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Chi Self-Massage: The Taoist Way of Rejuvenation de Mantak Chia

Chi Self-Massage: The Taoist Way of Rejuvenation

Autor Mantak Chia
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 iun 2006

Odată cu trecerea în sezonul rece sau în perioadele de stres intens, corpul nostru tinde să acumuleze tensiuni care ne afectează vitalitatea. În Chi Self-Massage, Master Mantak Chia ne propune o perspectivă diferită de cea occidentală: masajul nu este doar o relaxare a mușchilor, ci un instrument de regenerare internă prin manipularea energiei Chi. Considerăm că valoarea acestui volum rezidă în sistematizarea unor secrete taoiste vechi de milenii într-o rutină logică și accesibilă omului modern.

Abordarea amintește de Chi Nei Tsang prin accentul pus pe eliberarea blocajelor energetice din centrul abdominal, dar adaugă o metodologie completă de auto-îngrijire ce cuprinde întreg corpul, de la craniu și organele de simț până la tălpi. Structura cărții este extrem de practică, ghidând cititorul prin pregătirea palmelor (punctele Pericardului), masajul feței pentru menținerea tinereții și tehnici de detoxifiere a organelor interne prin „lovirea” ușoară (slapping massage).

Subliniem eficiența acestui sistem: deși tehnicile sunt complexe în fundamentul lor teoretic, Mantak Chia le-a adaptat astfel încât să poată fi integrate într-o practică zilnică de doar 10 minute. Cele 105 ilustrații sunt esențiale pentru a înțelege corect poziționarea mâinilor și fluxul energiei. Spre deosebire de The Inner Smile, care se concentrează pe meditație și vizualizare, Chi Self-Massage este un ghid tactil, fizic, care demonstrează cum emoțiile negative pot fi eliberate direct prin masarea organelor afectate.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781594771101
ISBN-10: 1594771103
Pagini: 128
Ilustrații: 105 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Ediția:2nd Edition, New Edition
Editura: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Colecția Destiny Books
Locul publicării:United States

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Despre autor

Student al mai multor maeștri taoiști, Mantak Chia este fondatorul sistemului Universal Healing Tao și autorul a peste 50 de volume de referință. În lucrări precum Awaken Healing Energy Through the Tao sau The Eight Immortal Healers, el a tradus conceptele ezoterice ale alchimiei interne chineze într-un limbaj accesibil publicului larg. Director al centrului Tao Garden din Thailanda, Master Chia este recunoscut la nivel mondial pentru modul în care a democratizat accesul la tehnici de vindecare care, timp de secole, au fost transmise doar în cerc închis, de la maestru la discipol.

Descriere scurtă

The Western concept of massage primarily concerns muscle manipulation. In the practice of Chi Massage, internal energy, or Chi, is manipulated to strengthen and rejuvenate the sense organs--eyes, ears, nose, tongue, teeth, and skin--and the internal organs. The Taoist techniques in this practice are more than 5,000 years old and, until very recently, were closely guarded secrets passed down from master to student with each master often knowing only a small part of the complete method. In Chi Self-MassageMaster Mantak Chia pieces together the entire system of Chi Massage into a logical routine, revealing the methods used by Taoist masters to maintain their youthfulness. He explains the energetic theory behind Chi Massage and how negative emotions affect the organs and nervous system. By practicing the exercises outlined and following the daily routine that requires only 5 to 10 minutes to complete, readers can strengthen their senses--most notably vision, hearing, and taste--detoxify their internal organs and glands, help control negative emotions, relieve stress and constipation, and improve their complexion, teeth and gums, and overall stamina.

Notă biografică

A student of several Taoist masters, Mantak Chia founded the Healing Tao System in 1979. He has taught tens of thousands of students from all over the world and tours the United States annually, giving workshops and lectures. He is the director of the Tao Garden Integrative Medicine Health Spa and Resort training center in northern Thailand and is the author of 25 books, including the bestselling The Multi-Orgasmic Man.

Extras

from Chapter 3

Head, Neck, and Shoulders

EyeMassage
The eyes are the doorways to the soul. They are connected to the entire nervous system, which gives them a special importance. In Taoism the eyes are regarded as yang energy that guides all chi flow in the body.

The different areas of the eyes correspond to different organs of the body, so they reveal the health of your entire body: You can tell which organs are weak or toxic by looking at your eyes. Nowadays people use their eyes much more than in the past to read, watch television, and work with computers, other electronic devices, and microscopes. This strains them a great deal and allows much of the energy of the connected organs to be drained out. Massaging the eyes will reenergize the vital organs.

Performing Eye Massage
Begin with the procedure for bringing energy to the hands and face, contracting the middle, left, and right sides of the anus. When your hands and face are hot, direct the chi to both eyes until you feel them filled with energy.

1. Close your eyes. Use your fingertips to gently massage your eyeballs through your closed eyelids, six to nine times clockwise, then six to nine times counterclockwise. Then gently massage the area around the lids the same number of times. Be aware of painful spots and massage those places until the pain goes away. Pay special attention to the inner and outer corners of the eyes. Massaging these points of the Gall Bladder meridian will relieve eye ailments. However, when rubbing near the corners of the eyes, do not rub too hard, because you can make the corners of the eyes droop down. Finish with rubbing the corners of the eyes upward.

2. Pull up the eyelids to increase the fluid. Use the thumb and index finger to gently pinch and pull up the eyelids then release them. Do this six to nine times.

3. Massage the eye sockets by bending your index fingers and using the lower section to rub the upper and lower bones of the eye sockets six to nine times.

4. The next step is to get a tear out of your eyes, which will strengthen them. Hold an index finger up about eight inches from your eyes (or put a dot on the wall five or six feet away from you). Stare at it intently without blinking until you feel like a fire is burning in your eyes. The Taoists believe that this technique burns the toxins out of the body through the eyes.

5. Bring chi to your eyes by rubbing your hands until they are warm, then closing your eyes, and covering your eye sockets with your palms. Feel the chi from the hands being absorbed into the eyes. Rotate your eyes six to nine times, first in a clockwise direction, then counterclockwise.

Eyeball Exercise
The eyes have many muscles that we typically do not exercise very much. This causes them to become weak, contributing to poor eyesight. In addition, the eyes are closely connected with certain organs and nerves. Exercising the eyeballs is not only the best exercise for the eye muscles but will also exercise these linked areas by putting pressure on them:

• Contracting the middle of the eyeballs strengthens the back of the eye muscles and the inner ear.

• Moving the eyeballs upward by looking toward the crown strengthens the upper eye muscles and stimulates the pituitary and pineal glands.

• Moving the eyeballs from side to side strengthens the side eye muscles as well as the ear canals, eardrums, tear ducts, and the nose.

• Moving the eyes downward strengthens the lower eye muscles as well as the lower parts of the ear canals and the nervous system.

Performing the Eyeball Exercise
This exercise begins with closing the eyes and becoming aware of them.

With the eyes still closed, cup your palms over them, inhale, and contract the sexual organ and the part of the anus as directed, while looking straight ahead, to the left, above, to the right, and below.

1. Contract the middle of the anus, and pull the eyeballs back into their sockets.

2. Contract the left side of the anus and the left sides of the eyeballs.

3. Contract the front of the anus and the tops of the eyeballs.

4. Contract the right side of the anus and the right sides of the eyeballs.

5. Contract the back of the anus and the bottoms of the eyeballs.

Staring Practice
If you have difficulty maintaining eye contact when you are talking with someone because you feel nervous and frightened, this can be caused by weakness of the gallbladder and kidneys. You may also experience that your voice becomes very low and hard to hear. To improve this, you can use the Inner Smile, Six Healing Sounds, and Chi Self-Massage as described above, plus the practice of staring.

To perform the practice of staring, look at your face in a mirror for two to five minutes each day for the first week. After ten days you can begin to stare at your eyes and increase your confidence by looking at your irises. Gradually you will lose the fear of looking into other people’s eyes.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments

Putting Chi Self-Massage Into Practice

Introduction: The Rejuvenating Power of Chi Self-Massage

1 Preparing for Chi Self-Massage
Raising the Chi: Perineum Power

2 Healing Hands
The Palms and the Pericardium Point
Correspondence Points on the Hands
Hand Massage

3 Head, Neck, and Shoulders
Skull Massage
Face Massage
Eye Massage
Eyeball Exercise
Staring Practice
Nose Massage
Ear Massage
Eardrum Exercises
Mouth Massage
Gums, Tongue, and Teeth Massage and Exercises
Neck Massage

4 Detoxifying Organs and Glands
Massage of the Thymus Gland
Slapping Massage of the Internal Organs
Massaging the Small and Large Intestines
Kidney Massage
Sacrum Massage

5 Relieving Constipation: A Major Cause of Illness
 Abdominal Massage: Wonder of Healing

6 Knees and Feet
 Knee Massage
Massage for the Feet, Roots of the Body

7 The Daily Practice of Taoist Rejuvenation
Cleaning the Nine Openings
Using the Mirror
Clean Water: Whole System Cleanser
Tao Rejuvenation throughout the Day
Ending the Day
“Oh, No! Not another Obligation!”

Appendix: Energetic Preparations for Tai Chi Chi Kung
 Inner Smile
Microscopic Orbit Meditation

About the Author

The Universal Tao System and Training Center
 The Universal Tao System
The Universal Tao Training Center

Index

Recenzii

"Written with clarity and purpose, these pages offer readers a solid introduction to the principles of chi self-massage. . . . [Chia's] logical progression of ideas allows readers to quickly grasp this new information and to build on it as the pages turn. . . . For such a short book, the overall explanation of this system is explicit, providing a most impressive view of these techniques. Chi Self-Massage presents a wealth of information that can positively impact the health of readers."
"Master Mantak Chia pieces this system into a logical routine any can duplicate, using methods used by the masters to explore the theory and purposes behind Chi Self-Massage. Spirituality blends with practical application in an easily-followed guide."
"Spirituality blends with practical application in an easily-followed guide."
"If you have any recurring pain in your day-to-day life I recommend getting this book, I've found it very helpful."

Descriere

Energetic massage techniques that dispel negative emotions, relieve stress, and strengthen the senses, internal organs, and nervous system.