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etween physician and patient, between nurseand patient, between therapist and client, betweencolleagues, between friends, between familymembers, between the individual and his/herliving environment, and so forth. Again, such energeticcommunications might be called“Transactional Energetics,” or perhaps even “Qimailcommunications.”For example, in psychotherapy treatment sessions,a phenomenon has been observed, since1946, which is termed “Projective Identification.”Projective Identification occurs in circumstanceswhere A (psychotherapist) experiences feelingsthat belong to B (client) but that B is unable toaccess; and instead "projects" them into A (his orher therapist).1 Projective Identification hasbeen known as unconsciousness communicationsbetween therapist and client. The problem is thatboth the therapist and client are not aware or notconscious of these kinds of communications duringpsychotherapy treatment sessions. If thetherapist is not aware of projective identificationsfrom their clients, over time, the projective identificationscan become a root cause of compassionfatigue and burnout of the therapist, or the therapistcan become a victim of the client’s projections.Or to take some other examples, while the medicalprofession prepares for treating millions ofpatients who will be newly insured under thecurrent healthcare law, the Mayo Clinic(Rochester, Minn.) reports that nearly one in two(45.8%) of the nation's doctors already suffer asymptom of burnout.2Most nurses enter the field of nursing with theintent to help others and provide empathetic carefor patients with critical physical, mental, emotional,and spiritual needs. Empathic and caringnurses, however, can become victims of the continuingstress of meeting the often overwhelmingneeds of patients and their families, resulting incompassion fatigue.3 One of the causes of compassionfatigue and burnout for healthcare providersmay be inadequate awareness of transactionalenergetics and therefore of the skills requiredto do healing and service work in a balancedway over an extended period of time.Importance of Authentic Qi Cultivation forHealthcare ProvidersWhen healing chronic health conditions, thehealth condition might require attention not onlyat the level of the physical symptoms, but mayalso need to be treated at the internal energylevel, emotional level, mental level, spiritual level,or in relation to habitual behavior, personal andprofessional relationships, and so forth. The authenticqi cultivation can assist healthcare providersin seeing the client as a whole person at alldifferent levels. The study and practice of medicalqigong, as well as medical Yijing, greatly enhanceshealthcare providers’ ability and performancein understanding the root cause of healthconditions and fosters an ability to treat a patientor client not only at the level of the symptoms butat the global level, as a whole person.Medical Qigong and The Healthcare SystemMedical Qigong is the study of authentic qi cultivationand management of the body based onclassical Taoist alchemical cultivation, traditionalChinese medicine, as well as modern life science.Medical Qigong techniques can be practiced ononeself for self-healing, self-care and selfcultivationor can be performed to facilitate thehealing process of others. The authentic Qi holds40 Yang-Sheng (Nurturing Life) Volume 3, Issue No. 3