Awaken Healing Light of the Tao (Paperback)

by Mantak Chia (Author)

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Product Description
Included in this book are new spinal chi kung warmups to quickly energize any meditation. The reader will also learn how to combine sexual passion with a loving heart inside the body to relieve sexual-emotional frustration and speed up spiritual growth.

About the Author
Master Mantak Chia is also the author of Awaken Healing Energy through the Tao (co-author Michael Winn), Taoist Secrets of Love: Cultivating Male Sexual Energy, Taoist Ways to Transform Stress into Vitality, Chi Self-Massage, Iron Shirt Chi Kung I, Healing Love through the Tao: Cultivating Female Sexual Energy (co-author Maneewan Chia), and Bone Marrow Nei Kung (co-author Maneewan Chia). Master Mantak Chia is the creator of the Healing Tao System and Director of the Healing Tao Center in New York. Since childhood he has been studying the Taoist approach to life as well as other approaches. Born in Thailand to Chinese parents in 1944, he was first taught at age six by Buddhist monks how to sit and "still the mind." While he was in grammar school, he first learned traditional Thai boxing, and was then taught Tai Chi Chuan by Master Lu. When he was a student in Hong Kong, he began his studies of the Taoist way of life with Master Yi Eng, who authorized him to teach and heal. He later studied Taoist Yoga and the Buddhist Palm with Master Meugi in Singapore, and studied the Shao-Lin Method of Internal Power with Master Cheng Yao-Lun, who combined Taoist, Buddhist, and Zen teachings in his system of Thai boxing and Kung Fu. To understand the mechanisms behind healing energy better, Master Chia studied Western medical science and anatmoy for two years. After training a network of teachers in the Healing Tao system, he established the Natural Healing Center in Thailand, before moving to New York to open the Healing Tao Center in 1979. Maneewan Chia was born and raised in Hong Kong, moving with her parents to Thailand where she received a B.S. degree in Medical Technology. Since childhood, she has been very interested in nutrition and Chinese health food cooking. She assists Mantak Chia in teaching classes, including Taoist Five Element Nutrition, and managing the Healing Tao Center.

Product Details

• Paperback: 608 pages
• Publisher: Healing Tao Books (August 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0935621466
• ISBN-13: 978-0935621464
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #484,526 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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38 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very detailed and thorough introduction to Taoism, January 10, 1999

By A Customer

A very detailed and thorough introduction to Taoist energy practice. Chia puts a massive amount of info into this one. It's more of a reference guide than something you will read and practice immediately. If you want to start more simply, read Master Chia's Awaken Healing energy, and Taoist secrets of love and then read this one afterwords

37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Advanced Chi Training for Balancing Yin & Yang Energy, July 6, 2002

By	Cynthia Sue Larson "www.realityshifters.com" (San Francisco bay area, CA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

AWAKEN HEALING LIGHT is written by Mantak Chia, founder and director of the Universal Tao Center. Chia has devoted his life to studying meditation, tai chi chuan, aikido, yoga, kundalini, and many forms of inner alchemy. Chia's books are intended to be supplemental guides to energy training, and are primarily intended for readers who are familiar with energy work. The focus in this book is primarily on inner yin and yang breath work (nei kung), rather than outer breath work such as chi kung -- although some of these techniques are described in detail in this book as well. AWAKEN HEALING LIGHT is one of an estimated 35 books that Chia intends to write in order to fully cover the Universal Tao system (Chia has completed more than 20 of these books already).

I am very pleased to see how Chia explains the founding principles of his Universal Tao system: "The system I learned from my master is based on the positive energies of love, kindness, gentleness, respect, and honesty; this is the highest Chi Kung practice. With these energies an adept can counteract all kinds of evil. It is said that even fire cannot hurt one who has perfected their use."

At more than 550 pages, AWAKEN HEALING LIGHT is a veritable encyclopedia of information. It's the kind of book I like to read cover-to-cover and then return to as a reference book for refreshers on various aspects. This book is organized into sixteen information-packed chapters which describe: an overview of Taoist inner alchemy, the connection between chi and meditation, how to transform negative emotional energies, techniques for activating and amplifying original chi, points along the microcosmic orbit (a circular path for circulating chi in the body), the microcosmic orbit, how to work with Earth energy, how to work with Cosmic (higher self) energy, how to open the heart and practice the Cosmic inner smile, and much, much more.

Chia includes numerous illustrations to thoroughly clarify how to work with yin and yang energy. I highly recommend AWAKEN HEALING LIGHT to anyone who is seriously interested in improving the energy flow in their body for improved mental and physical health and well-being and wants precise, detailed information on mastering the flow of yin and yang energy in the body.

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Opening realms of consciousness you'd never imagine, June 12, 2002

By	C. M. Sienko "I'm a Venusian, myself" (Chicago, Illinois United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I agree with the reader below -- this book's cover should make it much more explicit that "Awaken Healing Energy Through Tao" must be bought and read first. If you don't know that, you'll feel somewhat out of your league here.

On the other hand, if you devote any amount of time to the study of taoist meditation, this book will be a godsend (regardless of what or whom you regard as god or no god). While all the subjects covered here have been covered in greater detail in Chia's other books, there is enough about each to get you started, or at least whet your appetite for me information.

If I may draw an analogy to music, this book is like a 2CD retrospective of a specific artist's career. At first, it seems long and almost impenetrable, but if you really want to get to the heart of the matter, this will provide you with all the basic building blocks you'll need to explore further. If you've read two or more of Chia's books, this book will serve as an excellent connecting point between seemingly disparate art forms.

Elements of "Healing Energy," "Taoist Secrets of Love," "Fusion of the Five Elements I," "Iron Shirt Chi Kung" and "Inner Smile/Six Healing Sounds" are covered here in enough detail to get you started. Of course, once you really start down the path in earnest, you'll definitely need to explore the above books further, and possibly seek out the assistence of a teacher in your area.

Gook luck! As someone who makes a daily practice of the Microcosmic Orbit (I'm still very new on the path), I can say without hesistation that these techniques do work, and there is indeed a great energy to be found inside of you and all around you, but you must be willing to work hard to intensify and purify this energy.