Qigong: Chinese Movement & Meditation for Health [Paperback]

Danny Connor (Author), Michael Tse (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Weiser Books (December 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0877287589
• ISBN-13: 978-0877287582
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,414,573 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Pass, April 12, 1999

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This review is from: Qigong: Chinese Movement & Meditation for Health (Paperback)

Very superficial. You won't learn much unless you're a complete novice, and even still I don't believe this book will help you much. I'd recommend The Way of Energy to anybody, instead.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Treasure House of Methods Made Simple, April 16, 2003

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John Voigt "John Voigt" (Cambridge, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Qigong: Chinese Movement & Meditation for Health (Paperback)

I found this book the most helpful in all my studies of Chinese Life-Energy. For example, concerning health--(I have high blood pressure)--one exercise (Swallowing the Qi) lowers my systolic rate 20 to 40 points in two seconds! I know this sounds impossible, but I swear I'm telling the truth.

The book is clearly written with many pictures to aid in correctly making the movements in assuming the poses.

There is good explanatory text--But it is kept to the minimum. In other words you don't "loose the baby in the bathwater" because Qigong (as in Zen and Yoga) is to be experienced, and not just dealt with intellectually.

Also important for me are my spiritual studies. The Connor/Tse book has profoundly helped me in learning how to use Qi (aka Chi) energy in meditation--and also in all aspects of my daily life.

Perhaps most important is that Connor and Tse make it all so simple. Some books have you assuming a pose for an hour--and perhaps that is the correct way for a master of Qi. But this book may have a similar exercise for 30 seconds. But for me at least the short cycle works--at least I can do it.

And I think the same will happen for you as it does for me.