TCM : Ping Shuai Gong (Swing Hands Exercise) 平甩功

Swing Hand Exercise also known as Ping Shuai Gong is a very simple qigong exercise, that can be practiced by anyone, anywhere and anytime. It's very easy to come up with excuses in today's busy lifestyle to turn away from one of the most important things in our life ~ our health! You can no longer give excuses for not exercising. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) believes that all illnesses result from the blocking of qi. The key to long term health therefore lies in enhancing the free circulation of qi to increase stability and peacefulness of mind. Master Lee Feng San has been promoting a basic Qigong exercise ~ Ping Shuai Gong. It is easy to learn and will produce quickly visible benefits, including improvement in bodily circulation, balance, detoxification and replenishment. It is believed that daily practice of this exercise will produce lifelong health benefits. For everyone who wants to have a better life and towards better health in body, mind and spirit and for anyone who wants to stay healthy. Ping Shuai Gong is known to cure many ailments and helpful in improving a number of medical conditions ~ skin rashes, high blood pressure, diabetes, mini strokes, heart diseases, etc., including cancer with many reported successful cases in Taiwan. Ping Shuai Gong is very simple but very useful. First, relax and breathe smoothly. Feel your shoulders, keep them in balance. Standing with both legs apart at a width roughly equal to that of the shoulder, slowly raise your hands. Ping Shuai Gong involves in moving both arms in parallel, swinging first to the front of the body until they are the same height as the shoulder, then swinging the arms back with a little effort until both arms are behind the body. On every fifth swing, the knee should slightly bend down and spring back quickly , once when the arms are swinging towards the back of the body and another on the return swing to the front of the body. Depending on your health, you may squat deeper or higher, both are fine. Remember to stay relaxed. Take it easy. Feel the resonance. No matter to what extent you can swing your hands, just do it happily. When you swing, don't let it go faster and faster. keep a certain pace. If you let it go faster and faster, you will feel agitated and the qi and blood flow will be disturbed. Maintain the same rhythm and our inside and outside will be balanced. Focus on the swing, let go of all trival thoughts. The more you swing, the longer you will benefit. Do not go above shoulder height while swinging forward. Swing backwards as far as you can without being forceful. Swing gently.