Hello,
I am very new to Qigong but have been following the exercises (and discussions on this forum)with much interest.
I would like to ask the group a question, if I may...
Can anyone tell me how a person gets from the point of being a skeptic (that this "energy" actually *is real and will do what the material says it does) to the belief that it has a physical effect on one's own body -- or that one can help others who are in pain, via proxy, so to speak?
In other words, how do I know that all this is not just another sham? How does a person become convinced that Qigong is not merely wishful thinking?
Please don't think I'm putting anyone down because of this question; that's not my intention at all.
Will appreciate any thoughts or responses you have to my question -- even if I have to put on a flame suit to read them. 
Thanks,
Lynn-Marie
