Healing Arts for Mind-Body-Spirit Wellness
Recommended Reading
We actively co-create our lives. Sometimes we need new, different, or more information in order to update the way we interact with the world to create what we desire. This is part of the conscious work.
Accessing Information
I recommend checking out books from the library and supporting your local book shop first. If you shop on-line, Bookshop.org supports independent booksellers. I receive a small commission from books purchased through my shop link.
Some of these books are also available in audio format.
Great Places to Start Your Journey
Your Energetic Boundaries: How to Stay Protected and Connected in Work, Love, and Life by Cyndi Dale -Just as our physical body is protected by our skin, our psyche and spirit have "energetic boundaries" that keep out harmful influences. These boundaries, invisible to the naked eye, are more than just defenses-according to Cyndi Dale, our spiritual borders communicate to the universe what we do and don't want to experience in life.
Energy Anatomy: The Science of Personal Power, Spirituality, and Health by Caroline Myss -How the human body encodes thought, converts it into matter, and stores it as energy within specific areas of the body.
Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection by Dr. John Sarno - how stress and other psychological factors can cause back pain-and how you can be pain free without drugs, exercise, or surgery.
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris -how deeply our bodies can be imprinted by ACEs—adverse childhood experiences like abuse, neglect, parental addiction, mental illness, and divorce. Childhood adversity changes our biological systems, and lasts a lifetime. For anyone who has faced a difficult childhood, or who cares about the millions of children who do, the fascinating scientific insight and innovative, acclaimed health interventions in The Deepest Well represent vitally important hope for preventing lifelong illness for those we love and for generations to come.
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor -A look at how our brain hemispheres shape our reality via Dr. Taylor's journey, as a brain anatomist, experiencing and recovering from a stroke. As the damaged left side of her brain--the rational, grounded, detail- and time-oriented side--swung in and out of function, Taylor alternated between two distinct and opposite realties: the euphoric nirvana of the intuitive and kinesthetic right brain, in which she felt a sense of complete well-being and peace; and the logical, sequential left brain, which recognized Jill was having a stroke, and enabled her to seek help before she was lost completely.
The Awakened Woman: Remembering & Reigniting Our Sacred Dreams by Dr. Tererai Trent -Through one incredible woman’s journey from a child bride in a small Zimbabwe village to one of the world’s most recognizable voices in women’s empowerment and education, this manifesto inspires women to pursue their sacred dreams through nine essential lessons brought forth from ancient African wisdom.
Usui Tradition Reiki Training ~ November 16 & 17
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