The book offers tools to keep the energy rivers clean and flowing, preparing the body for higher level Taoist practices, as well as enabling the healing of our emotional and spiritual bodies.
by Mantak Chia and William U. Wei
Taoist masters have long known that the body has an innate ability to heal itself, an ability that is hampered by toxins in the food we ingest and energy blockages that arise from illnesses and obstacles in our lives. These blockages transform the body’s energy rivers or meridians into a polluted and stagnant swamp — the root of degenerative disease, as well as premature aging.
The authors reveal the detoxification and rejuvenation practices of the Taoist sages, and show how to reactivate your body’s self-healing abilities by gradually and safely expelling accumulated toxins through fasting, mono diets and cleansing the nine openings of the body.
Using the practices of chi self-massage and healing sounds, along with natural recipes for herbal tonics and cleansing flushes for each of the openings and their related organs, they explain how to balance and purify the body’s internal environment through acid and alkaline foods, urine therapy, colonic cleanses, dry-skin brushing, ear candling and energized water.
Concluding with a 14-day total-body cleansing program, the book offers tools to keep the energy rivers clean and flowing, preparing the body for higher level Taoist practices, as well as enabling the healing of our emotional and spiritual bodies.
$16.95 — Destiny Books, One Park Street, Rochester, VT 05767.
Reprinted from AzNetNews, Volume 30, Number 4, August/September 2011.
April 13, 2012
Book review