Dear Healers,
this information about Qi gong is for everybody who is interested in this ancient energy art. Happy reading! :-)))))
Love and Light,
Elisabeth
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Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 7:12 PM
Subject: Response to your Qi Research book post
Hi Elizabeth: I saw your post, and appreciated you desire for solid books on Qigong with an objective curriculum. I don't like to be self-promoting yet I thought you'd be the kind of person who might be interested in my approach and my two volume series on the integration of Taiji/Qigong with Western bodymind healing methods.
A fellow traveller on the path,
Michael Mayer
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Dear Mailing List Recipients:
I'm very happy to be announcing to you the release of my new book, Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy: Ancient Pathways to Modern Health. This is the second volume of The Tao of Bodymind Healing Series...the first volume is Secrets to Living Younger Longer: The Self Healing Path of Qigong, Standing Meditation and Tai Chi. These two volumes are the culmination of 30 years of my research and practice integrating ancient sacred wisdom traditions with modern bodymind healing methods. I hope that the healing methods in these books will add to your Self-healing path as they have for me and others.
Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy: Ancient Pathways to Modern Health
Drawing from 30 years of training in Tai Chi and Qigong with some of the most respected masters of these traditions, Dr. Mayer shows how to integrate the essence of these practices into psychotherapy and into our healthcare without ever doing a Tai Chi/Qigong movement, and without mentioning a word about Qigong. From this co-founder of an integrated medical clinic and award-winning author in the field of mind-body healthcare, you’ll see how this integrative approach contributes to alleviate the current healthcare crisis. Ancient and modern, East and West, psychotherapy and mind-body medicine are amalgamated to make a stronger integrative medicine. Theory, research, and case illustrations are blended as you learn bodymind healing methods for anxiety, chronic pain, hypertension, insomnia, trauma, and other common issues plaguing the modern world.
You’ll learn how to use a variety of ancient pathways to help heal the mind and body such as: • Chinese medicine approaches including Qigong and acupressure self-touch • Innovative symbolic process methods stemming from age-old mythic storytelling, guided imagery, and breathing techniques • Methods drawn from ancient traditions of meditation and postural initiation
This book is oriented to mental health workers, health professionals, and members of the lay public who are interested in self-healing methods for physical and mental health.
What others are saying about Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy:
Drawing upon over 30 years of his psychotherapy practice and personal training, Dr. Mayer has provided a seminal contribution to the field of mind- body interventions for a wide range of common disorders. His book is profound in its scope, evidence based, bridges eastern and western traditions, and provides practical insights and skills that can be of enormous value to both individuals and organizations seeking to attain optimal health.
Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier, Clinical Professor of Medicine,
Stanford University and University of Arizona School of Medicine
Author of The Best Alternative Medicine: What Works? What Does Not?
A realization is dawning for millions of Americans: If we are to be our healthiest, we must rely on our own inner resources. BODYMIND HEALING PSYCHOTHERAPY will help anyone discover and manifest his or her healing potential. This book is a dazzling accomplishment...a thrilling blueprint for the integration of body, mind, and spirit.
Larry Dossey, MD
Author: Reinventing Medicine
If you'd like to know more about the book click on these links:
• Table of Contents
• Complete list of endorsements
• Contributions to the field of Bodymind Healthcare
If you'd like to order:www.bodymindhealing.com/orders is the best place to purchase this new book with all kinds of discounted combination deals:
• The book + a CD of The River of Life Guided Meditation method for Bodymind Healing
• A combination of the two books in the Tao of Bodymind Healing series which also includes Volume I Secrets to Living Younger Longer about which Dr Wayne Jonas, former Director National Institute of Health, Office of Alternative Medicine says "A wonderful guide for learning the ancient healing practices of Qigong. Full of clear and practical exercises."
• A 4 product offer which also includes the Bodymind Healing Qigong DVD. The DVD is used by Dr Bessel van der Kolk,Director of Boston University Medical school in his training of trauma therapists.
The book and all of these products (except the CD) are also available at www.amazon.com, or please ask at your local bookstore. However, no combination offer discounts are available at these locations, and I won't know if you ordered it and have you on my publications bought mailing list if you order it this way.
Get the chapter focused on your area of interest emailed to you Click here. :
One of the things that I am most enthusiastic about is the ability from my website for you to get specific chapters oriented to your specific needs. If you are a health professional and getting ready to see a patient that has hypertension, insomnia, chronic pain, addictions, etc you can have just that chapter emailed to you, and see the Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy approach to that issue, which can add to your healing repertoire. If you or a loved one have issues with these issues or with anxiety, trauma, depression, fibromyalgia, addictions etc you can have the Bodymind Healing approach emailed to you and find self-healing methods that you can use, or bring these methods in add to your work with your therapist. Also please check out the well researched chapters on: a review of mind-body medicine (Chapter 2), energy medicine (Chapter 3), the ancient roots of energy medicine (Chapter 4), and our healthcare crises with integrative medicine solutions offered ( Chapter 1). Click on Chapter 24 and you can order the abbreviated illustrated 20 minute Bodymind Healing Qigong practice routine for "healing the healer"---great for health professionals who want to recharge your batteries in between patient sessions, or for anyone who wants to tap into these self-healing practices. Only $5.95 per chapter.
If you have any questions feel free to email me,
Blessings to you on your Self-healing path,
Michael
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Michael Mayer, Ph.D.
Director-The Bodymind Healing Center
2029 Durant Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94704
www.bodymindhealing.com
510-849-2878
Bio: Michael Mayer, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist, hypnotherapist, and Qigong/Tai Chi teacher who specializes in giving his patients self-healing methods for health problems. Dr. Mayer presents his approach to bodymind healing at professional conferences, national/international workshops, universities, and hospitals; and he is a keynote speaker. He was a co-founder of, and a practitioner at, The Health Medicine Institute, a multi-disciplinary medical clinic practicing integrative health-care. Dr. Mayer pioneered the integration of Qigong and psychotherapy, and was the first person in the United States to train doctoral psychology students in these methods. The World Institute for Self-Healing gave him an award for outstanding research and contribution to the advancement of mind-body medicine. He is the author of ten publications on bodymind healing including four books, audiotapes on cancer and chronic disease, and articles on chronic pain and anxiety. His peer reviewed article on Qigong and hypertension appeared in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, and is updated in the book Healing, Intention and Energy Medicine, by Dr Wayne Jonas, past director of the National Institute of Health, Office of Alternative Medicine. Dr. Mayer has served as a peer reviewer for The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, Complementary Therapies in Medicine, and Annals of Internal Medicine.His Bodymind Healing Qigong DVD is currently being used in training of trauma therapists by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, Medical Director, The Trauma Center, Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Mayer has certification programs which include Bodymind Healing Qigong for Qigong practitioners/teachers, and a Bodymind Health Practitioner’s Certification Program for health professionals.