Notes

CHAPTER 1

[1] Grandmaster Choa Kok Sui, The Origin of Modern Pranic Healing and Arhatic Yoga (Makati City, Philippines: Institute for Inner Studies Publishing, 2006), 8.

[2] Ibid, 78.

CHAPTER 2

[1] Grandmaster Choa Kok Sui, Basic Pranic Healing Instructors’ Manual (Makati City, Philippines: Institute for Inner Studies Publishing, 2002), 13–14.

[2] P.M. Barnes, B. Bloom, R. Nahin, “Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Among Adults and Children: United States, 2007,” CDC National Health Statistics Report #12 (December 2008).

[3] Jane Spencer, “The Next Yoga: A Sweat-Free Workout—Giving Up on Perfect Pecs, Boomers Embrace Qigong; Tiger Woods’s Secret Weapon?” Wall Street Journal, May 13, 2003, Eastern edition, Section D.

CHAPTER 3

[1] Julie Deardorff, “As Easy As Breathing?” Chicago Tribune, June 19, 2005, http:\\articles.chicagotribune.com/2005-06-19/features/0506190439_1_breathing-dioxide-diaphragmatic.

[2] Carol Krucoff, “Stress and the Art of Breathing,” Los Angeles Times, July 10, 2000, Section A, Home Edition.

[3] Ibid.

[4]Ibid.

[5] Grandmaster Choa Kok Sui, Basic Pranic Healing Instructors’ Manual (Makati City, Philippines: Institute for Inner Studies Publishing, 2002), 59–60.

[6] Ibid, 60.

CHAPTER 4

[1] Energetic Hygiene material and techniques are adapted from Grandmaster Choa Kok Sui’s Advanced Pranic Healing (York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1995), 34–43, as well as Grandmaster Choa Kok Sui’s Basic Pranic Healing Instructors’ Manual (Makati City, Philippines: Institute for Inner Studies Publishing, 2002), 18, 105.

CHAPTER 5

[1] Duke University study, as cited at http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2000/09/exercise922.html.

[2] Eric B. Larson, et al., “Exercise Is Associated with Reduced Risk for Incident Dementia Among Persons 65 Years of Age or Older,” Annals of Internal Medicine (January 17, 2006) 73–81.

CHAPTER 6

[1] Much of the Padmasambhava material is adapted from Grandmaster Choa, Om Mani Padme Hum: The Blue Pearl in the Golden Lotus (Makati City, Philippines: Institute for Inner Studies Publishing Foundation, 2004), 2–5.

[2] Ngawang Zanpo, Guru Rinpoche: His Life and Times (New York: Snow Lion Publications, 2002), 57.

[3] History of Padmasambhava from “Padmasambhava,” and related entries, Encyclopedia Britannica (2003 Deluxe Edition CD-ROM).

[4] Account of Edwin J. Dingle’s travels from My Life in Tibet (Yucca Valley, CA: Institute of Mentalphysics, 1979), 12–16 and 19–33.

[5] Original Mentalphysics exercises and related instruction from Edwin J. Dingle, Breaths That Renew Your Life (Yucca Valley, CA: Institute of Mentalphysics, 1979), 11–29.

[6] Modifications to the Nine Revitalizing Breaths and their effect on personal energy, rejuvenation, and longevity from private instruction and personal interviews with Grandmaster Choa Kok Sui, San Diego, summer 2005.

CHAPTER 7

[1] Grandmaster Choa Kok Sui, Meditations for Soul Realizations (Makati City, Philippines: Institute for Inner Studies Publishing, 2000), 47.

[2] Meditation on Twin Hearts and related commentary adapted from Grandmaster Choa, Meditations, 59–72, as well as Pranic Healing and Arhatic Yoga curriculum.

APPENDIX A

[1] Seven Healing Factors taken from Grandmaster Choa Kok Sui, Basic Pranic Healing Instructors’ Manual (Makati City, Philippines: Institute for Inner Studies Publishing, 2002), 48–49.

APPENDIX B

[1] Yoga Journal, “Yoga in America” study, released February 26, 2008.

[2] P.M. Barnes, B. Bloom, and R. Nahin, “Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Among Adults and Children: United States, 2007,” CDC National Health Statistics Report #12 (December 2008).