Qigong, easy for the most unwell cancer patients to practice

In Beijing, Shanghai, and numerous small cities, an organization called the Cancer Recovery Association meets to practice a more recently developed system of Qigong named after its originator, Guo Lin. This form is a mild variety of Qigong, a walking form, that is very easy for even the most unwell cancer patients to practice. The Cancer Recovery Association has over 60,000 members throughout China, 4,000 to 5,000 alone in Shanghai. On any one day at each of ten meeting sites throughout Shanghai, typically in parks, 30 to 50 members of the Association gather to practice Qigong and then meet to have tea, share testimonials, and seek the state of light-heartedness.

Mister Yuan, the director of the Shanghai branch and a recovering cancer patient himself, says, "We operate a social model of healing. Each individual may have a different regimen of therapy, including one or all of acupuncture, massage, herbs, chemotherapy, x-ray therapy, etc. However, we all have the social model and Qigong in common. We support each other, tell our stories, shift our attitudes from stress and worry to light-heartedness and we practice Guo Lin's Qigong."  Click to learn how Chinese medicine treats Nasopharynx Cancer.