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The Mindful Practice of Falun Gong by Margaret Trey Pdf
The Mindful Practice of Falun Gong marries research evidence with the art of storytelling. The book heralds the author's Hearts Uplifted project that aims to revive the lived experiences of individuals whose lives have been profoundly touched and transformed by Falun Gong-a spiritual meditation practice. Drawing from a labyrinth of research findings and the on-going study, the author effectively weaves facts from the academic inquiry with a compelling story of one woman's journey to wellness with Falun Gong. The book presents the results from the Australian survey-a doctoral study-that investigates the health-wellness effects of Falun Gong, as perceived by those who practice it.
Falun Gong is an introductory text, systematically presenting the practice of Falun Gong. This book includes instructions and photo illustrations for performing the five sets of Falun Gong exercises. Falun Gong is a high-level cultivation practice guided by the characteristics of the universeTruthfulness, Benevolence, and Forbearance. Cultivation means continuously striving to better harmonize oneself with these universal principles. Practice refers to the exercises five sets of easy-to-learn gentle movements and meditation. Cultivating oneself is essential; practicing the exercises supplements the process.
The Effect of Falun Gong on Health and Wellness by Margaret Trey Pdf
The Effect of Falun Gong on Health and Wellness as Perceived by Falun Gong Practitioners unveils the author's research of the effects of Falun Gong, a popular and peaceful Chinese spiritual meditation practice that has attracted millions of individuals from around the world. While the study was conducted 10 years ago, the results and implications for human health are even more relevant today. The research, conducted under the auspices of The University of South Australia, indicated that people who practice Falun Gong report better health-wellness than those who do not practice Falun Gong. Falun Gong was shown to have a profound impact on those who practice this ancient spiritual discipline. Findings from the study support Falun Gong as a beneficial mind-body practice that enhances mind-body health and wellness. The author has decided to publish her research now, as people are seeking ways to improve their health and immune system in response to the global crisis triggered by the Wuhan coronavirus.
"Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance" Falun Gong / Falun Dafa Practitioners Journal by Grace Shen Pdf
Spiritual Perfection Through Falun Gong "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance" is a mindfulness-focused lined notebook has been lovingly created to honor your spiritual path of Falun Gong and Falun Dafa movements. Thematic quotes lend inspiration to your practice as the cover gently brings the beloved principles to mind. Some of the Falun Gong inspired phrases include: "Directing Your Thoughts to Cultivate Your Heart" "Using Your Hands To Follow The Flow Of Energies" "Discipline of the Dharma Wheel" "Controlled Breathing With Mindful & Purposeful Movements" "Cultivation to Improve Your Moral Standard" "Turning Your Heart Toward Goodness" "Highest Purification of The Mind & Body" This lined journal was created to enhance your journey to spiritual perfection. Useful in assimilating your thoughts & actions, documenting your mind & body cultivation path, and releasing your negative attachments. Specifications and FAQs: Convenient 6" x 9" size. Printed on quality, white paper. Includes 110 pages. Soft matte cover. Printed on both sides of the page. Recommended for use with colored pencils, gel pens, & ballpoint pens only. Markers or watercolors are NOT recommended. Pick up a copy of this Falun Gong journal today to document your inward journey of purification.
The Buddha Pill by Miguel Farias,Dr. Catherine Wikholm Pdf
Millions of people meditate daily but can meditative practices really make us ‘better’ people? In The Buddha Pill, pioneering psychologists Dr Miguel Farias and Catherine Wikholm put meditation and mindfulness under the microscope. Separating fact from fiction, they reveal what scientific research – including their groundbreaking study on yoga and meditation with prisoners – tells us about the benefits and limitations of these techniques for improving our lives. As well as illuminating the potential, the authors argue that these practices may have unexpected consequences, and that peace and happiness may not always be the end result. Offering a compelling examination of research on transcendental meditation to recent brain-imaging studies on the effects of mindfulness and yoga, and with fascinating contributions from spiritual teachers and therapists, Farias and Wikholm weave together a unique story about the science and the delusions of personal change.
Psychosomatic Medicine by Ignacio Jáuregui-Lobera Pdf
Modern psychosomatic medicine is a comprehensive framework for a holistic (biopsychosocial) perspective of illnesses and patient care. It highlights the influence of psychosocial factors on health, the interaction between psychosocial and biological factors in the course and outcome of diseases, and a whole perspective with respect to treatments. This book discusses holistic approaches to both organic and psychopathological diseases. Over three sections, authors address psychosomatic approaches to fibromyalgia, palliative care, anxiety and depression, obesity, and traumatic stress disorders.
Well-being and Quality of Life by Mukadder Mollaoglu Pdf
The chapters in this book focus on the physical, social, and emotional components of the concept of quality of life. How diseases affect the quality of life of people is mainly discussed. The influence of diseases on quality of life in age-specific periods such as childhood, youth, and old age is also emphasized. In some non-disease-related environmental factors, specific social phenomena have also been analyzed. I hope that current research and research results in the book will be used to increase the quality of life by health professionals. This book will attract not only health workers but also environmentalists and social scientists and behavioral scientists.
Cultivating Mindfulness Through Qigong Falun Gong by Kham Rel Pdf
This book is about a Qigong system that enables the practitioner to awake his/her inner energy or Qi by practicing a few postures-movements which aim to unblock meridians, merge them into larger conduits, awake energy centers to transmute the ordinary human mind into spiritual consciousness.
"Truthfulness, Benevolence, Forbearance" Falun Gong, The Tenets, Red Journal (6" X 9" 110 Pages), Chinese Good Luck by Grace Shen Pdf
Spiritual Perfection With Falun Gong "Truthfulness, Benevolence, Forbearance" is a mindfulness-focused lined notebook has been lovingly created to honor your spiritual path of Falun Gong and Falun Dafa movements. Thematic quotes lend inspiration to your practice as the cover gently brings the beloved principles to mind. Some of the Falun Gong style phrases include: Directing Your Thoughts to Cultivate Your Heart Using Your Hands To Follow The Flow Of Energies Discipline of the Dharma Wheel Controlled Breathing With Mindful & Purposeful Movements Cultivation to Improve Your Moral Standard Turning Your Heart Toward Goodness Highest Purification of The Mind & Body This very practical, lined journal was created to enhance your journey to spiritual perfection through Falun Gong. Useful in assimilating your thoughts & actions, documenting your mind & body cultivation path, and releasing your negative attachments. Document which exercises you performed, when and for how long and what thoughts you brought to focus. See your spiritual growth of gong throughout your written notes on your practice. Specifications and FAQs: Convenient 6" x 9" size. Printed on quality, white paper. Includes 110 pages. Soft matte cover. Printed on both sides of the page. Recommended for use with colored pencils, gel pens, & ballpoint pens only. Markers or watercolors are NOT recommended. Massively prohibited and persecuted in China, Falun Gong practitioners are cultivating the values that every person can benefit from but are suffering for it. This ancient spiritual path, practiced by the astonishingly talented performers in "Shen Yun", is a serious treasure and should be celebrated! Honor your own path or that of a beloved Falun Gong practitioner. Buy your copy of this red Falun Gong journal today to document your inward journey of purification.
China's Influence and American Interests by Larry Diamond,Orville Schell Pdf
While Americans are generally aware of China's ambitions as a global economic and military superpower, few understand just how deeply and assertively that country has already sought to influence American society. As the authors of this volume write, it is time for a wake-up call. In documenting the extent of Beijing's expanding influence operations inside the United States, they aim to raise awareness of China's efforts to penetrate and sway a range of American institutions: state and local governments, academic institutions, think tanks, media, and businesses. And they highlight other aspects of the propagandistic “discourse war” waged by the Chinese government and Communist Party leaders that are less expected and more alarming, such as their view of Chinese Americans as members of a worldwide Chinese diaspora that owes undefined allegiance to the so-called Motherland.Featuring ideas and policy proposals from leading China specialists, China's Influence and American Interests argues that a successful future relationship requires a rebalancing toward greater transparency, reciprocity, and fairness. Throughout, the authors also strongly state the importance of avoiding casting aspersions on Chinese and on Chinese Americans, who constitute a vital portion of American society. But if the United States is to fare well in this increasingly adversarial relationship with China, Americans must have a far better sense of that country's ambitions and methods than they do now.
Falun Gong in the United States by Noah Porter Pdf
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, has been described in many ways. It has been called qigong, one of many schools of physical exercises that aim at improving health and developing supernatural abilities. Scholars and mainstream media have referred it to as a spiritual movement or religion, although practitioners claim it is not a religion. It has been called a cult, in the pejorative sense rather than in a sociological context, by the Chinese government and by some Western critics. In the writings of Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Gong, it is referred to in different ways, though primarily as a cultivation practice. The question of how to define Falun Gong is not just an academic issue; the use of the cult label has been used to justify the persecution of practitioners in China. To a limited degree, the Chinese Government is able to extend the persecution overseas. How society defines Falun Gong has implications for action on the level of policy, as well as the shaping of social, cultural, and personal attitudes. This research project addresses what Falun Gong is through ethnography. Research methods included participant-observation, semi-structured ethnographic interviews (both in-person and on-line), and content analysis of text and visual data from Falun Gong books, pamphlets, and websites. Research sites included Tampa, Washington D.C., and cyberspace. In order to keep my research relevant to the issues and concerns of the Falun Gong community, I was in regular contact with the Tampa practitioners, keeping them abreast of my progress and asking for their input. My findings are contrary to the allegations made by the Chinese Government and Western anti-cultists in many ways. Practitioners are not encouraged to rely on Western medicine, but are not prohibited from using it. Child practitioners are not put at risk. Their organizational structure is very loose. Finally, the Internet has played a vital role in Falun Gong's growth and continuation after the crackdown.
Changing Cultures of Ageing and Spirituality by Elizabeth MacKinlay,Ann Harrington Pdf
This book addresses important issues of ageing and spirituality and reflects on the impact of culture on both constructs. The papers are contemporary in that they include excerpts of cultural impact on spirituality from New Zealand, Singapore, India, United Kingdom, Australia and the United States. This book marks almost 20 years of international conferences on ageing and spirituality that commenced in January 2000. It opens the conversation to all who were part of this journey of ageing, including older people, practitioners in ageing and aged care, researchers, and those who reflect on the process of growing older. Chapters feature diverse perspectives, highlighting the need for inclusivity in conversations that surround ageing and recognize how development of cultures is influenced by the society where they emerge, and by minority groups within larger society. Chapters also note the occurrence of subcultures of ageing and aged care. The conference was held shortly before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the chapters being written often during times of lockdown. Their content reflects the importance of spirituality in times of isolation and can show ways of reaching out to vulnerable older people, of various faiths and cultures, whatever their situations. Changing Cultures of Ageing and Spirituality will be a key resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Theology, Divinity and Religious Studies, Gerontology, Sociology, Psychology, Mental Health, and Nursing. The chapters included in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Religion, Spirituality & Aging.
The world first took notice of a religious group called Falun Gong on April 25, 1999, when more than 10,000 of its followers protested before the Chinese Communist headquarters in Beijing. Falun Gong investigates events in the wake of the demonstration: Beijing’s condemnation of the group as a Western, anti-Chinese force and doomsday cult, the sect’s continued defiance, and the nationwide campaign that resulted in the incarceration and torture of many Falun Gong faithful. Maria Hsia Chang discusses the Falun Gong’s beliefs, including their ideas on cosmology, humanity’s origin, karma, reincarnation, UFOs, and the coming apocalypse. She balances an account of the Chinese government’s case against the sect with an evaluation of the credibility of those accusations. Describing China’s long history of secret societies that initiated powerful uprisings and sometimes overthrew dynasties, she explains the Chinese government’s brutal treatment of the sect. And she concludes with a chronicle of the ongoing persecution of religious groups in China—of which Falun Gong is only one of many—and the social conditions that breed the popular discontent and alienation that spawn religious millenarianism.
Social Movements in China and Hong Kong by Khun Eng Kuah,Gilles Guiheux Pdf
Het uitgangspunt van dit boek is dat Chinese individuen van hun eigen inzet uit moeten kunnen gaan, ongeacht de beperkingen die hen door de staat worden opgelegd. Om hun belangen beter te kunnen verdedigen sluiten sommige individuen zich aan bij sociale bewegingen, die tot sociale protesten kunnen leiden.