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Your body was beatufully designed for the purpose of hunting and gathering food, and for making the tools to help you in that task. However, with the conveniences of modern life we are less active, and unless we make a special effort to exercise, the body tends to lose much of its natural
These exercises and techniques have been specially chosen to help you gently ease the strains and stresses of everday life-without putting too many demands on your already too-busy schedule. There is no need to suffer now to gain future rewards where your mental and physical and relaxation is concerned. 'Easy is right' in the process of reconnecting with the body's natural wisdom, and you'll notice the benefits right away.
Well-being is more than just a physical state. BodyWisdom acknowledges the deep interdependence of body and mind, and its simple techniques guided you toward a concrete experience and understanding of this 'hoistic' approach to your health.
No special diets, no fancy gear, no long and arduous training is required-instead, you'll learn to listen to your own body and its needs. BodyWisdom recognizes the fact that each of us is a unique phenomenon.The collection of tools in these pages will help you discover the path to relaxation and well-being that your own body's wisdom wants you to follow.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Body basics
Beneath the skin: A guide to what's what and where
The miniature you in your ear
It's all in the feet: Who's who inside your shoes
Breath and the rhythm of life
Body safari: A guided tour of bodyland
2 Getting it together
The body you have...Use it! Enjoy it!
Start from the body...and then go deeper
Total relaxation is paradise
Heads can argue...hearts cannot argue
Finding you roots, spreading your wings; getting your feet on the ground
Easy is right-following the movement from within
3 The everyday body
First things first: five easy ways to start your day
Pull yourself up by your own ears
Calisthenics for lazy people
Syncopated rhythms
Yoga wake-ups for weekday warriors
The great shower escape
4 Commuter workouts
Making the most of the to-ing and fro-ing
It's all in how you look at it
Step by step by step
Space among the sardines
Just standing around
Fly, fly high
Helpful hints for taking to the road
5 Office routines: quick breaks from life in the fast lane
When the eyes have had it
Takng a different perspective
Airing out the headroom
Ten 30-second holidays for desk jockeys
Five caffeine-free pick-me-ups
Unwind...before you unravel!
If you can't freak out, freak in
6 Everybody's home companion
Get yourself a new attitude
Deprogramming the robot
You are how you eat
The body is total make contact with it
The couch potato's guide to bodymind fitness
Take off a happy face
The handyman's drill
Home spa recipes for the tense and the tired
Sleepy body, sweet dreams
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flexibility and aliveness. But who has time?These exercises and techniques have been specially chosen to help you gently ease the strains and stresses of everday life-without putting too many demands on your already too-busy schedule. There is no need to suffer now to gain future rewards where your mental and physical and relaxation is concerned. 'Easy is right' in the process of reconnecting with the body's natural wisdom, and you'll notice the benefits right away.
Well-being is more than just a physical state. BodyWisdom acknowledges the deep interdependence of body and mind, and its simple techniques guided you toward a concrete experience and understanding of this 'hoistic' approach to your health.
No special diets, no fancy gear, no long and arduous training is required-instead, you'll learn to listen to your own body and its needs. BodyWisdom recognizes the fact that each of us is a unique phenomenon.The collection of tools in these pages will help you discover the path to relaxation and well-being that your own body's wisdom wants you to follow.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Body basics
Beneath the skin: A guide to what's what and where
The miniature you in your ear
It's all in the feet: Who's who inside your shoes
Breath and the rhythm of life
Body safari: A guided tour of bodyland
2 Getting it together
The body you have...Use it! Enjoy it!
Start from the body...and then go deeper
Total relaxation is paradise
Heads can argue...hearts cannot argue
Finding you roots, spreading your wings; getting your feet on the ground
Easy is right-following the movement from within
3 The everyday body
First things first: five easy ways to start your day
Pull yourself up by your own ears
Calisthenics for lazy people
Syncopated rhythms
Yoga wake-ups for weekday warriors
The great shower escape
4 Commuter workouts
Making the most of the to-ing and fro-ing
It's all in how you look at it
Step by step by step
Space among the sardines
Just standing around
Fly, fly high
Helpful hints for taking to the road
5 Office routines: quick breaks from life in the fast lane
When the eyes have had it
Takng a different perspective
Airing out the headroom
Ten 30-second holidays for desk jockeys
Five caffeine-free pick-me-ups
Unwind...before you unravel!
If you can't freak out, freak in
6 Everybody's home companion
Get yourself a new attitude
Deprogramming the robot
You are how you eat
The body is total make contact with it
The couch potato's guide to bodymind fitness
Take off a happy face
The handyman's drill
Home spa recipes for the tense and the tired
Sleepy body, sweet dreams
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ISBN
804830819
Publication
Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc.