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Practice for Longevity: The Qigong & Life Guide

🌿 Longevity Qigong Practice Guide

Your path to lasting health, energy, and inner peace

Welcome! This guide is here to support your personal Longevity Qigong practice after training. By following these simple yet powerful principles, you’ll set yourself up for the best possible results—physically, energetically, and holistically.

🧘‍♂️ 1. What to Wear

Choose loose, comfortable clothing that allows freedom of movement. No restrictive gear or tight outfits—let your body move and breathe naturally.

🏡 2. Choose the Right Space

Practice in a quiet place with fresh air and no distractions. Indoors or outdoors is fine, as long as the environment supports calmness and focus.

🌧️ 3. Weather Matters

Avoid practicing in cold, windy, rainy, foggy, or stormy weather, and avoid practice during loud thunderstorms indoors.
Also, avoid cold exposure in all forms:

Cold food and drinks
Cold showers
Cold air/drafts

Coldness drains your life energy and should be avoided unless absolutely necessary (e.g. high fever, heavy bleeding).

⏰ 4. Best Times to Practice

Practice when your body is not exhausted and at least one hour after eating.
Evenings are ideal, but any quiet time that fits your schedule is fine.
After Steelman Qigong is an especially effective time—Steelman circulates energy, Longevity gathers and conserves it.

🌀 5. How to Move

Move slowly, smoothly, and naturally.
Go at your own pace—younger bodies may go slow, older bodies may go even slower.
Aim for about 30 minutes per session.

🌬️ 6. Breathe Naturally

Let your breath flow without control.
Avoid manipulating or watching the breath—this overuses your energy.
Controlled breathing is for fighting and short-term recovery, not for a long, healthy life.

🔄 7. Follow the Sequence

Always follow the energetic order:
Build yang → then pack yin.
If short on time, practice fewer movements—but keep the sequence.

⚖️ 8. Adjust Based on Your Condition

Feeling overactive? Focus on the last 4 movements.
Feeling tired? Practice just the last few, or even just the final one.
Ideally, practice all 8 exercises once or more per day for about 30 minutes.

😊 9. Practice with a Relaxed Mind

Let the mind rest.
No need to count repetitions or think.
Let the body move without effort, without mental control.
The less mind involved, the more the body returns to its natural, efficient state—calm, full of life energy, and able to heal.

🚀 The Next Step: 3 Things to Do for a Long, Healthy Life

1. Practice Longevity Qigong Every Day

Consistency is the key to long life and illness-free living. No matter how simple the movement, daily practice will transform your health over time.

2. Learn Steelman Qigong

Longevity Qigong is for energy gathering—it uses the least amount of your body’s resources while preserving your vital energy.
Steelman Qigong focuses on energy flow and circulation using your inner strength to nourish the body.

Together, they form a complete health system:

One gathers energy
The other distributes it effectively

Without circulation, energy can’t nourish the whole body. And without energy, circulation has nothing to deliver.
Mr. Zhang practiced Steelman to recover from illness and maintained both forms daily for long-term health.
You should too—especially when dealing with symptoms or aiming for longevity.

3. Care for Your Body in All Aspects of Life

Exercise alone is not enough.
Your food, habits, mental state, and daily actions affect your health just as much.

If you’re constantly harming your body through poor food choices, unhealthy routines, or harmful mindsets, even the best Qigong practice won’t save your health.

Modern health trends and commercial products have misled many people, especially in the U.S.
You don’t need special supplements, diets, or health gadgets.
In fact, the more commercial products you consume, the more harm you may cause.
Our ancestors lived long, healthy lives without any of these.

So what’s the best medicine?
Food and your body’s own healing power.

To support your journey, I recommend my book:
“The Total Life Energy Plan: How to Cultivate Life Energy for Long-Term Health and Vitality.”
It teaches you how to build your own self-healing system through food, lifestyle, energy awareness, and more—tailored to your strengths, weaknesses, and health conditions.

The deeper you understand the book, the better you’ll understand human nature—and how to truly take care of yourself for life.

🧭 Final Note

Keep practicing Longevity Qigong.
Learn and integrate Steelman Qigong.
Build your own health and healing system through daily living.

If you need help, you have my number or contact me here
I offer private consultations at half price for existing clients.

Stay steady, stay natural, and let your body guide you toward lasting health and vitality.

The Poorest Centenarian

The secret exercises helped him to live to 103 illness-free, even though he was exceedingly poor, frequently encountered starvation in his life.

Growing up Poor

Mr. Zhang was a sickly child to a poor family with numerous health & heart ailments. As the oldest of the three kids in the family, he had to beg for food when he was only 7 years old. His father died of starvation. When his mother was sick in bed, he was so afraid to lose his mom and becoming an orphan! He called his mom the first thing when he arrived home every day after begging for food for his family’s survival. His mother’s condition was progressively getting worse and one day, he and his two siblings visited a doctor in the early morning, kept kneeling down to the doctor until dawn to beg her to save their mom. As a child, he was determined to become a doctor to help poor people with their health.

Money Cannot Buy Your Health!

Many people believe that wealth can buy health. But the following real-life stories suggest otherwise:

7 Ways to Care for Your Kidneys

Eat foods that nourish the Kidneys. for almost everybody, both men and women, Chinese yams are the best food for the Kidneys. They nourish the Kidneys, as well as help with lower back pain. Another food good for the Kidneys is chestnut. If you have Kidney problems, do not have raw, cold, very spicy, oily foods or drinks, such as cucumbers, watermelons, persimmons, ice water, spicy chili, and deep-fried foods.

Five Seasons a Year for Better Health

The ancient Romans were among the first to carve up the year into quarters (four seasons), which has been widely adopted by Western countries*. But not every culture in the world divides a year into four seasons like that in modern Western countries. Different cultures have different ways of separating a year into seasons. A year may be divided into five seasons or more. Continue reading “Five Seasons a Year for Better Health”

10 Ways to Care for Your Menopause

Menopause is the time in women’s lives when menstrual periods stop permanently and they are no longer able to bear children. Menopause occurs 12 months after the last menstrual period and typically between 49 and 52 years of age. Menopause occurring before 45 years old usually indicates there is a health issue(s), diagnosable or un-diagnosable by Western medicine. Normal periods may reoccur after health problems are cured before the age of 48. Continue reading “10 Ways to Care for Your Menopause”

10 Mistakes Keeping You from Living a Long, Healthy Life

Waiting until your golden years to start taking care of yourself.

Many people let themselves become overwhelmed by daily activities and never learn how to properly take care of their body. Taking good care of the body should begin when we are infants, or better yet before our mothers even get pregnant. When a couple is well prepared and their bodies are well nourished before and during pregnancy, their newborn infant will be healthy and strong. The earlier we start taking care of our bodies, the less our bodies become ill, the less life energy our bodies waste fighting illnesses, and the longer our bodies live. Continue reading “10 Mistakes Keeping You from Living a Long, Healthy Life”

10 Habits that Damage the Heart

The heart is an organ that pumps blood for the movement of blood throughout the body via the circulatory system, supplying oxygen and nutrients to the tissues and removing carbon dioxide and other wastes.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the heart system also includes the brain and the heart meridian besides the organ heart.

The heart is so important to the body that we die when the heart fails to pump blood. Taking special care of the heart is vitally important to our life. But many people are unknowingly damaging their hearts, making the heart disease the number one killer of our precious life. Continue reading “10 Habits that Damage the Heart”