Sonia Choquette - True Balance: A Common Sense Guide to Renewing Your Spirit

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Copyright Sonia Choquette 2000

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ISBN 978-1-84850-688-6 in print
ISBN 978-1-84850-798-2 in ePub format
ISBN 978-1-84850-797-5 in Mobipocket format

To my family

You balance my soul

I would like to thank my parents, Sonia and Paul, for giving me a solid and lasting foundation. You welcomed me into the world and let me know the Universe would always support me.

To my dear husband, partner, and playmate, Patrick Tully: Thank you for awakening my vitality and showering me with nurturing, sensuality, and romance. Life with you has been the sweetest adventure.

To my coach, Anne Simon Wolf: Thank you for helping me reclaim my sovereignty and become Queen in my universe.

To my sweet children, Sonia and Sabrina: Thank you for opening my heart and teaching me how to love unconditionally.

To my sister Cuky: Thank you for listening to me when I needed support and for singing in bed with me every night when we were growing up. You have always championed my expression.

To my mentors, LuAnn Glatzmaier and Joan Smith: Thank you for opening my eyes and helping me to see the wonder and beauty of the Universe.

To Divine Spirit, Holy Mother-Father God: I am humbly and deeply grateful for all the blessings and gifts you continue to shower upon me and my loved ones every day. I am forever your servant.

I would also like to thank my agent and ally, Susan Schulman, for clearing the way to my hearts desire as a writer and a teacher. You have continually provided the highest venue for my dreams.

To Annetta Hanna, my editor: Thank you for challenging me to become a better teacher and writer. Your input has been a tremendous help to me on both a personal and professional basis.

To Lauren Shakely, Chip Gibson, Tina Constable, Leigh Ann Ambrosi, and all the behind-the-scenes contributors at Crown Publishing: Thank you for providing a wonderful home to all of my books and for the continued enthusiasm and support in each and every project.

To my teachers, Charlie Goodman and Dr. Trenton Tully: Thank you for ushering me onto my path in this life. You opened my heart and mind to Divine wisdom.

To Debra Grace Graves and Kimo, the kahuna: Thank you for helping me bring this book into the world.

To my clients and students, who continue to be my best teachers: I honor and appreciate you from the deepest place in my soul. Thank you for allowing me to know you so intimately and to learn from you so much.

Recently I had an urgent telephone message on my answering machine from a man named Steven, saying, Sonia, you dont know me, but I was referred to you by my massage therapist. I went to see her because Ive been feeling extremely drained and overwhelmed lately, and nothing in my life is going smoothly. She told me its because my chakras are out of balance. She tried to explain to me that chakras are energy centers that we all have, but honestly I didnt understand what she meant. Finally she referred me to you and said you could help! So can you? I need to know what these energy centers are and how to get them to stop messing up my life.

Receiving Stevens call was not surprising. In the past few years, Ive had many phone calls just like his, each one requesting guidance through one energy crisis after another. More and more people are discovering that what ails them is more psychic and spiritual in nature than physical. Steven, like many of my clients, had never even heard of the energy centers called chakras. To him it was no more than a curious word, maybe a metaphor, but certainly not something that was intrinsic to his nature and essential to his overall well-being. He couldnt imagine that an invisible energy center, a chakra, could have anything to do with his problems, and in fact he laughed at the idea when it was suggested. But the truth is, his massage therapist was right. Most of our problems can be traced to one or more of our seven psychic energy centers, known to the metaphysically savvy as chakras, from the Hindi term meaning spinning wheel, which from an energetic perspective is what a chakra would actually look like.