December 11, 2010

Hello,

In this issue, I've collected three book summaries/reviews that I've written in the healing and personal development realm. This issue is the last for 2010. I hope you have a wonderful holiday season. See you in the new year.

Carol

Cell-Level Healing

In the book Cell-Level Healing: The Bridge from Soul to Cell, author Joyce Hawkes discusses how each person has a unique variation of universal energy. Hawkes calls this energy a person's soul-signature. She then uses the term "Flow" to refer to the speed and direction of the soul-signature.

Hawkes, who was a biophysicist studying cells for many years before becoming an energy healer, starts at what Flow means at the cell level: All cells experience a constant inflow and outflow of elements needed to survive. Interrupt this flow and the cell dies. Interrupt the flow to enough cells, and the body dies.

On a larger level, Flow affects a person's spiritual, emotional, and physical well-being. According to Hawkes, "When Flow reaches all of the levels from Soul to Cell, liveliness enhances simple daily routines. The body responds with improved health."

We each have a speed of flow, based on our basic nature and the time of day. By recognizing our personal flow, we can move in concert with it, navigating more easily through life. We each also have a direction of flow, either up or down the spine. Although Kundalini teaches the upward flow of energy, Hawkes says that she has found that most people are healthier with a downward flow of energy.

Hawkes recommends the following visualization: Visualize the crown of your head opening like a flower and invite the healing energy of the universe to flow in. Visualize the energy flowing through your body and out of your feet.

For anyone interested in energy healing from the perspective of a scientist grounded in cell biology, Cell-Level Healing, is a must-read.

Remembering Wholeness

The book, Remembering Wholeness: A Personal Handbook for Thriving in the 21st Century, by Carol Tuttle is an interesting combination of a modern understanding of energy healing and traditional Christian beliefs. For anyone, like me, who doesn't share Tuttle's Christian beliefs, parts of the book are a tough read - too much talk of God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit. However, for Christians who want to understand energy from a Christian perspective, this book is great.

I do think Tuttle has the energy part right - she just chooses to frame this understanding of energy in Christianity. Tuttle is a Certified Energy Therapist who uses clearing techniques to help people release negative energy. Clearing negative energy frees a person's natural healing system to heal in the way God (or in my preferred terms, the Universe) intended.

Tuttle provides a number of exercises. I particularly like the energy circle, where you draw an imaginary circle on the ground, speak positive "I am" statements into the circle, and then let yourself bask in all that positive energy.

She also provides a "turning it over to your angels" exercise, which is pretty much the same exercise that Abraham-Hicks teaches as the "turning it over to your manager" exercise in the book The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent: Living the Art of Allowing. Obviously, I prefer to think of my guiding and managing energy as managers rather than angels, but whatever terms you think in, I hope more people come to understand how important it is for us all to cultivate as much positive energy as we can.

The Answer is Simple

In The Answer is Simple. . . Love Yourself, Live Your Spirit, Sonia Choquette looks at how life can flow peacefully when you connect to your authentic spirit and experience your truth, love, and divine nature.

Connecting to your spirit means seeking love from within, remembering who you really are, and expressing it in the world. According to Sonia, "To live your spirit is simple: All you must do is detach from your ego and follow your heart."

Everyone has a divine spark of life that is the essence of the authentic self. When you welcome your spirit and treat it as an honored guest, you nourish this spark. If you are critical and hostile toward your spirit, it's the equivalent of hurling garbage at a guest.

Knowing Your Spirit

Knowing your spirit starts by looking for the part of you that is light, happy, creative, and kind...the part that is present in the moment and laughs easily. You can further understand your spirit by identifying its unique characteristics. Some spirits are fiery and feisty while others are calm and grounded.

Sonia provides many steps for connecting to your spirit, inncluding:

• Connect to your soul family. Soul family are the people who witness and strengthen the authentic you. Ideally, these people include family of birth, but sometimes other people are more of a family.
• Show your family of birth your authentic self. Sonia gives an example of mother and son who both felt unappreciated by the other. Once they showed each other their true selves and real interests, they became close again.
• Maintain your balance. The world can be a negative and ego-based place that drains energy. It's important to find ways to replenish your balance.
• Share your gifts and remember what you love. According to Sonia, purpose in life involves looking deeply into your heart and sharing what you love.
• Accept life's lessons with grace. Life will always present challenges. Sonia suggests that "the ability to love ourselves and love our Spirits gives us the means by which we can face and successfully work through our stuff and learn our lessons."
• Listen to music that resonates with your inner self. It is a way to raise personal vibration, serving as an antidote to negativity.

Spiritual Growth

Kindness is loving spirit in action. Kindness is a choice to honor the divine in all. "Kindness is less a doing and more of an allowing," says Sonia, and "it's the one self-loving expression of Spirit that keeps on giving." She notes that in her experience people who genuinely succeed and take great pleasure in their lives turn to a higher aspect of their nature, or the Spirit within, to direct their lives.

The Answer is Simple. . . Love Yourself, Live Your Spirit presents a path of spiritual growth based on loving, knowing, and sharing your true self with others. I recommend this book to anyone interested in spiritual growth.

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