Post by URBAN FARMING on Sept 4, 2013 10:15:07 GMT -6
Healthy Thinking involves the ability to focus. We feel that awareness of ones thoughts can be heightened when one acquires a greater ability to focus, which is an exercise of practice. We can begin this with simply becoming more aware of our own thoughts and the tension which we may be holding within our bodies. Relaxation and awareness helps in many ways to gain a greater measure of discipline over our inner-thought life.
The following is a helpful excerpt:
"Awareness and Tranquility."
"Active relaxation is a state of being aware and alert to both oneself and the external environment. Vitality is not wasted on unnecessary tension." "...It is impossible to achieve this state of aliveness without cultivating awareness of the body. The golden rule of qigong is 'Pay attention.' We cannot get rid of tension if we are not aware of what is tense and sensitive to how this tension is maintained. In physics the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle states that the act of observation changes that which is observed. This principle is especially true of the human body. As we 'observe' our areas of tension, it becomes possible for tension to dissipate. There is a reciprocal relationship between chronic functional tension ...and habitual lack of body awareness."
Quoted from, and to read more: Kenneth S. Cohen, The Way of Qigong. The Art and Science of Chinese Energy Healing, Ballantine Books, The Random House Publishing Group, Copyright 1997, pp 97, 98.
Available at Amazon: www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=way+of+qi+gong&tag=googhydr-20&index=stripbooks&hvadid=22846530841&hvpos=1t2&hvexid=&hvnetw=s&hvrand=53048906388944682&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_915rqk9e9p_b
The following is a helpful excerpt:
"Awareness and Tranquility."
"Active relaxation is a state of being aware and alert to both oneself and the external environment. Vitality is not wasted on unnecessary tension." "...It is impossible to achieve this state of aliveness without cultivating awareness of the body. The golden rule of qigong is 'Pay attention.' We cannot get rid of tension if we are not aware of what is tense and sensitive to how this tension is maintained. In physics the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle states that the act of observation changes that which is observed. This principle is especially true of the human body. As we 'observe' our areas of tension, it becomes possible for tension to dissipate. There is a reciprocal relationship between chronic functional tension ...and habitual lack of body awareness."
Quoted from, and to read more: Kenneth S. Cohen, The Way of Qigong. The Art and Science of Chinese Energy Healing, Ballantine Books, The Random House Publishing Group, Copyright 1997, pp 97, 98.
Available at Amazon: www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=way+of+qi+gong&tag=googhydr-20&index=stripbooks&hvadid=22846530841&hvpos=1t2&hvexid=&hvnetw=s&hvrand=53048906388944682&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_915rqk9e9p_b