In the yogic tradition, that unfinished energy pattern or blockage, is called Samskara. When you resist release, that energy gets packed up and forced into deep storage within the heart. The heart closes because it becomes blocked by stored, unfinished energy patterns from the past. The author explores the spiritual heart, one of the most powerful chakras or energy center.Through meditation, through awareness and willful efforts, one can learn to keep the centers open by relaxing and releasing. You become a source of light for all those around you. When all the energy centers open, a tremendous amount of energy starts flowing out of you. The author says one should honor and respect the situation and be with it. The more one learns to stay open, the more the energy can flow into you. In ancient Chinese medicine, it is called Chi and in the West it is called Spirit. The yogis call energy centers Chakras and the flow of energy that comes from the depth of one’s being Prana. These are centers within that channel your energy flow. In the second part of the book, the author expands on the concept of inner energy, a source of energy that you are drawn upon from the inside.Yoga is mentioned as one technique to help free oneself from the “mental melodrama”, helping one live in the “seat of consciousness and pure awareness.

A basic step in quieting this chatter is to understand that there is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that one is not the voice of the mind, but the one that hears it.

This is a persistent mental dialogue, a voice that talks all the time and that can only stop when one steps back and observes it objectively. In the first part of the book, the “voice inside your head” is explored.The reader, from the start, is therefore encouraged to engage with the content and use it to find and explore oneself as the chapters are intended to be mirrors for seeing the true self. The author begins the book investigating the concept of “self” by asking the reader to rely on one expert, “you, the reader”.

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