Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System As a Path to the Self Audiobook (Free)

In Eastern Body, Traditional western Mind, chakra authority Anodea Judith brought a fresh approach to the yoga-based Eastern chakra system, adapting it to the Western framework of Jungian psychology, somatic therapy, childhood developmental theory, and metaphysics. This groundbreaking work in transpersonal psychology has been revised and redesigned for a more accessible presentation. Organized schematically, the book uses the natural structure from the chakra system like a map upon which to graph our Western understanding of individual development. Each chapter focuses on a single chakra, you start with a explanation of its features, then discovering its particular youth developmental patterns, traumas and abuses, and how to heal and keep maintaining balance. Illuminated with personal anecdotes and case studies, Eastern Body, Traditional western Brain seamlessly merges the East and Western world, science and viewpoint, and psychology and spirituality right into a powerful interpretation from the chakra system and its relevance for Westerners today.