Gill Edwards
Living Magically: A New Vision of Reality
The book is filled with magic, and magic is contagious: it will likely penetrate the life of an attentive reader, little by little taking its rightful place. Of course, one can try to ignore it or otherwise accept it, and in the second case likely it will be the time to see that something is happening around differently, preferences and everyday tasks will gradually become filled with somewhat very special content.
Written with empathy and openness, the book works as a guide that helps to change the way you relate to day-to-day life. It clarifies, gently explains how to restore trust in relationships with one’s own body and the outside world. Coincidences, synchronous events, the realization of what you dreamed about – a living metaphysics that comes through the body, if you know how to listen to it. The author does not impose her point of view, but rather invites the reader to try, take their own steps and watch what happens.
First published in 1991
Danny Penman, Mark Williams, and Robert Arthur Jr.
Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World
Eight weeks practice program. Can be followed without much effort by an adult who has never tried “anything like this” before. Friendly, bringing deep understanding of exactly how one can gradually get rid of the burden of excessive anxiety and tension. Helping to recover those missing connections that will bring confidence, and allow to treat the world as well as other people and one’s own self, in a more accepting manner, with compassion. The cycle of exercises that the book offers will very likely lead to a state of greater resilience, even if the reader is deeply rooted in an environment that favours quite the opposite.
First published in 2011
Eckhart Tolle
A New Earth
Modern times cause uncertainty in many. Eckhart Tolle’s text offers a reliable navigation tool to maintain living in harmony with what one would call destiny or in other words, the purpose of our presence in this complex world. The book does not have it’s focus specifically on the body and the bodily experience. It rather will help the reader to get back to their own self, an impossible task without contact with the body and a clear understanding of the role it plays in life.
First published in 2005
Alexander Lowen
Spirituality of the Body
A student of the rebellious psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, who was the first to address the body issues as the root source of various requests in psychotherapy, Lowen is the founder of the Bioenergetic Analysis approach. The capacious text is full of author’s exercises, examples, clear comments. Lowen often talks about unleashing potential, mastering creative freedom. Bioenergetic analysis is one of the schools that stands at the foot of all that modern building, which is a body-oriented, somatic approach to health and wellbeing in the modern world in general. Its concept is at least worth getting to know.
But more important is how the exercises and practices, insights can affect the reader. The book is replete with powerful tools for change. Lowen suggests that the exercises be handled with care, it is not known whether the unprepared reader will cope with the results that his work will bring in terms of releasing long suppressed feelings, for example.
First published in 1990
Michael Kern
Wisdom in the Body: the Craniosacral Approach to Essential Health
It would be a bold assumption to think that it is possible to learn a body-oriented technique without receiving a single session. In the meantime, Michael Kern’s book seems to be a great introduction to CranioSacral Therapy as an approach.
Craniosacral often looks incomprehensible to the uninitiated. Something between a high-tech somatic view on health and a mystical bodily experience. The text of the book helps to understand what is attributed to the theory and practice of the method, from an applied, tangible point of view.
The author describes what the results of the therapeutic process are and what constitutes this paradigm of working with the body. Respectfully and delicately structured, the book can explain why the craniosacral approach can be useful for you, and for practitioners, somewhat enrich the understanding of this therapeutic direction.
First published in 2001.
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