Dancing With The Ten Thousand Things: Ways to Become a Powerful Healing Presence

By Tom Balles

Book Overview

Each day calls us to tend life beyond ourselves. Dancing with the Ten Thousand Things helps you answer that call and become a more powerful healing presence.

You have the innate ability to be a healing presence. Imagine amplifying your gifts and applying them in your family life, friendships, work, organizations, and community. Transforming care and compassion into effective action will become your way of life.

This book outlines the journey of waking up through being of service. You will observe two changes taking place: less unnecessary suffering and greater possibilities in the life you share with others. You will learn to consciously tend to life one moment at a time.

Tom Balles has gathered his years of study in a variety of traditions and offers them as a gift. He succeeds in blending the richness of the deep wisdom traditions with daily practices to enhance your learning. This is very rich food for the body, mind, and soul. Take the time to digest this feast slowly over the days, weeks, and months ahead.
--Robert M. Duggan, M.A., M.Ac., (UK) author of Common Sense for the Healing Arts, Co-Founder and President of the Tai Sophia Institute for the Healing Arts.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595311601
• ISBN13: 9780595311606
• Release Date: August 1970
• Publisher: iUniverse, Incorporated
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Example of when a pseudo teacher writes a book students must purchase to participate in the class...

This book was assigned by the author to their students. It's a book designed specifically for a classroom setting. As you can see from the review dates this book produced no long term interest. Possibly because it is a regurgitation of other people's ideas framed as the author's own. This book never passed any academic oversight committee nor could it. Citations are not present regarding ideas the author claims as his own. I would look to a more honest, upfront author. That said the insights relayed are not detrimental. They are simply not his own.

Great book

This book is very well written, well organized, with easy to follow exercises. If you take your time and do the exercises I believe you will improve your own health and also become a healing presence to others. Its not just for health care professionals but makes a great book for anyone to check in with themselves.

A leader/teachers guide in coaching

This work is a gift to leaders and teachers as an excellent resource for those who want to be a healing presence in the circle from where they are doing and being their work. It is a valuable teaching resource to carry with you and review when holding the space for individual and group communication and interations. The practices have an ease and grace that are naturally transformative, intiating an unfolding of healing phenomena that arises in your self and others. I carry the book with me in all my travels as a continuing guide in my role as a transformational guide and mentor.

Dancing with Ten Thousand Things

Dancing with Ten Thousand Things, offers readers practical tools to create more joy and fulfillment in both their personal and professional lives. Using the ancient wisdom of nature as a guide we are shown how to let go of the ways of thinking and being that hold us back from being fully alive. By putting into practice these tools we learn ways to build and sustain meaningful and productive relationships with our friends, family and in our workplaces. Anyone seeking more effectiveness at home or in their work must read this book and start working the principles.

Getting Specific about Making Change

It is possible to have large goals or vague plans about being a different person, or having a transformed life, and never quite get on the road. The beauty of Tom Balles' book is that you have a road map for concrete action. His years of practice in acupuncture, coaching, and living intentionallly have born fruit. Now any reader can benefit immediately. This is a wonderful book to read slowly, carefully, and, with the clarity of small steps, life will present more possibilities. I'm grateful for Tom's wisdom and guidance at Tai Sophia Institute, and in living.

Dancing with the Ten Thousand Things

This book offers a practical, clear and concise description of using various principles, including those based in nature, to apply to one's life and the world around us. Mr. Balles offers examples of different ways of being to bring about less unneccessary suffering and to help create openness for creating possibilities with oneself, relationships with others and with larger groups (ie. communities, the work place, etc.). He describes different ways of viewing the world, our relationships and ourselves. His descriptions and examples of learning from the seasons are easy to understand and thorough, which aids the reader in having a greater connection with nature and therefore the natural order of all things. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in experiencing a greater peace within and around themselves while increasing the positive contribution they make to the world around them.