Zen Body-Being By Ralston P. (Book)

In this inspiring guide, Peter Ralston presents a program of ''physical education'' for anyone interested in body improvement. Using simple, clear language to demystify the Zen mindset, he draws on more than three decades of experience teaching students and apprentices worldwide who have applied his body-being approach. More of a transformative guide than a specific list of exercises devoted to any particular physical approach, Zen Body-Being explains how to create a state of mental control, enhanced feeling-awareness, correct structural alignment, increased spatial acuity, and even a greater interactive presence. Exercises are simple, often involving feeling-imagery or a kind of meditative awareness that has a profound and sometimes instant effect. Where similar guides teach readers what to do, this challenging book by the man whose insights Dan Millman has said ''speak to us all,'' teaches readers how to be. Peter Ralston has black belts in judo, jujitsu, and karate. The founder of the martial arts tradition Cheng Hsin and the school dedicated to it, he leads workshops on a wide range of disciplines. Contents Preface • Foreword 1. BEING A BODY What Is Physical Ability? • Cultural Influences • The Source of Improvement • Accessing Body Intelligence • Beginner's Body-Being 2. ORIGINS AND INFLUENCES Mind Training • Creating Insight • Zen • The Basics of Perception • Three Aspects of Body Awareness 3. FEELING-AWARENESS Awareness • Feeling Is Foremost • Intent, Impulse, and Feedback • Feeling-Awareness • Body-Being Basics • Opening a Door-Five Steps to Transformation • Enhancing Feeling-Awareness • Barriers to Feeling 4. LEARNING, BEING, AND CREATING Learning to Investigate What's True • Some Key Elements of Learning • Questioning Self • Being Your Body • Body and Identity • Two Domains of Feeling • Creating Feeling 5. THE PRINCIPLES OF AN EFFECTIVE BODY-BEING A More Conscious Experience • Student-on-a-Stick • What Is a Principle? • Insight • An Object in Space • Five Principles for an Effortlessly Effective Body • Body Basics 6. STRUCTURAL ALIGNMENT What Is Alignment? • Body Design • Fourteen Points on Structural Alignment • Being Aware of Structural Alignments 7. SEEKING AN EFFORTLESS POWER Using the Body Effortlessly and Effectively • What Is Intrinsic Strength? • A Discovery of Effortless Power 8. MIND AND PERCEPTION Changing Our Minds • Noticing Perception • Perception and Response • Controlling the Mind • Turning Perception into Feeling • The Creative Aspect of Mind and Perception • Mind, Perception, and Relationship 9. RELATIONSHIP AND CONSCIOUSNESS Awareness, Relationship, and Interaction • The Principle of Effective Interaction • Increasing Relational Awareness • Inclusive Awareness • More Than You Need to Know About Consciousness • Getting in Our Own Way • Body-Being and Interaction 10. LIFE PRACTICE Study and Training • Training • The Body and Exercise • The Body at the Office • The Body at Labor • The Body and Athletics • Stretching the Body • Body-Being for the Bodyworker • T'ai Chi for Every Body • Sex and Body Feel • The Body and the Arts • A Practice for Life About the Author

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ISBN	9781583941591
More	152 x 228 mm, 200 pp.

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