Chi Gong: The Ancient Chinese Way to Health

Chi Gong: The Ancient Chinese Way to Health. By: Paul Dong and Aristide H. Esser.

The practice of chi gong exercises designed to stimulate and control the body’s vital energy has been used for thousands of years to promote health vitality and longevity. Often employed in combination with acupuncture and herbal medicine chi gong produces a therapeutic meditative state that has been shown to aid in the prevention and cure of ulcers heart disease and other ailments.

In Chi Gong: The Ancient Chinese Way to Health chi gong instructor Paul Dong and psychiatrist Aristide H. Esser bridge the divide between Chinese and Western systems of health care scientific methods and spiritual practices. Combining iformation from scientific studies with personal insights from Paul Dong’s practice the authors explain in depth how the cultivation and mastery of chi can be used to strengthen one’s own body as well as to treat illness in others.

Part historical study part scientific investigation and part instruction manual Chi Gong functions as a complete survey of this healing practice. After providinga thorough explanation of the concept of chi and its role in traditional Chinese medicine Dong and Esser discuss chi gong’s history famous practitioners and its introduction to the West; the groundbreaking use of chi gong in cancer treatments; the role of chi in exceptional human functioning and mind body interactions; and the advanced martial applications of chi going. A step by step introduction to basic and intermediate chi going exercises is also included for readers wanting to begin their practice of this ancient art.

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