Brain fitness : the easy way of keeping your mind sharp through qigong movements / Dr. Aihan Kuhn.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Wolfeboro, NH USA : YMAA Publication Center, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: xv, 153 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781594395246
- 1594395241
- Qi gong -- Health aspects
- Tai chi -- Health aspects
- Qi gong -- Psychological aspects
- Tai chi -- Psychological aspects
- Intellect -- Deterioration -- Prevention
- Memory disorders -- Prevention
- Brain -- Aging -- Prevention
- Brain -- Degeneration -- Prevention
- Holistic medicine
- Medicine, Chinese
- Mind and body
- Self-care, Health
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In Brain Fitness Dr. Aihan Kuhn shares her expertise in tai chi, qigong, and medicine, giving readers exercises designed to prevent brain aging. This book represents a synthesis of Dr. Kuhn's studies in martial arts as well as Eastern and Western healing.
Tai chi and qigong practitioners around the world have long known that these arts promote fitness and self-defense. In this book Dr. Kuhn discusses their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual benefits. She emphasizes how tai chi and qigong aid in memory, emotional balance, and lifelong learning.
This book features:
An illustrated manual detailing tai chi and qigong exercises to prevent brain aging Elements of Eastern and Western medicine combined to form a new vision of brain health Dr. Kuhn's concise, accessible guidance from a lifetime of studying martial arts and medicineWith this book you will:
Learn Dr. Kuhn's keys to prevent brain aging Discover the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual benefits of tai chi Learn how tai chi and qigong assist in human healingDr. Kuhn says we have long assumed that getting older means facing a decline in memory, attention span, numerical ability, creativity, alertness, learning ability, and language. " But we were wrong ," she adds. " New findings from science show that if the brain is consistently stimulated, no matter at what age, the brain can remain young and healthy. "
She has written Brain Fitness to help us all maintain that clarity, creativity, and vitality.
Includes bibliographical references (page 143) and index.
Body-brain-mind healing -- Understanding taiji and qigong -- Taiji and brain fitness -- The way to wise living -- Get with the program and stay young -- Brain fitness practice -- Where am I on my path?
The author shares her expertise in tai chi, qigong, and medicine, emphasizing how tai chi and qigong aid in memory, emotional balance, and lifelong learning. This book features an illustrated manual detailing tai chi and qigong exercises to prevent brain aging; and concise, accessible guidance in combining elements of eastern and western medicine to form a new vision of brain health.--Publisher.