"Martial master and consciousness guru Peter Ralston translates his body-being work into a "physical education" for anyone interested in the body. Teaching a simple Zen mindset that expands our awareness of mind, body, and interaction, he leads us to new possibilities in awareness, skill, and effortless power"--Provided by publisher.
What is physical ability? -- Cultural influences -- Source of improvement -- Accessing body intelligence -- Beginner's body-being -- Mind training -- Creating insight -- Zen -- Basics of perception -- Three aspects of body awareness -- Awareness -- Feeling is foremost -- Intent, impulse, and feedback -- Feeling-awareness -- Body-being basics -- Opening a door -- five steps to transformation -- Enhancing feeling-awareness -- Barriers to feeling -- Learning to investigate what's true -- Some key elements of learning -- Questioning self -- Being your body -- Body and identity -- Two domains of feeling -- Creating feeling -- A more conscious experience -- Student-on-a-stick -- What is a principle? -- Insight -- An object in space -- Five principles for an effortlessly effective body -- Body basics -- What is alignment? -- Body design -- Fourteen points on structural alignment -- Being aware of structural alignments -- Using the body effortlessly and effectively -- What is intrinsic strength? -- A discovery of effortless power -- Changing our minds -- Noticing perception -- Perception and response -- Controlling the mind -- Turning perception into feeling -- Creative aspect of mind and perception -- Mind, perception, and relationship -- Awareness, relationship, and interaction -- The principle of effective interaction -- Increasing relational awareness -- Inclusive awareness -- More than you need to know about consciousness -- Getting in our own way -- Body-being and interaction -- Study and training -- Training -- Body and exercise -- Body at the office -- Body at labor -- Body and athletics -- Stretching the body -- Body-being for the body-worker -- T'ai chi for every body -- Sex and body feel -- Body and the arts -- A practice for life.
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