Tai Chi Health for Life

Name: Tai Chi Health for Life
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ISBN: 9781583941447

ISBN-10: 1583941444

ISBN-13: 9781583941447

Edition: 2006

Authors: Bruce Frantzis, Yun Zhang

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According to Time Magazine, tai chi is "the perfect exercise." Tai chi's incredible powers are reflected in its popularity. Over 200 million practitioners worldwideyoung, old, athletic, sedentary, chronically ill, overweightare using tai chi's slow, graceful movements as a potent preventative health care practice to regain control of their health, boost high performance, manage stress and reverse the effects of aging. Tai Chi Health for Lifeis in effect a comprehensive consumers' guide to tai chi, by international authority and teacher of Taoist health, martial arts and spiritual practices, Bruce Frantzis. Citing clinical studies and the practical experience of practitioners, this inspiring…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Publication date: 2/14/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



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The Dynamics of Relaxation


In China, the Taoists discovered that physical relaxation is only the beginning of relaxation's potential. There is also the need to relax your chi-energy, emotions, and mental activity and discover what it means to you to be a spiritual being. Complete relaxation integrates all of these kinds of relaxation…


Neurological Relaxation. All good training in tai chi strongly emphasizes relaxing every nerve in your body. By relaxing the nerves, muscular relaxation can go deeper and become a permanent part of you, rather than being just an intermittent, fleeting experience... It is an antidote capable of healing the all-pervasive damage that anxiety and stress produce, and it increases both physical and mental stamina, making you more productive than heaps of caffeine ever can.


Emotional Relaxation . As your nervous system opens up and loses its resistance to change, tai chi begins to help you gain access to, and let go of, the nastier emotions that tear up your insides-hatred, jealousy, self-pity, greed, inappropriate anger, etc. Maintaining emotional negativity requires tension that can destroy much of life's joy.


Mental Relaxation. Stress usually causes the mind to speed up, often uncontrollably, and to have jangled, disassociated thoughts -- what the Chinese refer to as "the Monkey mind." The more you relax, the more your conflicting thoughts begin to slow down and lose their force. You begin to see things with more clarity and less frustration.


Energetic Relaxation. Most Westerners do not relate to the concept of energetic relaxation and tension. Relaxation causes chi to flow smoothly and fully. Tension causes chi to flow erratically, in a jerky, spasmodic manner and with significantly less power. When chi moves smoothly, it has a natural balancing quality that helps the body to regenerate. The smoother the chi flow, the stronger and healthier the body becomes.


Spiritual Relaxation. The practice of tai chi may turn you towards meditation and spirituality. You may begin to gain the true strength and confidence to attempt to relax the obstacles that have bottled up truth, honesty, faith, kindness, generosity, love, and whatever other qualities may be stunted. These obstacles prevent the full flowering of your soul. (Chapter 4: How Tai Chi Reduces and Manages Stress)