A new-concept self-management book that weaves exercise, meditation, and mental training into one continuous flow meets readers.
New book 『Building Resilience with Core-Heal Meditation Gymnastics』 contains a dynamic meditation routine that strengthens your body’s center and calms your mind with just about one pyeong of space and 10 minutes a day.
These days, it’s becoming common for your shoulders to collapse first in the evening, while your mind grows even busier. This book gently guides you through how short breathing and small movements can create real changes in everyday life.
Exercise, meditation, and mental training—one continuous flow
Core-heal meditation gymnastics is a concept that combines core (strengthening your body’s center) and heal (restoring your body and mind). Noting that traditional meditation, which focuses only on breathing in a static posture, can act as a barrier for beginners, it was designed to integrate movement, breathing, and concentration on bodily sensations.
The eight core movements included are visualized with images, so even readers who don’t have much exercise experience can flip through the pages and follow right away. The content has a history of being introduced through the Korea Workers’ Welfare Corporation and the Busan Cultural Foundation, so it’s fair to say it has been validated for real usefulness even in public-sector settings.
Meditation that fits into everyday life—one pyeong of space and 10 minutes a day
The practice environment this book proposes is simple. About 3.3 square meters of space and 10 minutes a day are enough. No special equipment or complicated preparation is required.
The routine is divided into three levels based on intensity: soft, medium, and hard. Readers who are new to meditation can begin with the gentlest stage and gradually increase the intensity. A separate “tension-up” format is also provided for toddlers and children, leaving room for family-based use as well.
“Gymnastics That Makes Wishes Come True” that even reaches the subconscious
The author finds that many people can’t push their goals all the way to the end—not due to a lack of ability, but due to the absence of training that imprints the subconscious. The book explains that training which connects movements, mental images, and emotions and repeats them engraves success patterns into the unconscious, and that this flow changes not only thoughts and actions but also results.
Because the book recreates the full process—from setting goals, to challenge and overcoming, to reaching—in physical movements and mental images, it calls this practice “gymnastics that makes wishes come true.”
From stress relief to better sleep—proposals for multi-layered change
The expected benefits described in the book can be summarized into five areas: stress relief, improved focus, strengthened goal persistence, better body balance, and improved sleep quality. Since movement, breathing, and concentration on bodily sensations occur at the same time, the structure supports both emotion regulation and enhanced self-awareness.
Lee Jeong-ju is an expert who has worked in education and training based on physical movement. Rather than focusing on complex theories, she has concentrated on offering practical ways that anyone can follow without burden. This is a book that helps people who can’t keep up with exercise, those who find meditation vague, and those who want to care for both body and mind.
It’s currently sold at Kyobo Book Centre and YES24. Price: 12,870 won