Is there any evidence that Qi (chi) energy is real?!
Question: The answer will depend entirely upon the person responding and his or her bias (this applies as much to me as anyone).
Technically speaking, in the most pure scientific terms: No. No research that has purported to support the evidence of any such energy or force has been able to be reproduced in unbiased studies.
Supporters of Qi will suggest that one must be "open" or "receptive" to such energy in order to recognize it. This makes it obviously impossible to disprove if one assumes that only certain people can recognize it. It's just too easy to say "Ok, your results show there is nothing there but that is because your researchers and/or test subjects are flawed because they just don't have what it takes to realize qi."
Personally, I think it's a load of hooey much the same as psychic abilities and ghosts.
That, however, does not mean it is not without value. Our brains are amazing things. Placebo effects can really work wonders and just because we realize they are placebos does not minimize their value.
If you feel positive results from Qi manipulation, whether through acupuncture or simply focusing your own energy through meditation, then what you feel can and, quite often, will translate into positive results.
I wouldn't rely on it to cure cancer, for example, without exhausting other possibilities first, but countless studies have shown that anything that gives hope, anything that can help a person believe they will heal, can help in healing the body as well as the mind as long as it does not preclude proven medicine. It can't promise anything more or less in conjunction with medicine in terms of healing or cures, but it can help to ease pain, at the very least. Such beliefs are often attributed to so-called miracle cures of terminal diseases.
I think they might just work as miracle cures, once in a very rare while, simply for their placebo effect. I think that believing we can heal can be just the slight boost our brains and bodies need to fight off what ails us at times. I think there is nothing wrong with that medicinally or scientifically.
I do think it goes too far when people fore go modern medicine in the hopes of "traditional" medicines. Both forms of treatment allow for the use of the other in conjunction. There is no reason to fore go one in the hopes of the other either way.
Answers: The answer will depend entirely upon the person responding and his or her bias (this applies as much to me as anyone).
Technically speaking, in the most pure scientific terms: No. No research that has purported to support the evidence of any such energy or force has been able to be reproduced in unbiased studies.
Supporters of Qi will suggest that one must be "open" or "receptive" to such energy in order to recognize it. This makes it obviously impossible to disprove if one assumes that only certain people can recognize it. It's just too easy to say "Ok, your results show there is nothing there but that is because your researchers and/or test subjects are flawed because they just don't have what it takes to realize qi."
Personally, I think it's a load of hooey much the same as psychic abilities and ghosts.
That, however, does not mean it is not without value. Our brains are amazing things. Placebo effects can really work wonders and just because we realize they are placebos does not minimize their value.
If you feel positive results from Qi manipulation, whether through acupuncture or simply focusing your own energy through meditation, then what you feel can and, quite often, will translate into positive results.
I wouldn't rely on it to cure cancer, for example, without exhausting other possibilities first, but countless studies have shown that anything that gives hope, anything that can help a person believe they will heal, can help in healing the body as well as the mind as long as it does not preclude proven medicine. It can't promise anything more or less in conjunction with medicine in terms of healing or cures, but it can help to ease pain, at the very least. Such beliefs are often attributed to so-called miracle cures of terminal diseases.
I think they might just work as miracle cures, once in a very rare while, simply for their placebo effect. I think that believing we can heal can be just the slight boost our brains and bodies need to fight off what ails us at times. I think there is nothing wrong with that medicinally or scientifically.
I do think it goes too far when people fore go modern medicine in the hopes of "traditional" medicines. Both forms of treatment allow for the use of the other in conjunction. There is no reason to fore go one in the hopes of the other either way.
the only way to find evidence for that is to experience it for your self. locate someone who deems themselves an expert. and have them show you.
yes it is, in yoga its called kundalini, i have experianced it and i can awaken it, i am an atheist, and i dont beleive in nonsense, but this you have to do it yourself to feel its ``vibe``
look for a chinese chi master, or a yoga master who is into kundalini,its makes your chakra healthy
Chi (English) or qi (Chinese) or ki (Japanese) is the flow of nature. It is cosmic energy; something we dont see but affects us. If we are in a boat or banca and we go against the current, we encounter much effort to reach destination. But when we go"with" the current, we reach destination without effort. If we drive on the road and we go counterflow, its either we will meet with accidentor will get the ire of our fellow drivers. There is nothing 'spectacular' with chi. It is just important that we go with it.
I've talked with a lot of doctors and scientists about this subject, and about half of them have said
"Chi seems to exist and be really important to life, but while we know it's a form of energy, no diagnostic tool currently has the ability to detect it." (Beyond the human body, which is unfortunately subjective).
In my mind, based off of what I have seen, experienced, done, and seen happen with other people, it's pretty much unquestionable the stuff exists (then again I know a lot of the "experts" in the field). Oftentimes, many "sensations beyond words" that humans regularly experience are just simple chi processes , but since chi isn't a scientifically studied concept, outside of the Daoist (and a few other) traditions, all these manifestations of Chi are not recognized for what they are.
Anyhow, not counting the wonderful subjective median of human perception, a few things have come along, they just have not been studied enough.
William Reich-Orgone Energy (he coined all of this). I think that Reich's work was real, and he was onto something very important. However, it's still a matter of debate if his orgone energy was the same thing as Chi (I believe it was but I am not certain). Reich was able to devise ways to see the stuff.
Another person named Trevor Constable did as well, and I believe took a lot of pictures too.
There is also random either valid (or puesdoscience) stuff which seems to be able to see Aura's. I don't know personally, because I have not been able to be around them and see if they visually recognize changes I intentionally create in my field (hence a way to test if they work). However I know a few trustable people who swear by them.
First one is a friend of mine in Germany that is working on a device that does it, and she claims it works (she is competent with Chi so she seems credible).
Second is this thing:
http://www.electrocrystal.com/pip.html
I don't know a huge ammount about the subject, but the guy who showed it to me brought it up after we had a conversation similar to what I'm describing here, and he seemed honest. That also had a second thing he showed me, but this one made more sense, so I'm choosing to show it.
Anyhow, that's about the best answer I can give to your question.
Anyone that's done a bit of chi practices will swear it is true, and a skeptical (normal) scientist will say it's supersticious and cannot actually exist since current instruments can't detect it.
I hope that answers your question well!
Yes there is. You shouldn't think of Chi energy any differently than western definitions of energy ( as defined by Einstein). The atomic bomb is proof really. Where eastern Chi practices differentiate from western cultural definition is the belief than Chi can be cultivated, focused, blocked or unblocked. Energy can not be created or destroyed but it can be drawn from sources within and outside of a person. Qi Gong is the practice of cultivating and healing using Qi. Qi flows best through a healthy body and mind. While you can take classes to become Reiki Master or Chi healer very few of these people have cultivated enough Chi through physical activity to become a good conduit of Chi, making it seem fake, but its the practitioner not the practice that is fake. Anyone who is willing to put in the work (and I'm not talking about a weekend online course) can become a Qigong practitioner. I hope this helps.
No. No evidence has EVER been produced to substantiate it. It is purely a matter of faith.