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May

WARNING...Make sure you read the whole of this report.

If you only read the first part then all you will have achieved is to fill

your life with a lot of scary facts and figures.

This is not the aim of this report.

Read all 10 pages to discover what you can do to make certain

you don’t become a victim of stress, depression, anxiety, worry, low self esteem etc...

...In SPITE of the current global situation…

P.T.O .

Here’s The Latest Research On The Physical Effects Of Stress… You Will

Be Shocked!

STRE

SS RE

PORT

2009

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FeelingThe

Pressure?

STRESSFUL TIMES...

Let’s Face It, These Are...

Dear Friend,

I can hardly stand to look at

a newspaper these days, or

watch a news program. The

world seems to be coming

apart at the seams, with more

bad news every day. The

mortgage crisis, global

warming, human rights

violations, credit crisis, higher

food prices, higher utility bills,

higher unemployment, Swine

flu…

...The list goes on and on.

I hate to say this, but we

are in a time of mounting

troubles, increasingly negative

social mood - and greatly

increased stress. This type of

negative social mood comes in

cycles, and we’ve only just

entered into a new cycle.

Events beyond the control of

any one person are unfolding,

and the consequences could

be huge.

As bad as things are (and

experts believe they will get

worse before they get better),

Expensive Gas, Giant Bankruptcies, The Housing Crisis, Recession, Mass

Redundancies, Global Warming, Problems in Afghanistan, Swine Flu...

First, read the latest research on the destructive mental, emotional and physical effects of stress...and how Shaolin Qigong protects you.

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this, too, will pass, but it may take years.

How can you prepare for - and even thrive -

during such times?

This letter contains some incredible

information about stress and it's effects on

your mental, emotional and physical health.

First, though, here's another important

consideration. I have the good fortune to spend

time with some of the most spiritually advanced

people in the world - 4th Generation Shaolin

Grandmaster Wong Kiew Kit, for instance and

spiritual teachers such as Paul Gorman, Sifu

Kai Uwe Jettkandt, Sifu Emiko Hsuen, Sifu

Robin Gamble and others like them.

Amazingly, these people seem unfazed by

the problems I’ve described. Certainly they see

that the world has terrible problems. And they

see that many are suffering. They are

concerned, as I am, and are taking steps to

help, but they are not personally disturbed.

In other words, these problems do not affect

the underlying experience of inner peace and

happiness of these spiritually aware people. I

have to confess that I feel the same way.

In one sense all these problems are part of

the human condition. As a wise person once

said, "Shit Happens." Certainly we all want to

do what we can to have LESS shit happen, but

much of it, we have to admit...is beyond our

individual control.

So the question becomes, "What can you

do when shit DOES happen, when the world

seems out of control?" If the world does get

worse, as it periodically does, how can you

cope with the stress, and even feel peaceful

and happy?

In other words, how can you be more like

Grandmaster Wong, Paul Gorman, and other

unflappable, spiritually advanced people -

those who remain peaceful and happy

regardless of circumstances?

I know it definitely IS possible to be happy

and peaceful, regardless of what is happening

around you. In fact, I think this way of living is

more possible - for you - than you might think.

Quite frankly, it's rare that anything going on

in the world or in my own life upsets my own

inner peace. I assure you however that I haven't

always been this way. I used to be one of the

Here's

something

significant I've

noticed..

Is That Even Possible?

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most reactive, anxious, stressed out people

you’ll ever meet. I can become one of those

people who remain unflappable, who remains

peaceful and happy even in the face of great

stress...

...you can too.

I want you to know that there's nothing

special about me, other than the steps I've

taken to become such a person. And there's

nothing preventing you from taking the same

steps.

As we enter what just might be one of the

toughest periods of our lifetime, I want to help

you get through it with the least amount of

mental, emotional and physical damage.

So what's the answer?

It's probably no surprise to you that I think

Shaolin Qigong is THE most powerful way to

raise your resistance to stress sky high and

develop the ability to remain peaceful and

centred regardless of whatever is going on

around you.

I'm in the process of developing a new

course that will help you steer a safe path

through these trying times. I've a ton of the

most powerful material gathered whilst

Grandmaster Wong taught me Qigong Therapy

back in April 2008.

Now, Let's Look At The Huge Price You

Pay For Being Stressed...

Stress is like a speeding car bearing down

on you. If you can't step out of the way - as the

Grandmaster's and Paul Gorman's of the world

do - the results can be devastating.

George Chrousos, M.D., of the National

Institute of Child Health and Human

Development has spent his career studying

stress. He describes the stress problem in this

way:

A threat to your life or safety that triggers a

primal physical response from the body, leaving

you breathless, heart pounding, and mind

racing.

From deep within your brain, a chemical

signal speeds stress hormones through the

blood stream, priming your body to be alert and

escape from danger. Concentration becomes

more focused, reactions become faster and

strength and agility increase. When the stressful

situation ends, hormonal signals switch off the

stress response…

But in our modern society, this stress

response often won’t switch off! Many of us

harbour anxiety and worry about world

problems, personal relationships, job

performance, money and the future. Instead of

feeling stress only about real dangers

happening NOW, we feel stress about things

that haven’t happened yet, may never happen,

and certainly don’t require the physical

readiness that stress hormones were designed

to create!

And Your Body Returns To Normal

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As a result, stress hormones…

...never leave our bloodstream, tissues or

organs!

This creates many profoundly negative

effects:

• Continual high levels of one stress

hormone, cortisol, increases appetite

and leads to weight gain. Overeating at

night is also common among people

who are under stress and leads to many

serious health problems. Cortisol also

creates a whole range of serious health

problems by switching off disease

fighting white blood cells.

• Stress hormones create digestive

problems, inhibiting the release of

stomach acid and emptying of the

stomach and directly stimulating the

colon, speeding up the emptying of its

contents. This, too, creates health

problems, some of them major.

• Stress suppresses the reproductive

system at various levels, directly

inhibiting the testes and ovaries,

hindering production of the male and

female sex hormones testosterone,

estrogen and progesterone. This, too,

leads to many health problems.

• Stress interacts with the immune

system, making you more vulnerable to

colds and flue, fatigue and infections - or

worse.

One particularly damaging characteristic of

chronic stress is melancholic depression. The

body turns on the "fight or flight" response I

mentioned above…

This produces constant anxiety and over

reaction to stimulation followed by the

paradoxical response called “learned

helplessness”, in which victims apparently lose

all motivation. Hallmarks of this form of

depression are anxiety...loss of appetite...loss

of sex drive...rapid heartbeat...high blood

pressure...and high cholesterol and triglyceride

levels.

Long term stress can also lead to anorexia

nervosa, malnutrition, obsessive compulsive

disorder (OCD), anxiety disorder, alcoholism,

poorly controlled diabetes, and

hyperthyroidism.

Excessive stress-induced cortisol is

responsible for many other symptoms

including:

• Sleep disturbances...loss of

libido...loss of appetite…

• Increased risk of accumulating

abdominal fat...hardening of the arteries

and other forms of cardiovascular

disease…

• Suppression of the thyroid hormones

and the immune system.

All of this has contributed, in the last eight

...but is prevented from

turning it off again.

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year period to a stunning 1,444,920 new

cancer cases in the U.S. alone, causing…

What's more, 79.4 million people - 37.1% of

Americans - suffer from cardiovascular disease,

leading to 871,500 deaths!

There were also 5.7 million strokes, causing

150,100 deaths. Every three minutes in the

United States someone dies of a stroke.

IN the same period, 72 million Americans

suffered from high blood pressure, causing

54,200 deaths, while 105,200 Amercians had

high cholesterol readings.

Finally, 19.7 million Americans suffer from

chronic pain - often related to stress - and 4.9

million of them don't respond to pain

medication!

Keep reading! Stress-caused emotional

problems are even worse!

In any given one-year period, 9.5% of the

population - about 20,900,000 American adults

(!)...

...suffer from a depressive illness.

• 26.2% of Americans over 18 - 57.7

million - suffer from mental disorders.

45% have more than one...21.4 million

suffer from serious psychological distress

(SPD).

• 40 million Americans over 18 -18.1%

- have anxiety disorders. 20.9 million

have mood disorders. 14.8 million have

a major depressive disorder.

• 3.3 million have chronic, mild

depression, while 35.1 million in any given

year have had at least one major

depressive episode. 5.7 million have

manic depressive disorder. What’s more,

32,439 persons died by suicide in 2004 -

ant it’s getter worse, faster.

• 6 million people suffer from panic

disorders...2.2 million from (OCD)...and

7.7 million from post traumatic stress

disorder.

• 6.8 million suffer from generalised

anxiety disorder...15 million from social

phobias…and 1.8 million suffer from

agoraphobia - fear and anxiety of places

or situations where escape might be

difficult. 19.2 million people have phobias

involving specific objects or situations.

• 4.1% of adults have attention deficit

hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

• There are 19.1 million illicit drug

users...6 million abusers of

psychotherapeutic drugs...55 million binge

drinkers...and 22.5 million people over age

12 are substance dependent or substance

abusers.

Stressful times can kill us, or drive us out

of our minds! If you don’t take definite steps

to become more resilient, hard times can

send you over the edge.

559,650 deaths.

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Luckily you can become one of the resilient

ones, and Shaolin Qigong is one of the most

powerful antidotes to stress. In a nutshell,

Shaolin Qigong is the art of deliberately

managing your vital energy. Vital energy is what

keeps you alive, and allows you to do

everything that you do. Qigong is similar to

Yoga but less strenuous. It's like Tai Chi but

easier to learn and requires zero athleticism.

How does Shaolin Qigong affect the

destructive effects of high cortisol? From the

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) approach

to health and well being there is only 1 illness.

Regardless of the physical, emotional or mental

symptoms, it comes down to a lack of

harmonious energy flow through the energy

channels (meridians) of your body.

Because your physical, emotional and

mental health is the result of harmonious energy

flow, anything that affects this harmonious flow

will impact your whole experience of life. This is

why it is important to learn how to manage your

own energy system.

The following comments reflect the

impressions and conclusions of Kenneth M.

Sancier, Ph.D. in a scientific report, "Medical

Applications of Qigong", published by

Alternative Therapies in January 1996:

• Stroke and Mortality Rates Decrease

- in a study of hypertensive patients,

the mortality rate in the Qigong group

was nearly half of the group who did

not practice Qigong.

• Blood Pressure Stabilises - Over a 20

year period, blood pressure of the Qigong

group stabilised, whereas that of the

control group increased.

• Sex Hormone Levels Improve -

Estrogen imbalances "can be reversed

by Qigong exercise"

• Bone Density Increases - bone density

increased in men who practiced Qigong

for one year. It is likely Qigong therapy

would help restore bone density in women

as well.

• Cancer And Drug Treatment Improve

- patients with "medically diagnosed

malignant cancer" were divided into

two groups. All received drugs, but one

group also practiced Qigong. "Both

groups improved, but the [Qigong]

group showed improvement in strength,

appetite, freedom from diarrhoea, and

weight gain four to nine times greater

than the control group".

• Senility Symptoms Improve - After six

months, eight of the 14 main clinical signs

and symptoms in the Qigong group had

improved more than 80%, whereas no

symptoms in the control group had

improved more than 45%.

Shaolin Qigong is a

simple, direct & effective way to

manage your vital energy

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• Blood flow To Brain Increases.

Memory Improves, Insomnia,

Numbness, Vertigo, Headaches, and

Cholesterol Decrease - Two studies

show Qigong increases blood flow to

the brain.

• Combination of Qigong and Drugs Is

Superior To Drug Therapy Alone -

Research shows "Qigong is believed to

relax the body, promote the flow of Qi

(energy), blood, oxygen and nutrients to all

cells of the body and promote the removal

of waste products from cells."

• Alpha Brain Waves Increase - Alpha

brain waves are the key to stress relief,

health, vitality and longevity.

Shaolin Qigong contains three core

elements that make it one of the most powerful

types of Qigong you can learn today:

• Enter a Qigong State of Mind - You

learn how to attain a higher state of

consciousness, demonstrated by being

relaxed and focused. This skill alone

allows you to relax physically, emotionally

and mentally like never before.

• Energy Flow - Flowing Breeze,

Swaying Willows occurs when you are

totally relaxed and your energy (Qi) flow

inside makes your body sway gently. For

centuries this has remained a closely

guarded Shaolin secret.

• Standing Meditation - Many people in

the West today mistakenly believe that the

only way to meditate effectively is in the

seated Lotus position. For beginners, the

physical discomfort commonly

experienced in this position makes it

difficult to achieve mental stillness.

Standing Meditation allows you to access

the benefits of meditation quickly and

effectively.

Meditation dramatically lowers stress and

stress related physical and emotional problems,

say research scientists in thousands of

studies…

• The National Institute of Health

reports that regular meditation can

reduce chronic pain, anxiety, high blood

pressure, cholesterol, substance abuse,

post traumatic stress response and

blood levels of stress hormones.

• Frank Treiber, Ph.D., of the Medical

College of Georgia, says that meditation

lowers blood pressure, even for healthy

young people, creating a 12.5% lower risk

of stroke or coronary mortality in

adulthood.

"The

main conclusion

from many studies is that

Qigong enables the body to

heal itself - Almost everyone

can learn Qigong exercises

for maintaining health

and self healing"

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• Researchers at University of

Maryland School of Medicine report

meditation relieved stress, reduced

rheumatoid arthritis symptoms,

reduced cardiovascular risk factors,

decreased psychological distress,

improved sleep patterns.

• Studies at University of Toronto,

Oxford University and Cambridge

University found that 66% of those

recovering from depression who

meditated remained stable (no relapse)

over a year.

• Dr Herbert Benson of Harvard

Medical School found that mediation

releases tension, creates the will power

and consciousness to be in control of

one’s life, and alleviates depression,

loneliness, hopelessness and despair.

• Dr Adrian White, University of Exeter

reported that meditators showed

increased activity in the frontal part of the

brain associated with lower anxiety and a

more positive emotional state.

But nowhere near as dramatically as

Shaolin Qigong

Every time you practice Shaolin Qigong you

are also practicing (and get the benefits of)

meditation, but Shaolin Qigong is so much

more than meditation. This is one reason why

long term Shaolin Qigong practitioners have the

same response to stressful situations (being

largely unaffected by them) as Grandmaster

Wong, Sifu Emiko Hsuen, Sifu Robin Gamble -

and me.

SHAOLIN QIGONG

Your secret weapon against anxiety,

depression, stress and worry

In April 2008 I had the great fortune to

attend an "Invitation Only" Qigong Therapy

course taught by 4th Generation Shaolin

Grandmaster Wong Kiew Kit (or Sifu as I call

him). Sifu spent a lot of time during this course

teaching me to understand how anxiety,

depression and worry work (from the Traditional

Chinese Medicine TCM perspective) and a

number of simple, direct and effective methods

to treat them.

If you lack energy, suffer from the blues,

constantly feel 'stressed out', lack confidence

or find it hard to stop worrying all the time then

Shaolin Qigong has much to offer you.

Meditation

has a dramatic and

positive effect on stress

and the physical and

emotional problems

caused by stress...

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Understand This:

Stress is a sign of life - I don't believe it is

possible or healthy to live a stress free life. But

you can definitely increase your resistance to

stress and learning how to calm the mind is

scientifically proven to help reduce anxiety and

worry. The world won't change if you learn

Shaolin Qigong, things will still happen that you

would prefer didn't and some people will still

behave towards you in ways you don't deserve.

No, the world won't change after you learn

Shaolin Qigong, something even better

happens: You change (for the better!)

There is a science behind Shaolin Qigong.

Scientific laws that govern whether you are -

healthy or ill, energised or tired, articulate or

confused, happy or sad - and they are just as

exact as those that govern our universe. Learn

to use them and you will be happy, healthy,

energised, articulate and better at everything

you choose to focus on, just as certainly as the

force of gravity holds you to the earth.

When I first encountered the research in this

letter about the effects of Qigong and

meditation on stress and stress induced

physical and emotional problems, I knew it was

important that you know about it, and that I

offer you a solution to this

problem. You see most people will never know

that they can learn how to be happy, healthy

and full of vitality and that it is no more difficult

than learning how to brush your teeth. Please

learn how to apply Shaolin Qigong to "stress

proof" your life during these stressful times.

Given the darkening world situation, we all

need to become more resilient, more stress-

resistant. The evidence is clear: Shaolin Qigong

is the best of all the available stress busting

tools. Traditional mediation is difficult. It's a lot

of work and it takes a long time to learn to do it

well and even longer to get the positive results.

Shaolin Qigong, on the other hand is simple,

direct and effective

Marcus Santer:

Is the author of Shaolin Chi Kung: 18

exercises to help you live a longer,

healthier and happier life. He is the most

senior student in the UK of 4th Generation

Shaolin Grandmaster Wong Kiew Kit and

has been teaching Shaolin Arts for 5

years.

Big Thanks To:Bill Harris of Holosync for the data in this

report.

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