Wai Qi therapy, as well as some life (Qi) energy treatments are gaining a lot of interest in society. Wai Qi therapy is one treatment method of Traditional Chinese Medicine with a long history, but it has developed rapidly in the last 30 years. Wai Qi therapy is used for many illnesses including some intractable diseases. Although the results of many scientific experiments on Wai Qi therapy have been announced, it has not yet gained the respect it deserves and many objections are still raised against it. This paper introduces its history and characteristics as well as current clinical treatments and scientific research, so that Wai Qi therapy may be better understood and further developed.

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The purpose of this paper is to discuss "Conceptual Perception" in Body/Mind Awareness Education. To begin with, the aim of Body/Mind Awareness Education is for the learner to develop an understanding of the Body/Mind relationship. It may be said that this is in fact developing an awareness of a "unique self". Furthermore, in Body/Mind Awareness Education the instructor selects and offers activities which provide the learner with an opportunity that will stimulate the learner's awareness of their Body/Mind, but never implements instruction that causes the learner to focus directly on the Body/Mind relationship in and of itself. As a result of this type of methodology, many instructors have reported that through implementation of Body/Mind Awareness, their very way in which they teach has been influenced. The most likely conclusion to be drawn from this is that in a free and safe environment, the instructional practice of Body/Mind Awareness results not only the learner developing more sensitivity to the relationship of Body/Mind, but the instructor, as well, developing a greater sensitivity to their own Body/Mind. Additionally, although learners participate in similar activities in Body/Mind Awareness Education instruction, each develops a varying degree of conceptual perception and manifests their understand of the Body/Mind relationship differently. Yet, be that as it may, the variety and range of this conceptual perception is limited to the current existing condition, termed "materialization of the body". As one of the paramount issues within education in Japan today, a greater understanding of how the boundaries of this "materialization of the body" may be overcome is essential, and the only possible way for this to occur is if educational practices change with instructors developing a greater understanding of Body/Mind integration and thereby stimulating learners to understand the Body/Mind relationship in terms of space, time and nature.

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