Basic ideas in Qigong massage. Heart and Lungs
Qigong massage - general qigong massage for health and relaxation
Through qigong massage you not only understand the structure physical body, but also the energy complex associated with qi
Thanks to the experience gained through the practice of qigong massage, you will be able to regulate the level of qi more easily and more naturally.
Massage will also give you a lot of pleasure on a physical and mental level.
Tuifu massage will help, firstly, to deal with any chronic diseases; secondly, to cleanse the body of those types of pollution that cannot be removed only through the intestines.
This is one of the very ancient techniques, the secret of which lies in the knowledge of the fact that any chronic illness... forms "knots" in the peritoneal region. It can even be said that all diseases leave their marks in the abdominal cavity.
Your goal is to make these knots dissolve, squeeze them out of the stomach. Once you get rid of them, you will notice that the disease that you have suffered from for so long will gradually leave your body.
Even if you do not suffer from any chronic diseases, but when pushing through the abdomen, you will find nodes, seals, painful areas, fluid or gas accumulations, then you should urgently try to get rid of them, because this is a sign of an impending illness.
Gouache massage. Therapeutic effect and application features.
Guasha is a very ancient type of massage practiced by the Chinese for many centuries. To cure diseases, it uses a compact plate. With this object, specific areas of the body are processed, on which there are special channel points. Therefore, according to the method of exposure, Guasha resembles a classic acupressure Chinese massage.
At the same time, working with such zones is very simple. They can be quickly found in the drawings that are an appendix to this technique. Then just take the plate and start the massage.
The effect is felt immediately, after a few minutes. At first, redness is observed in the treated area, and a burning sensation appears in this area. If the disease is very advanced, bruising may occur. These are kind of signals that show that the healing process has begun. At first, the disease even worsens, but this is in the order of things. Since without this stage, the cure is impossible.
Qigong - SELF-MASSAGE.
1. Shake with relaxed hands for 3-5 minutes without a break.
2. Massage each finger of the hand, starting with the thumb, index and middle fingers of the other hand, then switch hands.
3. Harmonization of Yin and Yang. Fold the palms of the hands, then rotational movements "away from you" 6 times and "toward yourself" 6 times.
4. Rub your palms to become hot and, without stretching the skin of the face, but only touching ""to wash"". Up - down - up and circular motion.
5. Tapping of the head: from the scalp to the back of the head 6 times.
6. "Comb" hair with your fingers from the forehead to the back of the head 6 times.
7.
Body massage with a relaxed fist in a strictly defined order:
a) armpit slowly down to the area under the navel.
b) up to the center chest.
c) from the center of the chest go to the palmar surface of the hand to the wrist.
d) turn the hand palm down and from the wrist up to the shoulder to the neck.
e) run along the arm to the fingers and continuing beyond the fingers.
e) repeat with opposite side body.
8. Tapping with the hands from the collarbone to the groin from top to bottom 6 times.
9. Feet shoulder-width apart, parallel, swing your arms (back self-massage).
10. Massage of the kidneys with a relaxed and clenched hand, with the side of the index and thumb 3 - 5 min.
11. Massage of the lower back and sacrum with the back of the hand clenched into a fist.
12. Massage the gluteal muscles with the palm side of the hand clenched into a fist.
13. massage along outer surface thighs, lower legs, to the ankles, legs wide apart.
14. At the level of the ankles, walk along inner surface up to the inguinal fold and massage of the inguinal fold area with squats 3 - 5 min.
15. Ear massage with stretching and rubbing them.
16. Rub the lumbar region and kidneys with squats 3 times 36 times, each time stopping, "warming up" the kidneys for about a minute.
17. While inhaling, rise on your toes with simultaneous tension of the gluteal muscles of the hips and anus. The brushes are parallel to the floor. As you exhale, lower yourself, relaxing on your heels, relaxing the muscles of the arms and legs. Repeat 24 - 81 times.
18. Set the feet parallel, put the palms together, turns with the rotation of the spine, take a deep breath when turning to one side and exhale when turning to the other, then change the sides of inhalation and exhalation, 10 times.
19. Stretching: put the palms together, then with one palm while inhaling "push the sky", the second palm is open to the floor and reaches for the earth. The fingertips of both palms face the center of the body. Then change hands through an intermediate position of folded palms (24 times). Meridians of the spleen and liver.
20. Feet shoulder-width apart, hands clenched without tension into a fist, palmar surface down. Mahi with straightened arms. When they are behind the back, the heels themselves are slightly off the floor (for the meridian of the heart).
21. ""Horse riding"". Feet shoulder-width apart, knees slightly bent during squats. Spend with joy, making spontaneous sounds with joy.
22. "The dragon jumps out of the water", starting from the area of the knee joints.
23. Waves with arms (women start with the left, men with right hand). Hit the area under the navel with an open palm 24 times, then warm this place with your hands. ""Collect"" energy in this area.
24. Squat as many times as years.
= It is advisable to do the exercises with joy, like a child, without thinking about the benefits of the exercises (so as not to include an evaluative mind and resistance).
= Throughout each exercise, breathe coherently (for relaxation).
= It is advisable to perform in the morning, in nature, in summer and winter (there are completely different sensations in the apartment)
Nature gave the human body the opportunity to regenerate and restore tissues. Self-massage of the face based on the ancient Qigong system allows you to keep the beauty and youth of the face.
Regular use is simple and effective procedure will help to keep the skin smooth for a long time.
Qigong: a face without wrinkles - an ancient cosmetic self-massage
Ancient Chinese practice is aimed at the return of youth and healing. It contains the best traditional techniques, proven over the centuries and passed down from generation to generation.
Qigong massage includes Eastern methods of working with the body to activate and distribute energy:
- trituration;
- stroking;
- pat;
- pressure with palms, knuckles and fingertips.
The Qigong Therapy series is represented by 9 films about strengthening the spine, lowering pressure, strengthening joints and others, including a video about self-massage of the face, which we will dwell on in more detail.
Qigong massage: face without wrinkles and swelling
A well-known film from the above series dedicated to cosmetic facial massage presents silk skin massage, edema elimination massage and 8 dew drops self-massage.
The movements are simple, high efficiency and have no contraindications.
The result of this program is the achievement of a unique healing result and improvement of the skin condition.
Wrinkle-free face - an ancient cosmetic self-massage from Japan
A similar Tsogan massage with ancient Japanese roots has been revived by beauty expert Yukuko Tanaka.
She wrote the book "Facial Massage" and released a series of educational video lessons. In the Russian Federation, it is known as "Asahi massage".
In addition to it, Tanaka developed special tricks for all ages and face types. has a noticeable anti-aging effect:
- wrinkle reduction
- return of firmness and elasticity of the skin
- face oval lift
- removal of puffiness under the eyes.
The massage awakens and revitalizes the energy of the facial muscles due to the effect on the “beauty points”. Its daily 3-minute performance will make you look 10 years younger.
It's no secret that every woman strives to be unique and desirable. In search of achieving perfection, very often you have to experience for yourself various diets, systems and techniques for weight loss.
And at the same time I want to have effective result– health, a beautiful and toned figure, perfect skin and good mood. To be successful, you need to put in enough effort.
One of the excellent methods for improving your body and mental balance is the Chinese Qigong gymnastics. The basis of this gymnastics is a series of simple, but very effective exercises that are designed not only to improve health and lose weight, but also to spiritual development personality.
Features and benefits of gymnastics
Qigong gymnastics for weight loss does not include debilitating sport exercises. It is more like an art than a sport.
Translated Qigong means control or regulation of energy. Gymnastics consists of breathing exercises that regulate energy human body and direct its flows to the vital organs.
qigong does not have age restrictions. You can perform such a complex at any age, without having physical training. Gymnastic exercises very smooth, but at the same time all the muscles are involved.
The essence of the technique is that a special breathing technique contributes to the additional supply of oxygen to the tissues. It speeds up the body's metabolism and promotes fat burning. 
At first glance, quite simple exercises will help restore and rejuvenate the body, strengthen immunity, lose weight, improve body shape and find psychological harmony. Special attention in the program is given to the spinal department.
After all, his health plays a big role. At right approach to the technique, the condition of the spine improves significantly.
Qigong promotes weight loss without strict and long-term diets, and exhausting workouts in gyms. Breathing exercises combined with correct and balanced diet can give excellent results.
With systematic and exercises, without harm to health, you can get rid of 4 kg excess weight during the month. At the same time, the body will get rid of toxins and slags, health will improve and mental and physical activity will increase.
Qigong program: nutrition and self-massage
The Qigong program for weight loss includes not only the implementation exercise. You also need to rethink your lifestyle and diet.
If you want to seriously engage in this technique and heal your body, then you should first of all abandon bad habits especially when it comes to smoking. It will be difficult for smokers to achieve a positive result.
Nutrition Features
Nutrition in Qigong is based on achieving a balance that will provide the body with all the useful substances and fill it with the necessary life energy. It is necessary to exclude from the diet products of long-term storage (with large quantity preservatives), and foods that are heavily cooked.
It is advisable to eat food that contains a maximum useful components and in the process of preparation does not lose their properties.
It is worth noting that vegetables and fruits are best consumed during their season, for your region. Because the vitamins they contain enough will only be during seasonal and natural maturation.
Do not eat strawberries and grapes in winter. This, in best case, will not give any benefit, and at worst - can cause poisoning.
The main components proper diet should be vegetables and fruits, cereals, dairy and sour-milk products, as well as meat. Even in Chinese methods, there is a concept of the balance of five main tastes: sweet, bitter, sour, salty and spicy.
Proper nutrition is the use of foods with different tastes in equal proportions:
- Sweet foods. Must be included in the diet.
But they must be useful and contain useful material. These can be: sweet berries or fruits (banana, melon, watermelon), dried fruits (dried apricots, dates, prunes), nuts, and especially honey. - bitter foods may affect the body in different ways. They give a cooling effect and can reduce energy flow.
But they can also act as a laxative. Chicory, dark chocolate, celery, lettuce, broccoli are bitter-tasting foods.
- acidic foods act like astringent. These include: almost all fruits (lime, lemon, pineapple, currant, grapefruit, kiwi, currant and others), as well as sour-milk products, cheeses, olives.
- Salty. Their action in the right amount needed to improve water balance in the body.
Useful products are considered, first of all, varieties of seafood: sardines, herring, shrimps, mussels, crabs and so on. - Acute. Such products help to increase energy flows and improve blood circulation.
Spices include all kinds of seasonings, turnips, cabbage, onions.
Healing self-massage
The principle of Qigong self-massage is different from more known species massage. His system is based primarily on breathing and concentration. own feelings occurring in the body. 
To start performing self-massage, you need to get rid of all extraneous thoughts, focus on your feelings and relax.
The massage is performed in the pharaoh's position. To do this, you need to sit on the floor, legs comfortably bent at the knees and crossed ( right leg should be at the bottom and the left at the top).
Connect the hands into a lock. In this position, you need to spend a few minutes, concentrate and calm your breathing.
Keep your back straight, take 3-4 deep breaths and exhale, and start the massage.
Perform each exercise 36 times.
- Warming of the palms. Press your palms tightly together and start rubbing, increasing activity.
You should feel a strong warmth in your palms. - Eye exercises. The eyes are closed. Touch your eyes with warm palms and hold for 10 seconds.
Repeat the procedure 3 times, preheating the palms. Next, using your fingers, make light circular movements around the eyes to the right, then to left side(36 times).
Then, with the back of the palms, massage from the bridge of the nose towards the temples (36 times). - Facial massage. With warm palms, gently stroke the face from the forehead to the chin (36 times).
Next, make light claps all over the face and finish with massage in a circular motion. - Nape and neck. Connect your hands behind, in the neck.
Rub the back of the head and neck with slow and smooth movements. First from top to bottom, then from left to right.
Run 36 times. - Head massage. Lightly tap with your fingertips.
It is necessary to start from the forehead, gradually moving to the crown and back of the head. Finish on the temples. - Thoracic region. Cross your arms over your chest, and with your palms, perform circular motions until a warm and pleasant sensation appears in the thoracic region.
Do 36 times to the right side, then the same to the left. - Belly massage. It is best to lie on the floor with your knees bent.
Put your palms on top of each other and make circular movements clockwise in the intestinal area until you feel warm. - Lumbar. It is performed standing or sitting on a chair.
Close your palms behind your back and make rubbing movements along the spine from top to bottom, and then to the sides. - Foot massage. Accept comfortable position and massage with the edge of your hand right foot and then left.
Massage should be done with light pressure.
It is worth noting that the result of such a massage will be only with a systematic and regular approach.
The video will help you perform Qigong gymnastics exercises.
Qigong Gymnastics Exercises
There are many developed breathing exercises for weight loss Qigong. For beginners, you can try a simple complex.
Everyone will be able to do it. The complex takes only 15 minutes.
Exercises are performed while standing, 3-5 times each.
- Relax, place your hands at the bottom of your stomach and inhale deeply, while slightly inflating your stomach. Then, with a slow exhalation, try to pull in the stomach strongly.
- Hands at shoulder level, slightly bent at the elbows. Taking a deep breath, spread your arms wide so that the shoulder blades close as much as possible, and the chest opens, while the head is pointing up.
While exhaling, round your back, trying to reach your chest with your chin, then take the starting position. - Spread your arms to the sides, approximately at shoulder level, palms turned down, fingers slightly splayed. Take a deep breath, in a smooth movement tilt your head to the left, then back and forth.
Repeat the exercise on the right side. - Place your hands in front of you, palms up. Make light blows with your wrists against each other.
Breathing should be even and deep.
- Hands are extended forward. Gently spread them apart, while pointing your palms up.
The chest should open well. Next, get back to your original position. - Bend your arms slightly at the elbows and place them in front of you, imagine that you are holding a small ball, eyes closed. Standing in this position, try to feel the energy that has formed between the hands.
Further, when inhaling, slowly bring your palms together, and when exhaling, spread them apart. - The next exercise is to direct the received energy to the whole body. For this, it is necessary to deep breath slowly raise your arms to the top through the sides.
As you exhale, gently lower them in front of your face. - Finally, repeat the first exercise.
By allocating just 15-20 minutes a day, you will drastically improve your well-being and will have excellent physical shape.
An effective method for healing and losing weight is Lana Anatole's Qigong complex. This American woman dedicated Chinese gymnastics long years.
Now her video lessons are available and popular all over the world. With the help of Lana Anatole's video courses, you can lose weight and improve without leaving your home.
Qigong Contraindications
Like everyone else various methods weight loss, Qigong has some contraindications.
It is not recommended to carry out gymnastics during pregnancy, with severe exacerbations of any diseases, and for people with a sick heart. In any case, before starting training, be sure to consult your therapist.
If you massage yourself in the morning immediately after waking up, you will get a big boost of energy for the whole day. Over time, you will be able to tailor this massage to your abilities and well-being. To extract maximum benefit, perform the massage slowly, with full awareness of each movement. Concentrate on every part of the body, feel how the energy spreads from the hands to all organs. You can especially work out those departments in which there are problems, because it is not for nothing that this massage is called acupressure - you interact with specific organs and parts of the body.
Step 1: Rub your palms
At the very beginning, you should rub your palms together, pressing on the entire surface of the brush to the fingertips. As a result, heat and energy are rushed to the palms. Perform at the beginning of the complex and between stages.
2nd step: massage your face
With the fingers of two hands, massage the face in a circular motion, starting from the forehead, eyes, cheeks, chin, then in the opposite direction from the jaw, moving near the ears, to the temples up to the top of the forehead.
Repetition. 10-15 circles.
Positive results. This massage stimulates the muscles of the face, prevents sagging of the skin and the appearance of wrinkles. Don't forget to rub your palms after each step!
Step 3: Rub your forehead
Rub your forehead first with one hand as if you were wiping it, then with the other hand in the same way. Repeat 15 times. This massage activates the circulation of blood and energy in frontal sinuses, as well as in the skin, preventing the appearance of wrinkles.
Step 4: Massage your head
Use the fingertips of both hands to press on hairline head, moving from top to bottom. Do 15 times. Then slowly and smoothly run your nails over the hairline. This massage stimulates the breathing of the skin and tones the scalp. If you have dandruff or increased fat content hair, do a gentle scalp massage.
Step 5: Massage your eyes
Put your hands over your eyes. Move to the temples. Repeat several times. Press well on the entire surface of the eye, eyelids, eyebrows, brow ridges. This massage improves vision.
Step 6: Massage your nose
With help index fingers massage the wall, wings of the nose at the base from top to bottom and from bottom to top.
Step 7: Massage your lips
Hovering one index finger over upper lip, and the second under lower lip in the hollow of the chin, do 15 circular movements, then swap fingers and repeat again 15 times. This massage strengthens the circular muscles of the lips and prevents the appearance of wrinkles around the lips.
Step 8: Massage your ears
Ears between the ring and middle fingers. Actively massage the ears from top to bottom and bottom to top 30 times. Then place your palms on auricles and massage them from front to back and from back to front, bending the ears. Do 30 times. Holding the auricle with a large and index fingers, pinch it up and down 30 times.
Such a massage stimulates blood circulation and energy circulation in the auricles and ears, improves hearing and affects everything biologically. active points organs of the body, since the auricles are rich in acupuncture points.
Step 9: Massage the back of your head
Carrying out circular movements with the tip of the middle finger or all fingers at once, press firmly on the acupuncture point, which is located on the left and right side deep depression on the back of the head. Perform 30 times. This massage has a beneficial effect on sleep, helps with pain in the back of the head and migraines.
Step 10: Massage the back of your neck
Place your palms on both sides of the back of your neck and stroke it from the back of your head to trapezius muscle 20-30 times. This will give flexibility cervical vertebrae and prevent their fusion, normalizes sleep.
Step 11: Massage the Palace of Energy Centers and the Big Lo
With your right hand, rub diagonally from top to bottom the palace of energy centers, that is, the point that is located in the inner left corner at the intersection of the chest and collarbones. Simultaneously with your left hand, rub the “big lo” of energy, a point located two palms below the armpit. Repeat 30 times on each side. This massage activates the flow of energy in the body.
Step 12: Massage your lower back with your fists
Close your fingertips, leaving space between thumb and index. With the rings formed, massage the lower back on both sides of the spine in circular motions 15 times clockwise and 15 times counterclockwise. Then, clenching your fingers into a fist, pat them on the lower back, alternately right and left sides. This massage stimulates the kidneys and activates the energy in this organ. It improves tone lumbar, prevents aches and pains physical activity and during menstruation.
