Meridian Exercise for Self Healing: Classified by Common Symptoms Paperback – Illustrated, 9 April 2010
by Ilchi Lee (Author)
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Over 200 easy-to-follow, fully-illustrated meridian and qigong exercises.
Meridian exercise is a self-care technique perfected over thousands of years in the Asian healing traditions. It combines breathing, movement, stretching, and focused attention to help you make progress toward improving balance, flexibility, and resilience.
This full-color, user-friendly book is organized by specific ailments and areas of the body for easy reference. Find the meridian exercises you need to step up your physical, mental, and emotional well-being.
Meridian Exercise for Self-Healing includes:
Low-impact, time-efficient exercises
Step-by-step instructions with photos for dozens of exercises specifically designed for common symptoms
Breathing and relaxation techniques to awaken innate healing power and maximize the benefits of meridian exercise
Additional explanation of the meridian system of healing with illustrations of each meridian
Professional Reviews
I am a massage therapist who regularly sees 5-6 clients per day. So, self-care is necessary for me. This book is a great resource for me to help me stay in tip-top shape and always ready to see my clients. I also refer to this book when I need to recommend exercises for my clients to do in between their appointments with me.
- Gail Clemente, Massage Therapist, San Jose, CA
As a multi-generation acupuncturist, I know the value and benefit of meridian exercise. It's something I teach to my clients to do at home so that they make more progress between sessions and have better results. Meridian Exercise for Self-Healing by Ilchi Lee is my go-to resource for meridian exercises because it is authentic, accurate, and comprehensive, with over 200 exercises organized by symptoms.
- Banya Lim, Acupuncturist, LAc, Sedona, AZ
As an Acupuncture Physician, I encourage patients to exercise, eat well, and manage stress. I recommend patients to purchase this text for self-healing.
- Donna Kini-Bowen, Acupuncture Physician, Orlando, FL
I very much appreciate how this book imparts a straightforward understanding of a valuable mind-body practice. This guidebook is a wonderful resource for teaching us and our patients how to better know and attend to our own wondrous mind-bodies, and provide comfort, hope, and self-healing.
- Deborah Coady, MD, OB/GYN, New York, NY
What Is Meridian Exercise?
Movement, breathing, and awareness combined
Simple, mindful movements combined with breathing that stimulate and activate what Asian medicine practitioners call chi or ki in your body. The Asian healing arts traditions developed and perfected Meridian Exercise over thousands of years.
Unblock stuck energy to bring balance
Meridian Exercise includes stretching, shaking and vibration, held postures, tai chi-like movement, joint rotation, and self-acupressure. Just like acupuncture and shiatsu, Meridian Exercise unblocks stuck energy in your body's energy channels to put your body back into balance.
Effective for:
Hypertension
Back pain and stiff neck
Headaches
Joint and muscle pain
Colds and flu
Insomnia
PMS and mood swings
Fatigue and hangover
Meridian Exercise for Self-Healing Classified by Common Symptoms Features:
Time-Tested Techniques
Low-impact, time-efficient exercises that relieve stress, restore physical health, and rebalance the mind.
Easy-to-Follow Instructions
Step-by-step instructions with accompanying photos for dozens of exercises specifically designed for common symptoms.
Mindful Movements
Breathing and relaxation techniques to awaken innate healing power and maximize the benefits of meridian exercise.
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About the Author
Biography
Ilchi Lee is a respected educator and impassioned visionary devoted to teaching energy principles and developing the full potential of the human brain.
He has developed many mind-body training methods, including Body & Brain Yoga (BodynBrain.com) and Brain Education. His principles and methods have helped many people around the world to live healthier, happier lives. To teach his methods online, he started the education website ChangeYourEnergy.com.
Lee is also a New York Times bestselling author who has penned over 40 books, including The Call of Sedona: Journey of the Heart, Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential, and Brain Wave Vibration: Getting Back into the Rhythm of a Happy, Healthy Life.
His books have been translated into about ten different languages and are sold in at least eleven countries around the world. Lee's Living Tao: Timeless Principles for Everyday Enlightenment was awarded a medal in the 2015 Foreword Reviews INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards, The Power Brain: Five Steps to Upgrading Your Brain Operating System won the 2017 Living Now Best in Mind Award, and his books have won ten other awards in the U.S.
He is also a well-respected humanitarian who founded the Earth Citizen Movement (EarthCitizens.org), and who has been working with the United Nations and other organizations for global peace. Lee serves as the president of the University of Brain Education and the International Brain Education Association (IBREA, IBREAFoundation.org).
For more information about Ilchi Lee and his work, visit ilchi.com.
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decius01
4.0 out of 5 stars It's an amazing book, but the price tag is a little ...Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on 17 September 2017
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I've known about this book for a long time due to a friend who practices TCM.... but I just now decided to get around to picking it up. Arrived in short order. It's an amazing book, but the price tag is a little hefty, otherwise I'd rate it 5 stars. Still a great purchase and definitely recommended.
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Cheryl
5.0 out of 5 stars highly recommendedReviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on 22 September 2010
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Meridian Exercise for Self-Healing is a fantastic reference guide containing movements specific to many ailments. The book is well laid out with easy to find tab-design pages, and offers many suggestions for such topics as colds, back pain, heart disease, liver disorders, skin disorders etc. Also included are the basics of meridian points, and energy centers. Throughout, this guide contains photos (demonstrating positions) or coherent diagrams, making meridian self-healing exercises easy to understand for everyone. Highly recommended, this book is a wealth of information.
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Lillian
5.0 out of 5 stars 👍👍Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on 7 July 2019
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Love it, sorry that the doesn’t have more
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Lucie Roussin
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome bookReviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on 25 January 2014
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My colleague had this book for her clients and I loved that I could give my clients some exercises to stimulate maybe a thyroid. Which is my problem and I have used this book for myself and it has helped me tremendously.
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Cliente Amazon
5.0 out of 5 stars Ejercicios de Qigong que estan agrupados por enfermedadesReviewed in Spain 🇪🇸 on 23 March 2023
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Lo ejercicios están bien representados en imágenes claras y que son de fácil realización
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Cliente Amazon
5.0 out of 5 stars Ejercicios de Qigong que estan agrupados por enfermedadesReviewed in Spain 🇪🇸 on 23 March 2023
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Lo ejercicios están bien representados en imágenes claras y que son de fácil realización
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5.0 out of 5 stars Looking forward to some self healingReviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 31 March 2022
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I bought this book because I already use meridian stretches and find them really helpful.
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Muriel M
4.0 out of 5 stars Les méridiens sans la sagesse du Qi GongReviewed in France 🇫🇷 on 20 March 2019
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Ce livre comprend de nombreuses postures et mouvements. Les photos sont jolies. Le texte clair avec des indications des respirations.
Ce sont toutes des postures que l'on retrouve dans la pratique du Qi Gong, du yoga ou des arts martiaux asiatiques (car ils sont également basés sur le parcours des méridiens de la médecine traditionnelle chinoise). Mais le danger de ce livre serait de "faire ses courses" dans une posture ou l'autre pour guérir le mal du moment. Au risque de forcer.
Au contraire les pratiques comme le Qi Gong, sont basées sur une pratique équilibrée, sans excès.
Donc je déconseille ce livre comme auto-médication. Par contre, pour les pratiquants réguliers de Qi Gong, Yoga ou autres activités physiques, ce livre le permettra de se remémorer certains exercices ainsi que les recommandations qu'ils auront reçus de leur formateur. Je le trouve utile.
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spartan
5.0 out of 5 stars VERY NICE BOOK, MANAGEABLE EXERCISES, NO COMPLICATED THEORIES OF FALSE CLAIMS. I like it better than yoga books.Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 11 March 2018
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Manageable exercises, clear explanation, no complicated theories or claims, just exercises you can try at home, accesible for everybody.
I immediately like this better than all the yoga stuff (and people), although to me it seems very similar.
It is just a book that gets you going right away, at your own pace, and doesn't give you the feeling "god, I'm never going to be able to do that".
Most exercises are explained in a few photopgraphs and compact paragraphs. No pages full of theories etc.
You can immediately pick a subject, try some exercises that are manageable to you.
Also, there are a lot of exercises that are cross-referenced, so you can explore the book in a non-linear way so to speak.
I think this is very nice.
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martha white
3.0 out of 5 stars DisappointedReviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 12 February 2022
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Lots of beautiful pics but book is mainly illustrations. Light on info relating to the meridians and the stretches. Was looking for more meat to the book.
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Louise Brokenborough
5.0 out of 5 stars Health benefits of yoga moves.Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 15 December 2021
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I'm a senior, many of the moves are easy for seniors to perform, make one more flexible, and help arthritic joints GENTLY.
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Ninjagal
5.0 out of 5 stars Great resource for self-care exercises and relief for symptoms-based conditionsReviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 9 December 2020
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I'm a Bodyworker by profession. Unfortunately the pandemic affected my work significantly. This book has very easy to follow simple stretches and exercises based on symptoms. Great for self-care and for recommending simple execises to do to help alleviate symptoms.
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steven lemner
5.0 out of 5 stars Align your energyReviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 5 January 2022
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A great resource to help connect and mind and body. Easy format.
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dolly
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent easy to understand photographsReviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 31 December 2021
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Love this book can be used immediately easy to understand
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decius01
4.0 out of 5 stars It's an amazing book, but the price tag is a little ...Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on 17 September 2017
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I've known about this book for a long time due to a friend who practices TCM.... but I just now decided to get around to picking it up. Arrived in short order. It's an amazing book, but the price tag is a little hefty, otherwise I'd rate it 5 stars. Still a great purchase and definitely recommended.
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Bluesky
4.0 out of 5 stars Very extensive and well describedReviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on 29 April 2013
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A book that really leaves nothing to be desired - exactly what it promises. The individual exercises are clearly explained using photos, and there is also a precise, written explanation for each step. Easy to understand - but there are also some demanding exercises, but you can always choose an easier exercise. Only the loose clothing of the practitioners in the photos could be criticized: they sometimes conceal the exact positions during the exercises - but that makes up for the good descriptions. I can't yet judge whether the exercises help with the various complaints, but gently stretching and moving the body again can never hurt. Highly recommended!
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Tai Chi Miss
3.0 out of 5 stars Odor from Coating on book badReviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 3 August 2019
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When I opened my Amazon package, the strong odor from the book was awful. I know some book makers put coatings on books and the pages and this smell is too much for me. I have yet to look at it. I have had it on my deck for the last 24 hours and hope the sun and heat will take that odor away. I am sure this book is really a good one and will update when the odor goes away.
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Maureen Godfrey
5.0 out of 5 stars A great reference bookReviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 11 September 2019
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This book describes the principles of different stretches and how the open different energy meridian channels. You don't need to know much about how it works as the book does a great job of leading you through step by step, explaining what is best for different conditions or symptoms. It becomes a practice and education all in one.
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Kim
5.0 out of 5 stars Such a great presentation..Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 14 October 2020
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Excellent pictures that help explain exercises.
The exercises are simple yet leave me feeling refreshed
and like I am doing something good for myself.
Thank you
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Joyreins
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent reference book of conditions and poses.Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 26 April 2020
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This is an excellent reference book of body conditions and areas, and poses. It explains and shows how to do them, and what each does. I recommend it.
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audrey
5.0 out of 5 stars A good resource to cure any physical problemReviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 11 October 2015
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I always recommend this book for anyone looking to use exercise to alleviate specific body pain. My most amazing result came when I returned from vacation with sciatic pain so bad I could hardly sit in the car for long. I started doing the focused sciatic exercises daily and was without pain within a week. I now do them every other day and have had no return of pain. That series takes less than 10 minutes of my morning….well worth the time….as the book is well worth the money.
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Eclectic Collector
5.0 out of 5 stars Great!Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 6 July 2020
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Love the organization! I can find anything I'm looking for and has routines for specific ailments. Love it!
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Cheryl
5.0 out of 5 stars highly recommendedReviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on 22 September 2010
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Meridian Exercise for Self-Healing is a fantastic reference guide containing movements specific to many ailments. The book is well laid out with easy to find tab-design pages, and offers many suggestions for such topics as colds, back pain, heart disease, liver disorders, skin disorders etc. Also included are the basics of meridian points, and energy centers. Throughout, this guide contains photos (demonstrating positions) or coherent diagrams, making meridian self-healing exercises easy to understand for everyone. Highly recommended, this book is a wealth of information.
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John A. Orlando
5.0 out of 5 stars A book on the Meridians ... hot off the press ...Reviewed in Italy 🇮🇹 on 15 March 2014
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This book is excellent not only because it is new, explaining ancient or little-known things in the West such as Chakras and Meridians ... but it does it in a very clear and expert way ... and at the same time expert.
Great ... Everyone should do these exercises ... Although Falun Dafa may be a better introduction ... not forgetting the DNA Alignment Exercises for the first 12 stages ... called Waves ... known only to a narrow Elite of people very consonant with these Dynamics ... The New Age has arrived ...
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christopher drozd
5.0 out of 5 stars Nicely composed and easily usableReviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 29 November 2019
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Clearly written, photographed, and arranged. A rather complete approach to using qigong / yoga type postures / movements to therapeutically affect the body / mind.
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