The Women's Book of Healing: Auras, Chakras, Laying On of Hands, Crystals, Gemstones, and Colors [Paperback]

Diane Stein (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 19, 2004

Women are naturally healers. Throughout time, they have performed curative roles as mothers, midwives, caregivers, and wisewomen, but modern medicine has suppressed this important tradition. Ancient women healers knew that the body is more than what is seen: through body, emotions, mind, and spirit, we can connect with the Goddess and actively choose to heal ourselves and others. By relearning and using ancient skills like aura and chakra work, creative visualization, meditation, laying on of hands, psychic healing, and working with crystals and gemstones, women can prevent or transform many dis-eases of the body and spirit before they become matters for modern medicine. In THE WOMEN'¬?S BOOK OF HEALING, Diane Stein, author of the best-selling ESSENTIAL REIKI, demystifies, explains, and teaches these skills in ways that modern women can learn and use. She first introduces basic healing, then applies those skills to healing with crystals and gemstones-a beautiful, effective, and empowering aspect of the ancient woman'¬?s healing methods. A comprehensive guide from a knowledgeable healer, THE WOMEN'¬?S BOOK OF HEALING proves that well-being is within a woman'¬?s choice and natural abilities, and reaffirms her timeless role as healer of herself and others.

An affirmation of woman'¬?s traditional role as healer, speaking to a national trend toward alternative medicine and natural healing methods.

Demystifies, explains, and teaches the healing capabilities of auras, chakras, laying on of hands, crystals, gemstones, and colors.

Thoroughly revised and updated, with a new introduction.

Diane Stein'¬?s books have sold more than 600,000 copies.

Editorial Reviews

Review

A knowledgeable, insightful book, filled with the miracles of our bodies and powers of our mind. Gems and crystals, the gifts of the earth, are truly the trusted old friends of self-healing. Diane Stein, you have done it again! Brava!-Z Budapest

About the Author

DIANE STEIN is a popular and acclaimed healer and the best-selling author of Essential Reiki and 25 other books in the fields of metaphysical healing, women's spirituality, and alternative health. She lives and teaches in Florida.

 THE AUTHOR SCOOP

Read any good books lately?My favorite reading is science fiction, there are new good books coming out every day.  Look at Sharon Shinn, Tamora Pierce, Ann Bishop, and so many more talented women fiction writers.If you had to boil your book's message down to one sentence, what would it be?Serve the Light, trust the Light, make a difference in the world with who you are and what you do.

What are you working on now?I prefer to keep future books a secret until they are finished.  No one will know until the manuscript is mailed in.Do you eat your vegetables?I have been a vegetarian since 1983.  I do eat my vegetables.If you had a superpower, what would it be?Wonder Woman, of course.How long did it take you to write this book?  I have been working with herbs for over 35 years, so you could say it took that long to write it.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Crossing Press; Revised edition (May 19, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580911560
• ISBN-13: 978-1580911566
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #272,870 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #84 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > New Age > Divination > Crystals

More About the Author

DIANE STEIN is the author of Essential Reiki, Essential Energy Balancing, and more than 30 books in the fields of metaphysics, women's spirituality, and alternative healing.

She teaches Essential Reiki and Essential Energy Balancing workshop weekends, mostly for women, in Florida (contact [e-mail] if you are interested in attending). See her website www.dianestein.net for books, handmade gemstone Goddess jewelry, antler and crystal ritual wands, workshops for women and more.

Coming up: books on ebook, and some formerly out of print books returning on ebook and in print. New in December, 2011--Prosperity and the Light from ARE's 4th Dimension Press, also coming Healing Flowers A-Z from The Lotus Press. Watch for the return of Brede's Garden Essences and the Lords of Karma video on DVD--coming soon, see www.dianestein.net.

Diane does private phone sessions for healing, karmic release, psychic reading, etc. Cost is $125 for 1/2+ hour. Contact [e-mail].

Follow her on Facebook, LinkedIn, Multiply (http://dianestein.multiply.com) and Twitter (@ednaelk).

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

40 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Informative but sometimes a little irritating, September 24, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Women's Book Of Healing (Llewellyn's New Age Series) (Paperback)

I bought this book because it covered a wider range of crystals than the only other crystal-healing book I had, (Crystal Enlightenment by Katrina Raphaell). However, I have found I use Stein's book far less. It crams a great deal of information about a wide range of crystals: however depth is often sacrificed as she goes from one crystal to another in a few words. Because of this information-density it can be hard to find what you are looking for. There is an index but it's not uncommon to look up several entries on the same stone, only to find lots of short, not very informative mentions. Tighter structuring or indexing would have helped greatly.

I also found the women-only tone a little irritating at times. I consider myself to be a feminist but did not feel it needed to be marketed as a specifically "womens" book. I did not feel there was information in there that warrented a separatist approach. She had a tendency to generalise about the nature of women-as-healers in a utopian way, which I thought was unrealistic and also a little suffocating.

Diane Stein has improved as a writer since then: for those who are interested in other forms of healing, "Essential Reiki" is a great, ground-breaking book. (She also tones down the preachiness for that one). For a book on crystals, however, I'd recommend Katrina Raphaell's "Crystal Enlightenment" far more.

37 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finding What Was Meant For You, December 25, 1999

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Kathy B. Green "Katydid" (Benton, TN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Women's Book Of Healing (Llewellyn's New Age Series) (Paperback)

I just got the book and immediately checked out the high points, reading the prologue, bits here and there, etc. I knew this was something I could get into. Diane Stein has put into words the same conclusions that it has taken me years to reach. I have not read the entire book, but I will devour every word. The main topic, explanatory from the title, is woman's place in healing, that woman has always been a healer.

She has sections about auras and laying on of hands, of crystals and gemstones and their powers. My sister was in a head-on collision the first of June. It's a miracle she's alive. I took her a necklace of amethyst, which is a healing stone, and it is really making a difference. Diane also has a section on chakras and colors. I am not yet familiar with chakras, but I know from experience the power of color therapy. My bedroom is done in shades of blue and I have a sound-effects machine that simulates the ocean. Oh, yes, it works!

I highly recommend this book, even though so far I have just skimmed off the overflow. Another plus - she expresses herself in plain English. There is not a lot of technical jargon to plow through and say, "Say What? " If I could only keep one of my Christmas gifts, this would be it. Thanks for listening to me.

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good book on alternative healing with a feminist slant., March 12, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Women's Book Of Healing (Llewellyn's New Age Series) (Paperback)

If you want to learn more about gemstone/crystal, aura, or chakra/color healing et. al., or just empowerment of women as healers in general, then this is the book for you. However, it does get a little over-feminist at times (especially in the beginning chapters) and almost sounds preachy in this way, so if you are not a raging feminist, take it with a grain of salt and move on as I did, the rest is worth it. The correspondence tables are excellent as are the sections on the gemstones and crystals and their healing properties, as well as what stones to use to heal or help certain ailments.