The Existential Qigong

Abstract

The article refers to a necessary re-orientation using the example of Qigong. Qigong is offered as an effective method, which shall possess the positive connotations “naturopathic”, “completely different from conventional medicine”. If one looks at the Qigong trainings and the mediation of Qigong, however, it becomes evident that they are often aimed at the treatment and/or the prevention of illness. Qigong is conceived as “Medical Qigong” and the professionals and the learners remain imprisoned in the semantic prison of “illness” and “health”, i.e. the human being is then socialized reductionistically regarding his usefulness and usability, his functionality for the current market-oriented-capitalistic system also by means of Qigong. In order to counter this with another position, a new term was invented, the “Existential Qigong” (EQ). This is primarily oriented towards the “existential fundamental situations” of being human, because their mastery or failure at a mastery determines the “becoming” of a human being, i.e. the further course of the biography. Two tried and tested methods for EQ practice are presented. This establishes the connection to the Becoming-Accompaniment (B-A). Because the EQ can be used perfectly as a nonverbal method in the B-A.