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Let's look now at the Chinese character for Gong. The word Gong also has two characters to it and has two meanings as well. The character on the left signifies ‘work’ and includes art or skill, cultivation and management; the character on the right translates as ‘power’ or ‘force’. Gong, therefore, represents the art, the skill, the effort placed into Qi practice and the power gained through this practice.
Put simply, we can say that Qigong means the art or skill or work of cultivating, manipulating, and moving the Qi within our bodies; keeping in constant motion our vital, life energy.
Why is it important to keep moving our vital life energy? Because this is the secret to health, happiness and longevity. Blocked Qi becomes pain; stagnant Qi leads to disease. We want to keep our precious internal Qi moving freely along the many meridians of our body so that we may attain the three principle goals of Yan Xin Qigong: relaxation, tranquillity and the ability to go, quite simply, with the flow of Nature.
