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Introduction to Qi
Qi breathing
Qi - the flow of life
Qi synonyms
Qi - the book
The Taoistic source
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QI - increase your life energy.
QI
Increase your life energy
The book about the life energy qi, with exercises on how to awaken and use it.
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Aikido - the book by Stefan Stenudd.
AIKIDO
The Peaceful Martial Art
The book about aikido principles, philosophy and basic concepts.
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Aikibatto - the book.
AIKIBATTO
The book about the aikibatto sword and staff exercises, practical and spiritual aspects of the sword arts, equip­ment for training, etc.
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Tao Te Ching - the Taoistic source.
TAOISTIC SOURCE
The sources to Taoism. The complete Tao Te Ching and Chuang Tzu.


Shinken - get a sharp steel katana sword.
Shinken - live blade
Get a sharp steel katana sword for your iaido or aikibatto solo exercises. Here is how.

Qi - the life energy.
Qi - the life energy


i is the Chinese word for life energy, also spelled chi or ki. It is the essence used in acupuncture, qigong, taiji, and reiki, as well as many other traditional arts in China and Japan. Its western counterpart is the spirit.
     I have practiced the gentle and peaceful Japanese martial art aikido since I was a teenager. That is for more than 35 years, and it still inspires me greatly. Something within aikido vitalizes and delights me, just by practicing the movements.
     It is qi, the life energy. The swirls and spins of the aikido movements stimulate the flow of qi inside me as well as the other practitioners, and whirls through the space between us. Aikido might have the form of a martial art, but in essence it is a way of dancing to the flow of qi.
     The word aikido says it all. It translates to the way of joining qi (spelled ki when Romanized from Japanese). I let my qi emerge and join with that of my training partner.

Aikido class.
Aikido class.

     In China and Japan, most of the arts – not just the martial ones – are expressions of the qi flow. It is also essential in such healing methods as acupuncture, qigong, and reiki.
     The idea of a life energy is present in many of the world’s cultures and ancient traditions. It is often linked to breath – as in the Chinese concept qi, the Indian prana, the Greek pneuma, the Hebrew ruach, and our word spirit, from the Latin spiritus – also used in the word inspiration. Maybe it could simply be explained as a symbolic way of celebrating the joy of being alive: the breath of life, without which we quickly perish.
     This breath of life can be stimulated to increase, and thereby rise to something far more than the mere consumption of oxygen, and extend way beyond the reach of our bodies. You will definitely feel the difference.
     You do not have to believe it to try it. Keep an open but also critical mind, and make your decision afterward. Life is a wondrous mystery. What brightens it up is precious, whether it can be seen in a microscope or not. And you know what Hamlet said to his doubting friend: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

Stefan Stenudd

Qi index
Introduction to Qi
Qi breathing
Qi - the flow of life
Qi synonyms
Qi - the book


Qi - increase your life energy.
The book about qi.

The book
Stefan Stenudd's book Qi: Increase your life energy explains how qi works, and presents several very easy exercises by which you can cultivate and increase it within yourself. It is not difficult at all, and the result will invigorate you beyond your expectations. So, give it a try.
More about the book here

How to get the book
If you want to buy the book, you can do so at most international web based bookstores, such as Amazon and the like. Here is a link to the book on Amazon.
Buy the book at Amazon:
Qi: Increase your life energy - at Amazon US.
Amazon US
Qi: Increase your life energy.
by Stefan Stenudd
BookSurge, 2008
Paperback, 136 pages

ISBN: 978-1-4196-2772-9


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Life Energy Encyclopedia, by Stefan Stenudd.
LIFE ENERGY ENCYCLOPEDIA
Qi, Prana, Spirit, and Other Life Forces around the World - by Stefan Stenudd.
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Cosmos of the Ancients, by Stefan Stenudd.
COSMOS OF THE ANCIENTS
Stefan Stenudd on the Greek philosophers and what they thought about cosmology, myth, and the gods.
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Qi energy
More on the web by Stefan Stenudd:
Aikido
Aikibatto sword exercises
Myth
Greek Philosophers
Aristotle and his Poetics
The Taoistic source
Qi - life energy
Fiction by Stenudd
Art by Stenudd
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