Inner Focus Outer Strength: Using Imagery and Exercise for Health, Strength and Beauty - Softcover

Eric Franklin

 
9780871272881: Inner Focus Outer Strength: Using Imagery and Exercise for Health, Strength and Beauty
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0871272881 ISBN 13: 9780871272881
Publisher: Princeton Book Company (US), 2006

Synopsis

The mental technique of imagery\-\-demonstrated, for example, when a dancer pictures a sunflower reaching toward the sun as he\/she stretches upward\-\-is thoroughly explained in this guide to daily stress\-relieving routines. Movement, coordination, flexibility, and posture are discussed as external characteristics that can be improved significantly with a strong inner focus, and the same conclusion is reached in chapters on the benefits of good mental health for circulation, breathing, and even individual body cells. Practical advice proceeds from this background information, including how to choose and use an assortment of personal mental images, how to use tricks such as \x22\x22mental recycling,\x22\x22 and how to set up an imagined \x22\x22portable fitness studio\x22\x22 during stress\-inducing dead time waiting in line, climbing stairs, sitting in an airplane seat, talking on the telephone, or running the vacuum cleaner.

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About the Author

Eric Franklin is the director of the Franklin Method Institute in Uster, Switzerland, and travels worldwide conducting workshops. He is a member of the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science and has taught at the Institute for Psychomotor Therapy in Zurich. He is the author of Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance; Relax Your Neck, Liberate Your Shoulders; and Pelvic Power.

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Publisher
Princeton Book Company (US)
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0871272881
ISBN 13 
9780871272881
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
128