Pete Doherty is Kicking the Habit's Arse
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"Like Iggy Pop and Lou Reed, Pete Doherty has taken up martial arts to help him quit drugs. But has he just transferred his addictions?
Not long out of rehab, it turns out that Doherty, encouraged by drummer Adam Ficek, has become a practitioner of chi gung (also spelled qigong or chi kung) and tai chi. Chi gung is the ancient Chinese art of developing and cultivating one's chi power - variously translated as internal energy or life force - by various exercises. It's been described as "self-administered acupuncture, without the needles", which no doubt meets with the approval of Doherty's management."
So is this good news for the singer? Or is he just replacing drug addiction with exercise addiction? This is a really interesting report comparing the effects of drug with effects of exercise, and suggests that while there is a difference between positive and negative addictions, we can still have negative addictions to positive things like exercise.
Not long out of rehab, it turns out that Doherty, encouraged by drummer Adam Ficek, has become a practitioner of chi gung (also spelled qigong or chi kung) and tai chi. Chi gung is the ancient Chinese art of developing and cultivating one's chi power - variously translated as internal energy or life force - by various exercises. It's been described as "self-administered acupuncture, without the needles", which no doubt meets with the approval of Doherty's management."
So is this good news for the singer? Or is he just replacing drug addiction with exercise addiction? This is a really interesting report comparing the effects of drug with effects of exercise, and suggests that while there is a difference between positive and negative addictions, we can still have negative addictions to positive things like exercise.
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