Managing Stress with Qigong

Author: Gordon Faulkner
Publisher: Singing Dragon
ISBN: 0857010166
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
The ancient Chinese practice of Qigong combines physical movement with gentle breathing techniques to promote harmony between body and mind, and is quickly gaining popularity in the West. This step-by-step guide to managing stress through Qigong begins by looking at stress and our response to it from both an Eastern and a Western perspective. The core of the book provides a program with first a series of carefully-designed stress relief exercises, followed by a series of gentler stress prevention exercises, all of which are clearly explained with easy-to-follow instructions for each of the steps, and fully illustrated. The author explains the theory underpinning the Qigong exercises in terms of the principles of Chinese Medicine, including Yin and Yang, The Five Elements and the circulation of energy (Qi) through the meridians. Extensively trialled with Maggie's Cancer Care Centres, and designed specifically to fit around a busy lifestyle, the Qigong program set out in this book will help to reduce stress, decrease anxiety and restore energy. This practical book will help anyone who is prone to stress, regardless of their level of ability or experience of Qigong. It will also be a useful resource for Taijiquan and Qigong instructors, alternative therapists, and other professionals working with clients who are affected by stress.

Stress Elimination Handbook

Author: Grandmaster Adrian Simon Lowe
Publisher: Nicolas-Hays, Inc.
ISBN: 0892546603
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 175

Book Description
Stress has its roots at the very essence of life, and has caused more suffering and diminishment of the human spirit than any other affliction. The stress-disease epidemic of our times confronts us both with the financial cost and political issues around obtaining and dealing with health and our health-care systems. Stress has become a part of our everyday existence. This handbook addresses the medical and scientific aspects of the effects of stress on our immune system and bodies and explores the importance of breathing properly, and Qi in nutrition. The importance of boosting the immune system and taking action to reduce stress on all levels becomes very clear to why we need make our health a first priority and is expanded upon with text and charts.

The Qigong Workbook for Anxiety

Author: Kam Chuen Lam
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
ISBN: 1608829510
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 385

Book Description
We live in a fast-paced, busy world, and many of us are stressed out and anxious as a result. If you suffer from anxiety but have found little relief from modern western treatments, or if you are looking for complimentary treatment, the ancient practice of qigong—which can be understood as the cultivation of internal energy—may offer you relief. Qigong is rooted in Chinese philosophy and medicine, and it utilizes breathing, movement, and awareness exercises to promote healing and aid in meditation. In The Qigong Workbook for Anxiety, world-renowned and respected qigong master Kam Chuen Lam presents the first workbook for overcoming anxiety problems utilizing traditional Chinese energy-focusing exercises. By following these simple and accessible step-by-step exercises, readers will learn to transform feelings of anxiety into resilience and inner strength. The workbook also contains helpful illustrations to help you carry out these exercises. In the book, Lam will help you think about anxiety, and yourself, in a different way—as a whole. You’ll also learn to stop resisting moments of anxiety and other strong emotions, but rather to embrace them within the larger flow of your body’s energy field. By doing this, you will ultimately strengthen and cultivate the natural energy you possess. Author Kam Chuen Lam has been a traditional Chinese healer for over forty years, and is an internationally respected authority on the Chinese health systems of Chi Kung and Tai Chi. To find out more, visit www.lamkamchuen.org.

Seated Tai Chi and Qigong

Author: Cynthia Quarta
Publisher: Singing Dragon
ISBN: 1848190883
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
This easy-to-follow guide for those in the care profession explains how to implement a Tai Chi or Qigong exercise program for patients with limited mobility, featuring exercises for every part of the body and variations that can be tailored to a patient's needs. Original.

Restoring Your Life Energy

Author: Waysun Liao
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 0834828154
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 154

Book Description
In our busy lives we are bombarded by energy that taxes us and depletes our chi. This book of simple movements and meditations drawn from the Chinese arts of t'ai chi and chi gung will help restore your life energy, known as chi. Chi, according to traditional Chinese medicine, is the fuel and essence that connects body, mind, and spirit, and without it we fall apart physically, mentally, and spiritually. In Restoring Your Life Energy, well-known and respected t'ai chi master Waysun Liao explains why protecting our chi is so important, how chi gets taxed and damaged in our lives, and how to restore it. He explains: • The three levels of healing—physical, mental, and energetic/spiritual: what they are, why it is important to understand them, and how to target our practice to address each level; • Moving meditation, a powerful way of restoring chi (once we learn to sense the flow of chi, we can actually direct healing chi energy to areas in our body that need attention); • And how to integrate our knowledge of chi with conventional advice regarding diet, exercise, and medication. The book includes numerous exercises including "exercises for daily life," simple breathing and sensory meditations that can be done throughout the day; more advanced breathing and sensory meditations; standing exercises to move internal energy; "cleansing forms" to do during times of stress; and deeply cleansing and restorative "Tao gong" exercises.

Qigong and the Tai Chi Axis

Author: Mimi Kuo-Deemer
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486844463
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 259

Book Description
Reduce stress, release pain, and create bodily harmony with this introduction to qigong and tai chi. Includes practical information, insights, and widely practiced sequences and forms that lead to improved health.

Stress in Health and Disease

Author: Bengt B. Arnetz
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 3527609067
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 434

Book Description
This book is the first to address the most urgent issues, combining a solid basic research approach with applied individual and stress issues, including interventions. Throughout, the focus is on our latest knowledge about various causes of stress and its neuro-cognitive and biological implications. World-renowned authors from Europe as well as the US describe how stress affects the brain of young people as well as adults. They cover the topic from all perspectives, showing how stress affects life in general, from the societal and organizational level to the individual, organ and molecular level. While the book clearly points out stress as a risk factor to health, it also offers a number of evidence-based methods to cope with stress and even ride the positive energy of stress - both as an individual, as well as what managers can do to create a healthy and productive workplace. Written in a reader-friendly and appealing style, the book provides real-life examples from various laboratories, as well as such events as the Volvo Ocean Race, the largest around-the-globe sailing competition. Essential reading for clinicians and biologists, as well as for a wide range of students, including medicine and public health, but also managers and HR staff. With a Foreword by Nobel Laureate Professor Arvid Carlsson (Medicine 2000).

7 Minutes of Magic

Author: Lee Holden
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781583332764
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
A quick fitness routine, designed to help practitioners to jump-start a day and relax better at night, draws on three Eastern fitness disciplines as well as Western exercise techniques to outline a seven-minute workout for weekdays, in a guide that is complemented by longer weekend exercise recommendations.

The Tao of Stress

Author: Robert G. Santee
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
ISBN: 1608827828
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
Imagine, for a moment, a branch in the wind. If it moves with the wind, it will sway gracefully and remain intact; but if it refuses to bend, it will break. Like that unbendable branch, many of us refuse to be in harmony with the changes around us, and it is out of this conflict that much of our stress is created. As with most emotions, stress is a natural part of life, but it must be carefully managed in order to keep a sense of balance. When we allow stress to take control, a number of psychological and physical health problems can follow. Anxiety, depression, headaches, high blood pressure, heart problems, and even diabetes can all be caused or exacerbated by stress. In order to live a healthy life, you need to make a change. In The Tao of Stress, an expert in Taoist psychology presents daily meditative skills and movement exercises that can help you simplify your life, fight fatigue, and calm a busy mind. After learning the basics of the Taoist approach to stress management, you will be able to put theory into practice through the various simple exercises and activities offered in this book. By creating your own stress management program, you will stay on the path (Tao) to good health, both in body and mind. Remember, even Zen masters aren’t immune to stress. But they do know that in order to break the cycle of stress, you must be willing to give yourself up to the flow of life. This book will show you how.

The Impact of Mindfulness Based Practices

Author: Carolina F. Raeburn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meditation
Languages : en
Pages : 76

Book Description
Stress is considered a major health concern in the United States. Approximately 1 in 10 adults do not engage in beneficial stress management activities. When stress is poorly managed, it may lead to deleterious effects on mental and physical health. Stress has been linked to physical and psychological ailments. These ailments not only affect individuals and their quality of life but also affects the national healthcare expenditure of the United States. A significant amount of healthy individuals manage stress through poor coping strategies which may lead to prolonged maladaptive lifestyle behaviors. However, a growing number of people are turning towards holistic approaches, such as mindfulness exercises, to improve their quality of life. This literature review explores how three mindfulness-based practices (yoga, sitting mindfulness mediation, and qigong) affect stress and its practitioners when compared to an active control group. Although findings in this review may seem promising, more research with active control groups are highly encouraged to thoroughly assess for a placebo effect, since the literature on qigong and sitting mindfulness meditation were scarce when looking for active control groups. Nonetheless, these modalities may have the potential to serve as cost-effective stress management tools and stress prevention strategies.