7 Day Chakras: Daily Energy Work to Balance Your Life

The 7-Day Chakra Challenge I have worked with the chakras for over 30 years, since I became a Reiki master. I'm always interested in other people's take on this ancient energy system and how they work with it. This is one of the more unique spins I've read. In this book, the author has created a 7-day routine that goes along with the seven major chakras. Before he details the activities and considerations of the seven days, he discusses chakras in general, the concept of the week, how chakras reflect our needs as well as an idea I've never seen before, the concept of being a certain chakra personality... that is, you have one particular chakra with whose energy you identify with the most. The instructions for each day, starting with the root chakra on Monday, are quite involved. Frankly, it's hard to imagine reading and doing all he says on a workday, which Monday is for a lot of us. I could see fitting bits and pieces into a workday, but not everything... especially for me, as I work a 12-hour day. The author suggests you start and repeat this 7-day chakra cycle each week. What he suggests you do each of the days could certainly lead to a more balanced and fulfilling life. He has you focus on important things in life, from smaller to larger concepts, from the concrete to the esoteric, from the physical to the emotional to the mental to the spiritual. Ideally, to me at least, you should pick a peaceful week to do this cycle for the first time, and then you could figure out how to best incorporate what he suggests for each day into your busier normal life if you want to continue the practices in the future. At times I felt the book was too mired in modern buzzwords, like change, habits, and goal setting. To me, the study of the chakras goes so much deeper than whatever the current self-help buzzwords are. But if that doesn't bother you or you can get beyond it, this book is a fascinating take on an ancient concept. I received a free copy of this book, but that did not affect my review.