THE PRINCE OF WALES WAS LEFT CLUTCHING AT THIN AIR WHEN HE STRUGGLED TO MASTER AN ANCIENT CHINESE THERAPY RECENTLY. THE PRINCE IS A WELL KNOWN FAN OF COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE BUT WHEN HE TOOK PART IN A SESSION OF CHI KUNG, ENERGY EXERCISE, HE STRUGGLED WHILE ATTEMPTING THE EXERCISES. THE HEIR TO THE THRONE DROPPED HIS 'ENERGY BALL' WHILE PERFORMING SIMPLE MOVES THAT HAD THE ROYAL IN FITS OF LAUGHTER. THE PRINCE WAS BEING SHOWN THE THERAPY THAT IS USED TO HELP EX-SERVICEMEN STRUGGLING TO OVERCOME EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL PROBLEMS AFTER LEAVING THE FORCES. CHI KUNG IS PART OF THE WARRIOR PROGRAM, AN INITIATIVE CO-FOUNDED BY EVA HAMILTON WHO WORKED ON HOMELESS PROJECTS FOR SOME OF THE PRINCE'S ORGANIZATIONS. PERSONAL TRAINER GUY HO TOOK THE ROYAL AND HAMILTON THROUGH TWO MOVES WHERE THEY WHERE THEY LIFTED THEIR RIGHT ARMS OVER THEIR HEADS TWISTING THEIR HANDS AS THEY WERE RAISED, THEN REPEATED IT WITH BOTH HANDS. THE PRINCE STARTED LAUGHING AND SHARED A JOKE WITH HIS EXERCISE PARTNER AS THEIR INSTRUCTOR LOOKED ON AT A CENTER IN FULHAM, WEST LONDON. AFTER A FEW MINUTES THE LESSON CAME TO AN END AND HO SAID: 'I TOLD HIM 'IMAGINE YOU HAVE GOT THIS GOLDEN ENERGY BALL IN THE PALM OF OF YOUR HAND'. THE PRINCE WAS FOCUSED BUT HE DROPPED THE BALL TWICE, I HAD TO FIND HIS ENERGY BALL. HE HAD WONDERFUL ENERGY, YOU COULD REALLY FEEL IT.' THE WARRIOR PROGRAM WAS FOUNDED IN 2007 BY HAMILTON AND CHARLOTTE COLE AND USES A RANGE OF THERAPIES FROM T'AI CHI TO MEDITATION AND COGNITIVE THERAPY TO HELP THE EX-SERVICEMEN AND WOMEN. A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF FORMER SOLDIERS, SAILORS AND AIRMEN FIND PROBLEMS ADJUSTING TO CIVILIAN LIFE AFTER THEIR EXPERIENCES IN THE FORCES, WITH MANY ENDING UP HOMELESS OR IN PRISON. THE PROGRAM WAS STARTED IN AN ATTEMPT TO TACKLE SOME OF THE UNDERLYING PROBLEMS, SUCH AS TRAUMA, RELATED STRESS AND DEPRESSION, THAT CAN BLIGHT THEIR LIVES.
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