Energy Healing Books

If you have read any other text on Sexual cultivation don't even bother with this book. While there is some useful information in it some of it is strait up incorrect. I believe this book was ghost written by a third grade student in the Florida public school system. Dont waste your time or be fooled by other buyers who failed to read the book before writing a review, keep looking.

The information in this book is very worth the price. The Deer excersises for male & female are detailed better than I have seen before (although they could be a little more specific). The Deer excercises are like a Taoist "pre-kundalini" type warmup that are decent. ...The information may be too foreign for one who has not yet read similar material, but it is a gem in english and I highly recommend it.

Be Wise + Know yourself.

The information in this book is very worth the price. The Deer excersises for male & female are detailed better than I have seen before (although they could be a little more specific). The Deer excercises are like a Taoist "pre-kundalini" type warmup that are decent. I feel the energy going to my brain when I do it and the tips regarding sexual activities are very interesting. I recommend this book after one has read "TSFR: Taoist sexual fitness regiment" by Bruce Wong and "The Complete Book of Chinese Health and Healing" + "Tao of Health, Sex & Logevity" by Daniel Reid and "Cultivating Male Sexual Energy" + "Cultivating Female sexual energy" by Mantak Chia
The information may be too foreign for one who has not yet read similar material, but it is a gem in english and I highly recommend it.

This book is a real disappointment. It's a sloppy collection of thrown-together materials that aren't particularly helpful to anyone who knows much about TT in the first place. There are a disturbing number of factual errors; and it certainly has to be confusing to the novice who is looking for a comprehensive overview of TT and its history.

Béla Scheiber and Carla Selby's text, Therapeutic Touch, published by Prometheus books, is an excellent introduction to the nether world of 'human energy healing' modalities like TT. This unfortunate practce is dubiously associated within the nursing profession conflicting with their stated goals to develop more 'evidence based research' in nursing.

This text covers TT's history and some of the hard fought battles to have this "modality" removed from institutions (as the authors themselves had embarked upon). It also provides several articles illustrating what is TT's greatest problem: the inability to explain how this phenomena works and, then, the fields further inability to reproduce any alleged results it had previously claimed to have made.

The only dissappointment I found rested in the fact that there are no in depth articles regarding the un-ethical aspect of health care professionals associating their professions with this unfounded phenomenon. Truly "extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof." But, as Béla Scheiber and Carla Selby's text clearly illustrates, TT and its proponents are woefully unable to do so.

In a nutshell the book is an easy an excellent read and resource.

This is the first book to take a critical look at the claims of therapeutic touch (TT). The editors, along with all of the authors in this book, have become familiar with the best evidence (or lack thereof) for TT and do a good job of going over the history, ethical issues, whether it should be used and taught, and if it actually works. Solid investigation has gone into all of these chapters.

TT is probably one of the branches of alternative medicine that is most accepted in the medical establishment (especially by nurses). If you have an interest in alternative medicine, you should definitely read this book to see where the science and evidence lead.

This book, although informative about Chakras, is more of a well-rounded guideline rather than a dissection of the Chakra system. Personally, when it comes to "metaphysical" matters, I much prefer and trust a source that guides but leaves the detailed discovery in the hands of the seeker. All in all, the book is very well crafted, and provides a variety of methods to learn about and understand our chakras, thus keeping our bodies and minds on a healthy track.

This book was definitely not what I expected. She focuses alot more on yoga positions and color than anything else. I would not recommend this book to those who want to learn about chakras.

I have a book called "Easy GI Diet" which might be the same thing. The menus are good (although there's not as much protein as I'd like and not much red meat) and the author explains things well without going in to too much technobabble. Annoyances for me are some of the exercise comments such as "book a girl's night out". Umm hello, males are reading this book too. "...yoga... will lengthen your muscles". Wrong. There is nothing you can do, except ripping your muscles out and magically extending them then stitching yourself back up, to lengthen your muscles. I really can't stand seeing this in books as it shows a complete lack of proper research. On Day 9 of the meat eating plan Foster says "your clothes should be feeling looser around the waist, hips and thighs". Again, a lack of proper research. Not everyone loses fat in the same areas first, I know for myself these areas are the last to go and I notice weight loss from my bust and midriff long before anywhere else. The women in my family are the same, we lose the fat there considerably after losing fat elsewhere.

The overuse of the word "tone" used with regard to exercise: "such-and-such will tone your body". A buzzword which most people who really know what they're talking about avoid using.

If that kind of stuff bugs you, the rest of the book is good. I personally would have preferred to see a little more protein in the menu plans in the form of red meat but you can always make up your own menues.

This book is awesome. The menus are flexible and easy to follow. Foster does not harp about the evils of sugar and say that all those eating carbs will go to hell. She features a 14-day menu plan for both meat-eaters and a separate 14-day vegetarian menu plan, as well as a 7-day "galvanizer" plan if you are looking to get started in a hurry. I have already seen results and this book was a good way to start. See also "The New Glucose Revolution" if you like this book and want some additional ideas and recipes, as well as a more in-depth glycemic index chart.

This book has a variety of applications of heat and light for healing, many anecdotal, including human and veterinary uses. The plus is that it is based on personal experience, the minus is that it sometimes feels odd ball and hearsay, and I would have liked more in the way of scientific support. The book is part of my exploration of laser and infra-red healing and is a bit eccentric.

This is a very unique book that has some Qigong information that I haven't seen anywhere else. It focuses on combining several treatment modalities that have a synergistic effect that increases the speed and quality of the healing for many different problems. Much better than hearing about how this one thing is the very best or that one thing is the best. It's a combination of several things that work really well alone and they work even better when combined in the specific way this book talks about. This book has some incredible case histories that you just have to read for yourself. I have experienced the results on myself and can say first hand how easy, safe and effective it is.

These are topics that can be studied, literally, for years. But, as a primer, this is an excellent book with good summary usage of information. I especially enjoyed the chakra section and the multiple examples of what blocked or excessive energy flow of any of the chakras may be seen as. A beautiful book that may pull new students into deeper study in these interesting fields.

This one is now found as part of a collection, with three volumes in one binding. Alone, it is a bit simplistic, and it really serves as an introduction to the beginner. Now found with added works on colour and chakra therapy, it is well complemented and more complete as an introduction to forms of healing.

Though this was my first experience in Qigong, I found the tapes clear and easy to follow. A good source of meditation material for self-help as well as for teaching others.

I had to re-wind a few sections to get down the instructions for the qigong exercises right. It may be better if there was a diagram to show what you should really be doing. Not for the audio-impaired learner or for the visual-learner, but it is quite interesting and I think I'm starting to get the hang of it! It might just be easier to practice yoga or go to the gym to energize your body, but I believe activating your qi is far more beneficial, provided that you're able to follow the instructions and don't fall asleep while listening to the tape.

This is NOT a well written book, which is too bad, because it could have been a wonderful introduction to modern radionic practice. The author has brought together a lot of interesting material and given us a good sense of the wide ranging possibilities of radionics. Unfortunately, too many of the topics are covered with very ambiguous and incomplete explanations. If you already understand pyramids, pranamonics, or homeopathy, maybe you'll be able to read between the lines and understand what she's talking about. The rest of us are left wondering if she's trying to hide something. Maybe she was simply trying to put too much into one book, because her discussions of certain techniques are so sketchy as to be meaningless. Nor has she given us footnotes which might make it convenient to do some further research. There is a bibliography, but it is not referenced to the text. There are some exercises, but this could hardly be called a how-to book, simply because the material is not complete enough. The book is still useful as a survey of the field, but could have been much better.

As a Holistic Practitioner I found this book tremendously exciting. Dr. Hartman covers all areas of vibrational medicine. She covers the complete ABC's from how to use a pendulum, to how to do long distance healing. Anyone can use this book as a reference book to understand color therapy or homeopathy. The author manages to make complex material accessible and at the same time the exercises are workable. Dr. Hartman believes we all have the capacity to use our intuition. She delivers the tools to help us develop this capacity.

I would like to preface this review by highlighting that this book really encompasses much of the system of Reiki in its infancy after Takata's passing. The author did personally meet with Takata-sensei, and there is a wonderful retelling of the myth of Usui-sensei's discovery of Reiki. although it perpetuates the historical inaccuracies, it helps awaken the reader to the essence of Reiki as a system of personal growth and healing.

These points aside, I would not consider this required reading for most Reiki practitioners. It is one of the earlier books published, so it is great for historical value. Still, some factors detract from its helpfulness. The largest and most distracting error countenanced by the writing is the inclusion of the Chinese characters for the equivalent of "rei" and "ki." The author misrepresents them as the Japanese meaning Reiki, where in fact it is modern Chinese for "ling qi." The energy of the kanji themselves is important to describing the qualities of the system of Reiki, but the "ling qi" characters do not convey this.

Also, much of the end of the book is a sales pitch for taking your classes with the author for rather high prices as you ascend through the levels of the system. I personally would not feel comfortable taking a class from someone who didn't recognise that her characters were not the right ones for the very name of the system.

I do have mixed feelings about this work. It has been rereleased in a newer and expanded format for its twentieth anniversary, and it may be worthwhile to leaf through this version to see if it has any corrections and some other great information.

Reiki Touch; The Essential Handbook is a very powerful book and everyone needs the book in their library collections.

Gretchen G. Till, Bernice, LA USA

Can you accept Einsteins paradigm, of the existence of a Life energy flowing through and around all of us. Well this is the concept that therapeutic touch on the whole is based on. Well, here are lessons that teaches you how to believe in this power within yourself, and how to utilize it to heal yourself and others.

I found this book quite informative, and the self-knowledge tests were very useful, especially to the skeptic in all of us. Laying of hands is a wonderful way to explore our own powers and this book is an excellent choice to aid us in this journey.

I would like to give this book five stars, but with my years of energy work I see two flaws in Dr. Krieger's (Dolores Krieger holds a Ph.D in nursing) book.

The things I like about this book.

Several places in this book; Dr. Krieger uses the phrase "You do not stop at your skin". (A statement I agree with completely!)

Page 5-10 the introduction explains how Dr. Krieger began her exploration of energetic healing by observing natural healers like Oskar Estebany, and Dora Kunz.

Page 11. The Kirlian photos of fingertips showing the energy field around the fingers before, during, and after a healing session (proving there IS something to the notion of energy healing instead of coincidence).

Page 12. Dr. Krieger refers to the subtle energy by the sanskrit term "prana". This subtle energy has been explored by people all over the world, and has been called by dozens of different names. Here is an abbreviated list (Akasha, ch'i (Qi), Ki, Mana, Manitou, Nuwati, Orenda, Orgone, Ruach, and many others.)

Page 15. According to Dr. Krieger there is a written history of this subtle energy dating back 5000 years. (I am aware that The Yellow emperor of China wrote his treatise of internal medicine in 2445 BCE (about 4,450 years ago.)

Page 23-34. This section of the book contains simple exercizes where about 95-98% of people can feel and experience this subtle energy and proove it to themself (from my experience, and talks with Qigong masters about 2-5% of people are insensitive to this subtle energy). (Everyone needs proof in the beginning in order to gain confidence that this energy is REAL and not only wishful thinking or coincidence.)

Page 62-63. Has nice photos of Dr. Krieger's friend and mentor Dora Kunz.

Now for the two disagreements I have with this book.

1. Dr. Krieger severely limits her potential because Therapeutic touch is taught to direct this energy to the recepient a few inches away. (This subtle energy can be directed thousands of miles away as effectively as if the healer were standing right beside the recepient. I have doccumentation where I have passed Reiki attunements to people over 10,000 miles away with their experiences. Dr. Larry Dossey relates in "Prayer Is Good Medicine" (if memory serves) the results of a double blind study where half of the Heart patients in a large hospital were prayed for by people of various faiths, and the people that were on the prayer list (without knowing anything about the test) experienced less complications, and required less medication for pain.)

2. Dr. Krieger teaches only how to direct the healers personal reserves of energy. (There are mental exercizes as in Qigong, and healing modalities like Reiki, Seichim, and others that can teach you how to tap into an infinite supply of energy without depleting youe personal reserves of energy.)

(Repeatedly depleting your personal energy reserves can open you the healer to illnesses. If you ever feel weak or nervous stop immediately.)

Please E-mail me if you have questions or comments about this review. Two Bears.

Wah doh Ogedoda (We give thanks Great Spirit)