Qi for Phil

[Guest guest]

Phil,

 

You asked for half a page about qi. Here

it is.

 

The ancient Chinese were careful observers of

the natural world in which they lived. They were

also keenly aware of matters related to the

development and use of a language that arose

from pictorial representations of ideas and

phenomena in which they worked ceaselessly

to record and refine their observations and

their understanding of nature.

 

As Lin Yu Tang points out, the language that

resulted operated through association of

ideas and suggestion. The key to language

art in China is the ability to evoke ideas without

actually stating them.

 

Qi is one such example, on many levels.

 

It relies upon the basic metaphoric nature

of the language in general and on the

potential resulting from the association of

two very fundamental ideas in Chinese

thought and language: yin and yang.

 

When you look at it from a cosmological

or ontological perspective, you can see

that the association of the ideas of yin

and yang results in the emergence of

the idea of qi. Therefore you can always

evoke the idea of qi without stating it

simply by reference to yin and yang.

This satisfies many principal principles

of Chinese thought and language.

And to the Chinese mind, qi is an

enormously comfortable and satisfying

idea.

 

Where there is yin and yang, there is

qi.

 

In the clinic, as I've said, I conceive

of qi in terms of the connectivity of

the body, the communication that

exists between remote and adjacent

parts of the body, the ongoing states

of change occurring in the body,

and the movement of parts of the

body and the body as a whole.

 

And by the way, when I say body

I mean body/mind. It's just that

that term is cumbersome and in

the Chinese view there is no mind

as distinct from body. Mental artifact

and corporeal substance are inextricably

connected.

 

And they are connected by qi.

 

Everything in the body...and everywhere

else in the whole universe...is interconected

by qi.

 

So when something has become disconnected

perturbations in qi result. If you want to

conduct a quick evaluation of a person's

qi, check out the extent to which the

parts of the body are connected to each

other. Pick up a hand and observe how

the rest of the body changes. Watch the

person as they walk into the clinic and

you'll see the current state of the movement

of the whole body, and a simple set of

physical examinations will reveal the

local movement potentials and lack thereof

associated with various complaints. This can

be followed from the whole body down to

any slightest portion of it.

 

This is an approach to physical medicine

that is rooted in the notion of qi. Therapy

proceeds on the basis of connecting

things that have been disconected through

illness, injury or other insult; reestablishing

communication between parts of the body

that have fallen out of touch; restoring to

the overall pattern of organic change those

parts or aspects of the body that have

become unchanging through disease or

other factors, and generally restoring

movement and the potential for movement

to all parts of the body where it has been

diminished.

 

And note that the concept of " energy "

has not figured in one iota up until here,

which is where I'll stop as I've gone beyond

half a page.

 

Ken

[Guest guest]

May be Qi is just Srings

alon

 

 

[Guest guest]

Alon,

 

What are Srings?

 

Ken

 

, " ALON MARCUS " <

alonmarcus@w...> wrote:

> May be Qi is just Srings

> alon

>

>

[Guest guest]

What are Srings?

>>>From String theory

Alon