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As a rule, when we ask for something, there is a price to pay. For example, asking for something from a devil usually involves a some kind of spiritual payment, like selling one's soul, as saints and christian scholars teach us (I could be wrong here, please correct me then). But is not the same transactional rule apply when followers ask for something from their deities, such as Jesus, Allah, Buddha, etc.? Do people accrue a 'spiritual credit card' liability when asking for things from their deities?

That was a typo, I meant stress training rather than stress straining. Something like resistance training. If qigong works for your balance training - great, this is what you need. From my personal experience though, the insufficient/lack of balance in seniors results from diminishing volume of muscle tissue and a resulting inability to maintain a proper body posture. Everybody has their own muscular-skeleton problems, but generally I'd say building up butt, hamstrings, and back muscles would be a key in enhancing the balance. Taiji is certainly a MA, but what you see when groups of elderly people doing form - this is more like qigong or a dance. Ideally, MA will have a partner training component and this is when resistance training can be tested. To clarify my thought - qi does not replace strength and power. Soft qigong forms are good if you can't do more physically demanding MA forms - this is why ba dua jin variants are so popular among elderly. So judge yourself.

You need some kind of stress straining for body tissues. More accurately, you might not need it if you are younger than 30 YO, but with age, you need it more and more. No qigong provides a required kind of stress training, but forms like daoyin, MA, or ashtanga yoga (the brutal one) can work. If you don't do something like this, you will have two kind of issues: - your qi will stagnate and won't develop internally - your health will deteriorate with time. Walking is a good practice but it is sort of one-sided and does not provide a required spectrum of physical training. It does not have to be MA. it is just that Chinese people developed good curriculum of combining reaching several goals by training MA, so it is sort of time efficient. Speaking from personal experience.