Dr. Wayne Jonas, Former Director, National Institute of Health, Office of Alternative Medicine
A wonderful guide for learning the ancient healing practices of Qigong. Full of clear and practical exercises.

Dr. Larry Dossey, Author of Reinventing Medicine
A splendid break-through that contributes a new slant to meditative practice.

Hana Matt, Teacher of "World Religions," Graduate Theological Union
During daily Israeli terrorist attacks I practiced Bodymind Healing Qigong to regain calm and find my inner sanctuary of equanimity

Book Description
Secrets To Living Younger Longer is based on Qigong, a many thousand-year-old method of cultivating the energy of life (Qi) through movement, breath, touch, sound, and awareness. Scientific research documents how Qigong can lower blood pressure, increase balance and help with a wide variety of chronic diseases. But this is more than a book on Qigong exercises. Building upon those in the forefront of the mind-body healthcare revolution, Dr, Mayer has created a unique blend, combining Chinese Qigong and Western psychological methods with cross-cultural anthropological research. Secrets… is enlivened by mythic tales and imaginative teaching stories from ancient sacred wisdom traditions. Secrets to Living Younger Longer contains: • Health & Longevity Practices: A synthesis of 30 years of Dr. Mayer’s training with some of the most respected Tai Chi and Qigong masters. Learn practices to add to your lifetime preventative medicine program: • Discover the unique Chinese practice of Sung to simultaneously relax and energize your body, Strengthen immunity, Reduce Hypertension, Limber your joints, Release computer shoulder tension Relieve chronic illnesses, Prevent falls, Alleviate insomnia and anxiety, Find relief from arthritis and Fibromyalgia, *See Appendix I for a list of health benefits for all ages. * • Intriguing Historical Research: Learn how Tai Chi and Qigong have roots in Shamanism and a lost, integrative Self-healing lineage. Rediscovering these underpinnings helps to deepen the healing potentials of these arts. • Standing Meditation: The key to making Qigong most effective. • Transforming your Life Stance: Realizations and examples from a psychologist’s life, and from his patients and students.

About the Author
Michael Mayer, Ph.D. is a licensed Psychologist, and Qigong teacher who specializes in giving his patients self-healing methods for health problems. Dr. Mayer presents his approach to bodymind healing at professional conferences, universities and hospitals. He is a co-founder and staff member of a multidisciplinary clinic practicing integrative healthcare. Dr. Mayer was perhaps the first person in the United States to train doctoral psychology students.in the integration of Qigong and Psychotherapy. The World Institute for Self-healing gave him an award for outstanding research and contribution to the advancement of mind-body medicine. He is the author of ten publications on bodymind healing including three books, a video tape/DVD Bodymind Healing Qigong, audio tapes on cancer and chronic disease, and articles on chronic pain and anxiety. His peer reviewed article on Qigong and hypertension appeared in "The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine," and is updated in the book Healing, Intention and Energy Medicine, by Dr Wayne Jonas, past director of the National Institute of Health, Office of Alternative Medicine.