Energy Healing Books

Both my systolic and dystolic blood pressure levels decreased by 20 points each after reading 40 pages of this book. I can't remember the last time it's been this low. Let's see if this continues.

I really enjoyed this book. Clearly written, with the right mix of experience and theory. Author isn't out to create a complex system where people have to study a system for years, so lots of practical tips. Some thoughtful ideas on energy in objects.

Too much space and time spent on self indulgent praise. Not enough information on the art or the science. Very little imparting of the knowledge of the art or craft.

I'm sorry to say I can not recommend the book. I know about the subject of energy and I know several who work with energy including two friends that are Reiki Masters and practicioners. This book is more of an autobiography than a teaching book. You can find better information in books from Barbara Ann Brennan and many other authors.

I have a few books on qigong and this one is the one I rec'd to others, both beginners and experienced. Excellent with the basic and more advanced forms.

The first thing that struck me about this book was the way it is organized. It attempts to guide the reader through a full year of qigong practice, starting in spring. While this idea is, in itself, not a bad one, the increased intensity of the exercises inhibits the ability to begin practice at any other time. In other words, if your bought this book in January, as I did, you'd be starting at "month 11," which is almost at the end of the book and assumes knowledge of the previous 10 months. So, unless you begin practice in March of April, the book is nearly useless until then.

Even if the qigong exercises in this book were accurate and beneficial, you'd never know it. The sparse illustrations only show one of the three to eight steps in each exercise and the written descriptions of each step is often unclear. An introduction to qigong should be more accessible to the beginner.

The first thing that struck me about this book was the way it is organized. It attempts to guide the reader through a full year of qigong practice, starting in spring. While this idea is, in itself, not a bad one, the increased intensity of the exercises inhibits the ability to begin practice at any other time. In other words, if your bought this book in January, as I did, you'd be starting at "month 11," which is almost at the end of the book and assumes knowledge of the previous 10 months. So, unless you begin practice in March of April, the book is nearly useless until then.

Even if the qigong exercises in this book were accurate and beneficial, you'd never know it. The sparse illustrations only show one of the three to eight steps in each exercise and the written descriptions of each step is often unclear. An introduction to qigong should be more accessible to the beginner.

Check out the fittest people in any gym, and you will usually note that flexibility is a key component of their program. Check any truly spiritually centered person, and notice the glow of serenity than surrounds them. Combine both, and you understand why Western thinking is scurrying to latch onto QiGong.
Combining gentle, flexible movement with breathing and visual meditation, Qi Gong is difficult to learn by book alone. Having said that, I found "The QiGong Year" to be the most helpful of texts in introducing this method of movement which promotes positive qi (energy), healing, and a healthy mind. Mr, Bruney breaks his introduction to the phases of QiGong down on a month-by-month basis, and writes in easy to follow prose, focusing on the Ba Duan Jin (8 Fine exercises). Some poems, meditations and Taoist traditions help explain the value of the program. And the illustrations,paper and colors used in publishing this book were very carefully chosen to maintain harmony with the theme of the writing, something rarely promoted in Western literature.
Obviously, the best way to learn QiGong is through work with an expert. Barring that, The qiGong Year makes for a very acceptable substitute.

Dr. Wrobel provides the reader with true insite into the experiene of Aikido. As a beginer, I found the work to be inspirational.

The author may be an excellent teacher/practitioner of aikido but flounders, as have many others, when attempting to translate the experience into print. He describes aikido as process. True and process doesn't lend itself to easy description. Meandering,repetitive, and vague. ( and a little misleading, eg. it would be a very exceptional student who would achieve black belt status after 'four or five years of practice' ). Try Mitsugi Saotome or Richard Heckler for better reads.

I just finished reading Stan Wrobel's "Aikido for Self-Discovery"
and enjoyed it tremendously. While I am not a martial artist, I am interested in self-discovery. This book taught me that the awareness and quality of each moment and each movement is what brings about an exciting and new experience. This is certainly what we forget in our rushing about every day. The author says, "Our movements proclaim who we are and how we want to interact with the external world." How many of us are REALLY aware of what we are doing at each moment? For Martial Artists, the book offers suggestions on using oneself with total awareness and effortless action. Excellent book...I recommend it to everyone who is interested in the art of discovering themselves.

Chris's voice is very pleasant to listen to. His material is presented in layman terms so a cheechocko listener can follow, learn, and benefit. And become knowledgeable and profficient in tapping and using the tremendous power Chris presents you with the key to.

I was looking for a meditation tape and I bought this one. I was disappointed because there was no background music or pauses during the medidation exercises. I had to retape the exercises and include the pauses myself. If you are looking for information in an audiobook format, this would probably be ok.

This is a good basic primer on Kundalini, the human energy system, and meditation. I disagree with the previous reviewer's comments regarding Chris Kilham's voice being "soothing." While his voice is not grating, it is far from soothing, particularly when you consider that the pace of the tape moves along at a rather quick rate. (I get the feeling that they had more material than would fit on one tape, and so the pace is a tad rushed). Still, I feel that this is a good tape overall, and well worth the money, particularly if you're fairly new to the subject.

My main complaint with this author is that he takes 10 pages to say a paragraph. The read is so tiresome that reading this author becomes very unpleasant. For every technique, you learn, you must deal with 10-15 pages of airy-fairy fluff. I would recomend some of the other authors whom are much more direct, and not trying to sell endless courses and books.

Not to deny what's written below, but this book is the most comprehensive in the Chia library. At a certain point, the extra detail is nice to have. Learning a massage system from a book is nigh impossible, but the wealth of information in this book is unmatched by any of Chia's other books (many of which are quite good). If I could only have two of MC's books (and I've read them all), it would be this one and Bone Marrow Nei Kung.

I have yet to find another source on this type of massage system. The Chi Lei system is different from other massage system in the sense that it works directly with the organs, detoxifying them through massage. Mantak Chia book on the topic is comprehensive, detailed and clear enough to be read. However some of the massage techniques are to difficult to convey in a book and it will be helpful to learn on video. I gave the book a 4 star instead of a 5 because the illustrations are sometimes not clear. The book should have used photographs to show some techniques and points.

For those who have simply been open and tried it, healing by spirit, faith and prayers has worked wonderfully. Attitude is everything. If you simply won't believe that it is possible, it simply won't work!

Caroline Myss is the leader in the field of practical spiritual healing. Don't miss her excellent book, Anatomy of the Spirit.

This tape is a powerful reminder of how and why we get ill. What amazes me is that it makes absolute sense the way we go into energy debt and it also demonstrates the need to forgive and release old negative events that still may have power over you. If nothing else, it gets you thinking.

Entertaining in the sense that it passes time but not very useful in the prctical sense.

This was a required book for a course I loved. This book is one of the things that made the course so wonderful. If you want to understand the research and science behind energy work, this is the book for you!

Jonas et al.'s Healing, Intention and Energy Medicine is a compendium of research from a conference on Science and Spirituality held in 2000 at which I was a presenter. As the author of chapter 14 (I do not receive royalties), I am as impressed with the final form of the conference presentations as I was with the researchers and conference in general. The public at large is generally unaware that healing and intentionality has been the subject of laboratory investigations for over three decades. From the initial forays of Dr. Bernard Grad and (healer) Oskar Estabany in examining the influence of human consciousness/energy on animals and plants to the sophisticated experimentation of mental intention on equipment by Radin, Jahn & Dunne and others, Healing, ntention and Energy Medicine is a fascinating odyssey into the study of nonordinary healing and untapped human potentials well worth the exploration.
Jonas et al. have done justice to this body of work, presenting it in a clear, readable and entrancing form.

This book reviews the research on distant and spiritual healing, mind-matter interaction, intentionality and energy medicine. Jonas and Crawford, both of the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Maryland, evaluate more than 2,200 studies, in ten areas. Using the accepted criteria of scientific evidence, they graded each of the ten A to F, from A the highest, with at least three independent, high-quality studies, to F the lowest.

The results were: religious practices - D, prayer - B, `energy' healing - B, Qigong (laboratory research) - C, Qigong (clinical research) - F, laboratory research on bio-energy - B, direct mental interaction with living systems: electrodermal activity - B, direct mental interaction with living systems: remote staring - B, research on mind-matter interactions: individuals - A, research on mind-matter interactions: groups - E.

The only area which meets Jonas and Crawford's standard is not a study of any kind of healing or energy medicine, but research on mind-matter interactions. As they write, "Of all the research described in the book, the REG [random event generator] data set is the only one in which there are experiments that meet all of the standard quality criteria and as such are considered fully adequate as evidence." This is a meta-analysis of 42 studies `examining attempts by individuals to influence random systems', presented in chapter 7, `Non-sensory access to information: the ganzfeld studies', by Marilyn Schlitz and Dean Radin, both of the Institute of Noetic Sciences in California.

How strong is this element, the strongest part of their whole case? Schlitz and Radin found that the worse the study, the more likely it was to find a significant effect. Only 28 of the studies even reported the results of these attempts to influence random systems. Why didn't the other 14? Was it because their success rates were so low? Even on the basis of this skewed sample, the success rate was only one in three. It's good that our real senses don't work this badly: if we only had a one in three chance of seeing a lorry coming towards us, we wouldn't last very long!

Schlitz and Radin conclude, "we can only speculate that some forms of intuitive medical diagnosis may have a telepathic component." Speculate? Some forms? May have? And why is it suddenly just about diagnosis, not about any form of healing at all? What an admission that the whole approach is bankrupt!

In general, healing - spiritual healing or healing at a distance - and energy medicine depend on breaking the known, proven laws of nature. As the philosopher David Hume noted long ago, it is always more likely that somebody is mistaken or lying than that natural law has been broken.

Supporters of healing and energy medicine use terms like `energy', `vital force' and `psyche' to describe something that allegedly can exist independently of our bodies. Again, none of these studies present any evidence for such a thing. In fact, there has never been any reliable evidence of life existing without a body, never any reliable evidence of a mind existing without a living brain to support it.

In the final chapter, David Hufford, of the Department of Humanities at Pennsylvania State College of Medicine, claims that osteopathy has "changed almost beyond recognition as the cost of entry to even marginal acceptance by the medical mainstream" - a ludicrously overstated claim, and a slur on both osteopathy and mainstream medicine. Of course, supporters of healing and energy medicine have to decry health practices that do work, to make room for healing and energy medicine. If healing and energy medicine did work, all the health professions, including osteopathy, would be unnecessary.

In sum, the evidence presented in Jonas and Crawford's book proves that healing and energy medicine do not work. As they sum up, "Conclusive evidence that these mental interactions result in healing of specific illnesses is lacking." None of the studies of the effects of prayer, `energy' healing, Qigong, bioenergy, energy medicine or spiritual healing, `meet all of the standard quality criteria'. Not one can be considered `fully adequate as evidence'. Wanting somebody to get better does not make them better, just as wanting something to be true does not make it true.

All the efforts to prove the validity of healing and energy medicine have been a huge waste of time and effort, as were the similar efforts to create perpetual motion machines and to turn lead into gold. All are contrary to the laws that govern matter. All are futile exercises in wishful thinking, denials of science and evasions of reality.

Musical Qigong is a special healing energy therapy which combines the two ancient Chinese traditions of healing music and Qigong. Master Shen Wu (founder of musical Qigong and director of the Chinese Traditional Medical Institute) draws upon his more than twenty years of Qigong medical practice in China and America to focus on the five major organs of the body and how the use of musical Qigong enlivens the mind, relaxes the body, and lifts the spirt. There are two complete sets of photographically illustrated exercises, as well as a full and complete explanation of how musical Qigong is related to acupuncture, tai chi, feng shui; how ancient Chinese music is related to human organs; and how to perform Qigong in the most authentic way. Musical Qigong is highly recommended to students of Chinese medicine and metaphysics, as well as practitioners of alternative medicine.

This book is written in a very simplistic and self-congratulatory manner, like advertising copy. Although photos of body postures are given, no music is written out, and the student is directed to purchase his audio tapes or CD's, with a $100 price tag for the set.

Highest regards to Master Wu's book, "Musical Qigong". It is an expectional work of art. Much like the man himself. The book is filled with Truth; and contains an energy of love so intense that the reader cannot help but be influenced by it. My life personally has been transformed by knowing Master Wu and by learning of the Ancient Teachings and the wisdom that he has acquired. Which he shares so adequately throughout the book. Through learning and practing the Qigong techniques, many people have found healing from diseases which plagued their physical body, as well as attaining a more peaceful state of mind. (myself included) I have read other Qigong books but none have come close to the Pure Knowlege and Inherent Wisdom that this book holds. Master Wu is a true Master. And that alone, speaks for itself. As does the book. Musical Qigong will change your life 'if' you read it with an open mind and apply the exercises with a honest heart. In 'Musical Qigong' Master Shen Wu gives to the world the opportunity to gather the peace and harmony, the love,the tranquility of mind, and the longevity of life that we all aspire to have. Highest Regards to all that are led to this book. A greater find will not cross your desk in many years to come. This one is written with the intent of opening the doors of old and bringing the light into the new pathway, that all may find health, happiness and wholeness. This book is truly a gift to mankind.

This book was recommended reading before I started my Reiki training. It was a very very helpful book since I was just beginning my journey with Reiki. I now have more in depth books about gems but this is a great starter book for anyone willing to learn.

I bought this book with the hope that it would tell me how certain stones would enhance Reiki treatments or maybe how they would function in a Reiki Grid. I think what I'm trying to say is that I was expecting a catalogue of stones and what they do with Reiki specifically, along with descriptions and illustrations of specialized layouts that would enhance healing with Reiki by merging them with gemstone vibrations. Whoops!

First off, the author tells you that certain stones act certain ways depending upon how they are shaped and if they have been altered from the natural state, i.e. faceted, carbocon-cut, tumbled, etc. Sometimes the shape *does* have an effect if the cut enhances the stone such as rfaceting bringin more light into a stone, or if it is in a sacred shape such as a pyramid, but from experience it has little to no effect. She says NOTHING about the gem quality of a stone affecting its vibration and seems to think the size of the stone matters, which I have found not to be the case.

I'd say 1/3 of the book is the standard Reiki I hand position manual, indeed, an abridged Reiki I manual, and added because she wanted to make the book longer. No where, except for in a customer review was there even a hint that this book was for beginning Reiki practitioners. Personally, I think enough books have covered Reiki I positions well enough already and to add it to this one was too much.

There was a bit of new information (for me, at least) on the layouts and descriptions of 7 of the same gemstone, one on each major Kundalini Chakra: 7 Garnets, 7 Carnelians, 7 Citrines, 7 Rutilated Quartz, 7 Pieces of Amber, 7 Chrysoprase pieces, 7 Rose Quartz, 7 Chalcedonies, 7 Aquamarines, 7 Lapis, 7 Amethysts, and 7 Clear Quartz. Those sections had a paragraph of what the stones were to do in each energy center. And it did give the optimal positions for the stones' energies to affect each Chakra.

All in all I was very disappointed with this book, which I had set very high hopes on. However, if you are a Reiki I and/or a beginner at Laying on of Stones, this book might be of some help to you. If you're Reiki II or III, do yourself a favor and look at books which are purely for Laying on of Stones.

I enjoyed this book. It was easy to read and understand. Especially good for beginners in Reiki.

This is a very small book that packs in a lot of information and ideas about Reiki, while including a good amount of color photos. This book is not comprehensive, but is intended to be a good overview of what Reiki is and how you can learn this practice. This is a valuable text for those new to Reiki and looking for an inexpensive book about Reiki that is easy to carry with you.

I think that this book serves as a very good and encompasing overview of Reiki. It does not mention a specific Reiki, but it covers all areas of Reiki. It covers from what Reiki is, how to use it, how the levels of Reiki differ, healthy lifestyle, healthy food recommendations and 27 hand positions and their significance. I have more Reiki books, and this is Reiki in a nutshell. Very colourfull pictures on everything it says, and shows pictures to further the explanation. This book is a healthy 4 starts.

The Book is good only for and education but not for Reiki practition. Because in this book describe reiki in very general Review. In this book doesn't specify which reiki she will describe Western Reiki or Eastern Reiki. All the message in the book are mixed up and for the Reiki Pactitioner will confuse when read it. Is it OK for the common people , but after they know the truth about Reiki , they will whats right and whats wrong.
For The technique & illustration , I will give 4 star
But the review to shortly , people must have to read another book.