Wisdom Chi Kung: Practices for Enlivening the Brain with Chi Energy [Paperback]

Mantak Chia (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 30, 2008

Taoist meditation practices for increasing and maintaining mental awareness, memory, and clarity

• Details techniques to increase the level of chi energy in the brain

• Explains how to synchronize the left and right brain by activating the body’s energetic potentials

• Shows that by emptying the mind there is more energy to heal the body

Wisdom Chi Kung teaches practitioners how to revitalize the brain: to repair function, increase memory, and expand capacity. Every day we use up so much of our brain’s capacity to function that we have very little left at the end of the day. By thinking or worrying too much, the brain can use up to 80 percent of the body’s entire energy reserve. Learning to stop the brain, to empty the mind from the ceaseless chatter of the “monkey mind,” and then recharge it with chi energy can increase our mental capacity, focus, and clarity.

Using the Inner Smile meditation technique, practitioners learn how to recharge chi energy for the brain in a form that is most useful. Practitioners smile and empty the mind into the lower tan tien and the organs. The organs then transform this chi energy. When the mind is empty, the energy transformed by the organs is sent back to the brain to revitalize it. This process synchronizes the left and right brain by activating and tapping in to the body’s energetic potentials. As the mind continues to empty, receive, and also enhance the transformed chi energy, it is able to open itself to connect with universal chi energies and fill the body with enhanced life force.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Mantak Chia's books attempt to do many things. They compare Chinese and Western practices, including astrology. They explain principles of ancient Chinese thinking. And they illustrate wonderful 'exercises' or 'practices' designed to increase health, extend wisdom, and develop the spiritual as well as physical aspects of our lives. . . . These short exercises go well with any other measures people are using to increase brain power these days." (
Nancy Humpreys, Maya Del Mar's Daykeeper Journal, Sept 2008 )

"Through practicing the methods described in this book, we learn an effective way to gain awareness and vitality in our body, mind, and emotions." (
The Monthly Aspectarian, Vol. 29, No. 12, Aug 2008 )

"One may need a period of suspension of disbelief and some faith to follow Mantak Chia, but the quality of one's health, well-being, and energy always provides the opportunity to check whether one's efforts are rewarded. In the process, one is presented with some probing questions about the character of Western religious and scientific faith."
(Reg Little, New Dawn, No. 120, May-June 2010 )

From the Back Cover

HEALTH / MARTIAL ARTS

Wisdom Chi Kung teaches practitioners how to revitalize the brain: to repair function, increase memory, and expand capacity. Every day we use up so much of our brain’s power that we have very little left at the end of the day. By thinking or worrying too much, the brain can use up to 80 percent of the body’s entire energy reserve. Learning to stop the brain, to empty the mind from the ceaseless chatter of the “monkey mind,” and then recharge it with chi energy can increase our mental capacity, focus, and clarity.

Using the Inner Smile meditation technique, practitioners learn how to recharge the brain with chi energy in a form that is most useful. Practitioners smile and empty the mind into the lower tan tien and the organs. The organs then transform this chi energy. When the mind is empty, the energy transformed by the organs is sent back to the brain to revitalize it. This process synchronizes the left and right brain by activating and tapping in to the body’s energetic potentials. As the mind continues to empty, receive, and also enhance the transformed chi energy, it is able to open itself to connect with universal chi energies and fill the body with enhanced life force.

A student of several Taoist masters, MANTAK CHIA founded the Universal Healing Tao System in 1979 and has taught and certified tens of thousands of students and instructors from all over the world. He is the director of the Tao Garden Integrative Medicine Health Spa and Resort training center in northern Thailand and is the author of 31 books, including The Inner Smile, Taoist Cosmic Healing, and the bestselling The Multi-Orgasmic Man.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Destiny Books; 1st Printing edition (July 30, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1594771367
• ISBN-13: 978-1594771361
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #266,769 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Raise Your Chi!, July 21, 2008

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As a long-time Feng Shui practitioner, I am well aware of the importance of life-affirming energy. The Wisdom Chi Kung: Practices for Enlivening the Brain with Chi Energy, by Mantak Chia, explains how to rid oneself of the "monkey chatter" and live a more clear, calm and vitalized existence.

After reading the book, I began the Inner Smile meditation technique with impressive results. I had been too agitated to begin a large projects these past few months and now I have dug right in! I feel calmer--more centered--and am easily able to focus on my project.

Well written and concise, I highly recommend this book.

I would also like to recommend two other books that will help raise the life-affirming energy in your home, which helps improve your chi. As a Feng Shui practitioner, I see many improvements, including greater clarity and calmness in my client's lives when I help them raise the chi energy in their homes. if clutter is a problem, try Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui. For overall tips on raising the energy in your home, try: Harmonious Environment: Beautify, Detoxify and Energize Your Life, Your Home and Your Planet.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Meditate your way to health and contentment, September 5, 2008

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Nick Morgan (Boston, MA United States) - See all my reviews

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The author has written many books and they all tell pretty much the same story. They promote a form of meditation that encourages the flow of chi through your body, leading to better physical and emotional health. The language lands strangely on Western ears, but the meditation works.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars very worthwhile book, February 6, 2010

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This book explained a very useful chi kung meditation practice that I found very helpful. I was able to experience positive results without any other instruction than the book. It is a help practice for those of us who tend to have excess energy in the head and don't know what to do with it.