure.

But to be able to successfully do any activity, it is necessary to exactly know what we want to get from it, know the objective why we do it.

Once we have it clear, we can analyze how we can achieve:

Its exactly the same with the qigong. From the first moment, we should understand what we practice it for. Know clearly the objective we pursue with its training.

And that is precisely the purpose of this book. To explain in a simple and clear way what the main object of Luohan qigong is and how were going to make it.

There are multiple books about qigong, and among them, some are dedicated to the Luohan system. Those ones are really good and generally more complex that the one you have in your hands right now.

But precisely, one of my goals about writing this book is to make it simple. I consider whats most important about the Luohan qigong learning, its the practice. It may seem obvious, but I can assure something so logical often fails in several practitioners or even in masters of this art.

Having so many theoretical knowledge doesnt work at all if theyre not perfectly understandable, and above all, if you dont know how to apply them to the practice, which is in the end what brings us many benefits that can be gained by qigong work.

It isnt necessary to be a specialist in Chinese medicine to practice the exercises. Having clear and determinate concepts and theory is enough. I hope I can help you get it

There are lots of qigong systems. Its easy to understand that in a country so extensive such as China, multitude of practices have been developed all over their history in order to preserve health.

Since ancient times, Chinese civilization tried to avoid disease through different methods. Some of them consisted in curing different ailments when these had already appeared, when the symptoms where already shown.

But they soon realized the importance of preventing the disease.

Different masters, focused on seeking a health preventive method, observed that apart from other aspects such as feeding, rest or weather conditions, a persons physical activity had a direct effect on it.

They observed that not only an over physical activity could be harmful (as it used to happen to societys low class, forced to work from sun to sun), but the absence of any physical exercise was terrible to health (as it used to happen to societys high class members).

From then, they started to develop several types of exercises with the purpose to promote health through an appropriated physical activity.

These exercises evolved in different ways, depending on the practitioners they were directed to and the concrete needs of these.

They couldnt be the same to the ones who practiced the nobility with a low physical activity level, to those who practiced in a monks group which goal was to ease the effect of long hours meditation in static postures.

But they all kept having the original idea about promoting an optimum health state through different practices that favored the correct blood and energy circulation through all the body, helping in this way, both the correct nutrition of all organisms cells and tissues, and the disposal of toxins and waste products produced by these.

This whole group of different practices or exercises was known in a generic way as Nei gong, which means intern work.

Another name it used to be called and with which it started to be known in the western, was QIGONG (Hei kung in Cantonese) ( ).

Even though, its difficult to find an exact translation from the Chinese characters, because in some situations a single ideogram represents an idea or a wide concept, we can translate QIGONG as energy work.

The word GONG refers to the practice or work from the exercises developed through centuries with the aim to preserve health.

The word QI refers to the vital energy every organism has and runs its performance. The qi circulates with the blood pushing it through the body to keep it healthy. Its a concept used by the Chinese culture to design the activity of human being. Well see later in detail what we mean when we talk about qi.

Therefore, we already have a first definition of qigong, that helps us understand its meaning and purpose were going to practice it with:

-Qigong: Consists in a series of exercises aimed to favor the correct blood and energy circulation through all the body with the purpose of keeping it healthy.

As weve seen before, the different groups of exercises were evolving in several ways, according to the purpose they followed. In this way, a big variety of different qigong systems appeared, with their own features and work methods, being really different from each other.