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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Author’s Note
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
The Self-Healing Power Hidden within Us
The Real Scoop on Energy-Enhancing Substances
Energy Medicine
Qigong: An Age-Old Path for Cultivating the Energy of Life
Tai Chi and Qigong: Age-Old Methods of Mind-Body Medicine
Summary of Qigong’s Benefits to the Sphere of Energy Psychology
Energy Psychology: An Einsteinian Approach to Psychology
The Origins of Energy Psychology
Breadth of the Field of Energy Psychology
The Emotional Freedom Techniques
Energy Psychology Research
The Benefits and Problems with Energy Psychology
Toward a Comprehensive Energy Psychology: Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy
The Age-Old, Broader Traditions of Energy Psychology
Hypnotic Anchors and Ancient Sacred Wisdom Traditions
Depth Psychology, Ancient Sacred Wisdom Traditions, and Energy Psychology
Qigong and Creative Visualization: Anchoring Healing Altered States
Tai Chi/Qigong: A Rosetta Stone of State-Specific, Healing Altered States
Imagery: The Missing Element in Qigong’s Definition
Storytelling as Qigong and Trance-Formation
The Physician’s Energy Staff: Co-optation and Denigration of Aesclepius
House of Five Doors: Bodymind Doors to Opening Energy Trance States
Beyond Qigong as Qigong Movements: Activating the Core Energy of Our Being
Transcending versus Transmuting Your Psychological Issues
A New Origin Myth for Psychology
The Marriage of Psychological and Energetic Approaches to Bodymind Healing
Bodymind Healing in Everyday Life: A Full-Spectrum Approach to the Image/Body Energy Dialectic
The Full Spectrum Symbolic Process Methods of Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy
Shape-Shifting, Metaphors, and Psychological Transformation
The River of Life
Toward a Comprehensive Energy Psychology: The Ten Psychoenergetic Holographic Dimensions of Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy
Qigong and Tai Chi: A Soulful Practice for Bodymind Healing
Summary of Applications of Bodymind Healing Methods in Psychotherapy and Behavioral Health Care
Anxiety Disorders: Sociopolitical and Economic Background
What Qigong Offers to Anxiety Treatment
Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy’s Ten Psychoenergetic Holographic Dimensions Applied to Anxiety/Panic Disorder
Case Illustration: Panic Disorder
Standing like a Tree Qigong—Finding Your Stance
Case Illustration: Qigong with a Disabled Car-Accident Victim
Pain and Economics
Research on Complementary Treatment of Pain
Methods of Qigong and Visualization: Partners in Pain Relief
Dealing with Various Types of Pain: The Medicine Wheel of Possibilities
“Focusing” on the Meaning of Pain
The New Biology and Somatic Approaches to Healing Trauma
Using Qigong to Modulate the Sympathetic Nervous System Stress Response
Depth Psychotherapy and Trauma
Healing Trauma with Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy
Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy for Addictions
The BMHP Process for Smoking Addictions
Case Illustration: Binge Eating
Sacrifice: A Key Tool in Addictions and in Therapy in General
Twelve-Step Programs
Case Illustration: Working with Codependence—A Kabbalistic/Qigong Perspective
Research
Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy Treatment Protocol for Insomnia
Case Illustration: The Unresolved Issues That Invade Your Sleep
Alternative Visualization Methods
Research
Qigong and the River of Life: A Quick Fix for Hypertension?
Case Illustration: The Hypertensive Executive—What Lies Beneath the Surface?
Chinese Medical Approaches to Hypertension
Case Illustration: Is Qigong Palatable to Fundamentalist Christians?
Research: Medication versus Behavioral Health
Exercise
Qigong: An Exercise That Is More Than Exercise
The Integrated Approach of Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy
Arthritis, Joint Problems, and Musculoskeletal Disorders
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Joint Problems
Fibromyalgia
Diabetes
Headaches
Raynaud’s Syndrome
Stomach Disorders
Case Illustration: “I’m Going to Cut My Wife’s Head Off with My Samurai Sword”
Shape-Shifting and Changing Your Life Stance
Enhance Your Stance: Transforming Your “Depressive Position” with Qigong
The Taoist Initiate Who Sees the Sacred in Everyday Movements
Tapping the Metaphorical Wisdom of the Bodymind Using Internal Martial Arts
The Healing Power of Psychological Metaphors Hidden in the Internal Martial Arts
Why Tap on Points on the Body When You Can Tap on the Wisdom of the Primordial Self?
The Tai Chi of Emotional Expression
Case Illustrations: Balanced Emotional Expression Is Enhanced by Tai Chi Postures
Broadening Our Psychological Repertoires with Interdisciplinary Somatic Practices
Language, Tai Chi, and the Body
Verbal Tai Chi and the Subtle Art of Bantering: Case Illustration of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Finding Verbal Power in the Ring of Life: Case Illustration of the Wife of the Verbally Adept Salesman
Role Playing: To Activate Our Vital Energy
Tai Chi Practices to Enhance Empowerment and Change Your Life Stance
Transpersonal Psychology and the Energies of the Wider Whole
Transpersonal Hypnosis and Healing with the Elements
Anchoring State-Specific States Using the Five Elements of the Internal Martial Arts
Four Elements of Constructive Communication of Negative Feelings
Mythology: The Key to the Door of Your Psyche
Focusing and the Mythic Journey Process
The Mythic Journey Process
Oh, Healer, Replenish Thy Self
The Bodymind Healing Qigong Twenty-Minute Routine
The Eight Bodymind Healing Qigong Practices
S ECTION I: Our Birthright: The Self-Healing Energy within Us
Chapter 1: The Self-Healing Power of the Bodymind
Chapter 2: Energy Psychologies: Tapping the Vital Healing Power of the Bodymind
Chapter 3: The Ancient Roots of Energy Psychology
Chapter 4: Combining Qigong, Imagery, and Breathwork: Practices to Activate State-Specific Altered States
Chapter 5: Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy: The Psychotherapy of Shape-Shifting
S ECTION II: Case Illustrations for Common Mental and Physical Health Issues
Chapter 6: Anxiety and Panic Disorders
Chapter 7: Qigong and Behavioral Medicine: An Integrated Approach to Chronic Pain
Chapter 8: Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress
Chapter 9: Addictions
Chapter 10: Insomnia
Chapter 11: Hypertension
Chapter 12: Depression
Chapter 13: Additional Syndromes Alleviated by Qigong and Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy
Chapter 14: Qigong Psychosis
S ECTION III: Using Ancient Sacred Wisdom Traditions and Western Bodymind Healing Methods in Your Everyday Life
Chapter 15: Changing Your Life Stance
Chapter 16: Your Everyday Gestures: Activating the Healing Energy of Your Primordial Self
Chapter 17: Centered Emotional Expression: The Embodiment of Tai Chi
Chapter 18: Everyday Life as an Internal Martial Art
Chapter 19: Healing with the Elements and Transpersonal Hypnosis
Chapter 20: The Mythic Journey Process: Transforming Your Demons with a Qi-Filled Story
S ECTION IV: Healing the Healer in You: Bodymind Healing Qigong’s Twenty-Minute Practice Routine
Chapter 21: Bodymind Healing Qigong’s Twenty-Minute Practice Routine
Afterword
References
Notes
Other Books by This Author
About the Author
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