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The Way of Harmony Howard Reid

The Way of Harmony By Howard Reid

The Way of Harmony by Howard Reid


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A guide to self-discipline and self-knowledge through concentrated but effortless movement. It places the martial arts in their cultural and everyday context and explains how to achieve a balanced lifestyle which aims to lead the performer to a sense of harmony with self and the universe.

The Way of Harmony Summary

The Way of Harmony: Guide to Soft Martial Arts by Howard Reid

This guide to the internal martial arts gives instructions for the exercises, both simple forms and advanced sequences of fluid movements. It places martial arts in their cultural and everyday context and aims to explain how to achieve a balanced lifestyle and advises curative and preventive treatments for a wide variety of ailments and health problems. The martial arts are understood here as more than just varieties of self-defence or competitive sports. They are ways of self-discipline, self-knowledge and expression through concentrated but effortless movement. This book presents the four major soft or internal arts - T'ai Chi Chuan, Hsing I, Pa Kua and Chi Kung. These arts focus on skills that are often hidden to the untrained eye - breathing power, correct poise and tone, the generation of chi or vital energy, heightened by awareness and inner calm. In place of muscular strength and competitive tension they emphasize supple movement and a sense of calm detatchment that engenders inner strength and responsiveness. Ultimately, the practice of the internal martial arts is intended to lead the performer to a rare sense of harmony with self and with the universe. This is the sixth in Gaia's best-selling series for natural living, which includes The Book of Stress Survival, The Book of Yoga, The Book of Massage, The Dance Workshop and The Sensual Body.

Table of Contents

Part 1 The internal arts: breath power - Chi Kung; ways to harmony - Hsing I; eternal change - Pa Kua; the art of awareness - T'ai Chi Chuan. Part 2 The balanced way: oriental paths to balance; therapeutic uses of the martial arts.

Additional information

GOR003341322
9780044402688
0044402686
The Way of Harmony: Guide to Soft Martial Arts by Howard Reid
Used - Very Good
Hardback
HarperCollins Publishers
19881110
192
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