Charge and the energy body The vital key to healing your life, your chakras, and your relationships
Book - 2018
"We all know what it's like to have a "charge" about something. It's a feeling of excitement, fear, sexual arousal, or irritation. But what we don't currently know is how tousecharge for the behaviors we want to create. Charge is a word for the basic life force running through us. This force is crucial if we are to meet the challenges of difficult situations, heal past wounds and traumas, and manage the stress of modern life. Even more, it is essential for understanding how to master your own life force and become all you can be. This book makes an important contribution to the growing field of Energy Medicine, by looking at charge as the interface between mind and body, and the missing ingredient in Mind-Body ...healing. It brings the reader into a deep intimacy with their own life force, as well as an understanding of how charge runs their relationships, their children, their clients, and patients. It examines how we can become "overcharged" or "undercharged" and how to bring about balance through practices of charging and discharging. Each chapter gives simple exercises to put these principles into practice. World-renowned teacher, somatic therapist, best-selling author, and advanced yoga teacher, Anodea Judith, Ph. D., addresses all this and more in her groundbreaking book on mastering the life force. Taken from her decades of teaching on the subject and her doctoral work in Mind-Body medicine, this book contributes something entirely new to the literature on healing self and others"--
- Subjects
- Published
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Carlsbad, California :
Hay House, Inc
2018.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- xv, 315 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes index.
- ISBN
- 9781401954482
9781781809938
- Preface
- Part 1. Charge Basics
- Chapter 1. Charge: The Key to Your Life Force
- What Does Charge Feel Like?
- Is Charge Positive or Negative?
- How Does Charge Get Blocked?
- What You'll Find in These Pages
- Chapter 2. Mind and Body: Energy as the Prime Connector
- Your Operating System
- Charge and Psychological Complexes
- Chapter 3. Charging and Discharging: Finding Balance in a Changing World
- Common Activities That Are Charging
- Common Activities That Are Discharging
- Things That Can Either Charge or Discharge
- Chapter 4. Riding the Wave: The Charge-Discharge Cycle
- Four Stages of Charging and Discharging
- Chapter 5. The Comfort Zone: Maintenance or Expansion?
- The Sensation of Discomfort
- Where Is Your Comfort Zone?
- Tolerating Higher and Lower States of Charge
- Expanding the Comfort Zone
- Chapter 6. Binding the Charge: How We Create Blocks
- Overbound and Underbound
- Balancing Inner and Outer Charge
- Part II. Healing with Charge
- Chapter 7. Begin in Awareness: Tracking and Harvesting the Charge
- Tracking Your Charge
- Tracking Charge in Others
- Signs of Charge Arising
- Working the Charge
- Too Much or Too Little Charge
- Ways to Discharge
- What If You Can't Find the Charge?
- Owning and Managing Your Core
- Chapter 8. Self-Regulation: Tapping the Charge
- How Does It Work?
- The Basic Formula
- Pros and Cons of This Method
- Chapter 9. Charge and Trauma
- What Makes Something Traumatic?
- What Happens to the Charge?
- Three Pathways of Charge
- Working with Charge in Trauma
- Can You Do This for Yourself?
- Managing the Comfort Zone
- Part III. Charge and the Chakras
- Chapter 10. Architecture of the Soul: Charge a Chakra System
- The Chakras as a System of Energy
- Chakras as Storage Pouches
- Excessive and Deficient Chakras
- Chapter 11. Chakra One: Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fold
- Fight or Flight
- The Freeze Response
- The Fold Response
- Stress Hormones and Body Chemistry
- Freezing the Roots
- What to Do?
- Excess and Deficiency
- Chapter 12. Chakra Two: Feeling Your Way through Sensations, Emotions, and Sexuality
- Sensation
- Feelings and Emotions
- Present and Past
- Limbic Resonance
- Sexual Charge
- Orgasm
- Excess and Deficiency
- Balance
- Chapter 13. Chakra Three: Moving Anxiety and Depression into Action
- Mastery
- Anxiety and Depression
- Anxiety
- Excess and Deficiency
- Balancing the Third Chakra
- Chapter 14. Chakra Four: Opening to Love and Intimacy
- The Balance Point
- The Breath
- Breathing Exercises
- Vulnerability and Intimacy
- Electromagnetic Charge in the Heart
- Excess and Deficiency
- Chapter 15. Chakra Five: Speaking and Handling the Truth
- Speaking Your Truth
- Vibration and Communication
- What Blocks Communication?
- Unblocking the Throat
- Withholds
- Balancing Charge in Your Throat Chakra
- Fifth Chakra Exercises
- Excess and Deficiency
- Chapter 16. Chakra Six: Charging Your Imagination and Vision
- Imagination
- Memory and Charge
- The Inner Witness
- The Importance of Stillness
- Working with Charged Memory
- Steps to Detach from Charge
- Seeing Your Way Through
- Chapter 17. Chakra Seven: Divine Consciousness and the Charge of Beliefs
- Stepping-stones to Deity
- Kundalmi
- What About Beliefs?
- Part IV. Charge and Character Structure
- Chapter 18. The Challenges of Growing Up: How Character Structure Is Formed
- How the Structures Are Formed
- Chapter 19. The Schizoid Structure: Caught Between the Worlds
- The Schizoid Source of Wounding
- Charge Pattern
- Recognize the Pattern When:
- Gifts of the Schizoid Pattern
- Healing the Schizoid
- Chapter 20. The Oral Structure: The Empathic Lover
- The Oral Source of Wounding
- Charge Pattern
- Recognize the Pattern When:
- Gifts of the Oral Pattern
- Healing the Oral Pattern
- Earth Skiing
- Chapter 21. The Endurer Structure: The Masochist
- The Endurer Source of Wounding
- Charge Pattern
- Recognize the Pattern When:
- Gifts of the Endurer Pattern
- Healing the Endurer Pattern
- Chapter 22. The Challenger-Defender Structure: The Power Broker
- The Challenger-Defender Source of Wounding
- Charge Pattern
- Recognize the Pattern When:
- Gifts of the Challenger-Defender Pattern
- Healing the Challenger-Defender Pattern
- Chapter 23. The Rigid Character Structure: The Achiever
- The Rigid Structure Source of Wounding
- Charge Pattern
- Recognize the Pattern When:
- Gifts of the Rigid Pattern
- Healing the Rigid Pattern
- Part V. Relationship and Society
- Chapter 24. Charge and Relationships: How to Keep It Cool and Hot at the Same Time
- Energy Fields Overlap
- Charge Wants to Find Balance
- The Charge of Polarity: The Way to Keep Things Juicy
- Partners Trigger Each Other's Charge
- How to Handle Triggers in a Relationship
- Chapter 25. Charge and Society
- Theories of Groups and Charge
- How to Maximize Group Energy
- Chapter 26. Conclusion: Living a Full-Charge Life
- The Journey
- Additional Resources
- Books
- Other Energy Healing Books
- Recommended Websites
- Endnotes
- Index
- Acknowiedgments
- About the Author