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Wheels of Life: A User's Guide to the Chakra System (Llewellyn's New Age) Paperback – January 1, 1987
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As portals between the physical and spiritual planes, the chakras offer unparalleled opportunities for growth, healing, and transformation. Anodea Judith's classic introduction to the chakra system, which has sold over 300,000 copies, has been completely updated and expanded. It includes revised chapters on relationships, evolution, and healing, and a new section on raising children with healthy chakras.
Wheels of Life takes you on a powerful journey through progressively transcendent levels of consciousness. View this ancient metaphysical system through the light of new metaphors, ranging from quantum physics to child development. Learn how to explore and balance your own chakras using poetic meditations and simple yoga movements―along with gaining spiritual wisdom, you'll experience better health, more energy, enhanced creativity, and the ability to manifest your dreams.
Praise:
"Wheels of Life is the most significant and influential book on the chakras ever written."― John Friend, founder of Anusara Yoga
- Print length519 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherLlewellyn Publications
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 1987
- Dimensions6 x 1.2 x 8.9 inches
- ISBN-100875423205
- ISBN-13978-0875423203
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Wheels of Life, by Anodea Judith, PhD

Use Your Chakras to:
- Gain spiritual wisdom
- Experience Better Health
- Discover New Energy
- Enhance Creativity
- Manifest Your Dreams
Over 300,000 Sold!
Anodea Judith’s classic introduction to the chakra system, which has sold over 300,000 copies, has been completely updated and expanded. It includes revised chapters on relationships, evolution, and healing, and a new section on raising children with healthy chakras.
Praise:
"Wheels of Life is the most significant and influential book on the chakras ever written." — John Friend, founder of Anusara Yoga.
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"Wheels of Life is the most significant and influential book on the chakras ever written."― John Friend, founder of Anusara Yoga
From the Publisher
When it was first published there was not much in-depth information about the chakras available in the West. But that changed with Wheels of Life. People responded by buying over 125,000 copies of this wonderful book.
Now, Wheels of Life has been revised and expanded to meet the times and keep this book the leading title on the subject.
The main focus of Wheels of Life is an in-depth examination of each chakra. But it doesn't stop there, for above all, this book is practical. You will learn what each chakra can do for you and how you can clear it, balance it, and strengthen it to help you achieve optimum health, improved spirituality, and strengthening of psychic powers.
Other topics look at the chakras as a group so you can see how they interact. You will learn how chakras function in relationships. New in this edition is an entire chapter on how to foster healthy chakras in children.
Together, the seven chakras form a profound formula for wholeness that integrates mind, body, and spirit. From liberating our spirits to manifesting our dreams, the chakras are the very wheels that carry us through life.
From the Back Cover
As portals between the physical and spiritual planes, chakras represent the sacred architecture of your body and psyche. This classic introduction to the chakras, which has sold over 100,000 copies, has been completely updated and expanded. In addition to revised chapters on relationships, evolution, healing, and divination, it includes a new section on raising children with healthy chakras.
Wheels of Life takes you on a wondrous journey through the progressively transcendent levels of consciousness. View this ancient metaphysical system by the light of new metaphors: quantum physics, elemental magic, and the Kabbalah. Learn how to explore your own chakras using poetic meditations, physical expression, and visionary art.
About the Author
Anodea Judith, PhD is the founder and director of Sacred Centers, and a groundbreaking thinker, writer, and spiritual teacher. Her passion for the realization of untapped human potential matches her concern for humanity's impending crises―her fervent wish is that we "wake up in time." She holds Masters and Doctoral degrees in Psychology and Human Health, with lifelong studies of alternative medicine, yoga, mythology, history, sociology, systems theory, and mystic spirituality.
She is considered one of the country's foremost experts on the combination of chakras and therapeutic issues and on the interpretation of the Chakra System for the Western lifestyle. She spends much of her time on the road teaching, with workshops and trainings offered across the US, Europe, and Central America.
Product details
- Publisher : Llewellyn Publications; First Edition (January 1, 1987)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 519 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0875423205
- ISBN-13 : 978-0875423203
- Item Weight : 1.48 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 1.2 x 8.9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #16,458 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #7 in Chakras (Books)
- #20 in Energy Healing (Books)
- #100 in Mental & Spiritual Healing
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About the author

Anodea Judith, Ph.D. has been called “a prophet for our time.” A groundbreaking thought leader who is the founder and director of Sacred Centers, and a writer, therapist, and spiritual teacher. Her passion for the realization of human potential matches her concern for humanity’s impending crises—her fervent wish is that we “wake up in time.” She holds Masters and Doctoral degrees in Psychology and Human Health, is a 500 hour registered yoga teacher (E-RYT), with lifelong studies of psychology, mythology, sociology, history, systems theory, and mystic spirituality. She is considered one of the country’s foremost experts on the combination of chakras and therapeutic issues and on the interpretation of the Chakra System for the Western lifestyle. She teaches across the U.S., as well as in Canada, Europe, Ireland, Asia, and South and Central America. View upcoming workshops here: http://sacredcenters.com/workshops-events/full-calendar/
Anodea conducted a private practice for over 20 years, but traveling has taken her healing efforts into the workshop mode, training other therapists in somatic techniques, and conducting healing sessions within the workshop setting.
On the more personal level, Anodea Judith is a dynamic individual with many talents: teacher, healer, writer, priestess, musician, artist, yogini, and co-heart. She is well-loved for her integration of mind, body, and spirit, shoring up the inequalities between masculine and feminine, and her dream of co-creating Heaven on Earth. She feels deeply concerned about the state of our world, in terms of ecology, ethics, politics, and religion. Feeling that individual and cultural transformation are intrinsically related, Anodea supports a path to empowerment and balance through teaching of life-affirming paths of wisdom. This is achieved through reclaiming our bodies, the environment, and our connection to both Heaven and Earth.
She is a dynamic and experienced keynote speaker, workshop presenter, and visionary, dedicated to healing our world and evolving human consciousness.
Check out Anodea Judith’s new website: http://www.anodeajudith.com
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I can understand why the author might think her idea of a descending current, in addition to an ascending current, is novel at the time she wrote this book. The emphasis on what I read under yogic systems was concerned almost exclusively with raising Kundalini through the chakras in an ascending direction. Yes, there was some vague mumbo-jumbo about reaching and piercing the seventh chakra and some kind of vague, wonderful, iridescent colors shooting out and raining down. But, there was no detail about what was going on in this rain.
It reminded me of the strong man carnival attraction. If you remember it, it was the one a guy used to impress his girl friend back in the fifties when I was a kid. You's take a huge mallet and hit a lever at the bottom of a tall pole sending a weight up the pole. If you were strong enough, your weight went up all the way to the top, rang a bell, your girlfriend swooned at your manly manness, and she got a prize. Maybe you got laid. No one paid attention to the weight when it descended. All eyes were on its upward journey and whether it rose high enough to ring the bell.
I always wondered about the one way nature of this. I was unclear how it could be self-sustainable. I didn't feel like whacking a spiritual mallet all of my life in order to achieve a permanent state.
When I read about the Taoist Chinese view of the cosmic or universe orbit, the microcosmic or small universe, orbit, I understood the rising current up the spine and the descending current down the front of the body (sometimes equated with an energetic path that the alimentary canal follows, an elimination path down and along the front). Here, at least, I saw what could be sustainable as the orbit naturally goes around and around, up and down. Two ways, not just one way.
The ascending current is often called an earthly flow from Mother Earth and the descending current a heavenly flow from Father Sky. I experience the earthly, upward flow as golden yellow; it is creative, powerful, and generative. Sexual energy is a notable example of it. I experience the downward flow as violet, higher in wave length, higher frequency, and more refined than raw, as a kind of loving, blessing energy.
The level of understanding of chakras in this book seems to me to be a little light and conventional. I do not know if it appears conventional to me now because of works that follow this book; perhaps it was cutting edge at the time.
If you are new to chakras and beginning to comprehend them, this is likely to be a good choice for you.
If you are further along the path, you can profit from this book by consolidating what you know. For this reader, I would not expect many revelations.
On a scale of one to seven, I give it a two. That's mainly because most of us are at a two, or a three. With all of the violence in the world, especially as it saturates our entertainment, I often see us as a group engaged in power plays of one sort or another. All argument and conflict seems to call for violence and death. Sad, really, to still be on this level.
Perhaps we will ascend to the next level, the heart level, where we see others as ourselves, rather than the third level, where we seem to be now, where we see others as adversaries. This beats the second level where we see others as ways to gratify us, what we can get from another that we believe we need, or the first where we can see others at odds with our own survival, based on primitive fear.
So as to end on a more positive note, these changes are state changes, similar to changes on the quantum level where material bodies act more energetically than physically and are either are in one state or another, or both, without transitioning through intermediate states.
For us, all it takes to change state, from one chakra to another, is a shift in our minds. This shift occurs instantly. It does not require time, a long time, or any time. It does not involve the effort of changing external things; it is an internal shift. The exterior remains as it is; what shifts is what we make of the external.
To me, rising to the seventh chakra is less than half the story. Now, after raising the Earth to the heavens, we need to bring down the heavens to the Earth. This improves our state so that the next orbit is deeper, and so on. We can go from a one sot peak experience to a sustained and repetitive, permanent state.
It’s amazing to have exercises set for each Chakra to maintain the harmony.
I’ve recommended this book to friends and family.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 7, 2022
It’s amazing to have exercises set for each Chakra to maintain the harmony.
I’ve recommended this book to friends and family.

I seriously have not picked up a book and read it from cover to cover since middle school which was over 13 years ago. I used to be the type of person that would fall asleep reading. Prime example I never made it past the first chapter of the first Harry Potter book even after trying three separate times to read it because I would always fall asleep. This book however has kept my interest the entire time to where any free moment I had and I ended up reading it. The way the author writes and goes about telling me information is amazing. In the last few years I began to become more spiritual and in tune with myself. I wanted to learn more about chakras and their meanings and their purpose.
This book was so powerful for me that in points while reading I would actually get very emotional and cry, in a good way. I almost felt like the reader was in my head and I finally had someone who understood. While most of the book I kind of gathered in my own thoughts in recent years it was reassuring and amazing to read it in written words that I felt I never could truly explain. Then there was a few bits of information that I hadn't ever considered or truly thought about and it was eye, and spirit, opening to say the least. If you're considering this book just buy it you will not be disappointed!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 16, 2018
I seriously have not picked up a book and read it from cover to cover since middle school which was over 13 years ago. I used to be the type of person that would fall asleep reading. Prime example I never made it past the first chapter of the first Harry Potter book even after trying three separate times to read it because I would always fall asleep. This book however has kept my interest the entire time to where any free moment I had and I ended up reading it. The way the author writes and goes about telling me information is amazing. In the last few years I began to become more spiritual and in tune with myself. I wanted to learn more about chakras and their meanings and their purpose.
This book was so powerful for me that in points while reading I would actually get very emotional and cry, in a good way. I almost felt like the reader was in my head and I finally had someone who understood. While most of the book I kind of gathered in my own thoughts in recent years it was reassuring and amazing to read it in written words that I felt I never could truly explain. Then there was a few bits of information that I hadn't ever considered or truly thought about and it was eye, and spirit, opening to say the least. If you're considering this book just buy it you will not be disappointed!!


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