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The National Qigong Association's annual conference is coming up, Friday, July 26 to Sunday, July 28th, in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania (USA).  See below article for details and links.

The below is the launch of an international campaign to collect video testimonials of the health and life benefits people worldwide are enjoying. This is a prototype of that campaign. We'll set up a web page at www.worldtaichiday.org to post youtube videos like this from around the world. See article below for more.

Can Tai Chi end type 2 diabetes problems? You might be surprised. Chronic pain? Help with MS? Parkinson's disease? Be sure to view the moving video in the below article on the Harvard Medical School Guide to Tai Chi - University of Kansas Hospital Project. Students in the Turning Point Center for Hope & Healing Kansas University Hospital Project are finding some stunning results that they describe in this video, as Tai Chi is changing their lives in beautiful ways.

PROFOUNDLY MOVING VIDEO!
TAI CHI & QIGONG CHANGES PEOPLE'S LIVES!

Tai Chi at Turning Point's Center for Hope & Healing, The University of Kansas Hospital

The above video was a project of WTCQD Founder, Bill Douglas, that has inspired an idea. That idea is to begin collecting testimonial videos from Tai Chi and Qigong teachers worldwide, for a TAI CHI & QIGONG TESTIMONIAL PAGE on www.WorldTaiChiDay.org. We are not quite there yet, but we suggest that tai chi and qigong teachers, schools, and groups consider doing video interviews, or more accurately, letting students talk about the life benefits tai chi and qigong have given them.

Notes from Bill Douglas:

Suggestion, keep the video statements to about 3 to 5 minutes, because no one watches long videos anymore.

What was stunning to me, personally, was how these beautiful people in my classes opened their hearts to the camera, knowing that they had a chance to help other people by sharing their story.

The thing that really hit me was how much profound benefit they were getting from the classes.  As teachers, we often don't get much feedback from students, and you kind of start to think they are just there because they didn't have anything better to do that morning.

So, when your students get in front of a camera and open their hearts, you may be stunned to learn just how profoundly your classes have been changing people's lives and empowering people in huge ways.

My suggestion to teachers and groups is to show your group the above video to inspire them to open their hearts to you about your local classes' impact on their lives. Then shoot your own video of their stories.

I would like to credit Harvard Medical School's tai chi program for inspiring me to do this. I'd been thinking about video testimonials for some time, but when I saw Harvard's testimonial with tai chi students coping with Parkinson's it moved me and inspired me. Below is the Harvard Medical School video that initially inspired me to do my own class testimonial video, above, and to envision a future project where we post testimonials from students in classes worldwide on a special page at www.WorldTaiChiDay.org.

-- Bill Douglas, Founder of World Tai Chi & Qigong Day

Tai Chi Master 3 H

See more of Harvard's groundbreaking work at:

http://www.brighamandwomens.org/Departments_
and_Services/medicine/services/oshercenter/world-tai-chi-day.aspx

"The Harvard Medical School Guide to Tai Chi is a significant milestone in the integration of Eastern and Western medicine. It deftly summarizes the scientific evidence for the healing potential of this traditional Chinese system of body movement and gives readers practical advice for using it in everyday life. I recommend it highly."

-Andrew Weil, MD, Professor of Medicine, University of Arizona, and author of 8 Steps to Optimum Health

"Dr. Wayne gives us a magnificent and useful contribution for the betterment of our health and well-being through the proper integration of Tai Chi into our lives."

-Herbert Benson, MD, author of The Relaxation Response and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

"Peter Wayne is that rare individual who is sufficiently 'bilingual' to introduce Tai Chi to a largely open-minded yet skeptical medical community and to sensitively and movingly celebrate its timeless poetry, power, and appeal. This is a book for all to learn from and enjoy."

-David Eisenberg, MD, Harvard School of Public Health and the Samueli Institute, and Former Chief of the Division of Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies, Harvard Medical School

"Dr. Wayne's book, with his expertise in medical research and Tai Chi, is a significant step towards modernizing Tai Chi-essential to making Tai Chi a central part of practical and effective solutions to the epidemic of chronic disease."

-Dr. Paul Lam, director of the Tai Chi for Health Institute and author of Teaching Tai Chi Effectively and Tai Chi for Beginners
 
"Peter Wayne has long been a leader in scientific research into how Tai Chi boosts health and well-being. In this brilliant book, he blends rigorous Western science with Eastern wisdom to present an illuminating and thoroughly modern view of a wonderful, life-enhancing art. I recommend it highly to anyone interested in Tai Chi, from novice to advanced practitioner."

-Yang Yang, PhD, director, Center for Taiji and Qigong Studies, and author of Taijiquan: The Art of Nurturing, The Science of Power

"Highly readable and deeply informative. . . . This book has the potential of once and for all dispelling any lingering myths that Tai Chi and Qigong, and Western science's growing understanding of its uses, are anything less than a profound health revolution that can help prevent or treat the majority of health challenges, and ultimately may save society hundreds of billions if not trillions in future annual health care costs. The Harvard Medical School Guide to Tai Chi may well be that point we look back to and say, 'That was the tipping point that unleashed the building wave of Tai Chi, which has now transformed modern health care.'"

-Bill Douglas, founder of World Tai Chi & Qigong Day and author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to T'ai Chi & QiGong

Tai Chi's Flexibility for a Changing World!

The famous Yin Yang symbol, we are all familiar with, is also referred to as the Tai Chi symbol, the symbol of balance. Yet, there are meanings within meanings in that symbol. One meaning is that the larger world is a product of what occurs within our mind.

If you look closely at the Yin Yang, or Tai Chi symbol, you'll find that within the dark circle in the white wave, is another smaller Yin Yang symbol, and the small dots within that one are also yin yang symbols and on and on. The message - that we individuals, the microcosm of society, make up the larger society. The city, state, and nation are us.

So, as we all become more adaptable, using less energy demanding appliances, cars, etc. etc. the national and global impact becomes massive.  As we all tell our utility companies we want solar and wind energy to power hybrid and electric cars, the power companies, the car makers and the government begin to adapt to our new desires.

Tai Chi's promotion of loose and adaptable individuals will result in a looser, more adaptable world. It is human nature to hold onto old ways of behaving, we find solace in "sameness" especially in rapidly changing times.  We have a nostalgic desire to "do things the old way."  But, as our planet's population has quadrupled in our lifetime, there is no turning back to old ways. There are only new innovative ways available.

Change is good when we breathe, and loosen into those changes, yes, just like our Tai Chi forms. When we play Tai Chi, constantly "letting go of control" to allow the qi to flow through us, we practice letting go of old ways, old self definitions, and learning that it is safe to let go. We are on our way to something wonderful, as we practice un-gripping ourselves from old ways of the past, in order to become adaptable evolutionary human beings, flowing loosely into the brilliant future of possibility.

New study finds that it is technically and

economically feasible to convert New York's

all-purpose energy infrastructure to one

powered by wind, water and sunlight (WWS).

The plan, scheduled for publication in the

journal Energy Policy, shows the way to a

sustainable, inexpensive and reliable energy

supply that creates local jobs and saves the

state billions of dollars in

pollution-related costs.

Mark Z. Jacobson, a senior fellow with

the Stanford Woods Institute for the

Environment and the Precourt Institute

for Energy, co-authored the study with

scientists from Cornell University and

the University of California-Davis.

-- Stanford University News, March 2013

NASA Global Warming Video Goddard Space Center

 *Video links to text in this article are courtesy of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to T'ai Chi & Qigong" (Penguin/Alpha 4th edition).

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