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A practical and playful guide to balancing and maintaining physicaland mental harmonyThe modern world can present the body as a machine that justneeds to be regularly exercised. However, it is a remarkablysensitive organ in which a lot of our pain and hope is stored andthat we need to interpret and handle with subtlety. This impact ofour body upon our mind is something that needs to be explored asit is easy to pay attention to one more than the other and toignore the crucial balance between the twoThe modern world can present the body as a machine that justneeds to be regularly exercised. However, it is a remarkablysensitive organ in which a lot of our pain and hope is stored andthat we need to interpret and handle with subtlety. This impact ofour body upon our mind is something that needs to be explored asit is easy to pay attention to one more than the other and to ignorethe crucial balance between the twoThis is a book filled with reflections and exercises designed to helpus live more harmoniously and maturely within both mind and body.It gives guidance on how to calm our minds with bodily exercisesthat work on the real sources of our anxieties. It suggests how to beless rigid in, and timid about, our bodies and how to relax into themin a way we might not have done for far too long. It offers ideas onhow to accept the way we look, and how to treat the body in orderfor it to assist the mind in yielding its very best ideas. The impactsof activities such as singing, dancing and art are explored alongwith the liberation of spirit that these might offerThis is a book, both theoretical and practical, that will improve ourrelationship between our physical and mental selves and allow us aroute to a life of greater self-assurance, wisdom and freedom to beourselves