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I subcribe to this vision.

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– Confucius
Sometimes it’s important to take a step back and simplify. As Confucius said so long ago, we insist on making life complicated. Sometimes we do so with our martial arts also. We insist on making things more complicated than they have to be.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
But take this lesson in the training hall to life, and recognize why you’re doing things, and don’t complicate life . Because as the simplest self-defense techniques are often the best for defending yourself from real violence, the simplest things in life, and maintaining our life free of unnecessary complications produces happier, healthy and fulfilling lives.
Simple methods, done properly, are often the best for actual self-defense. However, this doesn’t mean we could ’t practice things more complex to improve other traits and develop ourselves in different areas. We simply have to recognize the purpose for what we’re doing things.

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Not a great situation to find yourself in. 

People consistently ask me,”What do I do if someone has a knife and they want my purse?” 
GIVE IT TO THEM. 
“You? With all of your training? You’d give him your handbag?” I value my life and my health, and I don’t feel that wrestling somebody over my phone is worth perhaps being injured or disfigured for the rest of my life span. 

Avoid any chance to participate or fight off someone with a weapon; it is not really worth it: 

• Everything could be substituted – your phone, wallet, credit cards, car, etc.. None of this
  

  stuff matters in the long term. It might be inconvenient to replace, and it could cost you money; nevertheless this is still a small price to pay in comparison to the long term effects of bodily injuries and disfigurements. 

• You will most likely get hurt – this is the very fact of attempting to fight someone wielding a weapon, especially once you have minimum training. Stab wounds are really serious and cause a frightening number of deaths; their wounds can be tough to treat, and the rate of disease is high. 
• Run away if you can, and comply with your attacker if it’s reasonable for you to do so 

If you’re forced to fight off an attacker with a weapon, there are a couple of things to remember: 

• You are probably going to get hurt if you do fight. The goal though is to minimize your injuries, and to attempt to have non-vital regions suffer the harms (i.e. out of the arms vs. inside of the arms, where there are all kinds of important arteries that could cause you to die if they were to be cut). Fortunately, the adrenaline that will be coursing through your body can enable you to avoid feeling some of the pain if it is not a vital cut, and permit you to keep holding your floor or to run away to safety. 
• Always cover your head and neck 
• Shield your body with the outside of their arms, not the interior  
• Do what you can to run away and get to a safe area where you can call for medical attention (run towards individuals!) 
• Keep moving, don’t stand still and make yourself an easy target 
• Be as vocal as possible to attract attention from passersby 
• Use improvised weapons to inflict damage to your attacker, and to also create space between you and your attacker (knock over chairs, garbage bins, use pieces of stone or sticks – anything around you that you can use to protect yourself or cause damage) – more on this next week. 

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But that’s great to hear. Both sets were fun.
They went on a midnight. There was no chance after playing one I’d make it through the set.

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There’s then a chapter that introduces qigong for back pain, and then the real qigong exercises that will help your spine and back with the goal of having a pain-free back.

I had Spina Bifida surgery as a baby, and for that reason have had back problems my entire life. My morning routine includes doing certain back exercises that I learned from various sources, such as my Qigong teacher in Korea when I lived there in the 90s. I found a couple of new movements in this book I have been merged into my routine. I am sure that these preventative exercises keep me from experiencing back pain, and I know the times I have experienced back pain qigong movements and other exercises have helped get me through it quicker.
The book has chapters on how the Chinese cure back pain, understanding our spine, potential causes of back pain, and how Western Medicine treats back pain. I found all of these chapters. The provide about the amount of information for the lay person. There’ll be some who wish to find more details on these topics.

Qigong has been practiced in Asia for centuries for healing and prevention of injuries and sickness. It’s now practiced around the world. One of the leading instructors in the USA is Dr. Yang, Jwing-ming. Through his books, DVDs, and live education, he has been able to help millions of English language speakers learn and practice Qigong.
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In The Pain-Free Back: 54 Simple Qigong Movements for Healing and Prevention, Dr. Yang focuses on teaching qigong movements that will help the reader work toward pain-free motion. Anyone who experiences back pain could probably benefit from the material Dr. Yang teaches.
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The Pain-Free Back is an excelling publication for those coping with back pain.

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This is a rather simple book, not quite as in-depth as some of Dr. Yang’s other qigong texts, but that is because it has a narrow focus to help those with back pain. For that purpose, he did an excellent job. I suggest this to anyone dealing with back pain which needs a simple program of exercises and movements to alleviate their pain and keep it from coming back.