A personal account about balancing body/mind by channelling the QI energy while interacting in life with a creative and healthy look towards the environment. Some tips on Diet with Chi, and not to die with a 'T'.
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By John Schofield
Oct 15, 2009
"The Tao of Physical and Spiritual" This critic found it necessary to educate himself a little, in a formal way, before approaching the book, thinking that it might prove to be extremely esoteric. What a truly delightful surprise to be introduced, as if on a purely one-to-one correspondence basis, to the richly varied life of an author who has ranged widely in the Arts, inclusive of the ballet, beautiful illustrative work and the enervating, even cut-throat world of modeling for commercial organizations. Anybody expecting a prima donna persona arising from this would be quickly disabused. This author was a child whose love of writing never faded. And whatever the pleasure she brought to many during her dancing years, one thing emerges with superb clarity - it is her spirituality - not a surface phenomenon, but something that informs her whole attitude to life. One senses the sheer hard work and the disappointments, the details of her health crises and the overwhelming... More > certitude of values that far transcend the experiences of this earthly life, that passes so quickly. Nonetheless, her writing is free of escapism. All the practicalities of our contingent day-to-day life are to be found in her comments on tiresome attitudes displayed so readily in our stress-producing society and in her views on the consumerism that drives so much of the contemporary world into a state of chronic dissatisfaction. Reading this book was like being in the company of a truly sophisticated, well-traveled person fully capable of deflating silly notions, yet gifted with a finely-balanced knowledge of that which best promotes physical wellbeing and spiritual insight of a rare character.< Less
