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Qi - the flow of life
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Life Energy Encyclopedia
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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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Life Energy Encyclopedia, by Stefan Stenudd.
LIFE ENERGY ENCYCLOPEDIA
by Stefan Stenudd. Qi, prana, spirit, and other life forces around the world explained and compared.
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Aikido Principles - book by Stefan Stenudd.
AIKIDO PRINCIPLES
Basic Concepts of the Peaceful Martial Art
Book about aikido principles, philosophy, and basic ideas.
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Aikibatto - bestseller book.
AIKIBATTO
by Stefan Stenudd. The aikibatto sword and staff exercises for aikido students explained, with practical and spiritual aspects of the sword arts, equipment for training, and more.
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Tao Te Ching - the Taoistic source.
TAOISTIC SOURCE
The sources to Taoism. The complete Tao Te Ching and Chuang Tzu.


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

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.

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.
     For your qi to flow freely through your body, you need to make your posture straight and natural, and learn a deep extended breathing. You should also relax your body profoundly, and center yourself. The exercises of this book are surprisingly easy ways to adjust these and other basics, which will lead to an increased qi flow and well-being. Anyone can do them, and the result is evident already at the first try.
     For a lasting effect, though, you will have to repeat the exercises over a length of time. The best is if you make some of them everyday habits. It will improve the way your body and mind work, until it is all natural to you. At that point, you have no further need of this book.
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The author
Stefan Stenudd is a 6 dan aikido instructor, member of the Swedish Aikikai Grading Committee, the Swedish Budo Federation Board, and the International Aikido Federation Directing Committee. He has practiced aikido since 1972. Aikido, too, evolves around the life energy. But the exercises in this book can be done by anyone, with or without experience of Eastern traditions.
     Stefan is also a writer of both fiction and non-fiction. Among the latter is a Swedish interpretation of the Chinese classic Tao te ching, and a book about aikido.
     He is, of course, also the writer of everything on this website.

Contents
Here is the book's table of contents:

Foreword 7
Introduction 9
Spirit and breath 10
The ether of intention 12
Let there be 12
Meridians 14
Chakra 15
The Center 15
The glowing rice field 17
Spirals 18

EXERCISES 21
One snag 22
Questioning 23
Settings 24
Place 24
Time 25
Dress 29
Posture 30
Find the right posture 31
Correct your shoulders 33
Adjust your balance 36
Stretch your posture 39
Sit 40
Meditate 45
Relaxation 51
Clench and open 53
Shoulders up and down 55
Grimace 56
Empty gaze 57
Huddle up 58
Hang 60
Rest heavily 61
Breathing 65
Extend your exhalation 66
Lower your breath 68
Belly breathing 71
Breathe in a square 74
Extension 78
Gaze 79
Point 83
Push 85
Pull 87
Grip 90
Walk 92
The Center 96
Center breathe in a square 100
Meditate the center 102
Sway 104
Press 107

Chakras 111
Seven chakras 112

Quick Guide 123

Samples
Here are two short chapters from the book, as Acrobat PDF files in computer screen resolution (72 DPI):
     Qi: Introduction
     Qi: Breathing

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 are links to the book on Amazon US and Amazon UK. Use the latter if you are European - then you get the book cheaper and quicker. Otherwise, you may want to buy it at Amazon US.
At Amazon US:
Amazon US
At Amazon UK:
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Qi: Increase your life energy.
by Stefan Stenudd
Paperback, 145 pages
ISBN: 978-91-7894-027-1



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Stefan Stenudd
Stefan Stenudd
is a Swedish author and aikido instructor, who has written several books about qi, lifeforce ideas, and aikido. He is also a historian of ideas, researching the thought patterns in creation myths.




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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More on the web by Stefan Stenudd:
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Greek Philosophers
Aristotle and his Poetics
The Taoistic source
Qi - life energy
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