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I was only 33. I was young, fit, and strong. But I felt like I was having a heart attack.
Almost as quickly as it had come in, the storm passed, just as I was getting ready to go to the emergency room.
It wasn't a heart attack. I later learned that it was an anxiety attack (sometimes called a panic attack).
Apparently, the signs are similar, and many people end up in the emergency room due to anxiety attacks.
Who knew?
Like many depressives, I have a secret.
It's terrifies me to do this, but I'm going to share that secret with all of you now.
My secret is that I’m depressive.
Of course, this isn’t news. The fact that I’ve battled depression is all over my website and the Internet.
But you don’t know the whole story. I hid some of it.
I'm done hiding.
If you can't sense your qi, then you're just spinning your tires in the mud.
The qi (氣, or energy) is everything in qigong and tai chi. It’s the main ingredient.
If you want to go somewhere with your qigong and tai chi, if you want to stop spinning your tires, then you absolutely need to learn how to sense your qi.
Four years ago, one of my tai chi students asked me a question that really made me think.
“I’ve got $1500 to spend on my health. Should I go to your retreat in Costa Rica, or sign up for a year of unlimited classes in your studio?”
It’s tempting to assume that a full year of unlimited classes in my tai chi studio would be the more powerful healing option.
The good news is that it's entirely possible to start healing your eyes -- without surgery -- so that you no longer need glasses.
Now here's the bad news: It takes work. A lot of work.
“If I could smile from the heart, then I wouldn’t be so !@#$%& depressed!” I didn’t say it out loud, but I thought it really loud.
I had traveled thousands of miles to learn from a world-renowned qigong master, and I was desperate to feel better.
If I hear one more person say that it’s “just the placebo effect,” I’m going to kick them right in the placebo.
For example: “How does qigong work? Is it just the placebo effect?”
It’s the word “just” that gets me angry.
[Note: This is part 2 in a series on chronic pain. Click here for part 1, or here for part 3.] “Maybe you just imagined that your pain was gone,” he said. He was messing with me, and I knew it. Craig, a 60-something man with a disheveled, gray pony tail had stopped at my booth. This was at a […]
I’ve experienced back pain so severe that it almost got me arrested. I was in my apartment in NYC, I was deeply frustrated by my pain and lack of mobility, and I let out a loud, primal scream. As crazy as things were in NYC in the 1990s, screaming was still frowned upon...
I was in my 20s, I had a serious girlfriend, and there was no way in hell that qigong was going to work for me if I had to follow that crazy sex rule.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
I'm Anthony Korahais. Since 2005, I've been helping people from all over the world to get remarkable results with the ancient
Chinese healing art of qigong. This art literally saved my life, and I'm passionate about helping others discover the amazing things that it can do for them! Read More…
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