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Title: Empty Force: The Ultimate Martial Art: The Power of Chi for Self-Defense and Energy Healing by Paul Dong, Thomas Raffill ISBN: 1-85230-783-8 Publisher: Harper Collins - UK Pub. Date: April, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.86 (14 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Use Qigong to Enrich your life
Comment: Empty Force is a manual on Standing Meditation concerning the practice as it applies to martial arts and healing arts. As a participant in the book, I feel a duty to review my teacher's work.

The abilities described are valid, and replicable under a wide range of circumstances. For such a small book there is a lot of information presented,and I feel that the author or the editor should have gone into greater detail about the subtle body alignments that take place when you sink down into a good rooted posture.

If you're looking for a good basic book otherwise, this is the one for you. It will give the reader a firm basic grounding in the art of standing meditation. If the directions in the book are followed, and if competent skilled instruction in this method can be found at least once during the training period, then great results can and will follow.

many of the things you will learn and discover will come through as your practice matures and lengthens. the pr! ! actice of standing meditation is also beneficial for the muscles, especially the legs. It increases stamina, endurance, discipline and determination. It is quite a demanding exercise both physically and mentally.

I want to take this time to personally and publically thank Master Paul Dong and Mr. Thomas Raffill for their efforts, and the positive changes that have resulted in my life as a direct result of my practice of Zhan Zhuang (Standing Meditation).

Rating: 4
Summary: A Most Excellent Primer on Standing Meditation!
Comment: I recently purchased this book after having attended a seminar by one of the book's co-authors, Master Richard M. Mooney (Pages 36, 113-116). The Power in Powerful Empty Force is quite real and valid. I was a skeptic until I almost threw up when projected onto by this Empty Force Master. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn the basics of this fascinating martial arts method. Some other have complained that this book contains no info on limbering up and meridians and such. Well, there are many other books that do, and I am glad this manual did not have a bunch of peripheral information NOT related to the subject at hand.

Another writer said the method is useless on about 60% of attackers; to that I ask what method is 100% effective all the time? None Are! So, if you are interested in just sitting on your duff and not doing the exercises, but are instead waiting for some peer reviewed material, too bad.

If you are a true visionary and have an open and exploring mind, and want to see and do for yourself, then this is the book for you.

Best Wishes;

N. Duarte

Rating: 5
Summary: Emptyforce more than just for self defence
Comment: Less than a hundred years ago the definative skeptics were claiming that it was scientifically impossible for a machine to fly. Today the definative skeptics are attempting to discredit this amazing human ability by designing bad experiments. But anyone who has spend time with Paul Dong would have personality experience this ability, to project this force and move people without physically touching them. If you were to get closer, about an inch, to Paul Dong you can experience first hand a very strong force.
While it may yet take another hundreds years for western science to ascertain this force, I believe that in the streets and in competitive sports, it will become dominant.
I believe that this book is an excellent resource and perhaps a testimony to what a type of exercise that may well change the face of sports and science.