Ping Shuai Gong - A Simple But Powerful Qigong Technique

Few years ago, a Doctor of Oriental Medicine and a very successful business woman Dr. Angela Wang demonstrated to me a simple Qigong (Chi-kung, 氣功) technique which she said would be good for my health. This was after a discussion about my intention to get rid of my high blood pressure medications. I didn’t ask the name and I have never practiced the technique because I thought it was too simple but honestly, the main reason was, I didn’t like any repetitive and routine tasks.

Few days ago, another friend Teresa sent me some youtube links. I didn’t know what these links were, since I was using webmail at that time and the chinese characters on Teresa’s email could not be displayed. However, since they were linked to youtube, so I then clicked them anyway. To my surprise, I saw the same technique as what Dr. Wang had shown me few years ago being practiced by the crowds in the video. That caught my attention big time and I then listened carefully to the explanation.

As you all may know from all my resent postings, I’ve written a lot about the efforts in helping Rina Fitria on her fighting against cancer, and that was one of the reasons I was very surprised listening to the testimonials from a prostate cancer and a liver cancer survivors as shown in one of the videos. I then started to search for more info on this simple 平甩功 - Ping Shuai Gong (in pinyin) or in most of the Taiwan based references, Ping Shuai Kung, the way Qigong (in pinyin) is also spelled as Chi-Kung in Taiwan.

The following video shows this new technique of shaking the hands that was developed by Qigong Master Li Feng Shan from Meimen Qigong and Culture Center. It’s a 1:25 minutes short video with English explanation in the later half of the video:

As explained in the video, basically this is a shaking hand exercise, where anybody can do it anywhere any time. You can find more info in Meimen Qigong and Culture Center site.

I’m glad that through my Internet search, finally I also got in touch with one of the cancer survivor, Dr. David TF Hsu, a neurosurgeon that was trained in Western Medicine. He is a colon cancer survivor, and his story in fighting colon cancer has been widely available in Chinese Internet sites. Dr. Hsu credited his survival with the teaching and the wisdom of Master Li, and Dr. Hsu’s himself practices Ping Shuai Gong daily. I will post more on Dr. Hsu in my next posting.

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Rina’s Update - July 31st

I’ve been busy these past few days but I still keep in touch with Rina’s friends in Stillwater and got almost daily update of Rina’s condition.  For example, very late last night I got a message that Rina had been taken to the ER, and being asked to stay in the hospital so they could provide watchful eyes for her condition. While I was a bit worried about Rina’s condition, I’m glad that finally Rina is staying in the hospital. That was what I’ve been praying for days, since I thought Rina really needs round the clock hospital care. I sincerely believe she needs a hospital stay after watching my own son being hospitalized twice recently. As we can read from the latest update in the Transplant Update page on IOSA site, Rina has had some complications due to infection. That has been my biggest concern while following Rina’s story to date.

Many people have participated in all these efforts to help Rina and IOSA site provides the link to pictures of the fundraising events, such as the Fishing Tournament, Sri Lankan LunchIndian Student Associations Lunch, Bake Sale, Garage SaleEyes on Me Concert etc. Looking at the number of money collected by each of these efforts as reported in IOSA page, I also realized that the result of  Chip-in Widget (organized by Ms. Ika of IOSA) was not that bad either. I really appreciate the kindness and the compassion for Rina that have been revealed through all these efforts. 

The total contribution to date as reported in IOSA site is $73,009, or $27,000 shy from what the hospital has asked for BMT surgery. Let’s pray for Rina’s speedy recovery from her complications, so she could go for the BMT surgery.

Be strong and hang in there, Rina! You’re always in our prayers.

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Friends Raise Money For Student’s Transplant

Thanks to News9.com that provides the Share feature of the news video, we all can now watch the latest interview with Rina not only at News9 website, but we can also watch it here. Last night I got the message from Dr. Haerani about Rina’s interview with Channel 9, so I went to search OK City news channel and here we are.

Thanks Channel 9, thanks OSU, and thanks Oklahoman. Thank you all for your compassions.

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Rina Was On Fox25

I was really busy the whole day today, and just had a chance to check my emails few minutes ago. I finally got the link Rina on Fox25 that Dr. Haerani Ismandar sent me. Yes, it’s a local news clip, and it takes a while before the video starts to play. Since it would be a long drive home for me tomorrow, I couldn’t write much and I hope Fox25 would keep the page up until I get back to Huntsville. I just want to share with you all the loves and the supports that OSU and Stillwater communities and Oklahomian have given to Rina and her family.

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