Energy Healing: The Essentials of Self-Care

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Where does true wellness start? For thousands of years, traditional healers have been able to detect and correct imbalances at the energetic level in order to heal our physical ailments. Today, these traditions are expanding the medical understanding of our subtle anatomy and its role in our overall well-being. With "Energy Healing," integrative physician Ann Marie Chiasson offers a complete guidebook of easy-to-use energy practices to enhance your health and vitality. Drawing from the material she teaches at Dr. Andrew Weil's Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, Dr. Chiasson explores: Our subtle anatomy understanding the chakras, meridians, and the key principles of energy healingSelf-diagnosis techniques for detecting the movement of energy in our bodies even if you've never sensed energy beforePractices for daily self-care and specific techniques to address energy blocks often seen in common illnesses and health issuesWhy our energy wanes as we age, and how we can replenish our vitality from sources in the world around usYour body as your teacher insights for adapting and developing your own energy healing techniquesIn creating this book Dr. Chiasson has selected the methods she has found to be most accessible, effective, and beneficial in the long-term informed by the latest research, healing traditions from around the world, and her own practice. With Energy Healing, she presents an indispensible guide for understanding the energetic dimension of your well-being and essential tools to help you take charge of your own health. This book is an excellent guide for anyone interested in exploring energy as a means of maintaining healthy, dynamic living. ? from the foreword by Andrew Weil, MDContents The Energy Practices Foreword Andrew Weil, M.D Introduction Health and Healing: A Crucial Shift for Our TimeChapter 1 The Basics of Energy Healing The Energy Body Illness, Trauma, and the Energy Body What Is Healing? What Causes Energy Blocks or Imbalances, and How Can They Be Cleared? How Can We Move Energy through the Energy Body? The Benefits of Energy Healing The Body Moves toward Self-Healing The Body as Teacher Healing at the Pace of the Energy Body Energy Healing and Chronic PainChapter 2 Connecting into the Unified Energy Field and the Shamanic Field Shamanism and the Shamanic Field Effects of Connecting to the Shamanic Field Reopening Our Connections The Role of Tradition and Culture in Connecting with the FieldsChapter 3 Getting Started: Using Movement to Open, Clear, Ground, and Receive Energy Gathering Energy Grounding Toe Tapping Full-Body Tapping Shaking the BonesChapter 4 The Heart Center and the Art of Sacred Touch Deeper into the Transpersonal Nature of the Heart Center The Energy of the Heart The Four Attributes of the Heart Center The Heart Center Meditation Daily Practice Sacred Touch Chapter 5 Sensing and Moving Energy Initiating the Hands for Energy Work Noticing Energy between the Hands Clearing Energy from the Hands Scanning the Energy Field Moving Energy with Attention and Awareness The Abdominal Breath The Root Chakra Breath The Circular Breath The Full-Body Energy Connection Using Tools to Move Energy Chapter 6 Balance, Alignment, and Body Wisdom Primary Awareness Exercise Carrying Multiple States of Awareness Awakening the Body Response Energy Movement and the Chakras The Chakra Meditation Free-Form Energy Movement Chapter 7 Specific Energy Centers and Targeted Energy-Movement Techniques Back-of-the-Heart Tapping Foot Tapping Sacrum Tapping The Liver Flow High-Heart Tapping Jaw Work Jaw Work: Additional Practice Eye Work Tapping on the Back of the Head The Sacred Gates Flow Giving Back Resting Position Before Sleep Chapter 8 Receptivity Our Dynamic, Multilayered Energy Field Different Layers, Different Energetic Information Learning to Read the Energy Field Yes, No, and Wow Full-Body Sensing Connecting to the Earth Forgiveness The Metta Meditation Chapter 9 Presence and Awakening Presence: Being Connected to the Energy Field of Awareness Experiencing Presence Soft Sight Focus, Open, and Allow Awakening Chapter 10 Energy Techniques for Specific Symptoms and Conventional Medical Diagnoses Energy Healing Complements Conventional Medicine Energy Practices for Pain Suggested Energy Practices for Specific Illnesses and Conditions Energy Healing Techniques for Children Conclusion A Final Story the energy practices The Abdominal Breath Awakening the Body Response Back-of-the-Heart Tapping Carrying Multiple States of Awareness The Chakra Meditation The Circular Breath Connecting to the Earth Eye Work Focus, Open, and Allow Foot Tapping Free-Form Energy Movement The Full-Body Energy Connection Full-Body Sensing Full-Body Tapping Giving Back The Heart Center Meditation High-Heart Tapping Initiating the Hands for Energy Work Jaw Work Jaw Work: Additional Practice The Liver Flow The Metta Meditation Noticing Energy between the Hands The Pain Drain Technique xii the energy practices Primary Awareness Exercise Resting Position Before Sleep The Root Chakra Breath The Sacred Gates Flow Sacred Touch Sacrum Tapping Shaking the Bones . Soft Sight Tapping on the Back of the Head Toe Tapping Yes, No, and Wow"

Ann Marie Chiasson Ann Marie Chiasson, MD, is Canadian Board Certified in family practice. She has a private integrative and energy medicine practice in Tucson, Arizona, where she offers consultations, treatments,seminars, and retreats. She also teaches through the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. Andrew Weil Andrew Weil, MD, is a world-renowned leader and pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, a healing-oriented approach to health care which encompasses body, mind, and spirit. He is founder and director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine (AzCIM) at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center in Tucson, and director of Integrative Health & Healing at Miraval Life in Balance Resort in Tucson. Dr. Weil's bestselling books include Spontaneous Happiness, Eight Weeks to Optimum Health, and Spontaneous Healing, and his popular audio programs with Sounds True include The Healthy Heart Kit and Breathing: The Master Key to Self-Healing.

"Dr. Chiasson skillfully combines her knowledge as a medical doctor with her passion for energy medicine and indigenous healing practices." --Andrew Weil, MD "Dr. Ann Marie Chiasson does the impossible: she demystifies energy medicine without eradicating the mystery. Using her own personal stories as well as those of the patients she has cared for, she makes visible the unifying principles shared by systems as diverse as the chakras, qi, and the matrix. In so doing, she puts centuries of wisdom at our fingertips. If you want to learn energy medicine, this is the book to read." --Victoria Maizes, MD, executive director, Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine and professor of clinical medicine, family medicine, and public health at the University of Arizona "Dr. Ann Marie Chiasson shares a powerful and practical manual on how to harness the innate life force that surrounds and interpenetrates our very lives. It allows everyone access to energetic techniques once kept secret in many healing traditions." --Master Stephen Co, founder of Pranic Healing and author of The Power of Prana