Mental anxiety, for whatever reason, through life stresses or from an emotional-physical clinical condition, can be very well alleviated through certain Buqi techniques and with using T'ai Chi and Qigong type exercise. This is relevant to both horses and humans.

Anxiety negatively affects the energetic system whereby the vibrational frequency is either too high or is 'riding' high. There are particular grounding techniques which bring the centre of gravity back down, enable the breath to be released into a deeper diaphragmatic type movement and a rebalancing of the general energy patterns within the body. 

Buqi and Buqi exercises can be employed on a one-to-one level or on a group basis. General release often includes copious yawning or sighing thereby releasing the whole ribcage. What is of importance is that the emotion (e-motion) is allowed to move through previously restricted areas where movement has not been allowed or has been shut down through tension and holding. Often the individual will sleep more completely and is able to find some respite in rest. 

Ongoing anxiety leads to unexpressed physical tension which often leaves the individual exhausted even though they are unable to settle and act as if they have an excess of energy. Once grounded this nervous tension is quite literally released, muscles become heavier and the physical body more substantial; the individual is literally able to inhabit the body more fully.

By the same token, emotional pain creates a resistant tension in the body in an attempt not to connect to that which needs to be connected with in order to be released. In those cases Buqi can work very effectively alongside talking therapies but can have many positive effects as a stand alone therapy in its own right.