Wisdom Chi Kung: Practices for Enlivening the Brain with Chi Energy

by Mantak Chia

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 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.

Genres: Taoism

160 pages, Paperback

First published June 24, 2008

About the author

Mantak Chia is a Taoist Master. He is best known for teaching his Taoist practices under the names of Healing Tao, Tao Yoga, Universal Healing Tao System and Chi Kung. Throughout decades of teaching, he has run numerous workshops, written a series of books, and published a number of training videos. For this reason, some people call him an author, a teacher or a healer. He views himself primarily as a teacher, "who helps his students empower themselves through cultivation of their chi energy." (-wiki)

Reviews

[Nick · Rating 2 out of 5]

OK, bear with me here. In my never-ending search for good self-help books, I've run across Mantak Chia, who's a practitioner of Asian techniques for improving one's chi and mental perspicacity. He's written many, many books, but they all say the same thing. This one is representative. What he advocates is basically a form of meditation, where you sit and send your mental energy zipping through your heart, solar plexus, navel, lower back, and back up to your head and then your heart again. All good things, he claims, flow from daily practice of this meditation. There are a few scientific studies that seem to show some support for the benefits, but his writing is so far removed from Western styles we're familiar with that it's hard to accept. It all seems too flowery and cosmic. On his side, he says that Western medicine only treats the symptoms, not the root causes, of disease. Hmmmm.

[Julio Ayala · Rating 4 out of 5]

Novedosas técnicas (al menos para mí), y teorías que mantak revela con paciencia, repitiendo conceptos y tratando que la mente de un occidental entienda lo que en su cultura debe estar mucho más incorporado. El libro habla sobre la energía (Chi) y la correcta administración para gozar de buena salud y mejorar el bienestar corporal. Muy interesante