Cyndi Dale

Thank you to Netgalley, Llewellyn Publication, and Cyndi Dalte for the chance to read and review this ARC;

I really wanted more from this book from the start than I ended up getting. I was a little surprised to open the digital copy and find how roughly done this book was, without any images (spaces for which were filled with glaringly large, distracting orange boxes everywhere when you turned pages) and with some rather glaring formatting errors (that I hope might have just been the way it show more was loaded into the e-readers?).

I can usually set these things aside, due to the nature of early review, especially when it's clear people are looking for content review more than whole package review. Setting that aside, though, didn't end up improving my 'already shaky' opinion going in. While the book is a surfeit of information on the chakras, how to use them, what to do with them, and what best things to connect to your already other magical practices, I found it sorely lacking in being a helpful resource on everything in all of the Chakras and their connections/attributes alone.

I think this book would need to make it incredibly clear from the backcover that this book shouldn't be picked up by novices to the chakras, looking for an easy ability to start using what is listed, or that they might find themselves expecting to step into shallow, warm, welcoming waters and inside plunged into the depths of the sea. show less

Advanced Chakra Healing
Heart Disease
The Four Pathways Approach
by Cyndi Dale

I feel like I have been waiting centuries for this book, both as a healer and also as a spiritual seeker. I love the way the author blends the different healing approaches with the various senses in a way that helped me clean up energetic rough spots that have been plaguing me for a long time.The information is gentle, helpful and concise and the different methods of soul retrieval, past life regression, and many show more others, helped me to feel like myself again in many wonderful ways.

Being a healer and old soul, one of my greatest weakness is giving my power away, so it was a complete joy to find such a step by step guide to not only retrieving my lost power, but to be able to integrate it and protect myself in the future. The book's focus on heart disease will show you how big this epidemic really is and why this precious messenger has been so eagerly awaited. I found the Special Insert section a fascinating quick reference and I know I will reach to it often. I would recommend this book to any seeker on any spiritual level. Thanks Cyndi, for teaching us the true meaning of "heart felt".

Love & Light,

Riki Frahmann show less

its got some ok coverage and could serve as a sufficient jumping off point for further study, but the material on its own is pretty misleading

it mashes together complicated and nuanced systems, making no effort to tease out the moments when they disagree or diverge, and has little consideration for the many divergent historical developments in these systems. it also pays little consideration to the theological doctrine or mystical practices underlying the systems, and particularly the ways show more in which such doctrines r often extremely contradictory and in direct conflict w each other. the author also throws out a bunch of unnecessary western pseudoscience about magnetism in order to try to make sense of energy, when energy as a scientific principle is already self-evident

5/10 for effort show less

I found this book very interesting and useful. In some places it is a bit like a catalogue, which can be ponderous. There are lengthy listings of each chakra, what it means and its different aspects, which would be useful reference material for an experienced practitioner, but is a bit difficult to read from cover to cover. The last section on emotions though I found excellent and very useful - about how you must 'love your emotions to death', even if they are negative emotions.