CompleteMartialArts.com - The Healing Art of Tai Chi: Becoming One With Nature
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Manufacturer: Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 615.82
EAN: 9780806942971
ISBN: 0806942975
Label: Sterling Pub Co Inc
Manufacturer: Sterling Pub Co Inc
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: 1996-10
Publisher: Sterling Pub Co Inc
Studio: Sterling Pub Co Inc
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If you see T'ai Chi for the first time, you might wonder whether you're witnessing a form of dance, prayer, stretching exercise, deep-breathing program, or a martial art. The answer would be "yes" to all of the above and more. T'ai Chi, like most ancient Eastern practices, does not fit strict Western categories. As this book testifies, T'ai Chi among other things offers relief from stress, breathing disorders, muscular ailments, chronic headaches, as well as a variety of modern office and sports-related complaints and deep emotional problems. Few today are as well positioned to explain the healing powers of T'ai Chi as Dr. Martin Lee. Dr. Lee is a renowned engineering physicist, known as the "guru" of model-based accelerator control systems, who helped design an atomic accelerator that led to Nobel Prize-winning discoveries of the "Si" particle. He is also a T'ai Chi master, the only American who has studied with Yu Pen-Shih, one of China's foremost Ch'i Kung masters. Dr. Lee has developed a ground-breaking practical program that combines Eastern and Western approaches to wellness which he calls "physical philosophy." Its goal is to help people become "one with nature," a Buddhist term for the restoration of health. The rewards of his program he describes as Self-Happiness, Self-Control, Self-Realization, and Self-Healing. Each of these benefits receives a carefully developed chapter complete with exercises to build healthy habits. On every page, the central focus is on the flow of energy or "inner breath" that T'ai Chi is designed to evoke through four basic instructions: Relax. Breathe. Feel the earth. Do nothing extra. Here is a valuable health/exercise/meditation program, a breakthrough in combining the most ancient spiritual insights with the most advanced scientific knowledge.
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Summary: We often create stress within ourselves when we are angry, when we hurry, when we feel sadness or sorrow, and when we worry
Comment: 1. "I decided to study the relationship between wellness and four parts of self mind, body, thought, and chi (inner energy)."
2. "By practicing tai chi and understanding chi and its breathing techniques, I was able to heal my allergies and other ailments."
3. For many of us pain and suffering are still a part of everyday life. Why? Because of stress. The stress we feel creates an enormous emotional and spiritual burden. People afflicted with stress rarely seek a cure and suppose that stress is not detrimental to health. There is growing evidence that stress contributes to devastating physical and mental ailments. When we're under stress we loss control of our lives and this loss of control makes us feel more stressed. Unless, we find ways to reduce stress, most of us experience anger, worry, and sorrow, sometimes for extended time. This residual stress in turn can cause headaches, other physical complications, and depression. If we want to enjoy a better life, we need to find ways to reduce and, better yet, to prevent stress. Preventing stress from accumulating keeps it from harming the body and mind and debilitating our energy.
4. "Although I once suffered from the physical manifestations of stress, I was able to cure these ailments through the practice of tai chi."
5. The one with nature method is designed to reduce and prevent stress in a simple and practical way that heals the mind and body. The relationship between mental and physical stress and healing process cannot be understood through the study of mediation alone. We need integrate all our knowledge in science, philosophy, psychology, medicine, physical exercise, and more into a system that everyone can easily learn.
6. The good feeling coming from inside is called inner happiness. Both inner happiness and the flow of inner breath come from the relaxation process brought from connecting of the thought and chi. "I also found that you can enhance this warm good feelings of inner breath during exhalation. Intention -> Relaxation -> Breath -> Attention à Feel the earth -> Do nothing Extra
7. If stress in your head for a period of time, you may get a headache. If it centers in your back, you may get a backache. The body's organ's, like the kidneys and liver, may also be subject to stress and, therefore, to more serious stress-related illnesses. Healing is a state of the body that is stress-free. You need to relax more than your muscles to restore the free flow of chi. Internal organs like the pulmonary, nervous, or gastrointestinal system must be relaxed just like your muscular system. Nature can relax the mind and every part of the body.
8. Dr. Yu Pen-Shih taught Dr. Martin Lee that before he could heal his injured finger, he had to be able to feel chi. Dr. Yu described Tone chi to Dr. Lee, as, "to establish a connection between thought and chi". Dr. Yu helped Dr. Lee heal his hurt finger. It took several minutes.
9. Tone Chi was taught as follows: Dr. Yu requested Dr. Lee to stand in a Chi Kung stance. Dr. Yu placed both palms above Dr. Lee's head and told him to relax his entire body and breath naturally. "As I relaxed, I felt a warm and comfortable sensation inside my body moving gently down to the soles of my feet. I call this warm and comfortable sensation inner breath." After 15 minutes the warm sensation reached his feet and the tone chi process was complete. "I realized that the warm sensation I felt during the tone chi process was the effect of though and chi and that the thought-chi connection plays an important role in self-healing." "I found a simple way to feel the inner breath by relaxing my entire body, using my whole body to breathe, feeling the earth beneath me, and making sure I was doing nothing extra." The warm chi feeling was created by connecting the thought with chi.
10. "I also found that you can enhance this warm, good feeling of inner happiness and inner breath during exhalation." "As air is exhaled through your mouth, you can feel the inner breath moving to different parts of your body. With practice, you can feel and direct this flow of inner breath by thinking and breathing."
11. "We often create stress within ourselves when we are angry, when we hurry, when we feel sadness or sorrow, and when we worry."
12. One with nature mediation: Sit on a chair with your back straight. Concentrate your thought - chi into your hands , rotate them slowly like they are holding a ball. Feel the warm sensation between your palms while exhaling. Tap lightly the area in pain and visualize a light above your head moving to the pain location. Place your palm direct over the pain location and visualize the light moving through your palm to the pain location. Afterwards Touch the leg then touch both knees and visualize/feel the warmeth from your palms descending to your feet. This will take a couple of minutes of chi-thought to get the warmeth to descend to your feet. Repeat the process (stop after 15 minutes)
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Summary: Healing body and mind
Comment: I have read both of Dr. and Emily Lee's books, and in my opinion they are the best teachers of the art of tai chi and how it relates to healing the body and also the mind. Relax, breathe, feel the earth. Do nothing extra. This is Doctor Lees philosophy and approach to tai-chi. I wish I could give it six stars. Doctor Lee and his family are a pure gift to those who will follow there teachings.
Peace.
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