Emotional Wisdom: Daily Tools for Transforming Anger, Depression, and Fear

by Mantak Chia, Dena Saxer

A groundbreaking book, Emotional Wisdom reveals powerful ancient tools for transforming our painful emotions into happiness and health. So-called negative emotions are valuable messages that let us know we are out of balance. With compassion and humor, Taoist authors Mantak Chia and Dena Saxer explain the messages that anger, depression, fear, worry, and stress offer us. They present three easy-to-learn twenty-minute internal energy practices, with helpful illustrations, to turn these imbalances into harmony and joy. They provide unusual nutritional advice for emotional healing and a Taoist First Aid section with proven natural remedies for minor ailments such as insomnia, indigestion, headaches, and overeating. Relevant quotes from the Tao Te Ching add inspiration to this practical, life-changing book.

Genres: Self Help, Nonfiction, Psychology, Spirituality

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Mantak Chia is a Taoist Master. He is best known for teaching his Taoist practices under the names of Healing Tao, Tao Yoga, Universal Healing Tao System and Chi Kung. Throughout decades of teaching, he has run numerous workshops, written a series of books, and published a number of training videos. For this reason, some people call him an author, a teacher or a healer. He views himself primarily as a teacher, "who helps his students empower themselves through cultivation of their chi energy." (-wiki)

Reviews

[Tami · Rating 5 out of 5]

From the time we are young, we are trained to ignore and hide our emotions. “Don’t be a cry baby”. “You are too sensitive”. Therefore, the majority of people never learn how to be comfortable with their emotions. It almost seems like we are afraid of our true feelings. Perhaps, we believe that they will overwhelm us if we allow them out. The ironic thing is that repressed emotion can actually collect in the body and cause illness and dysfunction.

Emotional Wisdom is actually an ancient system that teaches individuals how to become comfortable with their emotions and release potentially harmful stagnant energy blockages. The process is actually quite simple involving a series of visualizations, hand movements, and sounds. These actions not only teach the individual how to listen to his or her body but also promote better energy circulation.

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wonderful book - took a unique approach to working through emotions. The exercises are very step by step which I also thought was helpful.

[Todd Mayville · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Job · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was easy to read and taught me something about the emotions connected to the body. Didn't know if I should believe everything in the book, but that is down to personal beliefs and what you are looking for (and need) at the moment. The small section on expressing anger was my favorite and I liked the analysis of the Tao te King inside. 2 stars doesn't necessarily mean it's bad, but I got quite a strict index for the stars. Wasn't bad but also wasn't really for me

[Ig-88 · Rating 4 out of 5]

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