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 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 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.

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.

El Secreto Tibetano De La Eterna Juvent

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.

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 FieldBy 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.

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.

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.