Chakra Foods for Optimum Health: A Guide to the Foods That Can Improve Your Energy, Inspire Creative Changes, Open Your Heart, and Heal Body, Mind, and Spirit

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Nutritionist and yoga practitioner Deanna Minich's Chakra Foods provides information on how to heal emotional and physical woes through making the right food choices. The material for this book developed out of the author's highly successful "Nutrition for the Soul" classes, workshops, and private counseling sessions. Not a diet book, it looks at both the nutritional and spiritual aspects of the foods we eat and how they can heal us. For example, someone feeling stuck in their lives could turn to chapter 5 and find a list of orange foods — apricots, carrots, salmon, pumpkin, oranges — to help their sacral chakra. For each chakra, specific affirmations and other practices are also offered, as are meal plans and recipes. Helpful lists, charts, and diagrams help readers easily pinpoint and diagnose themselves and the various prescriptive options are all very clearly explained. With lots of useful sidebars, this book really is a treasure trove of energy medicine in the form of food — truly food for the body, mind, and soul!

* Looks at the energetics of what and how we eat and how to rebalance through healthier choices.

* Easy to implement and stick with plan.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781573243735
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Publication date: 3/1/2009
Pages: 288
Sales rank: 351,973
Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Deanna Minich, Ph.D., CN, is a nutrition educator, researcher, counselor, and dynamic presenter. Her Nutrition for the Soul workshop series has been taught at medical clinics in the Pacific Northwest and at The Evergreen State College and Bastyr University. Deanna holds a MS in human nutrition and dietetics and a PhD in medical sciences/human nutrition and is very passionate about assisting others on their path to good health and balanced living.

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Chakra Foods will gently walk you through the journey of your energetic landscape and give you creative tools and insight as to how foods and way we eat can heal, brighten, balance, and strengthen parts of us that need not only physical but spiritual nourishment.

Acknowledgments ix

Preface xi

My Rainbowed Being xv

Note to Reader xvii

Chapter 1 The Vibration of Food and the Spirit of Eating 1

Chapter 2 Our Dancing Chakras 11

Chapter 3 Discovering Your Chakra Issues 25

Chapter 4 Foods for Grounding and Protection: Feeding the Root Chakra 33

Chapter 5 Foods for Feelings and Flow: Feeding the Sacral Chakra 61

Chapter 6 Foods for Power and Transformation: Feeding the Solar Plexus Chakra 85

Chapter 7 Foods for Love and Compassion: Feeding the Heart Chakra 113

Chapter 8 Foods for Communication and Truth: Feeding the Throat Chakra 135

Chapter 9 Foods for Intuition and Imagination: Feeding the Third Eye Chakra 155

Chapter 10 Foods for Purification and Clarification: Feeding the Crown Chakra 175

Frequently Asked Questions 191

Recipes for the Chakras 195

Sample Chakra-Balancing Menus 225

Appendix A List of Foods, Substances, and Processes that Deplete the Chakras 227

Appendix B List of Foods and Their Activating and Balancing Effects on the Chakras 229

Appendix C Chakras and Corresponding Foods 241

Appendix D Health Conditions and Corresponding Chakras 243

Bibliography 249

Index 251

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Posted August 17, 2010

Enlightenment

I LOVE this book! Deanna takes a deep look at how what we eat affects our whole being. I love the mind, body, spirit approach and appreciate the thoughtful tone with which she encourages the reader to raise their consciousness around foods. I also love that there is a questionnaire that helps the reader to determine the imbalances of their chakras. This book has encouraged me and makes me feel like I have been to a spiritual retreat!

Anni Daulter, author of Organically Raised; conscious cooking for babies & toddlers
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