Knocking At The Gate of Life and Other Healing Exercises from China by Ta Hun... - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1570873313 ISBN 13: 9781570873317

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Health-conscious readers who know there is more to health than taking medicine when something is wrong will find this book a valuable resource. Based on healing principles known for centuries by Chinese physicians, Knocking at the Gate of Life offers many exercises known to alleviate symptoms of certain chronic conditions. Chapters cover heart and circulatory disease, lung and breathing disorders, digestive disorders, obesity, depressions and insomnia, and rheumatoid arthritis.

Many of these exercises emphasize the control the mind has on the health of the body. They include the Five Animal Play, Pa Tuan Chin, T'ai Chi Chuan, Ch'i Kung (qigong), Chinese massage and Li Shou. The simple exercises--which require no special equipment or fitness trainer--are not a fad treatment. They have been practiced with success by generations of Chinese and are for everyone interested in improving health and preventing disease.

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Dr. Edward C. Chang, who translated this book from Chinese to English, is also the author and developer of a multimedia program in beginning Chinese.

Prior to his retirement from active teaching, Dr. Chang had served as the professor and chairman of the Department of Psychology, Sociology, and Social Work at Albany State University, Albany, Georgia, for more than twenty-five years.

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Here are healing methods from the crossroads where ancient Chinese folk wisdom meets modern Western medicine. The may help you avoid costly, frustrating doctor visits and medicines with potentially damaging side effects. Compiled, tested and prescribed by Chinese doctors, they may help you Increase energy Lower blood pressure Relieve headaches and backaches Strengthen your immune system Get to sleep quickly and soundly Cure constipation without drugs Prevent gum diseases Plus: Hundreds of other remedies for complaints such as the common cold, indigestion, hemorrhoids, poor posture, even flat feet. But not just common complaints yield to Chinese healing exercise. Longstanding chronic conditions such as arthritis may also be helped. This book tells you how.

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From Chapter 2 Tai Chi Chuan is a Chinese exercise of physical fitness that has a long tradition. An extraction of the very best elements from a variety of ancient Chinese exercises, Tai Chi Chuan has for many centuries remained popular with the common people. In recent years, Tai Chi Chuan has attracted worldwide attention both in the medical and sport arenas. It has crossed national boundaries and become one of the most important and popular international therapeutic exercises.

The fact that Tai Chi Chuan has become popular is not accidental at all. It consists of movements that are so soft, steady, smooth and slow that is suitable for everybody, even the elderly and the physically weak. It requires relaxation of the muscles of the wrist, arms, shoulders, chest, abdomen and back. The softness of its movements and its required muscular relaxation contribute to a peaceful and refreshed feeling. The cerebral cortex becomes calm and rested. In this way, practicing Tai Chi relieve neurosis and depression.

The muscular relaxation also conditions the blood vessels to dilate, which lowers blood pressure. Practicing Tai Chi is, therefore, an effective treatment for high blood pressure.

Tai Chi is calming. It's guided by yi--concentration-- and by peaceful passive focusing, rather than by force. By producing a proper balance between sympathetic excitation and inhibition, Tai Chi effectively treats both anxiety and depression.

And Tai Chi involves the whole body. Each movement strengthens and tones a different group of muscles and joints. Consistent practice makes joints more flexible and ligaments more elastic. It also increases muscular strength.

Tai Chi breathing must be deep but quiet, long but rhythmic. Because the breathing and movements especially stimulate the waist region, blood circulation in the abdomen is enhanced and stomach and intestinal movement is speeded up.

Since the exertion required by Tai Chi can be adjusted to suit individual needs, everyone--male or female, old or young, the fit or the weak--can do this exercise. The physically weak, for example, can practice the high form--the one that doesn't require squatting down low. Or they can do the simplified version instead of the whole set. And, of course, the physically strong can do the low form which requires strength to maintain a bent-legged position.

Generally speaking, Tai Chi Chuan imposes little physiological demand on the body. After competing a whole set of the simplified version, for example, the average pulse rate of a group of adolescent students was only 105 and their blood pressure 128/70. Three minutes after finishing the set, both the pulse rate and the blood pressure of these youngsters had returned to the pre-exercise level. During the exercise, their breathing was not even hard, and in one 5-minute session, only about 12 calories were consumed. Because it's so physically undemanding, Tai Chi is ideally suited to the elderly, the physically weak and chronic disease patients.

Tai Chi can help everyone develop grace, coordination and balance. The flowing, intricate and orderly steps demand these qualities. Forms such as "brushing knee and twist step, " "turning over the arm," and "waving hands like clouds" develop coordination. "Left and right foot separation" and "stand with one foot bent," for instance, teach balance.

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• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1570873313
• ISBN 13: 9781570873317
• Einband: Taschenbuch
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