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21st Century's New Chakra Healing: The Revolutionary Method of Healing That Will Make You Healthy and Balanced, by Michael Nudel, Eva Nudel Ph.D., Michael Nudel, Ph.D. Eva Nudel, (Bio-Energy System Services; October 2000.)

The Nedels provide an excellent foundation which can help anyone understand chakras and their role in health. Their use of drawing the energetic double image to aid in the work is both innovative and brilliant. Chakra healing is a very useful tool in any healer's repertoire of working modalities. Their explanation of the chakras and the organ systems in both usable and easy to use. This is one book worthy a place on any healer's bookshelf

The 7 Healing Chakras : Unlocking Your Body's Energy Centers, by Brenda Davies, (Ulysses Pr; February 2000.)

Both practical and Inspirational, the 7 Healing Chakras is a voyage of self-discovery and healing based on an ancient spiritual tradition. Dr. Brenda Davies leads you in step-by-step progression through the seven chakras-our energy centers. At each stage she shows how to unblock the physical and spiritual energy that can heal you and lead to a more fulfilling life.

Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing, by Caroline Myss, Ph.D., (New York, NY: Three Rivers Press, 1996.)

What sets Anatomy of the Spirit apart is Carolyn Myss's ability to blend diverse religious and spiritual beliefs into a succinct discussion of health and human anatomy. For example, when describing the seven energy fields of the human body, she fuses Christian sacraments with Hindu chakras and the Kabbalah's Tree of Life. Fortunately, Myss is a skilled writer as well as researcher, able to ground her extensive spiritual and religious discussions by using real-life stories and a tight writing style. Many, hail Myss for creating a valuable contribution to the ongoing exploration of spirituality and health

Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth, by Peter Kelder, (Gig Harbor, WA: Harbor Press, Inc., 1989.)

Legend has it that hidden in the remote reaches of the Himalayan mountains lies a secret that would have saved Ponce de Leon from years of fruitless searching. There, generations of Tibetan monks have passed down a series of exercises with mystical, age-reversing properties. Known as the Tibetan Rites of Rejuvenation or the Five Rites, these once-secret exercises are now available to Westerners in Ancient Secret of the Fountain Of Youth. Peter Kelder's book begins with an account of his own introduction to the rites by way of Colonel Bradford, a mysterious retired British army officer who learned of the rites while journeying high up in the Himalayas. Fountain of Youth then offers practical instructions for each of the five rites, which resemble yoga postures.

Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth Book One, by Peter Kelder, (Doubleday, February 1998.)

In this book you will be introduced to ideas, techniques and wisdom that can empower you, enhance your health, increase your joy of living and cause you to live longer. However, youwon't notice that you're living longer. You'll be too busy enjoying life and living it fully.

Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth Book TWO, by Peter Kelder, (Doubleday, February 1999.)

In this book you will be introduced to ideas, techniques and wisdom that can empower you, enhance your health, increase your joy of living and cause you to live longer. However, you won't notice that you're living longer. You'll be too busy enjoying life and living it fully.

A Chakra & Kindalini Workbook,Psycho-Spriritual Techniques for Health, Rejuvenation, Psychic Powers & Spiritual Realization, by Peter Kelder, (Inner Traditions Intl Ltd, January 1995.)

In this guidebook to spiritual healing, the authors explore the relationship between the seven colored rays and the healing power of the aura, the subtle bodies and the chakras. Major sections explain how you can balance dominant colors with their complements, dowse for information about health, call upon spirit guides, and become a channel for healing energies. Physical and psychic influences in the environment and their relation to disease are also examined. The book concludes with a survey of special practices for cleansing, relaxation, meditation breathing, visualization, guided meditation, and contacting higher energies.

Book of Chakra Healing, by Liz Simpson, (Sterling Publications; March 1999.)

The Book of Chakra Healing is a comprehensive guide to the ancient Indian system of chakras. These centres of "spinning energy" in the body help to maintain your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual balance. This book offers practical ways to work on your chakras and shows you how to unblock and rebalance your energy. Understanding chakra healing involves color, knowledge of ancient myths, archetypes, bodywork, crystals, meditations, visualizations, open questions and affirmations.

Chakra Balancing: A Guide to Healing and Awakening your Energy Body, by Anodea Judith, (Sounds True, 2004)

Chakras are the seven spinning energy centers of the human body that control every dimension of our physical, mental and spiritual well being. Now, Anodea Judith - one of the countries foremost experts on the therapeutic use of the chakra system - gives access to this subtle energy matrix, opening a powerful path for healing and spiritual growth with a complete chakra "wellness kit:" Chakra Balancing. Anodea Judith begins with a journey through each of the chakras where listeners discover their purpose, imbalances, and strengths - and learn how to balance their energies for health and awakening. This specially boxed, complete home-study course includes: a 102-page illustrated workbook providing essential information on the chakras, organized into seven lessons - one for each of the chakras, two audio CDs with seven guided audio meditations to work with each of the chakra centers, and to address their imbalances, and seven beautifully illustrated chakra cards with a visual image of each chakra, and a description of their key principles and correspondences.

Chakras and Their Archetypes : Uniting Energy Awareness and Spiritual Growth, by Ambika Wauters, (Crossing Pr; September 1997.)

In Chakras and Their Archetypes, Wauters guides the reader in achieving a deeper understanding of the self through the integration of two powerful healing systems-the energies of the seven chakras and the classic Jungian archetypes-in order to turn negative archetype such as Victim, Martyr, and Silent Child into their empowered opposites of mother, Emperor, and Communicator. Discover your emotional blocks and negative patterns and learn how gentle energy work can bring about healing. Wauters' program includes breathing and movement exercises, color meditations, and chakra massage.

Chakras: Energy Centers of Transformation, by Harish Johari, (VT: Destiny Books, 1987.)

Among the best of Western explications, combining traditional, visionary, and practical views illustrated, detailed, and accessible to the neophyte.

For Harish Johari--artist, composer, teacher, tantric devotee--desire is the brush and the five senses are the palette.

Chakras for Beginners : A Guide to Balancing Your Chakra Energies, by David Pond, (Llewellyn Publications; October 1999.)

Chakras for beginners explains how to align your energy on many levels to achieve balance from the inside out. In everyday terms, you will learn the function of the seven body-spirit energy vortexes called chakras. Practical exercises, meditations, and powerful techniques for working with your energy flow will help you overcome imbalances that block your spiritual progress.

The Chakra Mantra Cookbook; by Patricia Stein, (PMF August 15, 2000.)

The Chakra, mantra Cookbook is your guide to enhancing your energy as well the food you are preparing though the use of mantra. It is spiritually-inspired, vegetarian, non-diary cookbook, based on the colors of the Chakras (energy center in the body). It follows Tibetan doctor's approaches to treating energetic imbalances through the use of food. They believe that meals prepared with awareness and love taste better, provide more physical and spiritual nutrition and play an integral part in the entire yogic experience.

Chakra Therapy, For Personal Growth and Healing, by Keith Sherwood (Llewellyn Publications; December 1988.)

Now in its twelfth printing, Chakra Therapy, by Keith Sherwood, has proved itself as an essential guide for healers everywhere. Sherwood, a former minister, has trained with masters the world over and made the study of healing and human energy his life's work. He now teaches "a synthesis of Western therapeutic techniques, Taoist Yoga, and Tantra." Sherwood says that "human problems on all levels of causation--spiritual, mental, emotional and physical--are caused by contraction, the inability to radiate energy freely due to blockages in the human energy system." His book is designed to teach people how to release those blockages and fully utilize all the body's energy to heal themselves.

Chakra Workbook: Rebalance Your Body's Vital Energies

Learn how to harmonize your seven major chakras.Work with practical chakra exercises and awaken and revitalize your own natural energy.

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The Creation of Health: Merging Traditional Medicine With Intuitive Diagnosis, by C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D., and Caroline Myss, M.A., (Walpole, NH: Stillpoint Publishing, 1988.)

An older yet just as vital book which addresses the crucial spiritual issues which lie at the root of many diseases. Shealy and Myss create an acceptable theoretical framework in which intuitive analysis of problems in the human energetic syste, combined with appropriate medical diagnostic testing, may provide a clearer understanding of the reasons behind disease, as well as solutions which may heal the higher causes of illness.

El Secreto Tibetano De La Eterna Juventud, by Peter Kelder (Random House Espanol, 1999.)

The book begins with Kelder's own discovery of the rites by way of Colonel Bradford, a mysterious retired British army officer who learned of them while journeying high up in the Himalayas. It then offers practical instructions for each of the five rites, which resemble yoga postures. Taking just minutes to perform, these exercises have benefited daily practitioners with various health improvements, such as increased energy, weight loss, better memory, pain relief, and just feeling younger. Originally introduced to the rites in the 1930's Kelder published his work in 1985 with Harbor Press in Gig Harbor, Washington. The response that has greeted this work throughout the world can only be described as phenomenal.

The Five Tibetans, Five Dynamic Exercises for Health, Energy and Personal Power, by Christopher S. Kilham. (Healing Arts Press, 1994.)

The Five Tibetans take a minimum of daily time and effort but can dramatically increase physical strength and suppleness as well as mental acuity. Even newcomers to yoga will experience the Five Tibetans' liberating effect on the innate energetic power of the human body and mind. Regular practice of these exercises relieves muscular tension and nervous stress, improves respiration and digestion, benefits the cardiovascular system and leads to deep relaxation and well-being. The Five Tibetans can be a powerful vehicle not only for enlivening the senses but also for generating and harnessing vital energy for self-transformation.

Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field, by Barbara Ann Brennan, (New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1988.)

Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field, by Barbara Ann Brennan, is a scientist's look at the field of bioenergetic healing, offering specific techniques towards expanding perceptual tools of healing, seeing auras, understanding psychodynamics and the human energy field, and spiritual healing. Trained as a physicist and psychotherapist, Brennan has spent the last 15 years studying the human energy field and working as a healer. Hands of Light goes beyond conventional, objective knowledge while retaining scientific clarity. It details a study of the human energy field and how it is intimately connected to a person's health and well being and contains essential information for anyone involved in healing and conscious health care, including people seeking to heal themselves.

The Healing Bath : Using Essential Oil Therapy to Balance Body Energy, by Milli D. Austin, (Rochester, VT: Healing Arts Press, 1997.)

This book offers guidelines and formulas for using essential oils in the bath to cure almost any form or emotional illness, including asthma, depression, substance abuse, headaches, sleep disorders, food intolerance, allergies, bladder and urinary tract problems, and hyperactivity. It is the first book to focus on using essential oils to heal the energy field surrounding the physical body.

Healing with Chakra Energy, Restoring the Natural Harmony of the Body, by Lilla Bek and Philippa Pullar, (Llewellyn Publications; August 1994.)

A Chakra & Kundalini Workbook is one of the clearest, most approachable books on Yoga there is. Tailored for the Western mind, this is a practical systen of person trining suited for anyone in today's active and complex world.

Life Changes With the Energy of the Chakras, by Ambika Wauters Crossing Pr; October 1999.)

Whining about being a victim and blaming others as the source of our problems reinforce our old patterns of behavior, old movies in which everyone else is responsible for our troubles, never ourselves. There is a mother way to face life changes, we can choose to alter these old patterns consciously so that we will be able to find new, healthy options. Ambika believes there is a correlation between congested chakras and the ability to adapt in a positive way to change. Therefore she analyzes the work of each chakra and adds questionnaires that will help you focus on the specific problems that keep you from adapting to change in a positive way. She concludes each of these with a meditation that will help you connect with your higher self, the Buddha within, whom you can call on for additional help. Quiet your soul.

Light Emerging : The Journey of Personal Healing by Barbara Ann Brennan, Thomas J. Schneider, (Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub December 1993.)

Brennan instructs on how to work with the "human energy field," which involves the seven chakras and the aura, to cure various physical and emotional problems. Readers searching for ways of healing that go beyond the orthodox will be best able to use this book and because Brennan's discussion is long and involved, at once fascinating and confusing, it may well attract the most devoted anyway. Despite a nod from Bernie Siegel, and evidence throughout that Brennan's methods can be effective, discussions of how people "grow cords" that obstruct relationships or why you should soak used jewelry in saltwater to destroy negative energy are sure to have skeptics shaking their heads. Brennan is not only a therapist and healer, but also a former research scientist for NASA, which would seem to lend her credibility. This title follows her popular Hands of Light.

Using Your Chakras. A New Approach to Healing Your Life, by Ruth White.

Explores chakra knowledge and energy to improve your life and promote physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual development. Each chapter addresses a different aspect of life family relationships, love and passion, sex, power and creativity, age and wisdom, death and rebirth and provides simple exercises (49 in all), meditations, and creative visualization that helps you connect more deeply with your body's chakra energies. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.

Wheels of Life: A User's Guide to the Chakra System, by Judith Anodea, Ph.D., (St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2000.)

This book, after selling over 100,000 copies, is now revised and updated with new cover, art, and updated text. Contains easy to use charts of acupressure points, tables of correspondences, chakras as related to relationhips, children, and cultural evolution. A very thorough book

Wheels of Light: Chakras, Auras, and the Healing Energy of the Body, by Rosalyn L. Bruyere, (New York, NY: Fireside, Simon & Schuster 1994.)

Wheels of Light explores the seven chakras, or energy centers, of the body with particular focus on the first chakra, which has to do with our basic life force, our physical bodies, and our sexuality. Drawing on scientific research, Native American culture, the ancient traditions of the Egyptians and Greeks, the philosophies of the Hindus, and the religions of the East, Rosalyn L. Bruyere presents a unique perspective on the value and healing potential of the chakra system.

Working With Your Chakras : A Physical, Emotional, & Spiritual Approach, by Ruth White, (Samuel Weiser; September 1994.)

Clearly written and easy to use, this practical guide brings esoteric chakra knowledge into western perspective. Connecting this energy system enables growth, healing and balance to take place in all areas of your being-physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. Ruth White shows that you can do a great deal to change your live by using simple exercise, meditation, and creative and colorful visualizations. Self-understanding, dynamic and realistic life choices, physical and emotional healing-all are enhanced when you understand the chakras.

Your Aura & Your Chakras : The Owner's Manual, by Karla McLaren; (Samuel Weiser; October 1998.)

In this book, Karla has taken a grounded, no-nonsense approach to spiritual healing which will let you access your intuition safely, practically, and best of all, easily. The work of The Owner's Manual is explained in everyday terms, and is meant to be used in everyday situations. Each of the twelve major chakras is given its own chapter, and explained in terms that anyone can understand. What are the traits of a healthy first chakra? "A solid stance, a sense of quiet power, and an awareness of where you left your car keys!" Experiencing a spiritual glitch? Flip to the Troubleshooting Guide in the back for help with aura trouble, disorientation, panic attacks, or sixty other possible difficulties.