In "A Complete Guide to Chi-Gung", Daniel Reid describes the benefits of chi-gung:
(The spelling I normally use is "qigong"; but the text below includes quotes from Daniel Reid's book who is using the "chi-gung" spelling; so I'll respect that.)
"One of the most important benefits of chi-gung in terms of energy is emotional equilibrium. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) views emotions as forms of errant energy moving uncontrolled through the system.
The "Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine" states:
"Anger causes energy to joy causes energy to slow down, grief causes energy to dissipate, fear causes energy to descend, fright causes energy to scatter, exhaustion causes energy to wither, worry causes energy to stagnate."
TCM diagnoses emotional imbalance in terms of organic disfunctions in the body, nutritional deficiencies, environmental factors, and the disruptive effects of external forces and energy fields on the human system.
By re-establishing and maintaining the energy balance, chi-gung has a benefic impact on the emotional equilibrium.
Another beneficial effect of chi-gung practice on energy is that it establishes harmonic resonance between the human energy system and the ambient energy pulse of the planet.
The physical relaxation, mental tranquility, emotional equilibrium permit the energy to flow freely through the entire human system. This serves as a general tune-up for all of the body's vital functions, balance energies, and draws supplemental energy sup cosmos, supplies into the system from nature and the cosmos, while clearing the channels of stagnant energy. Since energy is the foundation of both physical and mental health, chi-gung recharges and rebalances body as well as mind and harmonizes them both with the rejuvenating powers of cosmos and earth.
