Author: Peter Deadman
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The Transformative Power of Deep, Slow Breathing
Categories: Research & ArticlesBy Peter Deadman Slow, deep, lower abdominal breathing, a mainstay of Asian internal cultivation practices for millennia, is a powerful tool for healing and transformation. A wide range of emotional and physical problems can be helped by slow breathing and it can be easily taught to patients, both while lying on the couch and as…
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Live Well Live Long: Reflections on the Centrality of Nourishing Life Teachings in Chinese Medicine
Categories: Research & ArticlesI remember hearing long ago, or perhaps reading, that nourishing life (yangsheng) was a branch of Chinese medicine – alongside herbs, acupuncture, tui na, dietary medicine and so on. In fact, from then on I used to repeat this idea myself. However, as time passed, and especially once I started work on my recent book…