Bill Douglas
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Bill Douglas is the Tai Chi Expert for Dr. Weil.com, and was the 2009 Inductee to the Internal Arts Hall of Fame Expert
Bill Douglas Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Tai Chi, Qigong, Mind-body arts, visionary fiction
- Best Sellers
- The Complete Idiot's Guide to T'ai Chi & Qigong, 2012 The Awakening, A Conspiracy of Spirits
- Career Focus
- author, speaker, seminar presenter
- Affiliation
- World Healing Day, World Tai Chi & Qigong Day
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DIABETES AND TAI CHI THERAPY
I was quite surprised when I began searching for research on Tai Chi’s benefits for diabetes . . . it was very difficult to come by. Because on its face, Tai Chi seems to possibly offer many benefits to someone with diabetes. Tai Chi is known to stimulate microcirculation in practitioners, and is a highly effective stress management technique, and very gently burns a significant amount of calories. In fact, Tai Chi may actually help the body find homeostatic chemical levels.
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Cardiac Rehabilitation and Tai Chi
Great news for those rehabilitating from Cardiac related illness! And for everyone else! The BBC reported on a US study of 30 patients which found regular Tai Chi classes gave patients better movement and reduced BNP levels, a measure of heart failure. The British Heart Foundation said the study was "excellent news" and Tai Chi could be adopted into treatment programmes in the UK in the future.
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How Can Tai Chi Offer the World a New Generation of Geniuses?
How Could this Change the World for ALL of Us? A few years ago I caught part of a major network news program on genius children and their's and their parent's experiences with public schools pressuring them to place these children on Ritalin. Some of the parents being interviewed had found alte ative ways to deal with their children’s issues, that didn’t involve years of drug use, such as Ritalin.
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The Tao of Our Economic Crisis
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day will expand across hundreds of cities in over 65 nations and all 50 US states soon. It may offer something that can profoundly benefit our national and global economy. How? The Chinese character for “crisis” is made up of two other characters, “danger,” and ...
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High Blood Pressure and Tai Chi Therapy
Way back in 2003, the journal of Alte ative and Complimentary Medicine's Oct. 9th issue reported a study finding that Tai Chi "could decrease blood pressure and results in favorable lipid profile changes and improve subjects' anxiety status. Therefore, Tai Chi could be used as an alte ative ...
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T'ai Chi in the Information Age - Ancient Cure for Modern Problems
According to a twenty-year study by Kaiser Permanente, between seventy and eighty-five percent of illness is caused by stress, meaning that in the U.S. alone stress is costing us about one-trillion dollars per year in healthcare costs. Since most absenteeism is due to stress, US business is ...
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Burn Calories, Dump Stress, Boost Immune Function - Without Sweating=
Time Magazine wrote, "... Tai Chi is the perfect exercise ..." While serving as the Tai Chi Expert at DrWeil.com, I learned that best selling author and acclaimed naturopathic physician, Andrew Weil, suggested that poor breathing habits are at the root of many of our health problems. This was ...
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Mass Insomnia is a Symptom of Economic Crisis
Forbes reported a survey that found that since the economic stress hit America, over 90% of American workers are now suffering regular insomnia. Sleep loss increases the risk of heart attack, it lowers the immune system’s resistance to infection, and it aggravates mood disorders, increasing ...
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T'ai Chi in the Information Age
Most illness is caused by stress, making most absenteeism due to stress. In fact, aging is accelerated by stress. Studies show that change is stressful, even "good" change. So as we computer jockeys settle into the saddle of a new age of rapidly changing information, we need an edge that can ...
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Change Your Life, Change the World - World Tai Chi & Qigong Day
On the last Saturday of April each year people all over the world come together to promote spiritual awakening, global peace and cooperation, and mind-body practices that can save the world trillions of dollars in saved healthcare costs.
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