The Healing Art of Self-Study

https://doi.org/10.1142/11037 | November 2025

Pages: 117

By (author):
Martin Lee (Tai Chi Cultural Center, Los Atlos, USA) and
Emily Lee (Tai Chi Cultural Center, Los Atlos, USA)

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This extraordinary book is packed with precious gems on ancient wisdom, ageless truth, health advice, and beauty. It is a distillation of years of dedicated self-study, teaching, and practice by two internationally acclaimed tai chi masters. The reader is not only being welcomed and guided into the world of an inward journey to self-discovery in order to attain holistic health, but is also feasted with a rich offering of beautiful paintings and sublime poetries. As diverse as they may first appear outwardly, they serve to convey the same message. Words, images, and sounds are mere sparks that light our imagination. The goal is of course to attain the profound understanding of self-study, in which the goal and the path are one and the same.

It is the basic right of any individual wanting to attain holistic wellness and to enjoy the fullness of life. This can be attained through the practice of mind-body-thought-chi interactions, as explained by the authors. These authors are now sharing their secrets for achieving optimal health and youthful longevity with the mind and body integration. When the essence of thought and Chi are synchronized and finely tuned with the rhythms of nature, perfect harmony is established. There is no greater alignment with nature than when the essence of life's processes are in peak performance.

Contents:

Of Being With Nature:
- The Tao Te Ching & The Tao
- What is the Self
- Longevity and Youthfulness
- Yin-Yang Balance
- Do Nothing Extra
- No-Extra Pain & No Suffering
- Attainment of the Tao
Of Being with Self-Study and Others:
- Our Self-Study with the Ancient Five Elements
- Our ABCs of Self-Study; Our Self-Study Poem
Of Being With Love

Readership: Tai chi practitioners and enthusiasts. General public interested in healthcare, wellbeing and quality of life.

Image: Emily (right side), Martin (middle), and Joyce (left side)

Dr Martin and Master Emily Lee, co-founders of Aitaiji.org and the Tai Chi Cultural Center, have for over four decades shared their knowledge through their books, courses, and lectures on the study of the mind, body, spirit wellness through the ancient Chinese health practices, Tai Chi and Ch'i Gung. Dr Lee, a Stanford engineering physicist, and Master Lee, an expert in Tai Ji, hold a deep passion in the study and promotion of Chinese traditional health practices. As authors and producers of three books and video, the Lees collaborated with Stanford University to create a program funded by the National Institute of Aging to study the effects of Tai Chi on the health of seniors. Currently, they continue to share their learning in simple, easy to learn "Youthful Longevity" methodology to promote wellness around the world through traditional programs as well as in the science and technological fields of healthcare and wearable devices, through the Big Data Idea Lab and Stanford University.

Joyce Lee is a chinese-american artist living and working in Hong Kong. She was born in New York and received her Bachelor's degree at Stanford University. She enjoyed art from an early age and began painting in oil, acrylic, and watercolors since 1996. Principally self-taught, she studied art history, and took particular inspiration from the works of the Sung Dynasty bird and flower painting tradition, the Rococo movement of the 18th century, and the abstract expressionistic focus of Zao Wou-ki. Her subjects range from abstract representations of Nature to flora and fauna. She aims to represent the lyricism that underlies all things in Nature. Her works were first shown to the public in March 2000 at Stanford University, and has shown her works in corporations, galleries, and private venues in California and Hong Kong.

She is also a passionate gallerist, and enjoys writing poetry.

Melinda Lee is a graduate of Stanford University with a BA in Philosophy, and enjoys a fulfilling career as an established communications professional.

Daughters, Joyce Lee and Melinda Lee have joined their parents Martin and Emily's in their passion in sharing their 5 decades of teaching, research and lecturing in the art of self study with a focus on the practice of traditional Chinese health practices.