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Bone Marrow Nei Kung: Taoist Techniques for Rejuvenating the Blood and Bone

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The most impressive point about Mantak Chia is that he loves to share his detailed coaching method in book form with a wider audience. And true to his belief, he even shares his more esoteric practices with the public. He is a great master. Back to the book, the part on bone breathing and bone compression are excellent practices. For those who are new to Chinese internal martial practice, it is important that one doesn't need to form a scientific belief before one can benefit from the practice. Chi Kung is a form of mind-body exercise. It is only important to form a psyche schema or image, and to use that image to influence the body (the physical). In short, one should act "AS IF" the psyche image is the reality (for an academic psychological explanation, one can refer to the analytical psychology of Carl Jung). With this in mind one can benefit a lot from Mantak's bone exercises.

In addition to the bone exercises, there is a section on "hitting", which is a MUST practice for serious martial artists who are interested to practice in the ring. For seekers of better health only, this section can be skipped.

The esoteric part of Tao practice deals with sexual energy. And Chinese being pragmatic people will not only discuss sexual energy in broad philosophical terms but will do with actual and detailed physical practice. And Mantak has been very kind to share with us the practice in details here. I won't share with folks here the details lest people may be scared away from buying this excellent coaching manual. Suffice to say it is up to one's choice of whether or not to take up the practice in this more esoteric part! Your money will however be well spent even if you only read and practice the bone exercises. The other parts are purely bonus.

This is a comprehensive book on very specialised practices.
It is quite advanced in Chia's Taoist yoga system.
The aim is to transform the sexual energy into life-force (chi) basically through very specialised weight-lifting techniques involving the area of the sexual organs.
Here are a few points to note before following such practices
1) These can follow some extensive training in chi kung. There is no point of acquiring raw chi, if one does not know how to circulate it, the pathways (meridians) are blocked etc. Actually, bad side-effects may occur if the meridians are not clean and congestions happen.
As an analogy, please consider that an aspiring athlete had better quite smoking before undertaking advanced aerobic exercises or that an average person with an asthmatic condition should be very careful with aerobics.
2) Weight-lifting of any kind should be guided by a qualified instructor, at least at the beginner's stage. In particular, the sexual area is acknowledged as sensitive, not only because of moral taboos, but also because reproduction is a primary concern for all human beings. So appropriate cautions should be heeded, the relevant section of the book read carefully and followed at the fullest extent and if in any doubt, contact someone experienced.
3) It is common sense that if one lifts weights for a few hours at the gym, then the body is exhausted and cannot cope with more manual heavy-lifting and vice-versa if one is exhausted in heavy manual work, rest is required before visiting a gym again.
Exactly the same holds true between these practices and having sex. Although the celibacy of the taoist ascetics, who developed these practices, is not required, some restrain is necessary to avoid depleting the body.

I have a number of Mantak Chia's books and DVD's. As always, this book is no exception to this Master's ability to explain in detail the methods of practice involved in perfecting his art. Thanks to Masters like Mantak Chia, the practices of Taoism are available to the world. Thankyou.