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This book is designed to guide beginning students through the fundamentals of tai chi in ten weeks. Dr. Aihan Kuhn teaches readers the twenty-four-step Yang-style form. She shares insight on warming up, healing, and avoiding injury. But tai chi is more than just a physical exercise. It is a way of life. Dr. Kuhn shows readers how this art helps us cultivate health, balance, and qi (energy).
Each day millions of people around the world practice tai...
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Today, more doctors than ever are prescribing tai chi for patients recovering from injury, illness, and surgery.
This book presents over ten years of research into how and why tai chi benefits health from an evidence-based, medical perspective.
Dr. Peter Anthony Gryffin demonstrates the link between health and metarobics, his term for slow, meditative exercises that enhance blood oxygen saturation, diffusion, and oxygen-based metabolism. Metarobics-including...
5603) Claim Your Healing
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Given a stage 4 cancer diagnosis, with three months to live, Krista Anderson began a desperate search for healing. Refusing to give up, she fought back, determined to win the war. In Claim Your Healing Krista shares seven powerful tools she used to restore her body back to health. If you need healing, this book will inspire you to raise the sword of the spirit, walk in faith, and claim your victory!
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Most of us go through life experiencing only the material world, using our five physical senses-and not to their full potential, at that. But on rare occasions, we will catch a glimpse of the hidden, mysterious aspect of our existence, a flash of insight or inspiration received through the sixth sense.
What we call "the sixth sense" is a natural, intuitive state of higher consciousness and spiritual awareness, a special power of inner knowing and...
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Assess, Rebuild, Connect is the comprehensive resource that guides individuals and their loved ones through the three phases of addiction recovery and into a life of sustained sobriety. Featuring reflection questions and room for written responses, plus real-life success stories to inspire and encourage, Assess, Rebuild, Connect provides a trusted companion through pre-treatment, treatment, and aftercare. Readers will be empowered to: ASSESS their...
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Taijiquan (Tai Chi Chuan) is a slow and relaxed moving meditation. It is also a sophisticated martial arts system. Through practicing Taijiquan, you are able to calm down the mind, locate your spiritual center, and consequently find your entire being. From the relaxed moving exercise, you can bring your physical body into an ultimate level of relaxation and natural ease, resulting in smooth Qi (inner energy) and blood circulation. This is a key to...
5607) Rightful Places
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Prose, poetry, artwork and historical photos from the author's journey from the wilds of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to years of sexual abuse and finally healing through the written word.
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What Should I Eat is based on 80,000 blood tests taken after nearly every meal the author's eaten for the past 34-years. What Should I Eat will be life changing. If you're a Type 2 Diabetic who wants to lower your blood sugar and lose weight, or you're a Pre-Diabetic, or Borderline Diabetic who wants to avoid ever getting diabetes, or you're a Type 1 Diabetic who wants to improve blood sugar control and live a long, healthy life, or you're one of...
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THE AUTHOR OF LIFE WRITES MASTERPIECES-
LEARN HOW TO SURRENDER THE PEN AND LET HIM DO THE WRITING!
Do you long for acceptance without strings? Do you strive for the picture perfect life? Do you feel like a failure? Do you wonder if God even hears you?
You are not alone! For years, author Aimee Fuhrman lived in a negative cycle of lies, self-criticism, and false failure. All she could see were the smudges on her pages, which resulted in depression...
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Have you ever wondered what motivates and produces the courage necessary for someone to place into print his inner thoughts and understanding of life? Have we ever found ourselves seeking answers within the complexity of life and then finding all that has been given? Such is the reality of everyone who has been touched by the hand of God.
Vitamin G God's Truth Given to Mankind is the result of what has been given by God and learned through life lessons....
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This is the anticipated follow-up to the author's previous work, The Mind Inside Tai Chi (YMAA, 2015). In this edition he turns his attention to Yang style, guiding you through the 22-step form with an eye for detail and a love of nuance.
"Tai chi is born from wuji, a state of emptiness," Zhuang writes. "Empty the mind. There is no yin or yang, no you or others."
From this state of balance and grace, the author leads you through the Yang form, one...
5612) Montana's Hot Springs
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Montana's hot springs and hot water resorts bubble with fascinating histories of medical cures, Native American legends, glittering spas, and isolated wilderness soaks. These Montana hot springs provided soothing cures for the aches and pains of Native Americans and early Montana pioneers. A few of the crude bathhouses built by miners and settlers gave way to ornate bathing resorts, replete with some of the most elegant furnishings and facilities...
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Beyond the Barehand Form, beyond the Qigong, lies the elegant and effective Sword of Taijiquan! Learn to extend your Qi, enhance your art and refine yourself. This comprehensive guide contains not only the complete Taiji Sword Form and Taiji Sword Qigong Set, but also seldom taught sword fighting applications and matching exercises.
More than just a "how-to", this book also contains theory, history and a complete guide to fundamentals-all essential...
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Book 1: Prayer: 100 Powerful Prayers to Keep Your Faith in Hard Times
Put Yourself in the Hands of God
This book provides prayers that you can pray especially when storms come into your life. These storms may not come on the scale of a flood or a major disaster, but they may bring sorrow and pain — an illness, a death in the family, or even separation and betrayal. But in the midst of all these painful experiences and hard times, there are prayers...
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A comprehensive guide to Shaolin Lohan Kung Fu from both ancient and contemporary masters.
With a new foreword by historian and martial artist Alexander Bennett, Shaolin Kung Fu details the oldest form of this ancient Chinese martial art. Shaolin Kung Fu is prized for its elegant style, effectiveness as a fighting system and as an exercise that benefits both body and mind.
Authors Donn F. Draeger and P'ng Chye Khim, both master martial artists and...
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Secrets of the Tai Chi Masters Revealed! Since ancient times Tai Chi Chuan has been practiced as a holistic mind/body fitness system, bringing immense benefits for practitioners in health, longevity, relaxation, and concentration. But Tai Chi Chuan was also practiced as an effective and deadly martial art. Because of this, the ancient masters rarely disclosed their secrets, guarding them as closely as they would military secrets. They preserved their...
5617) The Inner Beauty Bible
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We all have inner beauty. This is your one-stop handbook to nurturing beauty and wellbeing from the inside out.
Combining ancient wisdom with modern-day mindfulness, this book shows you how to polish your heart and nourish your soul with a collection of simple rituals that can be easily woven into busy modern lives.
In The Inner Beauty Bible, you will learn to:
Introduce accessible rituals into your life that will strengthen your connection to...
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Diagnosed with fibromyalgia in her mid-thirties, Nancy Laracy adopts a rabbit, Bunny Boy, who ends up saving her life-literally.
When the rug is pulled under from Nancy Laracy, a busy wife and mother of two who is diagnosed with a mixed connective tissue disease and fibromyalgia in her mid-thirties, she rebelliously adopts a baby red satin rabbit, Bunny Boy. So begins a deep, magical, and lifelong bond, where Bunny Boy and Nancy become inseparable...
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For anyone who questions the validity of taiji and qigong as exercise modalities, the collected writings in this book will provide information not available elsewhere. In addition to finding the historical and scientific foundation of these practices, the contents in this book will help improve taiji and qigong practice, bringing the many benefits as claimed for these gems of Chinese culture.
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The chapters in this anthology present an encompassing perspective of how some Chinese martial art styles-and most significantly taijiquan-developed and evolved along with deep rooted traditions of spirituality and the quest for health and longevity. Much in this volume deals with Daoist theories and practices, particularly its influences ranging from human energetics (qigong) and other physical exercises (daoyin), to practical combative arts.