The most commonly reported reasons for being attracted to Falun Gong were intellectual content, cultivation exercises, and health benefits.
In surveys of the Falun Gong practitioners in North America, the most commonly reported reasons for being attracted to the practice were the teachings, cultivation exercises, and health benefits.
Virtue is such a being's continually cultivated capacity to master her inclinations so as to fulfill her duties; a capacity whose cultivation and exercise is motivated by respect for the moral law.
The exercises are regarded as secondary to moral elevation, though is still an essential component of Falun Gong cultivation practice.
In other words, true leaders create organizations that support the exercise and cultivation of leadership.
This is not just simple faith healing; it includes intentional mental cultivation through repeated practice, including powerful and profound, tried and true contemplative techniques and spiritual exercises such as meditation, chanting, creative visualization, yoga, breath & energy work, and the like.
But the assembly of a terrarium is an intimate exercise in plant cultivation and aesthetics.
To get both physical health and spiritual exercises need to be done, one of which is the Tai Chi that combines physical exercise and spiritual cultivation.
During the experiment, great care has to be exercised to dilution factors and cultivation conditions such as the use of feeder cells [47].
These views informed Warring States accounts of dietary practices, exercise regimens, breath meditation, sexual cultivation techniques, and other technical traditions associated with fang shi.
