I. Problem
From 1982 the author has made experimental research on developing intelligence by qigong for many times.
The result of experiment showed that under the state of qigong the performance of some aspects of intelligence such as memory, thinking ability, set of perception raised. Statistic test got remarkable level. Since being in state of qigong for one hour, the performance of some aspects of intelligence became higher than that of just being in the state. We can regard the result as the effect of qigong. This is called the intelligence.
Those research aimed to see if there were any changes on people who exercise qigong for a certain period compare to those who did not exercise.
II. Method of experiment
l. Subject: Juniors from a certain university. They were divided in two groups. Fourteen were in experimental group and eleven were in contrast group.
2. Intelligence items to be measured: Speed of act, accuracy of act, memory extent of reciting number orderly, memory extent of reciting number oppositely, number of reading words with interfere of colour, errors of reading words, errors of reading colour with interfere of words, score of number symbols, score of black-red number, pure score omitting number.
3. Procedure: Subjects in two groups were with 22 items before exercise. After having exercised for four months, subjects in two groups were tested with 11 items again.
III. Results:
Compare the performance of qigong group with that of ' contrast groupJscore od contrast group for reading words with interfere of colour was higher than that of Qigong group,and the statistic test got remarkable level.The difference of performance for two groups on other 10 items was not remarkable according statistic test.
The performance of qigong group for speed of act, number of reading words with interfere of colour, accuracy of reading words with interfere of colour, number of reading colour with interfere of words, pure score of omitting number improved more compared with that of contrast group. Statistic test got remarkable level. The difference of improvement for two groups on accuracy of act, memory extent of reciting number orderly and oppositely, accuracy of reading colour with interfere of words, score of black-red number and number symbol was not remarkable according to statistic test.
Statistic test on the improvement for contrast group on memory extent of reciting number oppositely and score of number symbols got remarkable level. The difference of performance for following items after and before four months' exercise was not remarkable according to statistic test. They were speed of act, accuracy of act memory extent of reading number orderly, accuracy of reading words with interfere of colour and reading colour with interfere of words, number of reading words with interfere of colour and reading colour with interfere of words, score of black-red, pure score of omitting number.
After four months' exercise performance of following items improved and the difference was remarkable. They are speed of act, accuracy of act, memory extent of reciting number oppositely, accuracy of reading words with interfere of colour, number of reading colour with interfere of words, number symbol, pure score of omitting number. The difference of improvement on following items was not remarkable. They are memory extent of reciting number orderly, number of reading words with interfere of colour, accuracy of reading colour with interfere of words , score of black-red number.
IV. Discussion:
According to form l, before exercising qigong there were no remarkable differences in two groups on 10 items except that the performance of reading words with interfere of colour for contrast group was higher remarkable than that of qigong group.
After four months' exercise, intelligence performance of qigong group improved remarkably than that of contrast group on following items: speed of act, number of reading words with interfere of colour, accuracy of reading words with interfere of colour, number of reading color with interfere of words pure score of omitting number. The difference was remarkable according to statistic test. So we think that qigong can improve intelligence items above.
Four months later performance of memory extent of reciting number oppositely, number symbols become higher compare with that of four months ago. Statistic test got remarkable level.
After four months' exercise performance of following items improved and statistic test got remarkable level. They are memory extent of reciting number oppositely, score of number symbols, speed of act, accuracy of act, accuracy of reading words with interfere of color, number of reading color with interfere of words, score of omitting. So we think that Qigong can improve the intelligence items above and the development of memory, thinking act of perception act.
Summary:
The result of this experiment showed that qigong can improve the performance of score of some aspects of intelligence such as memory, thinking, act of perception, etc. Qigong is the important way to develop intelligence. It is strategical significant to develop intelligence of youth and teenagers by spreading qigong among them.
