Listen to Your Body: The Wisdom of the Dao Paperback – September 30, 2001

This book is a good intro to slowing down and staying healthy by being aware of and cultivating your body's qi (energy). I didn't really know anything about traditional Chinese medicine before reading this book, and at times I wish that they went into more detail, but for the size of the book they cover a lot of things.

A very quick but informative and eye-opening read. I am forever changed and challenged by the content within these pages. It has inspired me to dig deeper and to seek greater knowledge about the mind-body-spirit connection. Highly recommended

This is a very good intro into Chinese acupuncture, meditation, qigong and herbalism. It is extremely well-written and easy to read. I highly recommend it!

This excellent book is filled with insight and wisdom from both eastern and western medical traditions, and practical tips for increased energy and calmness throughout your day.

a wonderful book i give it 10 stars , every household needs it as a reference to good health for the family ,.

A book everybody should read. Very informative and valuable. Avoid illnesses through your life by reading this simple little book.

Andrew Powell is the founding chair of the Psychotherapy and Spirituality Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP). A fellow of the RCP, he practiced medicine as a psychiatrist and psychotherapist in London and Oxford for more than a quarter century. Dr. Powell was educated at the Braynston School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He attended St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School in London for his clinical training and received his bachelor of medicine degree with distinction and his bachelor of surgery degree from Cambridge in 1969. After working first in psychiatry and then in general medicine, he took two years of post-graduate training in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, London, followed by three years of post-graduate training in psychotherapy there. Dr. Powell served as a consultant psychotherapist and chief of the department of psychotherapy at St. George's Hospital, London, and a senior lecturer in psychiatry at the University of London from 1978 to 1989 where he was co-director of the master's degree program in psychotherapy. For the next eleven years, he was consultant psychotherapist at Warneford Hospital in Oxford and honorary senior lecturer in psychotherapy at Oxford University. He served as co-director of Oxford's introductory course in psychodynamic therapy. A member of the Royal College of Physicians, the Institute of Group Analysis in London, and the British Psychodrama Association, Dr. Powell has published numerous papers in scientific and medical journals. He is also the co-author (with Bisong Guo) of Listen to Your Body: The Wisdom of Dao, which was published in 2001 by the University of Hawaii Press.Dr. Bisong Guo, MD was born in China and studied Western medicine at Fuzhou Medical School before specialising in Traditional Chinese Medicine. She later joined the staff of the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing. For more than twenty-five years she has intensively practised qigong, studying with Buddhist qigong masters and Daoist monks in remote mountainous regions of China. In 1989 she moved to England and established a TCM practice in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where over ten years she treated more than five thousand patients. She has collaborated on research projects in Germany and now travels widely overseas conducting seminars and workshops. Dr. Guo continues to teach qigong in the UK, continental Europe and the U.S.A.It's very interesting to realize that under Dao De Jing scripture, there is a way to inteprete and adapt into real lifestyle modification.In fact, Traditional Chinese Medicine wisely use Nature as a real mind-body medicine preventive approach.After reading this book, ones should practice "Qigong" or "Yoga" everyday to get "In" the system.Observe carefully while you are relax and doing mind-body exercise, then messages(vibration) will send back to you if you need to adjust any things for your lifestyle.Simply read but do not practice will not expose to any progress in health promotion.

This is the best book I've found that explains how the Chinese view the body and how to get well and stay well without taking pills and seeing a doctor all the time. I've been trying to figure out how to get well and keep well as it seems in the last several years my health has been on a roller coaster. Guo and Powell clearly describe the nature of "chi" (our body's source of energy) and give simple ways to build it and conserve it in every day living. What I liked the most was their non- judgemental and non-preachy tone. They give suggestions in a very gentle way, thus allowing one to act on them or not act on them without feeling like one must do or die. This is a must read for anyone on the alternative healing path.