Barefoot Doctor's Handbook for the Urban Warrior: Spiritual Survival Guide by Stephen Russell |
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Barefoot Doctor is a British Taoist healer with a refreshingly frank attitude. Unlike many other self-help books, Return of the Urban Warrior doesn't aim to help you slow down your stressful life, but rather to ride along with it, in the true spirit of the Tao. It's not about giving up your life-style, your mobile phone, your lover; "It's not a question of the spiritual or the profane," he says, "but the spiritual and the profane".
The exercises in this book are practical. One of the first, and simplest, is learning to control your breathing, slowly in and out, without holding your breath in between. "By decelerating your breath tempo you internally hook on to an easy half-time groove that will enable you to remain relaxed in the midst of high-speed action." From this the author leads on to awareness of three zones of the body--behind the eyes, behind the breastbone, and behind the loins--to be in control of oneself. "The upper chamber houses that aspect of your "one" that witnesses, the middle chamber houses that aspect that feels, the lower chamber houses that aspect that "is" or that drives your "isness"."
And we're only a fifth of the way through the book! After this it becomes more complicated, with a "meta-network of eight super-conduits that regulate your universe". Along the way, without making a big thing of it, the author leads the reader through a succession of meditation exercises, visualisation exercises and affirmations.
Oddly, for a book meant to grab us with fast-paced ideas we can use in our fast-paced lives, it's a little slow-starting; the Barefoot Doctor has a casual, laid-back style almost at variance with his message. But once it gets going, there's barely a moment to pause. This isn't a book to be read straight through, cover to cover, but one to work through slowly, page by page, until each exercise in it becomes second nature. --David V Barrett
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"Barefoot Doctor is the modern day equivalent of a nomadic healer (but he's also got) enough charm and humour to make palatable at least some of the pseudospiritual psychobabble his vocation involves" DAILY TELEGRAPH "A charismatic figure with a calming way (of helping his charges) ... one to catch." TIME OUT "(After one hour of healing), the sense of lifted spirits and serenity is overwhelming" VOGUE
On the back cover of this book is a warning that 'ingestion can reconstitute your reality at a radical level and may cause unexpected bouts of uncontrollable happiness'. The Barefoot Doctor's regular column in the Observer Magazine dispenses good holistic and homeopathic advice for just about any and every ailment, and his manner is light-hearted though serious and always to the point. He begins this book with an explanation of the perils of the ever-increasing speed of the modern world, and our addiction to it. The Barefoot Doctor has a common diagnosis for mankind: we are all energy junkies. We need others to survive and therefore we congregate, aided by technology; yet this crowding is destroying as well as sustaining us. His purpose is to teach us how to source energy from within and stop looking for it externally, and to adopt a 'Warrior's' attitude to life. His counsel is based on Tao, which means the deepest level of reality, the undifferentiated absolute, or God (though not a 'religious' God). Tao encapsulates the idea of 'return', and the Barefoot Doctor then details specific techniques to reconnect with the Tao (we all did it effortlessly and unknowingly as children) which will he says, help us deal with the pace of life, keep one step ahead and not drop out of the race. The Taoists discovered that 'returning' physically, spiritually and mentally empowered them. They called this power 'chi' and discovered that the more one generates 'chi', the less one needs to rely on others for it. To source and maintain this 'chi', they had to keep connecting with the Tao, a prerequisite being to spend more time with oneself and engage in deep meditations which are described here in detail. This book is serious about its subject and demands a great deal of concentration, but the reader won't regret a single second. The author's tendency to slightly Americanize his prose style and his rather annoying habit of referring to himself as 'zany' and 'weird' is redeemed by his clarity, sharp insight and straightforward guidance. Recommended for those looking for a different way to restore their energy levels. (Kirkus UK)
On the back cover of this book is a warning that 'ingestion can reconstitute your reality at a radical level and may cause unexpected bouts of uncontrollable happiness'. The Barefoot Doctor's regular column in the Observer Magazine dispenses good holistic and homeopathic advice for just about any and every ailment, and his manner is light-hearted though serious and always to the point. He begins this book with an explanation of the perils of the ever-increasing speed of the modern world, and our addiction to it. The Barefoot Doctor has a common diagnosis for mankind: we are all energy junkies. We need others to survive and therefore we congregate, aided by technology; yet this crowding is destroying as well as sustaining us. His purpose is to teach us how to source energy from within and stop looking for it externally, and to adopt a 'Warrior's' attitude to life. His counsel is based on Tao, which means the deepest level of reality, the undifferentiated absolute, or God (though not a 'religious' God). Tao encapsulates the idea of 'return', and the Barefoot Doctor then details specific techniques to reconnect with the Tao (we all did it effortlessly and unknowingly as children) which will he says, help us deal with the pace of life, keep one step ahead and not drop out of the race. The Taoists discovered that 'returning' physically, spiritually and mentally empowered them. They called this power 'chi' and discovered that the more one generates 'chi', the less one needs to rely on others for it. To source and maintain this 'chi', they had to keep connecting with the Tao, a prerequisite being to spend more time with oneself and engage in deep meditations which are described here in detail. This book is serious about its subject and demands a great deal of concentration, but the reader won't regret a single second. The author's tendency to slightly Americanize his prose style and his rather annoying habit of referring to himself as 'zany' and 'weird' is redeemed by his clarity, sharp insight and straightforward guidance. Recommended for those looking for a different way to restore their energy levels. (Kirkus UK)
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