MEDICAL RESEARCH 

It is a belief that imagery can relieve pain, speed healing and help the body subdue hundreds of ailments, including depression, impotence, allergies and asthma.

The power of the mind has brought the attention of primary care physicians. Office of Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health, are funding the following investigations involving imagery:

• benefits of guided imagery for patients with asthma.
• effects of imagery on the immune system, with potential implications for use in cancer and AIDS.
• the effects of a group imagery/ relaxation process on immune function and quality of life in breast cancer patients.

These imagery techniques include Guided Imagery which participants may visualize a goal they want to achieve, then to involve into the process of achieving it. For example, ill patients are urged to picture their internal organs and imagine them free of disease, by picturing tumors shrinking, or invading microorganisms functions of aggressive immune cells.

This internal visualization process may have some sort of commonality with Ziboce's understanding of Kung Fu. 

In Ziboce's words, it is MINDEDNESS. 

Mindedness, as referred by Ziboce, is not an alternative to imagery, but a mindedness condition achieved through realistic body exercises based on Chinese Martial Art.

(Source: holistic-online)

Peter Ziboce August 24, 2005

Research reports appeared in journals and publications can be available from many libraries in USA & Australia, or via Internet access.

Useful sources for Tai Chi, TM meditation, and Qi gong may be found using the following links:

Harvard Health Publications, Harvard Medical school. http://www.health.harvard.edu/

National Library of Medicine, US.

National Centre of Biotechnology Information, US.

National Institutes of Health, US.

From the reports, I observe that the effectiveness of Tai Chi exercise for health purpose may not only relate to private, secret, real, unique  transmission / styles of Kung Fu from famous Martial Art masters.

Peter Ziboce August 30, 2005

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