Thursday, 24 March 2011

Books on Breathing, Gurdjieff, Taoism, Qigong, Chanting, and Diet

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Recommended Books and Tapes on Breathing

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bulletDonna Farhi, The Breathing Book: Good Health and Vitality Through Essential Breath Work (New York: Owl Books). Farhi is an internationally renowned Yoga teacher based in New Zealand. The book, which is widely available in bookstores, is an invaluable guide to both the theory and practice of healthy breathing.
bulletThe Breath Connection : How to Reduce Psychosomatic and Stress Related
Disorders With Easy-To-Do Breathing Exercises
by Robert, Ph.D. Fried, Hardcover, 317 pages, ISBN: 0306434334
bullet Conscious Breathing: Breathwork for Health, Stress Release, and Personal
Mastery
by Gay Hendricks, Paperback, 189 pages, ISBN: 0553374435
bulletCarola Speads, Ways to Better Breathing (Rochester, Vermont: Healing Arts Press). Speads studied and taught for many years with famed movement teacher Elsa Gindler. Her book provides simple but powerful methods for awakening our authentic breath.
bulletCarl Stough and Reece Stough, Dr. Breath: The Story of Breathing Coordination. This is an excellent book by a breath explorer who has worked with both Olympic athletes and respiratory patients.
bulletDennis Lewis, Natural Breathing, three CD audio program from Sounds True. Learn more about this audio program.
bulletDennis Lewis, The Tao of Natural Breathing: For Health, Well-Being and Inner Growth. This widely acclaimed book is now published in eight languages. Learn more about this book.
bulletDennis Lewis, Free Your Breath, Free Your Life: How Conscious Breathing Can Reduce Stress, Increase Vitality, and Help You Live More Fully, Shambhala Publications. Learn more about this new book.
bulletMichael Grant White, The Breath of Life & Vitality, audio CD. Mike White of Breathing.com and Russell J. Martino, nationally syndicated radio show host and creator of Rip Roaring Health, discuss several key factors that you should know about breathing to live a long, happy, and healthy life.
bulletIf you or a loved one has cystic fibrosis, be sure to read Breathing for a Living, by Laura Rothenberg, an inspiring posthumously published account of Laura's decision to undergo a lung transplant and of her determination neither to indulge in false hope nor to let her health rule her life. Publisher's Weekly calls it "an unforgettably real testament of the strength of the human spirit, and of our common human wish to know and say and be the truth."
bullet Conscious Breathing : How Shamanic Breathwork Can Transform Your Life by Joy Manné (Paperback): An important book by a long-time explorer of the breath!

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bulletMichael Grant White, Secrets of Optimal Natural Breathing. Mike White, also known as "The Breathing Coach," updates this helpful, important manual several times a year, and offers numerous other important breath-related products as well.
bulletIlse Middendorf, The Perceptible Breath: A Breathing Science (Paderborn, Germany: Junfermann-Verlag). Middendorf, who is based in Germany, is a pioneer in the exploration of breath and one of the world's leading breathing therapists. This book is a "must have" for anyone serious about breathwork. If you have trouble finding the book through your local library (it is not available at Amazon.com or in bookstores), contact the Middendorf Breath Institute in San Francisco, California.

Recommended Books on Health, Healing, Fitness, and Diet

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bullet The HeartMath Solution, by Doc Childre
bullet The Anti Inflammation Zone: Reversing The Silent Epidemic That's Destroying Our Health, by Dr. Barry Sears
bullet Omega RX Zone: The Miracle of the New High-Dose Fish Oil, by Barry Sears, PH.D.
bulletThe Age-Free Zone, by Barry Sears, PH.D.
bulletDr. Fulford's Touch of Life: The Healing Power of the Natural Life Force, by Robert C. Fulford, D.O.
bulletThe Fitness Instinct, Peg Jordan, R.N.
bulletTo Be Healed by the Earth, Warren Grossman, Ph.D

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Recommended Books, Tapes, & CDs (Sound, Music, and Chanting and their Relationship to Breath and Healing)

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bulletThe Mysticism of Sound and Music, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
bulletMusic: Physician for Times to Come, Compiled by Don Campbell
bulletThe Roar of Silence: Healing Powers of Breath, Tone & Music, by Don Campbell
bulletChanting: Discovering Spirit in Sound, by Robert Gass
bulletHearing Solar Winds, Album (CD) by David Hykes
bulletHarmonic Meetings, Album (CD) by David Hykes

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Recommended Books on Gurdjieff, Consciousness and Self-Transformation

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bullet Be Free Where You Are, by Thich Nhat Hanh. This marvelous little book--the transcription of a talk given by a renown Buddhist monk at the Maryland Correctional Institute--is must reading for anyone interested in real freedom.
bullet Exchanges Within, by John Pentland, Exchanges Within: Questions from Everyday Life Selected from Gurdjieff Group Meetings with John Pentland in California 1955-1984. Until his death in 1984, Lord Pentland was one of the outstanding leaders of the Gurdjieff Work in America. This book gives a remarkable insight into his extraordinary ability to translate Gurdjieff's ideas and methods into the language necessary to help each student experience herself or himself as a living question in the face of the unknown.
bulletIn Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching, By P.D. Ouspensky. This is classic on Gurdjieff and his teaching. It is "must reading" reading for anyone interested in Gurdjieff.
bulletGurdjieff : Essays and Reflections on the Man and His Teachings, edited by Jacob Needleman & George Baker. This is an important book for anyone interested in in the multi-dimensional ideas and practices of the great spiritual pathfinder, G. I. Gurdjieff. The book includes essays by Jeanne de Salzmann, John Pentland, Peter Brook, Rene Daumal, Jerzy Grotowski, Arnaud Desjardins, David Hykes, and many others.
bulletOpening : Collected Writings of William Segal 1985-1997: offers important ideas and observations about the possibility of real transformation, the possibility of "fulfilling one's role as a true human being." William Segal, a philosopher and painter, worked with  P. D. Ouspensky, G. I. Gurdjieff, and Daisetz Suzuki.
bulletThe Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, by Eckhart Tolle: This is an amazing and beautiful book. Using simple, unpretentious language, Tolle helps us return with full presence to the only place and time where awakening is possible: right here, right now. The Power of Now is destined to be one of the great spiritual classics.
bulletThe American Soul: Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders, by Jacob Needleman. This wise, much-needed book by one of America's distinguished philosophers should be required reading for every American. It goes deeply not only into the great ideals that lie at the heart of the original American vision, but also into its crimes throughout its history. "The crimes of America are as much a part of its meaning as its ideals," Needleman writes, "and to embrace one without the other will lead us nowhere."  Needleman shows how it is only through awakening to the real meaning of such ideals as liberty, individuality, self-determination, and conscience that we can "become genuine men and women of the soul." 
bullet Heart without Measure: Work with Madame de Salzmann, by Ravi Ravindra. When Gurdjieff died he left his work in the capable hands of Madame de Salzmann, who had been with him for many years. This book gives extraordinary glimpses into Madame de Salzmann and her approach to Gurdjieff's teachings.
bulletLoving What Is: Four questions that can change your life, by Byron Katie with Stephen Mitchell. This is a wonderful book for anyone who wishes to get to the root of their suffering and begin to live in harmony with what is. As Katie makes clear, it is not our problems that cause suffering, but rather the way we think about them. We can never win an argument with reality. Our constant judgments of ourselves and others--along with the stories we tell ourselves to justify these judgments--keep us imprisoned in pain and suffering. Through inquiring into our many thoughts and judgments using the questioning process that Katie describes so beautifully in this book, we discover that it is the truth that will set us free.
bulletA Voice at the Borders of Silence, the autobiography of William Segal, with Marielle Bancou-Segal. An extraordinary portrait of an extraordinary man, this wonderful book provides an intimate, illuminating, and ever-expanding view of William Segal's life-time search for "what's it all about"--especially in relation to art, Zen Buddhism, and the Gurdjieff Work. It includes 24 full-color reproductions of Segal's paintings, as well as numerous black and white photos of himself and those teachers and others who were so important in his quest for self-knowledge and self-realization.
bullet Emptiness Dancing; compiled from selected Dharma Talks of Adyashanti, who claims to have awakened to his "true nature" after many years of Zen practice, this extraordinary book explores the nature of real freedom and shows how it is accessible to all of us. Emptiness Dancing is destined to become a classic in Advaita/Zen literature.
bullet The World of Silence, by Max Picard. In this amazing book, first published in 1948, renowned Swiss philosopher Max Picard expresses the nature and meaning of silence in poetic and lyrical language that is a reminder of our own great Source. Even a few words from this book can transform your life: "When the substance of silence is present in a man, all his qualities are centered in it; they are all connected primarily with the silence and only secondarily with each other. Therefore it is not so easy for the defect of one quality to infect all the others, since it is kept in its place by the silence. But if there is no silence, a man can be totally infected by a single defect so that he ceases to be a man ..."
bullet Dragon Thunder: My Life with Chogyam Trungpa, by Diana J. Mukpo. This is a remarkable book about a remarkable human being and teacher. Click on the link and see my brief review of this book on Amazon.com.
bullet Why Can't We Be Good?, by Jacob Needleman. This amazing book is a "must read" for anyone interested in the truth about what is necessary to fulfill our promise as conscious human beings capable of acting justly and lovingly toward both ourselves and our neighbors. Written by one of the great spiritual and social philosophers of our times, Why Can't We Be Good? will not only help you think, feel, and sense in new, insightful ways about what it means to be truly human, but will also give you a direct and transformative glimpse into the real meaning of Conscience and its relationship with real love.

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Recommended Books on Taoism & Chi Kung

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bulletOpening the Energy Gates of Your Body, by B. K. Frantzis, who studied in mainland China with one of this century's greatest Taoist masters. This book, at once practical and informative, is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in working with the energy structure of the body through the age-old form of Taoist chi kung. Visit Frantzis' site for important books on Taoist meditation.
bulletEmbarking On the Way: A Guide to Western Taoism, by Solala Towler. Written in a simple and non-scholarly fashion, this book gives the reader a helpful, wide-ranging look at Taoist philosophy and practice, and includes a safe, powerful "organ balancing meditation." The foreword is by Chungliang Al Huang.
bulletThe Art of Chi Kung: Making the Most of Your Vital Energy, by Wong Kiew Kit. This book is written both for the general reader unfamiliar with qigong and for those already exploring this ancient art.
bulletTaoist Ways to Transform Stress into Vitality, by Mantak Chia. This book teaches "The Inner Smile," and "The Six Healing Sounds," two simple but effective approaches to deep relaxation and self-healing.

Books about Taoism & Qigong through Amazon.com

Books Reviewed by Dennis Lewis on this Website

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bulletExchanges Within, By John Pentland
bulletThe Art of Happiness, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler, M.D.
bulletOn Dialogue, David Bohm, edited by Lee Nichol
bulletHealing Emotions, Daniel Goleman
bulletTransmission of the Flame, Jean Klein
bulletTwo Books on Love, books by Jacob Needleman and Thich Nhat Hanh

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