The Subtle Body: An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy
Selected Book Details
- Paperback
- Edition: First Edition
- Author: Cyndi Dale
- Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated
- Release Date: February 2009
- ISBN-10: 1591796717
- ISBN-13: 9781591796718
- List Price: $34.95
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryAll healers are "energetic" healers, whether they know it or not. Because every health issue has a physical and an energetic component, even a simple physical treatment like bandaging a cut also impacts the body's spiritual, mental, and emotional welfare. The Subtle Body is a comprehensive encyclopedia devoted to the critical world of our invisible anatomy, where so much of healing actually occurs. Compiled by intuitive healer and scholar Cyndi Dale, this 500-page full color illustrated reference book covers: * What is the "subtle body"? New scientific understanding of our quantum-state existence and the unseen fields that determine our physical condition * True integrative care: how combining Eastern energetic modalities with Western scientific rigor yields optimum results * The meridians, fields, and chakras: detailed information and diagrams about the role of these energetic structures in our overall health * Energy-based therapy principles from the world's healing traditions--including Ayurveda, Qigong, Reiki, Quabalah, and many more. For professionals who want to make the leap from being good healers to great ones, one thing is clear: we need to care for every facet of our well-being. With The Subtle Body, practitioners and patients alike now have an unprecedented resource for understanding the physical, energetic, and spiritual elements of human health--for an informed, complete approach to healing. |
Customer Reviews
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Suzie Housley, Midwest Book Reviewer
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The soul is the substance of energy that organizes conscience and body and makes of it all, a coherent being for reality. And the spirit is the superior dignity of life.
-Unknown Author
A fascinating journey of discovery awaits you in Cyndi Dale's The Subtle Body: An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy. By far this is the most in-depth collection of energy healing this reviewer has ever discovered.
What makes this book so unique is that it covers all of the top forms of holistic healing. Which includes chakras, energy meridians, acupuncture, reflexology, international healing, Ayurveda, Shiatsu, distant and hands on healing, energy fields, sacred geometry, color and sound healing, and magnetism. It is broken down into six easy to understand parts that include:
Part I: Energy and Energy Healing
Part II: Human Anatomy
Part III: Energy Fields
Part IV: Channels of Energy: Channels of Light
Part V: Energy Bodies: Chakras and other "Light Switches"
Part VI: Energy Practices
From the very first page I found that I was so mesmerized at all the knowledge that I was absorbing. With my background in healing touch and reflexology, I was able to quickly put to use the high quality illustrations that showed all the pulse points of the body.
No health care professional should be without a copy of Cyndi Dale's The Subtle Body: An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy. This book is such an asset to the health care world I believe it should be introduced into the college setting. If all health care providers were to be exposed to all the information that this one book offers, mankind's health benefits would be unlimited. Very highly recommended.
SUBTLE ENERGY
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It gave me more understanding and relevant information on the human body's subtle energy and how it works with the energy around us i.e how to have a positive chi.
A good guide for beginners.
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Not being very knowledgeable about the subject of energy healing, but being quite curious, I was overwhelmed at the amount of information when I first leafed through this book. Once I started reading, though, I found it to be broken down into easy to read and understand chapters which covers the basics of each energy healing tradition (of which there are many), human anatomy, and what it takes to become an energy healer. If you want a good overview of each of the traditions this is a great reference to start with.
The book itself is very nice with almost 500 heavy, glossy pages and many expertly done color illustrations, charts and tables.
Everything you need to know--a GO TO REFERENCE GUIDE
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This book is packed with great information both for "beginners" and those who have been in the energy field for a long time. It is explained in a way that is extremely understandable and user friendly. It is as concise as it can be without losing substance. I am just really impressed at all the information, the diagrams, the layout of the book which makes it interesting and understandable.
I would highly, highly recommend this. This is a book you can reference for years and definitely a book worth purchasing rather than borrowing from the library because there is no way you would retain all of the information from just one reading.
There is over 450 pages of material and they pages are larger than the average book.
this book deals with topics like chakras, energy meridians, acupuncture, reflexology, intentional healing, ayurveda, shiatsu, distant and hands-on healing, energy fields, color and sound healing, magnetism, feelings and their respective organs in the body, geopathic stress, qigong,reiki, and much more.
HIGHLY recommended.
Beautiful, Engaging and Exhaustive
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For many years I was an arch-skeptic when it came to the subtle systems of the body, but then a great deal of personal experience lead me to do a U-turn, and for more than twenty years I have been teaching others how to feel, sense and work with these systems, with often remarkable results. Though critics still love to call this "Woo," the tide is turning against them, and this book is a huge help.
Any book about the "energetic" or "subtle" systems of the body will always attract a mixture of breathless enthusiasm and mean-spirited criticism. And sadly there are still some who believe that any mention of these systems is somehow New Age or occult, although there are almost one hundred cultures around the world that have recognized and discussed them, including the Fathers of the Christian Church. This book provides a wealth of well-researched evidence for skeptics and enthusiasts alike.
Although you can have a look inside the book at the top of this page, and also on the Sounds True website, I think that it is helpful for a potential reader to see a breakdown of the six sections and forty chapters to get a good idea of the contents of the book.
Part I: Energy and Energy Healing
1. Energy Is Universal
2. Being an Energy Healer
Part II: Human Anatomy
3. The Cells
4. DNA
5. The Skeletal System
6. The Muscular System
7. The Nervous System
8. The Skin
9. The Circulatory System
10. The Respiratory System
11. The Endocrine System
12. The Digestive System
13. The Excretory System
14. The Reproductive System
15. Metabolism
16. The Immune System
17. The Senses
Part III: Energy Fields
18. A Primer on Energy Fields
19. Two Unified Field Theories
20. The Natural Fields
21. The Radiant Shine of Molecules: Lost and Found Research
22. L-Fields and T-Fields: The Partners Composing Reality?
23. Field Pollution: Geopathic Stress
24. The Power of Magnetism
25. Hands-On and Distant Healing: Proving Subtle Fields and a Nonlocal Reality
26. Sacred Geometry: Fields of Life
27. Human Energy Fields
Part IV: Channels of Energy: Channels of Light
28. The History of Meridian-Based Therapy
29. An Overview of the Meridian System
30. Theories of the Existence, Purpose, and Functioning of the Meridians
31. The History of Meridian Science
32. The Major Meridians
33. The Basic Acupuncture Points
34. Five-Phase and Related Diagnostic Theories
35. The Seven Emotions and the Corresponding Organs
Part V: Energy Bodies: Chakras and Other "Light Switches"
36. Energy Bodies
37. Kundalini, the Unifying Force
38. Scientific Principles Meet Chakra Theory
39. Chakra Systems from Around the World
40. The Jewish Mystical Energy System: The Ancient Kabbalah
Part VI: Energy Practices
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
As you will see this book is extremely comprehensive! If you are new to the field it gently leads you by the hand. There is also a wealth of information for the more experienced practitioner or researcher. Despite many years as both a researcher and practitioner of a number of methods that use the subtle systems of the body, I found a lot of new material in this book.
Cyndi Dale writes well and I thought that her views and opinions were very fair and balanced. My only small quibble is the use of the word "Energy." I prefer the term subtle "systems" composed of the inseparable twins: First the subtle energies and second, the subtle fields that carry them. Without energy, the fields could not actualize, and without the fields, there would be nothing to carry the energy.
The book itself is beautifully produced and easy to navigate. I am delighted that Sounds True is producing ever more high quality books like this.
This is the only book on the subtle systems that you need. It is well worth the price, and is not only a reference and textbook, but also a wonderful book to browse through.
Very highly recommended.
Richard G. Petty, MD, author of Healing, Meaning and Purpose: The Magical Power of the Emerging Laws of Life
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