Healing Light of the Tao: Foundational Practices to Awaken Chi Energy

A student of several Taoist masters, Mantak Chia founded the Universal Healing Tao System in 1979 and has taught and certified tens of thousands of students and instructors from all over the world. He is the director of the Tao Garden Integrative Medicine Health Spa and Resort training center in northern Thailand and is the author of 31 books, including Taoist Cosmic Healing and the bestselling The Multi-Orgasmic Man.

Foreword: Cultivating Inner Light by Michael Winn

Foreword: Chi and Medicine by Lawrence Young, M.D.

Acknowledgments

Putting the Healing Light of the Tao into Practice

Introduction: What Is the Tao?

1 • An Overview of Taoist Inner Alchemy

2 • Chi

3 • Virtues

4 • Energetic Preparations for the Healing Light Meditations

5 • The Points of the Microcosmic Orbit

6 • Opening the Basic Microcosmic Orbit

7 • Earth Energy and the Microcosmic Orbit

8 • Cosmic Force: Higher Self Energy and the Microcosmic Orbit

9 • Opening Your Heart: Shen and the Microcosmic Orbit

10 • Sexual Energy and the Microcosmic Orbit

11 • Heavenly Chi and the Microcosmic Orbit

12 • Summary of the Microcosmic Orbit Practice

13 • The Macrocosmic Orbit and the Five Pulses

14 • Oneness with the Tao: A Daily Practice Guide

15 • Troubleshooting Guide:Helpful Hints and Home Remedies

16 • The Tao of Healing and Health Maintenance

Appendix: Spinal Cord Breathing

Bibliography

About the Author

The Universal Tao System and Training Center

Index