In Tai Chi in Your Life: 8 Principles that Can Change Your Life while Learning and Growing with Tai Chi, author and martial arts expert Dale Napier employs his forty plus years of experience to help fellow enthusiasts learn important lessons based on the subtle art of Tai Chi Chuan. He divides its chapters between eight basic principles of Tai Chi-Relaxation, Intention, Awareness, Continuity, Focus, Linking to Your Center, Accepting, and Detaching the Ego. In this way the author, a Tai Chi sifu, describes the sage philosophy of Tai Chi Chuan in ordinary terms, and offers its values in ways that readers can apply to their everyday lives. Powerful in its scope and certainty, this treatise provides physical and meditational exercises to cultivate each of the eight principles, sharpening one's mental outlook and promoting spiritual growth. More than anything, this fascinating guide is an excellent start to a better life, one that is centered on tranquility, control, and balance.
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I have read many, many books in the martial arts field and most all have at least a few truths in them. Tai Chi in Your Life however is packed full of them.
This book provides great examples of how Tai Chi can influence a beneficial way of life and not just physical technique or style history. Careful reading however will provide benefits to technique and self defense. The book can be read and understood by any level of experience. I expect to learn even more on the second and third reading as it leads my mind and actions to greater intention.
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Tai Chi translated,
This review is from: Tai Chi In Your Life: 8 Principles That Can Change Your Life While Learning and Growing with Tai Chi (Paperback)
This book begins with deceptively simple language similar to many disciplines, but builds momentum in its fierce call to focus one's intentions and apply the techniques to all aspects of one's life. Reading it through a second time, I am even more aware of this momentum and practical application to my own life. Being a longtime student of yoga, esoteric Christian and Sufi disciplines, I knew little about the practice of Tai Chi. This author opened a door, showing me the precise relevance the eight principles of Tai Chi have in dealing with the myriad challenges of daily living in a techno-driven, often fragmented culture. This book is not meant to convert the reader to the practice of Tai Chi, but instead invites the reader to embrace its powerful and timeless concepts in all aspects of their lives, no matter what their spiritual practice or orientation. As a librarian, I recommend this book to the 615s of any collection, including high school libraries.
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Tai Chi in Your Life,
This review is from: Tai Chi In Your Life: 8 Principles That Can Change Your Life While Learning and Growing with Tai Chi (Paperback)
Tai Chi in Your Life is a great book as it relates to the tai chi way of life as my initial review reflects.
But now, after multiple readings, I've discovered that the book also applies to my business of planning with new business owners and the self employed. Sifu Napier's 8 principles all can be referenced directly to actions needed by the business start-up. Each business owner will read, study and interpertate differently according to their specifics. However, all will have the same overall benefit of improving the odds of a successful new(or an existing)business venture. This book could be classified as a business book and still be a very rewarding and helpful read.
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