Keith Sherwood - 8 Sept

You are an Energy Being

Your thoughts, feelings, and actions are energy events- to know who you are and why you think, feel, and act the way you do, you must know yourself energetically.

Each of the seven chakras of the human body processes and distributes energy. The chakras transform the energy into different sensations comprehensible to us, namely thought, emotion, and physical sensation. Human problems-spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical-are caused by the inability to radiate energy freely due to blockages in our energy systems.

Chakra Therapy is a practical and easy-to-use guide that will teach you how to work with your chakras to release energy blockages. You will learn techniques for increasing your level of energy, and for transmuting unhealthy energies into healthy ones, to bring you back into balance and harmony with your self, your loved ones, and the world you live in.

Keith Sherwood was born in New York in 1949. An internationally known teacher and healer, he founded the American Psychic Association. He has appeared on many radio and television shows in the United States and Europe. For three years he produced "Psychic Seminar," a weekly New York television program. He teaches chakra therapy, a synthesis of Western therapeutic techniques, Taoist Yoga, and Tantra.

His eclectic approach toward energy work is the outcome of years of study which took him first into psychotherapy as an encounter group therapist with New York City addicts. Later he traveled to Guatemala where he studied with a Gur- dieff master and trained in Yoga and Pranayama. He also worked in the Dominican Republic where his dormant powers as a healer and clairvoyant surfaced. He has devoted himself to the study of healing and human energy.

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Other Books by the Author

Die Kunst Spirituellen Heilens

(Hermann Bauer Verlag, West Germany, 1984)

The Art of Spiritual Healing

(Llewellyn, 1985) I would like to thank my teachers and students whose help was indispensable in the preparation of this book.

Chapter 1

Chapter 11

Chapter 19

Chapter 27

Chapter 37

Chapter 45

Chapter 57

Chapter 75

Chapter 91

Chapter 103

Chapter 117

Chapter 131

Chapter 159

Chapter 173

Chapter 189

Chapter 201

Chapter 211

Der Zweck des Lebens ist das Leben selbst. (The aim of living is life itself)

-Goethe

Introduction

The study of human psychology and the study of humans themselves is incomplete without taking into consideration the human energy system and its profound effect on the human psyche, human behavior and human relationships. If a psychology of humans is to be truly useful and practical, it must describe a human as a total being, and it must provide the student with an understanding of a human in relationship to the world he/she lives in and the other beings he/she comes in contact with. A partial description like a piece of a pirates' map is practically useless, because it will not help a person find the treasure which he/she seeks. In human psychology, the treasure has always been happiness, a life which is balanced, harmonious and which allows room for love, trusting relationships and the experience of unconditional joy. We all want the map of human consciousness to lead us as quickly and efficiently as possible to the treasure which we all intuitively know lives within us.

Unfortunately for most people, even with all the information available today they still haven't found their way home to them selves. They still don't know why they feel good one day, bad the next, why one morning they wake up full of energy, another morning they are more exhausted than when they went to bed. They don't know why they sometimes attract people and other times alienate them. In the midst of all their feelings, thoughts, ups and downs, the one thing they don't experience is consistency, wholeness and contentment, and they don't understand why. Despite the importance attached today to emotions, relationships and self-awareness, there remains an incredible lack of understanding and confusion about who we are and why we feel, think and act the way we do.

For more than 20 years I have studied human beings and the human energy system, and I have found that at the root of human problems are energy problems. Thoughts, feelings and actions are energy events. To know who you are and why you act, feel and think the way you do, you must know yourself energetically. You must realize how you influence others and how you are being influenced by energy-both your own energy, other people's energy, and the energy field which permeates and connects everything in the universe.

What You Will Learn

This book is meant first to fill in the missing pieces of a human's subtle anatomy left out by orthodox psychological models, then it will serve as a workbook. Within its pages are exercises and techniques designed to increase your level of energy, to transmute unhealthy frequencies of energy into healthy ones, to bring you back into balance and harmony with your self, your loved ones and the multidimensional world you live in. Finally, it will help bring you back into union with the universal field of energy and consciousness.

Human problems on all levels of causation-spiritual, mental, emotional and physical-are caused by contraction, the inability to radiate energy freely due to blockages in the human energy system. In this book you will learn how to release energy blockages and the reservoirs of energy these blockages create. These reservoirs of energy are the emotional and mental debris you weren't able to completely process through your energy system when you were a child. They are the result of energy overload, too much pain, fear, or anger caused by feelings which were too threatening, and shocks which were too powerful.

Once you have mastered the techniques presented here, you will have the capacity to release blockages and to transmute the reservoirs of energy which have been trapped by the blockages. With practice you will be able to change unhealthy frequencies of energy trapped by these blockages into healthy ones. Once you are able to transmute energy, you will have more energy in healthier frequencies at your disposal.