Cosmic Detox: A Taoist Approach to Internal Cleansing Book by Mantak Chia

How to cleanse the nine openings of the body for detoxification and self-healing

• Explains how to purify the body’s internal environment through mono diets, fasts, and colonic cleanses to prevent degenerative disease and premature aging

• Presents a 14-day total-body cleansing guide

• Includes chi self-massage and healing sound practices as well as natural recipes for herbal tonics and cleansing flushes

Long known by Taoist masters, the body has an innate ability to heal itself, an ability that is hampered by toxins in the food we ingest and energy blockages that arise from illnesses and obstacles in our lives. These blockages transform the body’s energy rivers into a polluted and stagnant swamp--the root of degenerative disease as well as premature aging.

Revealing the detoxification and rejuvenation practices of the Taoist sages, Master Mantak Chia and William U. Wei show how to reactivate your body’s self-healing abilities by gradually and safely expelling accumulated toxins through fasting, mono diets, and cleansing the nine openings of the body. Using the practices of chi self-massage and healing sounds along with natural recipes for herbal tonics and cleansing flushes for each of the openings and their related organs, the authors explain how to balance and purify the body’s internal environment through acid and alkaline foods, urine therapy, colonic cleanses, dry skin brushing, ear candling, and energized water. Concluding with a 14-day total-body cleansing program, Cosmic Detox offers tools to keep the energy rivers clean and flowing, preparing the body for higher level Taoist practices as well as enabling healing of our emotional and spiritual bodies.

About the Author:

Mantak Chia is also the author of Awaken Healing Energy through the Tao (co-author Michael Winn), Taoist Secrets of Love: Cultivating Male Sexual Energy, Taoist Ways to Transform Stress into Vitality, Chi Self-Massage, Iron Shirt Chi Kung I, Healing Love through the Tao: Cultivating Female Sexual Energy (co-author Maneewan Chia), and Bone Marrow Nei Kung (co-author Maneewan Chia). Master Mantak Chia is the creator of the Healing Tao System and Director of the Healing Tao Center in New York. Since childhood he has been studying the Taoist approach to life as well as other approaches. Born in Thailand to Chinese parents in 1944, he was first taught at age six by Buddhist monks how to sit and "still the mind." While he was in grammar school, he first learned traditional Thai boxing, and was then taught Tai Chi Chuan by Master Lu. When he was a student in Hong Kong, he began his studies of the Taoist way of life with Master Yi Eng, who authorized him to teach and heal. He later studied Taoist Yoga and the Buddhist Palm with Master Meugi in Singapore, and studied the Shao-Lin Method of Internal Power with Master Cheng Yao-Lun, who combined Taoist, Buddhist, and Zen teachings in his system of Thai boxing and Kung Fu. To understand the mechanisms behind healing energy better, Master Chia studied Western medical science and anatmoy for two years. After training a network of teachers in the Healing Tao system, he established the Natural Healing Center in Thailand, before moving to New York to open the Healing Tao Center in 1979. Maneewan Chia was born and raised in Hong Kong, moving with her parents to Thailand where she received a B.S. degree in Medical Technology. Since childhood, she has been very interested in nutrition and Chinese health food cooking. She assists Mantak Chia in teaching classes, including Taoist Five Element Nutrition, and managing the Healing Tao Center.

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