Working Out, Working Within-The Tao of Inner Fitness Through Sports and Exercise

Zen meets The Zone in this best-selling guide to combining physical fitness with spiritual awakening.

During physical training, we can experience something deeper than just the burn of working out. We can achieve spiritual awarenss and know that we are alive and healthy. Working Out, Working Within

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provides a wealth of techniques and ideas to avoid fixating on winning the game, scoring the goal, or bulding the perfect body. Instead, it shows how our workouts can become tools for personal transcendence as we get to know ourselves, test our limits, gather personal strength, a build physical potency.

'Brilliant in its simplicity, rich in its content, this book is right on the money for any coach or athlete looking for a complete athletic experience.'-Bob Hansen, Head Coach, University of California, Santa Cruz, NCAA Men's Tennis Champions

'Jery Lynch and Chungliang Al Huang have another winner with Working Out, Working Within. Filled with practice exercises and sage advice, this is a book that will help everyone experience the most and the best in life.'-Michael Murphy, Cofounder of the Esalen Institute and author of Golf in the Kingdom and The Future of the Body

'Boost your willpower with...Working Out, Working Within-Fitness Magazine

Jerry Lynch Ph.D., has taught at several universities and is a sports psychologist, coach, national-class athlete, and international speaker. He is the author of six books, incuding, with Chungliang Al Huang, Thinking Body, Dancing Mind, and the founder of the Tao Sports Center for Excellence in Santa Cruz, California.

Chungliang Al Huang is founder and president of the Living Tao Foundation and the Lan Ling Institute in China. He is an internationally recognized authority on the Tao, a Tai Ji master, a calligrapher, and the author of many books, including the best-selling Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain.

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Introduction Beyond sports and exercise
Part 1 Starting out: Techniques for cultivating inner talent
Application of ancient wisdom: The philosophy of Tao
Breath watching: Meditation wth a Tao mind
Visual recoding: What you see, you get
Affirmation reciting: What you say, you do
Part 2 Inward bound: Entering the five-stage journey for inner fitness
Stage 1 Hurdling the limits to discover the dance
Facing the fear
Thinking mind, judging mind
The power of 'I can'
Yield to the unachievable
Effort without effort
Enjoying the dance
Stage 2 Lighting the fires of physical resurgence
Power of passion
Acceptance is action
Making a sacred pledge
The risk of not risking
Project yur qi
Go slower, arrive sooner
Stage 3 Carrying the torch of unlimited possibliity
Limiless limits
Exhibiting a presence
The wisodom of non-excessiveness
Lanterns illuminating the way
What you see, you get
Practice, practice, practice
Stage 4 Seizing the victories from the battles within
With no need to win, victory is yours
Loss is gain
The art of seeking together
One heart, one goal
Reisstance creates pesistence
The power of modesty
Stage 5 Swimmng for ideas in the stream of consciousness
Stillness in motion
Moonrise, sunset
The art of game sense
Keep it simple
Walk your talk
Cooperate with natural rhythms
Part 3 Coming home: A reunion of body, mind and spirit
The journey is better than the inn
Dancing with the dee

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