Cosmic Detox: A Taoist Approach to Internal Cleansing

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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.

Mantak Chia, world-famous Inner Alchemy and Qi Gong master, founded the Universal Healing Tao System in 1979. He has taught and certified tens of thousands of students and instructors from all over the world. The director of the Tao Garden Health Spa and Resort in northern Thailand, he is the author of 40 books, including Chi Self-Massage and Taoist Cosmic Healing. William U. Wei is a senior instructor of the Universal Healing Tao who began his studies with Master Chia in the early 1980s and has taught with him in more than 30 countries. The coauthor of Living in the Tao and Sexual Reflexology, he lives in Milwaukie, Oregon.

"Chi self-massage and healing sound exercises are accompanied by recipes for herbal tonics and cleansing flushes in this excellent new age guide." * Midwest Book Review, August 2011 * "With step-by-step instruction, diagrams, photos, and recipes, readers are offered a myriad of options to help detox their bodies." * Taste For Life, January 2012 * "Overall, on completion of reading the book, one senses the presence of a broad new body of knowledge and understanding about how one needs to care for the body...The works of Mantak Chia are always meticulously correct in observing contemporary conventions about medical advice. At the same time, they communicate profound knowledge about how best to minimize one's need to access mainstream medicine." * Reg Little, New Dawn, January 2013 *