Karla McLaren

Your Aura & Your Chakras: The Onwer's Manual is a clear and comprehensive text fo the restoration and manintenance of your subtle energy system. Karla McLaren, who has worked with survivors of abuse and trauma, shows how to clear the chakras of old hurts and to cleanse and strengthen the aura for pretection against invasive energy. She provides indispensable grounding techniques for making the inner connection between your mind, your body, and the Earth, and helps you understand, read, and define the natural protective boundary of your aura. By cultivating this energetic territory through visualization techniques, you can establish compatible and productive relationships, ridding yourself of old, unworkable, and destructive pattrerns of behavior. Learning how to redirect your emotions through McLaren's simple meditations can benefit your life, bringing a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment. Discover the real excitement of self-knowledge! Your body and your emotions hold more healing power than any outside force ever will and by respecting your inner needs you can create a flowing link between body and spirit. McLaren believes that we all have the innate capacity to restore our own emotional balance. Healing, she explains, is a process of awareness, intuition, and self-discovery. All that is required is personal faith and the wilingness to trust your own intuition and self-judgment. If you desire a happy, healthy, and complete lifestyle, then this is an essential book for you.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I The basics
Getting started
A room of your own
Getting grounded
Defining your aura
Protecting your aura
Destroying images
The gold sun healing
Part II Further inward
Burning contracts
Channeling your emotions
Advanced techniques
Part III The owner's manual
Reading your aura
An introduction to your chakras
The first (or kundalini) chakra
The second (or hara) chakra
The third (or solar plexus) chakra
The fourth (or heart) chakra
The fifth (or throat) chakra
The sixth (or third eye) chakra
The seventh (or crown) chakra
The eighth (or gold sun) chakra
The hand chakras
The foot chakras
Reading your chakras
The gold sun healing for chakras
Part IV The troubleshooting guide
Bibliography
Index
About the author… (meer)

I took this book to help me understand, name, feel emotions better. There were lot of stories but I didn't think, I got the best of it. I think, I sensed lot of esoteric ideas for emotions.

The author does admits that most of the content in the book is personal anecdotes, no case studies.

Part II is the meat of the book, I think understanding purpose of each emotion, would help us to navigate life better.

I didn't think this was the best book on emotions. I am systematic in my approach and did not find it the best due to personal anecdotes. I would recommend to people who like New Age, Esoteric thought.

Deus Vult,
Gottfried

… (meer)

I was very interested in reading this book to clearly define in my mind the meaning of each of the Chakras and this book did do this. It also gives information on Aura's and how to ground yourself. I found this interesting and very helpful. Karla McLaren goes into detail about how she goes about doing all these things.

My only difficulty I have with this book, and have experienced with other writes of these types of metaphysical things, is that she writes as though what she does and how she does it is the only way and is kind of fixed and factual. To me it is individual and each person perceives things in their mind their own way. As someone that does energy light healing in colours, although I found Karla's methods interesting, I chose to pick and choose which pieces worked for me, and used my own interpretation of some of the things Karla talked about.

I did learn a great deal from this book however, and would definitely return to it for reference.… (meer)

The Art of Empathy is a description of McLaren's theory of how empathy works, and a guide to how you can build your empathy skills. This is my favorite kind of self-help: the kind that is liberally sprinkled with literature citations as well as anecdotes. When she pulls in Gardner's multiple intelligence theory, she notes that there has not yet been definitive physiological evidence for multiple intelligences, but that it's a useful framework for thinking about diversity in the way brains work. I love the way she thinks and writes: sifting through many disciplines and many experiences to come up with a practical kind of wisdom. Her approach is inclusive: she uses examples from energy healing to autism curriculum to brain research, weaving together a theory of mind that is eminently helpful. If you don't have several 'ah-ha' moments when you read this book, you're much wiser than I.… (meer)