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The Healer's Manual: A Beginner's Guide to Energy Therapies (Llewellyn's Health & Healing)

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I have studied for many years and am a healer (chakra/psychic/Reiki/stones/crystals), and psychic reader. This book is full of descriptions, tables of therapies, and excercises with complete instructions. Great for anyone interested in making life better - for yourself or others. Matter of Fact style does not try to convince anyone of the truth, it simply explain various ways to tap into personal power and healing powers. Not simply for the beginner either. GREAT reference book. Covers a very wide area of techniques.

Ted Andrews's book, The Healer's Manual: A Beginner's Guide to Energy Therapies is "a manual for helping yourself . . . it will show you that you can control and heal more aspects of your life than you probably ever imagined."

Energy (vibrational) therapies are based on the senses. They include healing through touch, color, sound, taste, and smell. Andrews explains exactly what each therapy is and then explains how to use them to heal yourself as well as others. His explanations are written in easy-to-understand terms.

He starts by defining holistic health and detailing the human energy system. He says that "health is the ideal balance between all major parts of our being--body, mind, and soul--in conjunction with our environment and all that we encounter." He emphasizes throughout the book that all healing comes from within, and that individuals must assume responsibility for their own health.

Andrews discusses how the body is a complex energy system and explains that "vibrational remedies are subtle energy stimuli which interact with the energy systems of the human body to help stabilize and correct physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual conditions." He provides a complete description of the chakras, which control all the energy entering or leaving the body, along with information on balancing each chakra.

The bulk of the book is devoted to techniques and exercises for using vibrational therapies in healing. The exercises are generally quite simple and don't require the purchase of expensive equipment or supplies. For example, many of the color therapy techniques can be done with pieces of colored fabric or paper. Some sound healing can be done by running up and down the scales in a certain way.

The appendices include special information on alleviating pain and long distance, or absent, healing. He also includes a chart of major ailments and the specific therapies recommended for each. Andrews emphasizes that his recommendations are not prescriptive, but are guidelines only, meant only to help with understanding how vibrational therapies work.

Andrews wrote his book to "provide an opportunity, for anyone willing to put forth the effort, to experience the innate healing ability that resides within us all." Following his recommendations does not require that you be "gifted." Readers interested in learning how to stimulate their healing abilities will find the Healer's Manual informative and practical.

The Author clearly did his homework while writing this volume.

Has lots of exercizes and techniques.

This book doesn't limit itself to Qigong and the direction of Qi, but this book has some of the best illustrations of the 12 primary meridians and the 8 Qi vessels I have seen.

The only better illustrations of the energy pathways that I have seen are in "Ch'i: The Power Within" Geoff and Phyllis Pike, and "The Root of Chinese Qigong" Dr. Jwing-Ming Yang.

My only minor nitpick is that some may incorrectly transmit personal Qi and feel drained instead of transmiting the Universal Qi all around you. If you feel drained visualize gathering energy from your surroundings. People see Qi as a white or gold colored mist.

Some (as I am) may feel drawn to energy forms of healing. and I can personaly recommend Qigong, Reiki, and Seichim. I have personal experience with these energy healing modalities.

I hold a 7th Facet Seichim Master certificate, and Master/Teacher certificates for three forms of Reiki (Karuna, Tibetan, and Usui Shiki Ryoho).

I sincerely hope that more people will take up energy healing modalities.

Wah doh Ogedoda

Ted Andrews has written one of the best books on metaphysical healing available today. Metaphysical healing aims at getting at the root cause of illness, and I cannot find a book that explains it better than this one does. The author delves into the theory of metaphysical healing and then shows how it is done. He discusses color therapy, chi circulation of the microcosm orbit to maintain good health, sound therapy and other healing modalities. He also shows how to make a pendelum to serve as a diagnostic tool in contacting the universal mind. The book is comprehensive and very well written. I recommend it highly.

When you were a child and fell and hurt yourself, do you recall your first instinct was to press your hand over the hurt and hold it? Or maybe you remember sounds, colors, or smells that comforted you when you were sick. Ted Andrews uses the example of the hand held hurt to demonstate to the reader of THE HEALER'S MANUAL that many of his techniques are instinctual. Unfortunately, as we grow older we may tend to forget these simple truths or stop beliving in them as effective remedies.

Andrews divides his book into sections, each dealing with therapies that affect the five senses. My favorites are smell, sound, and sight. I've known for a long time certain scents like Lavendar and Eucalyptus are healing, and that certain kinds of music can lower my blood pressure. I'm also affected by color..yellow can perk me up and blue calms me down.

Andrews discusses many techniques I know will work because I've tried them, and others I sense will work that I have not yet tried. I have doubts about some like healing elixers from gems, but I keep an open mind and a positive outlook. Like the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland, I believe in at least six impossible things before breakfast. It's amazing how many of them come true by dinnertime.

The author made it very easy to use all the exercises and make it so it is an everyday resource for all practitioners from beginner to advanced. It gives you the back to basics of what so many lightworkers seem to forget once they get into the realm of having clients.

Good stuff, basic to intermediate level healing techniques. The author does a great job of explaining (and proving) somewhat complex ideas related to hands-on vibrational healing. I've been involved with this field of study for a few years and I still learned a few things.

if you're just getting into learning about different energy healing techniques that are simple and easy, this is a book to add your collection!!!!

I found the book very interesting and informative. I had very little
exposure to this type of practice before this book and now have a much
better understanding of the intricacies involved in Energy Therapy. I
rate this book a 5 and recommend it be acquired by any student of the
occult. If you are a student of alternate therapies and holistic healing
you will benefit by what this work has to offer. It will make an excellent addition to the occult library.

This is a great book to have in your library. It is a great beginner's guide -- covering a little about several energy therapies. I highly recommend it.