Chakra Healing Therapy

This comprehensive illustrated book on chakra healing therapy is based on 30 years of experience and teaching, also drawing on the Alexander technique, energy medicine, developmental psychology and spiritual traditions. The structure proceeds from the base to the crown in a corresponding series of chapters, and the book begins with an account of the author's personal healing journey. It provides a clear schematic introduction to the topic at physical, psychological, psychic and spiritual levels. The chakras are 'an individualised map of our embodied consciousness' inviting us to combine mind and body to initiate healing and growth. Each chapter describes the relevance of the four levels, also providing case studies, cultural considerations and advice for nourishing the relevant chakra. Developmentally, each chakra is dominant with respect to a certain stage, such as the movement from what Jenny Wade has called Achievement to Affiliative Consciousness and subsequently to Authentic Consciousness (p. 142), also integrating left and right hemisphere thinking (p. 191). By the time we reach the crown chakra, we have moved into Transcendent Consciousness and subsequently Unity Consciousness where we rest in our divine nature rather than seeking it. A fascinating addendum is the thought that the release of muscular tension around death triggers the corresponding embedded memory as a life review. The end of the journey is the realisation that 'we live in a conscious intelligent universe' and that 'a conscious intelligent universe lives in us' where we are each expressions of formless Divine energy translated into mind and matter. This wise and compassionate book is a welcome companion on our path.