Absolute Beginner's Guide to Alternative Medicine
activity of the internal and external rectal sphincters for the treatment of fecal incontinence, the activity of the detrusor mu ...
How Do I Start Using Biofeedback? Certified biofeedback therapists, many of whom are nurses, help interpret signals from monitor ...
246 ABSOLUTE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TOALTERNATIVE MEDICINE Resources ■ Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, Biofe ...
In This Chapter ■The diverse types and similar goals of movement therapies ■The forms and benefits of movement therapies ■Therap ...
How Do Movement-Oriented Therapies Work? Like most alternative treatment, movement-oriented therapies aim to control and improve ...
Qigong Qigong, also spelled as Chi Kung, Chi Gong, or Chi Gung, is pronounced “chee goong.” Qigong is a Chinese discipline, cons ...
than 800 million people practice Qigong or T’ai Chi internationally—nearly 20 per- cent of the world’s population. Qigong and T’ ...
exercises for the purpose of improving and strengthening the flow of qi. One form involves reversed breathing, which is contract ...
The Feldenkrais Method was developed by Moshe Feldenkrais (1904–1984), a Russian-born Israeli physicist, mechanical engineer, an ...
The Trager Institute provides training and certifies Trager practitioners. It takes an average of two years to complete the prog ...
to do the simple breath practices, as they focus on absorbing healing qi from the environment. When you can manage it, add simpl ...
CHAPTER 20 MOVEMENT-ORIENTED THERAPIES 255 The Absolute Minimum ■ Movement therapies offer Eastern and Western, ancient and mode ...
256 ABSOLUTE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TOALTERNATIVE MEDICINE FEEL YOUR QI Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart, your knees slightl ...
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In This Chapter ■The origins of shamanism and the personal journey of the shaman ■The shamanic healing process ■Finding a guide ...
What Is Shamanism? The origins of shamanism go back to Stone Age times, making it the oldest of all healing therapies. All over ...
“facing death and making death an ally.” This step means examining one’s atti- tudes and beliefs to “put to death” any that are ...
Drawing on Personal Power In shamanism, the preservation of one’s personal power is fundamental to well- being. Specific shamani ...
During this trance state, shamans’ souls are believed to leave their bodies and ascend to either the upper world or lower world. ...
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