Chakras: Balance Your Body's Energy for Health and Harmony [Paperback]

Patricia Mercier (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2000

"...Mercier has written a great book... for cynics and believers alike. For anyone raised in the nonmystical United States, these Eastern medicinal/spiritual theories may be a bit hard to swallow, yet the book is still chock-ful of good health advice, invigorating guided imagery techniques and statements that make you stop and say 'Huh.'"--FIT. This illustrated guide provides instruction and inspiration for revitalizing seven major chakras, 21 minor ones, and connecting pathways.

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About the Author

Patricia Mercier is an author, artist and visionary. She is also an experienced Natural Holistic Therapist, having taught yoga, meditation, stress management, crystal and light healing and holistic massage. Patricia is dedicated to the positive evolution of human consciousness in these rapidly changing times and for this reason shares many deep insights in her books. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Sterling (September 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806966114
• ISBN-13: 978-0806966113
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #666,966 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Balance your bodies energy centers for health and well-being, November 30, 2000

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Linda Capobianco "Spiritual Teacher www.reiki... (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chakras: Balance Your Body's Energy for Health and Harmony (Paperback)

I highly recommend this book if you want to learn all there is to know about chakras. Drawing on scientific research and a western approach, it explains the seven major chakras in detail using colorful photography and charts. It also explains the 21 minor chakras. I especially enjoyed learning how to nourish and heal my chakras through the many meditation, breathing, and visualization exercises. To my delight, it also includes a detailed account of how to heal your chakras using crystals, pendulums, colors and sound. My health and general well being have improved after doing the exercises and has given me a new perspective of how I view the world. I feel more at peace with myself and know I will refer back to this book time and time again.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One Step Further into Cosmic Consciousness, October 25, 2003

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Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chakras: Balance Your Body's Energy for Health and Harmony (Paperback)

Although every book that I own on the charkas is very valuable, each one has something special that sets it apart. Mercier's book is no exception.

The introduction explains the concept of auric energy fields and the next chapter discusses the focused energy fields, the vortices within these fields that are the chakras and how they are connected to the endocrine and central nervous systems and the spine.

The Indian tradition is discussed next, with reference to Yoga, and then each chakra is investigated in depth with beautiful illustrations and the appropriate meditations.

The book includes a chapter on charkas and sound - each chakra responds to the primal vibration of sound through mantras, chanting, toning, singing, musical scales and specific instruments.

The chapter A New Awareness explores beyond the 7 well-known chakras into a new state of consciousness. Here the additional charkas are discussed: Earth Star, Navel (hara), Causal, Soul Star and Stellar Gateway that exist as potentialities within the sequence of the seven.

The chapter Chakras and Sacred Stones looks at the correspondences with crystals whilst the last chapter deals with healing the body and mind.

The text is richly enhanced by brilliant paintings, photographs and illustrations, including illustrated exercises, and the book concludes with a bibliography and index.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars COMPREHENSIVE, BRILLIANT AND BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED, May 9, 2002

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"greenspider333" (new york, ny USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chakras: Balance Your Body's Energy for Health and Harmony (Paperback)

Before reading this book, I had at best a passing interest in the subject of the chakras. Many of the other books I considered purchasing that dealt with this subject, were dense and difficult to understand. This book however is neither.

The Chakras is a concise yet comprehensive treatment of the topic of the chakras. It is written for your modern day person and draws information from a variety of different teaching systems and cultures. The result is a synthesis of the most important and well-studied "new age" ideas and concepts. This is much more than a book about chakras and touches upon diverse subjects including the use of color and sound for healing, as well as shamanism. The illustrations are simply gorgeous and the text includes many useful techniques for meditation and visualization. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in expanding their perceptual horizons and learning about the chakras.

FYI- Knowledge of the chakras is critical for the understanding of shamanism and Toltec sorcery. I also recommend: 1) Shaman, Healer, Sage-Alberto Villoldo. This book gives a shamanic description of the chakras and explains how this knowledge fits in to the healing practices of shamans.2) The Path- Esmeralda Arana. Explains how knowledge of the Chakras plays a role in sorcery.