The Chakras in Shamanic Practice
Eight Stages of Healing and Transformation
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
How to work with the chakra centers to heal unresolved psychic wounds
• Reveals how psychic injuries become lodged within the energy body
• Links one major developmental stage with each major chakra
• Provides a detailed guide to healing and clearing the tensions each chakra holds
The chakra system identifies eight centers in the psycho-anatomy of humans, each one associated with a different part of the physical or energy body. Susan J. Wright, a practicing shaman and Gestalt psychotherapist, uses her own life journey to show that each chakra also is linked to a different stage of emotional and spiritual development. In The Chakras in Shamanic Practice, she identifies eight key developmental stages of life, from birth to old age/death. Each of these life stages has various developmental challenges and potential traumatic events that will likely occur and affect the health and well-being of the individual.
Wright explains that life traumas experienced in particular developmental stages become lodged within the energy body as they cling to their corresponding chakra. By identifying and working with the chakra involved, a doorway can be opened to a world of transformative images, allowing powerful shamanic techniques to heal these psychic wounds. Providing both physical exercises and guided meditations that utilize the techniques of soul retrieval, working with power animals, and transcending trauma, Wright offers practitioners a way to gather and nurture the fragmented parts of their energy body and lead themselves to physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
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In this self-help, practicing shaman Wright blends Gestalt psychotherapy with New Age concepts by matching Eric Erikson's theory of developmental crisis to the eight chakras, energy centers of the body outlined in Eastern spiritual traditions. A licensed social worker and therapist, Wright's meditative techniques promote immersion in a sacred inner space where one can, with the help of power animals and other guides, safely confront the past. With sublime, unapologetic hokiness, Wright presents healing techniques like belly-dancing ("swirl the sacred, creative bowl of your pelvis") and using a chicken egg to extract negative energy ("Ask the egg's permission to be used to help in this process"), but grounds her techniques by distinguishing between reality and "non-ordinary reality"; a concept like "shapeshifting," in this sense, can be seen as an accessible imaging exercise. Throughout, Wright shows there's no need to tamper with one's spiritual foundation to explore the chakras (her own spiritual guides are Jesus and "the Mary's"), and proves illuminating in both her stories of personal tragedy-childhood want and abuse-and cultural critique ("Just like all serious addicts, we are even willing to sacrifice our lives" to materialism). For those with an open mind, Wright's wise and optimistic strategies will provide a number of unconventional roads to inner peace.
