How do I know when to believe over-the-top hype claims of a Qigong master?
The main thing to watch out for is people who charge more money for revealing each new Qigong practice. Worse is those who claim that any benefit you derive from your practice comes from them. It doesn’t. The benefit of Qigong practice comes from you. Since Qigong Masters are not licensed in the USA, it’s a little bit difficult to know whether they are in fact medically competent. Note that people cannot practice medicine without a license, yet the constitution of the US says that people can speak their minds (and teach whatever they want, as long as they aren’t “practicing medicine without a license”). Also, the problems with Western medicine are huge (see Qigong – Energy Medicine for the New Millennium, available on the QI website’s Scientific Papers page), and more and more people are turning to CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine) for solutions for their health problems. There are many grades of certification and expertise of practitioners of alternative (to standard wester
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