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," . . a positive force that can be used to redirect the inner strife, or dis-ease, within one's body. . . . The Inner Smile is a slim book that covers a lot of ground and should be recognized as a laudable effort to take concepts which are vast and significant and make them accessible to all."
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The Inner Smile is a practice that focuses gratitude and joy on the internal organs to resolve the physical and mental tensions that can lead to illness. In Taoism negative motions - anger, sadness, depression, fear and worry - are seen as low-grade energy that causes chronic disease and steals our major life force by creating energy blockages. Master Mantak Chia shows that the internal awareness produced by the simple yet powerful Inner Smile meditation practice flushes the organs of poisonous negative energy that may be blocking chi energy flow in order to nourish the entire body. Just as a genuine outer smile transmits positive energy and has the power to warm and heal, an inner smile produces a high grade of energy that promotes powerful internal healing, deep relaxation, happiness and longevity. Smiling to the organs and thanking them for the work they do helps to reawaken the intelligence of the body, which, once activated, can dissipate emotional imbalances and inner disharmony before serious illness manifests. · Presents exercises that dissolve the physical and mental tensions that can cause energy blockages and unhealthy chi flow and shows how to recognize illness at its inception on the organ level and how to balance the emotions to heal it
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A great book that is easy to read and understand. The book makes all the concepts that are explained in the book accessible to someone just starting on this path of descovery.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
A little too much repetition and not enough new material
19 Oct 2008
Format:Paperback
The Inner Smile is a book entirely devoted to the inner smile meditation technique developed by Mantak Chia. Chia discusses some of the basics of chi and Taoist energy work and then proceeds to describe how the inner smile technique works. His perspective is that using the inner smile can be used to bring emotional happiness to the internal organs of the body.
While I think this is a good book, my main problem with it is that pretty much all of the material can be found in his more advanced books. While he does seem to go into a bit more depth about the inner smile meditation technique in this book, it doesn't, in my opinion, justify a completely new book to explain the practice. It feels like he's trying to milk these topics for everything he can get, when he might better serve his readers by combining some of the related topics into a larger book. The consistency of how much he repeats his other works diminishes the value of this book and his other writing.
I'd recommend this book for someone who's just learning about Taoist breathing and energetic techniques and wants a light introduction to it. However, I can't really recommend it to anyone else, because the majority of the information is available in all of his other books.
While I think this is a good book, my main problem with it is that pretty much all of the material can be found in his more advanced books. While he does seem to go into a bit more depth about the inner smile meditation technique in this book, it doesn't, in my opinion, justify a completely new book to explain the practice. It feels like he's trying to milk these topics for everything he can get, when he might better serve his readers by combining some of the related topics into a larger book. The consistency of how much he repeats his other works diminishes the value of this book and his other writing.
I'd recommend this book for someone who's just learning about Taoist breathing and energetic techniques and wants a light introduction to it. However, I can't really recommend it to anyone else, because the majority of the information is available in all of his other books.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Good Introduction to the Mantak Chia System
26 Feb 2009
Format:Paperback
On the positive side, this book is a great introduction to the world of qigong and I highly recommend it for beginners and those wanting a little more information about the subject. I made the mistake of purchasing this book along with a few other Mantak Chia's qigong manuals only to find out it had a lot of repeated material from the other books. Don't bother buying this book if you already own Chia's "Healing Light of the Tao" or "Awaken Healing Energy Through Tao".
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Powerful and Profound... this is the Taoist exercise everyone should know...
27 Oct 2010
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Although the other reviewers are correct in stating most of this material is repetition from other books, it still deserves 5 stars, easily.
This is likely now the best intro to Mantak Chia's work.
Why is this material incredibly valuable?
-The inner smile is an incredible exercise for improving health
-The benefits can be felt almost immediately!
-It is one of the quickest ways I know to turn your attitude around
-Although Mantak Chia describes tons of Taoist energy exercises in his books, I feel that the Inner Smile is by far the most important one
-The Inner Smile is incredibly easy... virtually everyone gets great results right away.
I enjoy playing with a lot of different meditations... but when I have trouble, it usually only takes a few minutes of the Inner Smile to get me focused, relaxed, and happy again.
In addition, repetition is required for learning. If you read about a meditation, and practice it for a while, it is very valuable to go back and read it again. You will likely learn something new everytime, as your perspective will continue to change from your consistent practice. Having it in another book just gives you another reason to study the material again.
I still have tough days from time to time... this implies to me that I have more to learn/understand/integrate about the Inner Smile, even though I feel it has been of tremendous benefit already.
If you aren't familiar with this exercise... Get This Book! If you are familiar with it, and you practice regularly... then you probably don't need it... but I'm more than happy to spend $10 to support the guy who introduced me to this.
keep smiling,
Benjamin
This is likely now the best intro to Mantak Chia's work.
Why is this material incredibly valuable?
-The inner smile is an incredible exercise for improving health
-The benefits can be felt almost immediately!
-It is one of the quickest ways I know to turn your attitude around
-Although Mantak Chia describes tons of Taoist energy exercises in his books, I feel that the Inner Smile is by far the most important one
-The Inner Smile is incredibly easy... virtually everyone gets great results right away.
I enjoy playing with a lot of different meditations... but when I have trouble, it usually only takes a few minutes of the Inner Smile to get me focused, relaxed, and happy again.
In addition, repetition is required for learning. If you read about a meditation, and practice it for a while, it is very valuable to go back and read it again. You will likely learn something new everytime, as your perspective will continue to change from your consistent practice. Having it in another book just gives you another reason to study the material again.
I still have tough days from time to time... this implies to me that I have more to learn/understand/integrate about the Inner Smile, even though I feel it has been of tremendous benefit already.
If you aren't familiar with this exercise... Get This Book! If you are familiar with it, and you practice regularly... then you probably don't need it... but I'm more than happy to spend $10 to support the guy who introduced me to this.
keep smiling,
Benjamin
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