Lee Holden

In the face of burnout, lack of passion and endless to-do lists, what if to achieve more you need to do less?

In this accessible guide, Lee Holden shares The Slow Method, principles of slow mind, body and relationships drawn from the philosophical wisdom of Eastern meditation, martial arts and philosophies, and merged with Western science. The resulting practices offer a comprehensive understanding of how to slow down and increasingly embrace life's rhythms.
Whether you're practising primal shaking or gratitude meditation for the mind; vagal breathing or optimal digestion acupressure, you’ll learn to access the magical benefits of slowing down to create lasting change in your life and the lives of those you love.

How to Improve Your Energy, Health and Relationships Through the Power of Slow

Slow

Mantak Chia

Distills the many different Chi Kung practices into one simple daily routine for abundant health, calmness, and mental clarity • Provides step-by-step illustrated instructions for a complete yet easy daily Chi Kung routine • Perfect for beginners and ideal as a warm-up to more advanced practices • Clears physical and mental stress, stimulates healing and disease prevention, detoxifies the body, releases tensions, improves circulation, and works to develop flexibility, strength, resiliency, and suppleness Within every person there is a place full of energy, health, and happiness. Practicing Chi Kung allows us to visit this place of inner vitality and harmony, clearing physical and mental stress, detoxifying the body and mind, and helping us return to our natural state of abundant health, calmness, and mental clarity. An ideal complement to the treatment of chronic pain, asthma, diabetes, high blood pressure, headaches, and even heart disease and cancer, Chi Kung is a way to take control of your physical, mental, and spiritual health and live a long and healthy life. In Simple Chi Kung, Taoist master Mantak Chia distills thousands of Chi Kung practices into one simple daily routine perfect for beginners and ideal as a warm-up to more advanced practices. Designed to relax our muscles, loosen the joints, improve circulation, and develop flexibility, strength, resiliency, and suppleness, the gentle, flowing movements of Chi Kung mirror the movements of nature and help practitioners connect to their own inner flow of chi, clearing blockages and stagnation in our life-force energy and tapping in to our natural powers of healing and disease prevention. Walking readers step-by-step through each exercise, from movement work with the knees, hips, and spine to internal energy work through controlled breathing, Master Chia explains how daily practice of Chi Kung cultivates life-force energy, a stronger immune system, emotional balance, and spiritual awareness, transforming the patterns and assumptions that limit our body and mind as well as enhancing our connection to nature and the universe.

Exercises for Awakening the Life-Force Energy

Simple Chi Kung

From internationally celebrated Qi Gong master and beloved television personality Lee Holden comes a transformative journey filled with wisdom and practices on the power of slowing down for spiritual balance and peace amid modern chaos. You don’t have time not to slow down. In the face of burnout, lack of passion, and endless to-do lists, what if to achieve more you need to do less? “There’s too much at stake not to slow down,” shares Qi Gong master Lee Holden. “By slowing down, you’ll gain time, energy, focus, and clarity.” The idea that slowing down can lead to more productivity may sound too good to be true, but research confirms it does this and more—if only we can figure out a way to apply it in our everyday lives. In this transformative guide, Holden shares the Slow Method, principles of slow mind, body, and relationships drawn from the philosophical wisdom of Eastern meditation, martial arts, and philosophies and merged with Western science. The resulting practices offer ways to access the magical benefits of slowing down to create lasting change in your life and the lives of those you love. Here you’ll gain tools and insights for taking the space and time to practice: • Primal shaking for stress relief or gratitude meditation for the mind • Vagal breathing, optimal digestion acupressure, and in-the-moment nature methods for the body • Heartful self-connection, conscious communication, and sexual reflexology for relationships and connecting deeply with those you love • And more! No matter which practices you decide to focus on, you’ll be learning the power of slow, something that’s vital to rediscover our zest for life. Instead of picking up the not-so-pleasurable energies of stress, anxiety, and whirlwinds of negativity, you’ll learn to acquire more of the energy you actually want: peace, love, vitality, health, healing, tranquility, connection, and general positivity. With small, incremental changes to the way you live and relate, you’ll develop a comprehensive understanding of how to slow down. You’ll increasingly embrace life’s rhythms along the way as you cultivate and absorb the life-giving energy that we’re all in dire need of.

How to Improve Your Energy, Health, and Relationships Through the Power of Slow

Ready, Set, Slow

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. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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