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Qi Gong empowers practitioners to take control of their own health through tools for maintaining and restoring physical and emotional well-being.
By integrating qi gong into your routine, you maintain the ability to enjoy life while addressing health challenges proactively.
Qi Gong is a powerful tool for health and balance. Master Steenrod encourages everyone to give it a try and wishes the best for all listeners!
People with an independent spirit often seek methods that let them take charge of their health. Qi Gong offers exactly that—an intelligent, time-tested system for physical vitality and emotional regulation. Unlike reactive approaches to health, Qi Gong is preventive and empowering. It’s especially attractive to those who value self-reliance and want to avoid dependence on crisis care.
In Qi Gong, healing is not a one-time event—it’s a daily commitment. Practitioners use breathing, movement, and stillness to restore themselves from stress, aging, illness, or trauma. This approach to qi gong healing cultivates a long-term baseline of wellness. It’s particularly useful for those managing invisible loads: chronic stress, emotional overwhelm, or burnout.
One of the major draws of Qi Gong for independent people is that it’s intelligent. You don’t have to give up your freedom to stay healthy. Instead of waiting for collapse, you gently steer your system toward balance each day. That’s why qi gong healing is more than just physical—it’s a mental and emotional self-regulation system rooted in centuries of wisdom.
In the context of qi gong, an independent spirit refers to someone who seeks the ability to manage their own emotional and physical health without over-reliance on reactive medical systems. These individuals are drawn to qi gong because it empowers them with daily practices for self-regulation and healing.
Qi gong healing provides tools to prevent imbalance and recover from stress, illness, or aging. It supports long-term autonomy by allowing practitioners to manage symptoms before they escalate, fostering resilience and emotional clarity without waiting for a health crisis to occur.
Yes. One of qi gong’s core strengths is preventive care. It helps maintain energy, clarity, and emotional stability in everyday life. Many practitioners report improved mood, better sleep, and greater vitality even when not experiencing illness.
Western systems often focus on intervention after a problem arises. Qi gong healing is proactive and designed to help maintain balance throughout life. It can complement Western approaches, but it operates from the philosophy of consistent, mindful self-care.
You can explore our Qi Gong Healing resource page for in-depth articles, beginner-friendly practices, and free courses designed to support your healing journey.
Hello.
I am Qi Gong Master Mikel Steenrod with Water Mountain Virtual.
For today’s talk, I want to take a look at one of the common characteristics of qi gong practitioners—a characteristic that I have observed across many decades and among many, many practitioners.
The feature that is most common, I would say, is that a qi gong practitioner seeks tools to determine their own health.
Maintaining Health
A qi gong practitioner has the ability to sustain a consistent, healthy lifestyle—both emotionally and physically.
Restoring Health
The practitioner possesses the tools to restore their health when it is compromised.
As the mind experiences stressors and sharp blows, and as the body undergoes illness, injury, and aging, qi gong provides tools to restore balance. Prior to that, it offers the tools to maintain an even keel.
But, of course, life happens—even with this even keel.
In the West especially, I’ve noticed that people often follow this pattern:
At that point, Western medicine intervenes to restore some form of normalcy.
Not at all. It’s incredibly difficult for anyone to intervene after a long period of neglect and restore complete normalcy.
This applies to both qi gong and Western medicine. When you’ve gone without maintenance, the health you regain may not be the same as it was in earlier years. Instead, you achieve some form of functional recovery.
With qi gong, you have the ability to maintain health. It follows this pattern:
This way, you can sustain your health while also preserving your ability to make decisions about your own life.
Qi gong practitioners know that by dedicating a small amount of time to the practice, they can erase many of the ills that arise from other activities. Additionally, they can restore themselves to a reasonable level of operation, considering age and circumstance.
If this sounds interesting to you, then perhaps you are a potential qi gong practitioner.
If you’re not already a practitioner, you can always sample this for yourself by trying one of the free courses available on this website. Give it a try and see what happens!
Thank you for listening to me.
I wish you the best!
1 Response
20 yrs ago when I had walked into the WATER MOUNTAIN Qi GONG , I had felt an atmosphere of health and healing . One of the members had given me a sample of a position in the Qi Gong Balances. I could readily feel the calm of the Standard Breathing as I raised and lowered my hands and arms at my anterior body; also known in our healing classes as the CV . I have learned that the Qi Gong that I have used in healing myself can be used and given to others for their body, mind and healing experiences. It’s been and remains a VERY POSITIVE element of my life.