Path to the Soul: The Union of Eastern and Western Wisdom to Heal Your Body, Mind and Soul - Couverture souple

Bedi, Ashok

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 8178222213 ISBN 13 : 9788178222219

Editeur : New Age Books, 2004

Synopsis

Bedi, a Wisconsin-based psychiatrist and Jungian psychoyst, offers a Hindu spin on therapy, challenging readers to rethink childhood conflict and marital strife in terms of karma and dharma. Bedi's discussion of chakrasAthe seven energy centers said to exist in each personAillustrates the strengths and weaknesses of his approach. The first chakra, located in the perineum and ruled by the god Ganesha, governs people's sense of emotional security. For example, Paul, a client of Bedi's, has unstable romantic relationships. Bedi traces his problems to the first chakra, and suggests that Paul's recovery necessarily involves "correcting imbalances" among his chakras. That's an intriguing theory, but Bedi is so vague and his prose so confusing ("When he first came to me, Paul was stuck in the pignali nada of the root chakra, which manifested as untempered masine enterprise") that readers may never quite understand just what the chakra has to do with their love lives, or what they should do about it. Meditate on the chakra? Draw a picture of the chakra? Pray about the chakra? When Bedi does give straightforward guidance, it is b: when trying to overcome problems in relationships, for example, people should "identify" the qualities in others that they like and dislike. Bedi's claim that Hindu spiritual disciplines can augment traditional therapy is suggestive, but readers will have to go elsewhere to deduce the mechanics of integrating the two. (Sept.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New Age Books
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8178222213
• ISBN 13: 9788178222219
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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