Bill Douglas

Surviving the Financial Meltdown - Everything Is Going to Be Okay - Part 2 of 2

Continued from Part 1 . . . Now that you have completed the "breathing tutorial," and the "sitting qigong relaxation therapy experience," and now a couple of "tai chi movements" on the video tutorial, you are probably feeling much better than you had i... Read >

Surviving the Financial Meltdown - Everything Is Going to Be Okay - Part 1 of 2

"92 percent of employees say financial worries are keeping them up at night, according to a poll released by ComPsych Corporation today." -- Business Wire -- Reuters; 2008-10-27 "According to UCLA researchers, performing Tai Chi improves sleep. In U... Read >

PART 2:The Tao of Da Vinci Code-Can Eastern Philosophy Contribute to the Da Vinci Code Controversy?

[Recently published in Qi Journal - Winter/2006] Part 2 of 2 What good is such practice? Some might ask in our busy yang energy go-get-em world. Creativity and inspiration come from the unseen, the yin, the receptive, the intuitive. Albert Einste... Read >

Should We Question Genetically Modified Organism Technology ?

I traveled to Europe a few years ago for the first time. I was surprised to see a debate on something I hadn't thought too much about. It regarded Genetically Modified crops, or GMO (genetically modified organism) crops. The newspapers discussed the pro... Read >

Simple Solutions to Global Problems? – Tai Chi & Qigong

Copyright 2006 Bill Douglas According to modern medical research between 70 and 85% of all illness leading people to doctors is caused by stress (Kaiser Permenente twenty year study). The United States annual health care costs exceed one-trillion doll... Read >

"One World . . . One Breath" . . . A Massive Global Public Health & Healing Event

Copyright 2006 Bill Douglas Two of the world's most widely read publications, Parade Magazine and USA Weekend, began a string of media references in the last few months, to a truly unusual coming event. An unprecedented global health & healing event... Read >

DIABETES AND TAI CHI THERAPY

Copyright 2006 Bill Douglas I was quite surprised when I began searching for research on Tai Chi's benefits for diabetes . . . it was very difficult to come by. Because on its face, Tai Chi seems to possibly offer many benefits to someone with diabete... Read >

Holiday Stress - Is It the Time of Year, or Is It the Time of Man?

Copyright 2005 Bill Douglas Life seems to compress as the holiday's get closer, and this shows us in no uncertain terms how "intense" our lives have become. Holidays put normal life into hyper-speed, but really our lives in general are now in hyper-sp... Read >

Bone Loss, Osteoporosis, Depression, Menopause & TAI CHI

Copyright 2005 Bill Douglas Emerging medical research indicates that an ancient health therapy may be the prescription for the future. Increasingly the menopausal problems of hormonal imbalance, often resulting in bone loss, are also affected by depre... Read >

The Social Web of Stress

"Could Tai Chi and Qigong be one of the root solutions to the dilemma of modern human challenges?" Urban sprawl and suburban flight are causing massive traffic jams on freeways nationwide, as individuals are working longer and longer hours. The invisi... Read >

T'ai Chi in the Information Age – Ancient Cure for Modern Problems

According to a twenty-year study by Kaiser Permanente, between seventy and eighty-five percent of illness is caused by stress, meaning that in the U.S. alone stress is costing us about one-trillion dollars per year in healthcare costs. Since most absente... Read >

How Do T'ai Chi and Qigong Work?

Western medical science is only beginning to understand what T'ai Chi and Qigong offers us. However, just the tiny amount of research that has been done so far indicates that T'ai Chi and Qigong are very powerful health tools that can save each of us and... Read >

Burn Calories, Dump Stress, Boost Immune Function - Without Sweating?

Time Magazine wrote, ". . . Tai Chi is the perfect exercise . . ." While serving as the Tai Chi Expert at DrWeil.com, I learned that best selling author and acclaimed naturopathic physician, Andrew Weil, suggested that poor breathing habits are at the ro... Read >