"The energy center known in Sanskrit as "muladhara" is called the "root chakra." It is located in a layer of our subtle body called "pranamaya kosha" at the base of our spine in the tailbone area. The root chakra is our connection to the earth and to humanity at large. When this chakra is closed, muddied, and unhealthy, we experience many negative emotions, and we manifest unhealthy habits, addictions, and behaviors. This book provides an answer to these maladies. It helps us reconnect with the earth and primal energies with powerful, easy-to-use methods of guided meditation, affirmation, visualization, breathing, and physical movements"--

Practical insight and advice for working with the chakra that serves as the foundation for awakening well-being throughout our body and our life. The energy center known in Sanskrit as muladhara is called the root chakra. It is located in a layer of our subtle body called pranamaya kosha, at the base of our spine in the tailbone area. The root chakra is our connection to the earth and to humanity at large. When this chakra is closed, muddied, and unhealthy, we experience fear, timidity, worry, doubt, anger, frustration, panic, self-loathing, survival mode, and defensiveness, and we manifest unhealthy habits, addictions, narcissism, aggressive behavior, bullying, and a sense of entitlement or victimhood. Earth Energy Meditations provides an answer to these maladies. It helps us reconnect with the earth and primal energies with powerful, easy-to-use methods of guided meditation, affirmation, visualization, breathing, and physical movements. By practicing these techniques, we can reap the benefits of an open, clear, and healthy root chakra. We can return to a sense of stability, security, protection, and centered well-being. We can enjoy strength of character, integrity, perseverance, persistence, self-acceptance, self-worth, practicality, healthy survival instinct, and prosperity. Awaken the root to yourself and your connection to the world with Earth Energy Meditations.

What causes the beauty of a gemstone to resonate with you? In Meditations from the Earth, educator and jewelry designer Elizabeth Irvine reveals the mysterious power inherent in gemstones and explains how to incorporate them in your life to bring forth feelings such as love, gratitude, and calm. Inside this book, Elizabeth provides a meditation for each gemstone that aligns with an affirmation to keep with you throughout your day. As you learn to combine the power of a gemstone's energy with the soulful clarity of an affirmation, you'll gain insight and comfort. This awareness begins to create shifts in your life that can lead to greater health, a sense of calm, more joy, or a deeper purpose. When you combine these gifts of the Earth with the positive message of an affirmation, you'll experience how language shapes consciousness and beauty can nourish the spirit. You can create the life your soul is asking you to live, and you can begin now.

Open the doorway to infinite consciousness through meditation, visualization, and affirmation. "Shumsky has been there. That's what makes her a great teacher." -Larry Dossey, bestselling author of Healing Words Meditation has become more popular than ever. Though millions practice it, many are not getting the relaxing, healing, spiritually uplifting experiences or positive effects they desire. Third Eye Meditations is different. It offers effortless, joyful ways to enjoy profoundly uplifting results without previous training, skill, talent, or practice. What is "guided meditation"? It's a way to be led step by step, moment by moment, through the process. Just reading the words will take you into deep meditation and awaken higher aspects of your being. Third Eye Meditations can help you: Open your third eye and supersensory perception. Discover who you really are and fulfill your true purpose. Experience higher states of consciousness. Enjoy deep relaxation and contentment. Improve your relationships, health, and success. Bring greater planetary balance and world peace. The third eye is the eye of illumination. Practicing the meditations in this book can fill your body, mind, and spirit with light, love, and wisdom. You can ask for and receive divine inspiration, healing, creative ideas, clear intuition, and inner guidance - at will - and you can develop your spiritual self.

Susan Bradfield has taught classes in meditation and metaphysics in northern California since the 1980s. Here she presents seven classes based on the teachings of Lewis Bostwick, who founded the Church of Divine Man and the Berkeley Psychic Institute, and Karen Wasco, who founded The Center for Healing and Intuition. When you wish to climb a mountain, she writes, there are many trails from which you might choose. Susan's trail-learning to meditate-is one which can be done anywhere, at any time (except, she notes, possibly while driving a car.) Reading this book, you may feel that a funny, friendly person interested in your personal welfare is talking directly to you. Susan lives with her husband, Bill, on a boat headed from the San Mateo Coastside to points south. They have two daughters and four grandchildren.

Publisher’s Note: A new edition has replaced this book under the title Subtle Energy Work, ISBN 9781637480083. A unique guide to principles, practices, and exercises that help you access your energy awareness and live a more empowered life. Learning to consciously interact in the domain of subtle energy is the next step in personal and planetary transformation. The Path of Energy is a unique handbook of principles, practices and exercises to help you access your energy awareness and live a more empowered life. In the book are 13 meditations that activate patterns of light within your energy body to awaken specific abilities and levels of awareness. Each meditation includes benefits and purpose, step-by-step written directions augmented with line drawings, and an interpretive illustration of the completed energy pattern. Subtle energy is more than life force; it is the substance of reality and the vehicle of consciousness. Your body is wired to navigate this domain. You are equipped with everything needed to engage the world of energy and creatively change your life. You simply need to remember how. The Path of Energy is a guide to living with expanded consciousness. Included are techniques that build energy awareness and use this skill to deepen your spiritual path, intimacy in relationships, align with earth energy, clear space, create protection, manifest goals, facilitate healing, and more.

“A great introduction to the growing field of energy medicine. . . . Easy-to-read . . . this book will be enjoyed by animal guardians and veterinarians alike.” —Shawn Messonnier, DVM, author of The Natural Health Bible for Dogs & Cats Whether you’re a newcomer to the field of energy healing, an experienced practitioner or an animal lover committed to learning everything you can about your companion’s health, Animal Reiki will open your eyes to a new level of health and well-being. From dogs and cats to horses and birds, this book is everything you need to understand and appreciate the power of Reiki to heal and deepen the bond with the animals in your life. “I learned a lot from Animal Reiki and highly recommend it to a wide audience.” —Marc Bekoff, University of Colorado, author of Minding Animals and editor of the Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior “Fulton and Prasad have created a much-needed guide to a method of helping animals heal that is gentle, intuitive, safe and powerful.” —Susan Chernak McElroy, author of All My Relations: Living with Animals as Teachers and Healers “A powerful reminder of the wider uses of the system of Reiki and how humanity can be of purposeful benefit to all.” —Bronwen and Frans Stiene, International House of Reiki, authors of A-Z of Reiki, The Japanese Art of Reiki and The Reiki Sourcebook