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    The Healing, Killing Power of Qi: Ancient Secrets for Smart Living
    The Healing, Killing Power of Qi: Ancient Secrets for Smart Living
    The Healing, Killing Power of Qi: Ancient Secrets for Smart Living
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    The Healing, Killing Power of Qi: Ancient Secrets for Smart Living

    By Zarrine Flores

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    This book is about the healing, as well as killing, power of qi, the life-giving energy that we all have, but that many don't recognize possibilities of.

    While being able to heal yourself can be empowering and liberating, energy generated by a person with a strong qi and applied in a martial art form, can easily inflict lethal injuries. Martial artists know that it is the mind that strikes, not the fist, and their well-known maxim is "where intention goes, qi follows". When strong, concentrated desire goes to the hands, they become extremely powerful, but whether you'll use them to kill or to heal, is up to you.

    Before I got involved with energy work, about fifteen years ago, I knew very little about qi and thought that its main purpose was to help practitioners of kung fu and similar fighting styles increase their energy. It was only after suffering a stroke and being written off by mainstream medicine, who assured me that my condition was such that I could only get worse, not better, but still managing to heal myself with a combination of acupuncture treatments and qi gong exercises, that I became fascinated with the concept of energy balance and the healing power of qi.

    While in the West we study the phenomenon of qi, write books about it, create websites and on-line forums to discuss it, run schools to learn how to activate it, etc. in China people simply live qi. For them, nurturing one's qi is as basic as breathing. No qi - no life. As simple as that.

    In Asia, everything revolves around the idea of balance - health is achieved by restoring balance within the body, fortune in life is achieved if good and bad luck are kept in balance, peace and prosperity of a nation are realized by maintaining balance between order and freedom, etc.

    We now know that our outlook on life can boost, or undermine, the healing process. Life moves at such a fast pace, it's becoming obvious that without a more stable and "grounding" mind-set, people will find it more and more difficult to cope. We need something to "anchor" us, lest we be swept away by the rising tide of pressure, stress and uncertainty.

    And very few things could be more "grounding" than a 5000-year-old tradition of achieving harmony in life.

    In this book I'd like to share with you my experience of the miracle of qi.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZarrine Flores
    Release dateMay 6, 2015
    ISBN9781311990464
    The Healing, Killing Power of Qi: Ancient Secrets for Smart Living
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    Zarrine Flores

    Zarrine Flores is a free-lance consultant, translator, nature lover, environmental activist.She's passionate about healthy living, Eastern philosophies and alternative methods of healing. A life-long vegetarian, she enjoys great outdoors, writing and photography.

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      A quick and considerate overview of a topic that can come times be confusing and difficult! Really opened my eyes to the importance of balance
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      A brilliant analysis of qi gong meditation and the mind. Well written. Great insight and revelation behind the healing and killing power of qi gong. A "Must Read" for anyone who has recognised the healing power of the mind !

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    The Healing, Killing Power of Qi - Zarrine Flores

    The Healing, Killing Power of Qi

    Ancient Secrets for Smart Living

    By

    Zarrine Flores

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    Published by Zarrine Flores at Smashwords

    Copyright 2015 Zarrine Flores

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    Table of Contents

    Introduction

    Order amidst chaos (How your worldview affects your lifestyle)

    Life-giving energy (Qi is the key)

    What makes it kill, what makes it heal

    - Martial arts

    - Healing arts

    a) Acupuncture

    b) How acupuncture saved my life

    c) Qi gong (chi kung)

    How to yin-yang your life (Balance and harmony)

    Afterword

    About the author

    Introduction

    Once upon a time, on the vast plains of East Asia, there lived a people who could collect and cultivate qi and who knew how to control its flow and use it for healing, self-defense or organizing their lives. For thousands of years they studied, meditated and experimented. No one knows how they came by such knowledge - we can only guess and speculate.

    The ancient Chinese term of qi (also chi, ch’i or ki) refers to what we call natural energy, bioenergy or life force. Qi permeates entire universe and is present in everyone and everything, but is not evenly distributed. Also, the quality of qi varies from place to place and from person to person. We all know that there is a different feel to a quiet place in the mountains, from that of a noisy, polluted street in a busy town.

    In East Asia people learned long time ago how to tap into this life-giving force and use it to improve various aspects of their lives: they used it for healing (e.g. acupuncture), for self-protection (e.g. kung fu), for maintaining health (e.g. qi gong), for arranging life (e.g. Feng Shui), for predicting future (e.g. I Ching), etc. All these complex

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