The Big Book of Chakras and Chakra Healing: How to Unlock Your Seven Energy Centers for Healing, Happiness, and Transformation

by Susan Shumsky, Anodea Judith (Foreword)

"This book is for seekers. With writing that is both friendly to the layperson yet true to a deeper mystery, this is the book to which I refer my students who are interested in the esoteric wisdom and practices of the ancients." —Anodea Judith, author of Eastern Body, Western Mind Although they are often misunderstood, the chakras are important facets of health and spirituality and when properly attuned can lead to happier and healthier lives. In The Big Book of Chakras and Chakra Healing , Dr. Susan Shumsky delves into the ancient Tantric and Vedic literature to uncover the veiled mysteries of the ages, where the most authentic information about the 7 chakras, 7 subchakras, and the subtle energy system can be found. By reading this valuable book, you The Big Book of Chakras and Chakra Healing is perfect for novices and experienced practitioners alike and will lead you on a journey of discovery, balance, and enlightenment.

Genres: Spirituality

304 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2019

About the author

Dr. Susan Shumsky has dedicated her life to helping people take command of their lives in highly effective, powerful, positive ways. She is the best-selling author of 14 books, published by Simon & Schuster, Random House, and New Page. A pioneer in the human potential field, she has spent 50 years teaching thousands of people meditation, prayer, affirmation, and intuition. Her book titles include Miracle Prayer, Divine Revelation, Exploring Meditation, Exploring Auras, Exploring Chakras, How to Hear the Voice of God, Ascension, Instant Healing, The Power of Auras, The Power of Chakras, Awaken Your Third Eye, Awaken Your Divine Intuition, Color Your Chakras, and Maharishi & Me.

Dr. Shumsky is a highly respected spiritual teacher, award-winning author, and founder of Divine Revelation®—a unique field-proven technology for contacting the divine presence, hearing and testing the inner voice, and receiving clear divine guidance. For 22 years, her mentor was Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who was guru of the Beatles and guru of Deepak Chopra. Dr. Shumsky served on Maharishi's personal staff for 6 years.

A sought-after media guest and highly acclaimed professional speaker, Dr. Shumsky has done over 600 speaking engagements and over 900 media appearances since her first book was published, including Woman's World, GQ, Cosmopolitan, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, nationally syndicated TV and radio, Alan Colmes on FOX news, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, and William Shatner's TV show. She is featured in the movie Three Magic Words.

Her websites are www.drsusan.org and www.divinetravels.com.

Reviews

[Barbara]

Wasn’t for me. I was interested to begin with but it really got bogged down in a ton of details. There were some exercises to do but most of them are in another one of her books. My preference would be something shorter and more practical. But if you’re into all the fine details around chakras then you’d probably love this book.

[Scout Collins · Rating 2 out of 5]

God, this book was hard to get through. I hated most of it!
Pretty useless in terms of what it promised - "how to unlock your seven energy centers for healing, happiness and transformation". More like "how to read a long, boring, confusing academic history book on chakras and religion".

I don't even have the energy to review this book in depth, I was just so grateful it was over.
I found it from the library when I was trying to learn as much about chakras as I could. It repeated information I'd already heard in other books while only adding historical stories and stuff about deities and religion that I 100% did not care about. The title was definitely misleading in terms of the healing/happiness part.

There was also a chapter on kundalini and how you can have horrible pain in various parts of your body when it's awakened, hear voices and demons in your head, and once you have experienced kundalini you no longer care about your old life. You don't feel connected anymore. It honestly sounded terrible. According to this book, what you "experience" when you reach this higher level of consciousness (kundalini awakened) sounded like trash. Very convincing to not bother with that. Different people/books have different descriptions of higher consciousness, and this one was definitely very 'bleh'.

I would have given this 3 stars if the title had been accurate - but other than transformation, this book didn't teach anything to me about finding healing or happiness. The descriptions of opening chakras were weak. I don't remember seeing anything about when a chakra is overactive (unlike the other chakra books I've read). There were sooo many pages on Hindu deities and their backstories and some mild connection to each chakra. Describing their appearances, personalities and narratives. I did not care!! I am not Hindu. Other chakra books I've read minimize the religious component because that is not what's important. You don't have to be Hindu to want to work with your chakras.

There was also too much religion in general. "God" was mentioned constantly. It turned me off. The other chakra books I read were a lot less 'God'/religion-heavy.

The chapter on auras was interesting.

Thoughts during reading
I don't even understand what I'm reading.
"Sattva evolves preserving power
Rajas moves creative power
Tamas stops destructive power
Gunas in equilibrium with the potential of movement: sattva rajas Tamas
Rajas begin to stir and activates sattva Guna: sattva > rajas > Tamas
Sattva guna moves: sattva > rajas> Tamas
Etc." (p. 86)

This book is so confusing with all the descriptions of the different chakras (broken down even more than the main 7). It's not helping me gain any value to read about those. (91)

Why does this book read like a giant thesis/research project on chakras and their history? (99).

2nd Chakra
When emotions do not fully develop by age 14, problems associated with this Chakra will develop.(100)
Wtf does this even mean???????????????? Children will somehow not have emotions by age 14? what crack are you on

So academic 😴 (105)

Now in the healing section there is talk of Lord Brahma, Shiva, Indra, etc. all things I don't care about. I just want to know how to open chakras (124)

These affirmations are so stupid
"I AM a radiant being of divine love.
God's light fills and surrounds me now in peace.
I am bathed in an ocean of divine grace, joy and beauty.
I AM the love that God is. I AM at peace in the heart of God.
Thank you God, and SO IT IS." (144)
🙄

too religious for me
"Now speak audibly in a commanding voice: "Within goodness, I arise as Lord Brahma. I am one with the universe, and my love fills all beings with love. We are all one" (244).


If you are looking for a very academic, historical book that mainly focuses on diving into tiny details about chakras and their old religious roots, and their connections to other religions, with a 4-5 sentence 'affirmation' to open the chakra, you may be interested in this book. Otherwise, I would highly NOT recommend.

[Becky Owen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book but not title is not accurate to me. It’s more about energetic healing. Not as much specifics about chakras as you would think. But over all good book.