Lynne McTaggart
See book keywords and concepts |  In my own study of intention "masters," I spoke with Bruce Frantzis, arguably the greatest Qigong master in the West. A martial arts champion, with black belts in five Japanese martial arts, he also learned healing
Qigong through years of study with Chinese masters. Frantzis s powers of intention were legendary; he had been videoed sending people flying across the room simply by directing qi. In his fighting days, he had put several people into wheelchairs. Now, knowing its extraordinary power, he reserved qi for healing. |
John J. Ratey, MD
See book keywords and concepts |  Rats don't do judo, but scientists have looked at the neurochemical changes in their brains after periods of acrobatic exercise, the closest parallel to martial arts. Compared to rats running on a treadmill, their cohorts who practiced complex motor skills improved levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) more dramatically, which suggests that growth is happening in the cerebellum.
In the limbic system, as I've explained, exercise helps regulate the amygdala, which in the context of ADHD blunts the hair-trigger responsiveness a lot of patients experience. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  That includes even very active lifestyles like my own, which involve strength training, Pilates, lots of running, martial arts and cycling.
The bottom line is that I am a cautious supporter of this idea of artificial meat production because of the practicalities involved. People will continue to consume meat on the planet for the time being. If that is the case, then I believe that we are much better off having people consume artificial meat than tearing the flesh from living, breathing beings and calling that dinner. |
KC Craichy
See book keywords and concepts |  He was one of legendary Ed Parker's first martial arts students, and he ultimately became a superior martial arts professional and teacher. His seven "Tiger Moves" system is literally second to none, which is why I'm recommending them in this book. McSweeney tried just about every exercise system imaginable—weightlifting, calisthenics, isometrics, yoga, Tai Chi, and Qi Gong. But in terms of strength benefits, physique development, and the acquisition of vibrant health, he was adamant that nothing compared to his remarkable "Tiger Moves" system. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  Two exercise modalities worth checking out are tai chi, a very gentle form of martial arts that involves soft, flowing movements and no stress on the joints, and water aerobics, which can be done at different levels of difficulty without putting any stress on the joints. For more ideas, the www.about.com website has an excellent introduction to exercise with arthritis. And if you or someone you love is truly unable to get out of a chair, there's still hope—the Sit and Be Fit program is a wonderful resource. Check it out at www.sitandbefit.com. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Chi-gong, an activity that looks like slow-mo martial arts, can not only help improve your physical well-being but can serve as a mind-clearing exercise. This slow, gentle series of movements can help reduce the noise and is especially great if you have aches and pains that hold you back from your normal routine. We offer a sample plan on page 377.
YOU Tip: Load Up on Salad. The veggies, not the fat-laden dressing. It's been shown that vegetables-any kind, any place-slow cognitive decline even more than fruits. Eating two or more servings a day (just two! |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
See book keywords and concepts |  If you practice yoga or the martial arts, you know how important proper breathing is to overall physical strength and agility. It may be just as important to your health at a bioenergetic level. On the negative side, one interesting hint from NES research is that spending a lot of time in air-conditioning may deplete your Source energy.
ENERGETIC STAR 5: AUTOIMMUNE
Contrary to its name, this Star is not correlated only to autoimmune disorders, for it also has a bioenergetic antiallergy effect, especially when used with Thymus Driver in the same protocol. |
Jack Challem
See book keywords and concepts |  In contrast, fast-twitch muscles are better for short bursts of energy, such as those required for baseball, basketball, golf, handball, martial arts, skiing, sprinting, tennis, weight lifting, and yoga.
Important Considerations while Exercising
• Stay hydrated. Physical activity should make you sweat, and that means you need to stay hydrated. Take regular breaks to drink water. If you're going to exercise nonstop for thirty minutes or more, bring water and an energy bar with you. (I consider the
Larabar and the Buzzbar brands to be the tastiest and most healthful energy bars on the market. |
John J. Ratey, MD
See book keywords and concepts | | And he's pretty confident that it's important to include complex motor movements (such as aerobic dance or martial arts) in your routine. But he can't give specific recommendations just yet.
And that's OK. We don't need to rely exclusively on neuroscientists to get started. First of all, there are certain conclusions we can draw from the work they've already done. Second, there is instructive evidence from other fields. Research from kinesiolo-gists to epidemiologists shows again and again that the better your fitness level, the better your brain works. |
KC Craichy
See book keywords and concepts | | This may sound a little too good to be true, but I have to tell you that I have done countless exercise programs over the years, and I've trained in the martial arts for much of my life, holding a black belt in a Christian martial arts system called Yon Ch'uan. Peterson's system delivers on its promises. I know this to be true because I am using it today. It has enhanced my strength, increased my range of motion and flexibility, and it had an almost immediate impact upon my body. |
John J. Ratey, MD
See book keywords and concepts | | For ADHD in particular, the complex, focus-intensive sports such as martial arts and gymnastics are a great way to tax the brain. By engaging every element of the attention system, it holds you rapt. These sports are just more interesting than running on a treadmill, and participation tends to be self-perpetuating—it's easier to stick with it.
I try to do my workout first thing in the morning, both for the structure it affords and to set the right tone for the day. A lot of times, that keeps me going. |
KC Craichy
See book keywords and concepts | | He was one of legendary Ed Parker's first martial arts students, and he ultimately became a superior martial arts professional and teacher. His seven "Tiger Moves" system is literally second to none, which is why I'm recommending them in this book. McSweeney tried just about every exercise system imaginable—weightlifting, calisthenics, isometrics, yoga, Tai Chi, and Qi Gong. But in terms of strength benefits, physique development, and the acquisition of vibrant health, he was adamant that nothing compared to his remarkable "Tiger Moves" system. |
John J. Ratey, MD
See book keywords and concepts | | They share overlapping pathways, which is probably why activities like martial arts work well for ADHD kids — they have to pay attention while learning new movements, which engages and trains both systems.
A controversial treatment for dyslexia—which occurs in about 30 percent of ADHD patients—relies entirely on physical movements to train the cerebellum. Dyslexia, dyspraxia, and attention treatment (DDAT) is based on the theory that a disruption in the brain's ability to coordinate movement might be responsible for eye-tracking problems and thus difficulties in learning to read and write. | | You could substitute any of the martial arts here or any highly structured form of exercise such as ballet, figure skating, or gymnastics. Less traditional sports, such as rock climbing, mountain biking, whitewater paddling, and—sorry to tell you, Mom—skateboarding, are also effective in the sense that they require complex movements in the midst of heavy exertion. The combination of challenging the brain and the body has a greater positive impact than aerobic exercise alone. One small study from a graduate student at Hofstra University tested this fact. |
Gregg Braden
See book keywords and concepts |  This discovery makes tremendous sense to me, having studied martial arts in my 20s and 30s. My instructors always began teaching a new movement by advising us to first "see" it in our minds again and again until it was natural and became second nature. When we use our imagination in this way and create in our minds what we're about to do in the world, these studies suggest that we're actually building the network of neural connections that make our live actions possible.
The researchers coined a new term for the special group of neurons that forms each of our libraries of possibilities. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  I've personally used it to heal from sprains and bruises earned during gymnastics and martial arts.
Chlorella: Japanese studies have found Chlorella Growth Factor (CGF) to be especially effective in speeding up cell growth, a major factor in the natural repair of wounds. Various other studies reveal CGF helps heal ulcers and promote bone and muscle growth. When taken internally, it also acts as an immune-booster. Topically, it functions as a protective cleansing compound for skin.
Chlorella is found in numerous superfood products, including Rejuvenate! from Health Products Distributors, Inc. |
Anne Harrington
See book keywords and concepts |  In the case of martial arts, directing qi outside the body can repel an attacker (the film shows a rather campy demonstration of this). In a medical context, directing qi out of the body and into the body of a patient can act to revitalize his flagging or stagnant qi.
In Moyers's companion book to Healing and the Mind, qi is described as a mysterious force, a force that, "as a physical reality . . . makes no sense at all. | | Qigong (the word itself was coined only in 1953) was a medicalized and secular extraction of a range of diverse practices that had originally been associated more with martial arts, advanced Buddhist meditative practices, and Taoist longevity rituals. Interest in its possible clinical and health-giving properties had been growing in China since the 1950s, when claims began to be made for its ability to cure cancer.65
By the early 1990s, China was in the grip of a qigong medical boom. Elderly people practiced it in the hopes that it would extend their lives. |
John J. Ratey, MD
See book keywords and concepts | | Yoga, Pilates, tai chi, martial arts, and dance all involve these skills, which are important to staying agile. Without balance and flexibility, your ability to stick with an aerobic and strength-training regimen will diminish. In lieu of an activity, you can do drills on an exercise ball, balance board, or Bosu, which is half a rubber ball that you stand on to challenge your core muscles. Remember Harold, the octogenarian skier? He trained on the Bosu for his most recent ski trip.
MENTAL EXERCISE: KEEP LEARNING
My advice here is to keep challenging your mind. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
See book keywords and concepts |  You can work with martial arts with kids so they can use their energy in a different way. As long as we keep posing the question—what does the expert have to do to us or for us?—we're in trouble. All we're going to come up with is more drugs."
Dr. Gordon says he's still waiting to see a good study that looks at the relationship between nutrition and the mind. "Dean Ornish did that with heart disease—he showed that if you ate a different kind of diet, you could reverse heart disease. |
Lynne McTaggart
See book keywords and concepts | | In Schmidt's martial arts study, the numbers on the visual display remained in their "potential" state of all possible sets of numbers until they had been observed by the students. At that point, the mental intent of the students and the numbers on the display interacted in a quantum way. According to Stapp, the physical universe exists as a set of "tendencies" with "statistical links" between mental events. Even though the tape of the numbers has been generated, they divide into a number of channels of all possible outcomes. | | On investigating the source of this energy, Green discovered that the pulses were coming from the healer's abdomen, called dan tien and considered the central engine of internal energy in the body in Chinese martial arts.6
Stanford University physicist William Tiller constructed an ingenious device to measure the energy produced by healers. The equipment discharged a steady stream of gas and recorded the exact number of electrons pulsing out with the discharge. Any increase in voltage would be captured by the pulse counter. | | Walker and later Henry Stapp, an elementary particle physicist at the University of California at Berkeley, who acted as an independent monitor of Helmut Schmidt's final martial arts study, believed that a small tweak in quantum theory, making use of "nonlinear quantum theory," could explain all cases of retroinfluence. In a linear system such as current quantum mechanics, the behavior of a system can be easily described: 2 + 2 = 4. The systems behavior is the sum of its parts. In a nonlinear system, 2 + 2 may equal 5 or even 8. | | Schmidt continually refined the design of his "retro-PK" studies over 20 years, eventually involving martial arts students, who are trained in mind control. In one study, he used a radioactive-decay counter to generate a visual display of random numbers. The students sat in front of this visual display, and attempted mentally to influence the numbers in a particular statistical distribution. Once again, he achieved a highly significant result, with odds of 1,000 to 1 against its being a chance occurrence. |
Richard Bartlett
See book keywords and concepts |  Years later, I had another strange and time-distorting incident with a distinctively martial arts flavor. It happened in seventh grade on the asphalt playground of my Catholic parochial school, Our Lady of Perpetual Help. My school experience was more like Our Lady of Perpetual Harassment. Kids at any age can be mean to each other, and the bullies and braggarts who perpetuate the mythic underpinnings of the grade school experience seem bound to pounce with fervor on any perceived weakness in a schoolmate. |
Dawson Church
See book keywords and concepts |  It emphasizes large, gentle, slow motion movements, as opposed to the abrupt offensive movements of other martial arts. The Yang family's style of T'ai Chi, which is the most widely practiced, gained popularity in 1850 when the style's founder, Yang Luchan, was retained by the Chinese Emperor to instruct the Imperial Guard in the art.
YangLuchan's grandson Tang Cheng-fu demonstrating the Single Whip position
Adherents practice T'ai Chi by the thousands in parks and public spaces all over China in the mornings. |
KC Craichy
See book keywords and concepts | | Grace martial arts Fellowship (www.gmaf.org), through which we were introduced to a Christian martial arts system called Yon Ch'uan, which includes tai chi. Tai chi began to gain popularity in the United States in the 1960s. It enhances balance, flexibility, gait, and posture, but also contributes to physical and mental well-being. Many older people have turned to tai chi, as it can help them manage chronic medical disorders, such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and multiple sclerosis. Yang tai chi, in particular, is increasingly popular with the elderly, as its movements are slow and continuous. |
David Steinman
See book keywords and concepts |  I was trying to get my oldest son to his martial arts class for his fourth green belt test in Tang Soo do Tony Do Khan, which is not bad for a ten-year-old.1 Our three-year-old son knew I was going, and he was holding onto me like a little cloying monkey. Only my daughter (the twin) was sanguine, and she made going easy, but, then, she had Mama at her side, the older woman's hand absently in her hair. Terri was going through tough times with the passing of her father and her mother's lung cancer and other crises. | | He looked like Pat Morita, the late actor whose role as sensei in The Karate Kid did so much to elevate martial arts to a spiritual as well as physical quest for millions of American children. I wanted to meet Suzuki for a long time. He is a seminal figure in the global environmental movement; yet, because he is considered to be a man of wisdom and vision, he has astutely avoided politicizing the environment. |
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