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Energy Work: The Secret of Healing and Spiritual Development

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I've been a healer since I was a young boy-I was able to move energy around at 7 years old or so though I was 11 before doing it regular and 14 before realising I could heal with it.

Robert is one of the few authors who's techniques I can use and relate to. I've taught his specific techniques to a few other people to help them with specific issues. It IS easy to teach and transfer this skill. Just requires a little patience and imagination. Gone are the days of difficult visual only stuff. Instead you start tactiley and add the other senses in.

I'm not a new ager, commercial therapist or qualified anything-I use my gift freely just because I can :). I don't argue the toss about suggestion, theories, or how/why it works. It works and works well so not too bothered about any debating now. That's for researchers.

If you want to get a feel for this, goto his website and lookup the tutorials or just buy the book. You will, if you follow instructions, get energy sensations in under half an hour. Some folks-5 minutes. Its that easy.

Btw a belief in negs,spirits or etheric stuff is not required. A willingness to try out a fresh new mental exercise is all you need. Regardless of what you think the results are really from.

ENERGY WORK is an easy-to-learn, pragmatic but nevertheless very efficient approach to the often mystified subject of inner energy work. The system's main working principle is feeling and body awareness - as opposed to the mostly visually oriented eastern systems.
Written in an easy language, the author presents numerous exercises to activate the energy body and the different energy centers (chakras) which results in a stronger physical health; an enhanced healing capacity and increased psychic and spiritual abilities (dont forget: Robert Bruce is a specialist of astral projection and his book ASTRAL DYNAMICS, in which he first explained the principles of his energy work, is a classic!).
Practice the techniques explained in ENERGY WORK alone or together with your own spiritual system, and you will be amazed by its power!
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND Energy Work for any energy or light worker!!
Thanks a lot Robert! Keep up the good work!

Over the years, I have worked with many systems that aim to develop one's energy body, including yoga, Tai-Chi, breathing-based and other techniques. I have found that Robert Bruce's Energy Work methods are by far the most direct and effective in stimulating and developing your energy body. You can feel the results within 2-3 minutes of doing these exercises. Thank you for this gift, Mr. Bruce!

I have read many books on Qigong and Chigung all are great very informative but this book if there would be any would be the one I would use as a quik reference I learned straight forward things about the energy in the body while other books give an excercise but dont tell why it works now I know.
The system will not take years more in one session it builds off tactile sensations or more takes something we already know and helps us understand something we see as mysterious. Visualization is not the main part of this book but you can still incorporate the exercises into any routine you already do and probably be able to better feel energy than those who dont know the great techniques in this book.
1.Learn about the different energy storage centers in the body .
2. Learn how to feel the energy in as little as one try I did.
3. The secret or thing unique about this book is touch everything builds off of a sense of touch that helps to recognize energy.
4. Have the ability to heal yourself and others most importantly you'll actually feel the energy not just imagine it though you can still do whatever routine you already do this will be an unbelievable compliment to it.

This is a good primer for energy workers, especially beginning or intermediate energy workers. Bruce manages to clearly and effectively explain how energy work can be done, as well as introducing the reader to exercises that will help the reader understand how to harness the internal energy s/he has at hir disposal. Bruce also manages to explain energy work without a lot of the usual mystical jargon that many books employ. His writing is down to earth and effective for what he offers.

The only thing I would've liked to have seen from Bruce was internal citations. I looked at his bibliography and its clear he drew from a variety of sources, but I'm not really clear in what context he uses those sources.

Robert Bruce's New Energy Ways (NEW) is a practical and easy to learn approach to energy work and energy body development that gives results quicker than any other system I've encountered. The techniques in this book do not use visualization. Instead, they rely on a non visual system called tactile imaging. The main idea is to develop your energy body in a healthy and balanced way by stimulating secondary and tertiary energy centers before you start working with your primary energy centers (main chakras).

Most of the book contains practical and detailed descriptions of exercises, and explanations on what to expect, what problems might occur and how to counter them. It warns you of potential risks and tells you what to avoid.
It encourages a hands-on approach and actually doing energy work rather than discussing theory.

The writing is very clear and understandable. There were no contradictions or word salads that I was aware of, nor was I at any point confused with what the author was talking about. Instead of using Eastern terminology the author mostly uses modern Western wording. Eastern terms are used only when there are no sufficiently accurate synonyms, but a good explanation of those terms is given. The author obviously did his best to make the book reader friendly.

There is one more thing worth noting. The content of this book is by no means the same as the online NEW manual that Bruce offers on his website for free. The book goes deeper into the system itself and offers a lot more material to consider and use, like additional exercises, primary center work, group work, blockage removal, using elemental energy, healing etc.

I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in energy body development.

Ordering this book, I was skeptical about someone who writes books about astral projection, but, for the same reason, also curious and somewhat amused. The book was a very positive surprise. It is first of all a no-nonsense, practical guidebook. The body awareness method presented here really works, beyond any doubt. Numerous exercises described are also valuable, plus you can create your own exercises on that basis.
I have been practicing a couple of chigong sets for some time, without quite realising whether I am making any progress or not. The book gives you some valuable insight and new thinking that can help you progress in this kind of practice. Also, I was thinking that nei-gung (internal energy work) is still light years away from me, and here suddenly I realised that what this book is talking about is actually certain nei-gung practices! And they are available for practically everyone.
All of this is positive enough to give "Energy work" the highest rating. The following are question marks - but in my eyes they do not erode the high rating.
a) Now I know that the method works. What I do not know: is it powerful enough to cure a chronical ailment and will I be able to do it? This has to be found out yet.
b) The charts describing our "energetic anatomy": it would be good to know what they are based upon. The scientific foundation of all those energy arts is still very flimsy today (or should I say - nonexistent?) and charts in various sources can be quite different from each other. E.g. chinese sources do not accept the idea of the 7 chakras. There are certainly huge gaps to fill in this area.

But the general impression is very positive. And it is not at all impossible that one day I will read Mr Bruce's books on astral projection as well.

I purchased this book reading reviews and I am not dissappointed. The book is written in a very easy and lucid language, very practicle and result oriented. I did few exercises on foot work and my whole feet was buzzing with energy in less than 5 minutes. I asked my wife and therapist to do same exercise and had same results. Robert has done a really good job and real original work. His understanding about tactile imaging is sound and it gives a new approach to energy work beyond visualsation and affirmations. I think Robert must have been inspired from Vipassna to develop this system .

Energy work by Robert Bruce is the first book any one interested in human energy should read. Also if any one is interested in Qigong (chi kung) should read this book to make their work more productive. Getting this book will save you time in developing your mind, body, and spirit.

Do you know by experience and refined abilities that you can control and use your energy body? If so, you will find this book useful as a way to add a new set of skills and techniques to your repertoire. This book recommends a strong sense of touch, tactile sensations, on and in your body. Currently, you may mainly use imagery in your exercises - but you have certainly felt something. See if this approach, based on starting with the tactile, helps round out and improve your technique, experience, and abilities.

Get the book, read it, I think it will help you - but you can be done with this review. The rest of it is for everyone else.


Don't think you have an energy body? Wondering what this sort of mumbo jumbo is all about? Think chi is only a tea? Think prana is a clothing company? Want to laugh at the subtitle "The secret of healing and spiritual development"?

It's OK, I laughed to. My guess is "the secret" is more from the publisher than the author. I tend to ignore the words "the secret" on any book as nothing more that white noise. However, I don't think this book itself is white noise.

I need to state that before I read this book that I didn't have much experience with my supposed energy body. I don't really know where my chakras are and I would have to guess that they are as unbalanced as my aura which I have never seen.

In short, I'm probably like you. And like you, if you made it this far, I have a somewhat open mind to the idea.

Does this energy exist? The only way for you to truly answer the question is to personally answer the question. Try it and see what you experience. Seeing is believing.

This book has the advantage of starting with the sense of touch to visualize the energy flows. Most people who try to visually visualize the energy don't. Therefore, the techniques and practices in this book are based on tactual sensation.

Read the book. Try the exercises. You will feel something. You will experience something. What you do after that is up to you.