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Most qigong tends to be soft and sweet. But that's only one side of the story. For the full effect you need both the soft and the hard, the yin and the yang. 

I've scanned as many of the other qigong courses available as I could and though jolly well-meaning, and even quite esoteric or hifalutin at first glance, they're well-meaning flowery twaddle next to this system, as far as I'm concerned, hence partly why I call it in-depth qigong. 

But as I say, I'm biased (and in this instance quite probably remarkably arrogant and opinionated). 

Perhaps the correct way would be to say it in the words of music producer Bastido Cartel in referring to the recent Lost Apes EP I produced, “You'll have to decide for yourself, but it's certainly not rubbish”. 

But in any case don't take my word for it – or his.

The whole point of this is to do QIGONGO yourself, make it your own, and enjoy the ineffable benefits for yourself

And though the thought of daily practice may initially seem onerous, perhaps for plugging you into unconscious associations with difficult episodes of so-called physical education classes at school, or for innate rebellion against anything that might actually do you good (we all do it), it is actually as the warning states, highly addictive. 

So... Once you start, unless you're extremely contrary and strong willed to your detriment, you're so swiftly hooked you can't actually imagine how you could possibly function without it. 

Of course you can but only as a regular human – it's the superhuman (for want of a better word) dimension the practice affords you that's hard to do without once you're hooked. 

Not to mention the remarkable increase of ease and vivacity of your joints and muscles and general comfort in your skin, as well as all the aforementioned boons. 

Qigong – What exactly is it? (pronounced chi) to spell key – means literally breath. 

However, it alludes to something far more complex than we normally think of as breath.

It means the power of all the motion of the universe, the breath of the cosmos. 

Gong means work or intervention. 

Qigong is the art of channeling or funneling the qi through your body-mind complex to give you the same internal power as all the motion of the universe – to fuel you, provide stamina, endurance, immunity, strength, flexibility, poise, equilibrium and unwavering cheerfulness. 

Before such activation whenever you've wanted something your qi has been unconsciously, automatically mobilized in the direction of the object of your desire. 

This didn't mean you always got what you wanted, but simply that chi was mobilized every time. 

However, be trained to actively intervene in the flow of chi and your capacity for intending things into real-life being increases exponentially. 

And because the chi is flowing more freely, fluently and forcibly through all parts of you including your brain, cleansing wherever it passes and freeing up toxins, your natural propensity for wanting things that are in accord with the 'great flow' grows as your tendency to want things that jar the 'great flow' wanes proportionately.