The Eight Pillars of the Heaven

Written in a casual, conversational manner, this book is meant to be accessible to you, the average person, to help improve your life in meaningful, realistic ways. Once you are able to differentiate between reality and the truth, much suffering from life's changes can be diminished. This will improve your health, make you happier, and strengthen your relationships with those you care about.

Through theoretical analyses and practical case studies, this book assists you in distinguishing between the two aspects of your nature. One is your ego, which is created by your reality, and the other is your true self, the core of your spiritual nature. By developing the right understanding and appreciation for these two aspects, you will be able to live a happier life both within and without.

Most people have some insight into the anatomical and physiological aspect of human body from a modern science viewpoint, which is useful, but such information is not complete enough to be used as a guideline for daily living. By integrating the Oriental medicine outlook into our understanding of the body, which this book does, achieving and maintaining a healthy mind and body becomes achievable.

The environment is often talked about today, but this book discusses the environment from a vantage point not taken by many. As a result, it offers a fresh perspective, and therefore solution, to the environmental chaos and destruction facing humanity and the planet. Although this book contains uncomfortable truths about our environmental reality, it is a reality we need to face.

Food is one of the fountains of life. In order to serve as a useful guide for those who wish to return to consuming real food, this book details 150 food items with respect to their thermal nature (natural energy), nutritional value, therapeutic indications, contraindications, and medicinal applications. Included are also 28 simple recipes which are easy to make and delicious to eat.

Yoga Energetics as an Alternative Medicine developed based upon three health-related principles: medical yoga, medical chi kung and traditional Chinese medicine. At the core of this program are two main applications. One is to acquire and maintain better health and vitality while the other is to prevent being an easy target for the invasion of internal and external disease-causing factors.

Males and females are not created equal by nature. The female is anatomically and physiologically more complex, as well as emotionally different, than her male counterpart. The gynaecological disorders facing females are more numerous in comparison to the sexual disorders facing males. But, regardless of who gets the most of which, they ultimately share the suffering and can be a part of the cure.

Enlightenment means awakened to the light of true knowledge. There is no mystery to enlightenment neither is there any inherent need for a special person, religion or lineage to achieve it. With the right understanding, right determination and right efforts, enlightenment is freely within reach for all. This book outlines seven steps to enlightenment that are accessible, practical and beneficial.