She is considered one of the country’s foremost experts on the combination of chakras and therapeutic issues and on the interpretation of the Chakra System for the Western lifestyle.

The exercise chapter will help you ‘practice what you preach’ and take book knowledge to a physical level. Her clear organization and numerous charts make browsing for subjects of personal relevance a breeze, and her comparison of the various maps of psychological development (Freudian, Piagetian, Eriksonian, Reichian, and others) is intriguing. My advice is to take this book one section at a time, set a schedule for yourself as if you were taking a class.Our resources are crucial for knowledge lovers everywhere—so if you find all these bits and bytes useful, please pitch in. While on my journey to understanding how each energy wheel works, I read lots and lots of chakra books.

A 20-year chakra-work veteran reviewed it as the most comprehensive book on the market and I have to say I agree. Judith also says how we are taught desire is bad but desire is needed so that we have fuel to do stuff, including transcendental stuff. Kleine blokkades groeien met tijd vaak uit tot grote: een kleine angst wordt een fobie, woede wordt eenzaamheid door vervreemding van anderen, eenzaamheid wordt een depressie. A yoga teacher references a book that sounds interesting to me: western psychology meets eastern philosophy.Coming from a Western psychology background I worry that much was lost from the Eastern though to force it into am unnecessary Western framework. The shadow side of this exposure is that, at least in the West, any cultural meme that gets seized by the collective consciousness runs the risk of trivialization, thus diluting its power.

Hoe voorkomen we dat we de grond onder onze voeten verliezen in transformatie; door op intuïtie te vertrouwen. Whether or not this is a common enough argument, it just seemed that Judith was generalizing, making "spiritual teachers" and "eastern teachings" a monolith when it's not. In a world where everything seemed extremely straightforward, I got curious about what else I could tap into when Western theory and Western medicine didn't yield the best results.Zintuigen leveren ruwe informatie, gevoelens zijn de onbewuste reacties op deze informatie, emoties gestructureerde gevoelens in ons lichaam waar we ons bewust van kunnen worden. I had done extensive studies in mythology, symbolism, and learned quite a bit about Jungian and Campbellian theories. Eastern Body Western Mind goes through so much detailed information about each chakra as well as practices to heal them. They put negative thoughts in a loop and believe they are more real than what their heart says because they believe their heart is not a reliable barometer.

By contrast, it's hard for me to get much metaphysical (not to mention epistemological) traction on Judith's theory of consciousness-drenched energy centers. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, sell user information, or run ads.

Other fabulous parts of this chakra book include ways to ground yourself, heal out of tune chakras, and help your soul progress toward enlightenment. All in all, this book is an excellent guide to the self and the spiritual journey and path to self-actualization or enlightenment. Eastern Body, Western Mind is a great book to learn more about chakras from a psychological perspective.