Life Energy: Using the Meridians to Unlock the Hidden Power of Your Emotions

This book has been essential for me in developing a concept of the healing force in myself and in everybody -- Life Energy, as the title succinctly puts it -- and how this force can be activated. The specific details about our emotions -- and how they relate to the acupuncture system -- are fascinating. I particularly find helpful and thought-provoking Dr. Diamond's use of etymology (the origins of words) in pinpointing and evoking emotional states. The many photographs and humorous or touching anecdotes -- all these contribute to this highly readable, very therapeutic volume. I find Dr. Diamond's affirmations and the acupuncture points, which are clearly illustrated, wonderfully helpful in creating a daily routine for health and happiness. I have gone on to read many other books by Dr. Diamond, but this one remains basic and essential. I highly reccomend this book.

In this ground-breaking book, Dr. Diamond presents his research findings concerning the links between specific acupuncture meridians and various precisely delineated emotional states. The connection between the acupuncture meridians and the organs of the body has been known about for centuries, and underlies much Chinese, Japanese and Korean traditional healing, and with Dr. Diamond's work connecting the meridians and the emotions we now have a link between the emotions and the physical body. Although it has been accepted that our emotional state can affect our physical well-being, and vice versa, Dr. Diamond's pioneering research is the first to examine this mechanism in detail. This book should be required reading for anyone practicing, or hoping to practice the healing arts, either through conventional or through complementary medicine.

This book is a revelation! How does qi (chi) flow through the body and what impedes its flow? Dr. Diamond's research reveals that our Life Energy is basically EMOTIONAL with each acupuncture meridian representing a different aspect of our emotional make-up. Positive emotions represent a healthy flow of Life Energy while negative emotions represent an impedence of this flow. How can we transform our lives? By transmuting our emotions. This concept is so simple and its ramifications so profound that it is a wonder that noone has elucidated it with such clarity up until now. I cannot recommend this book highly enough, both for the health-conscious reader and the holistic health care practitioner!

Dr. John Diamond studied the work of Dr. George Goodheart, chiropractic physician and founder of Applied Kinesiology. Diamond extended Goodheart's approach into the realm of behavior and emotions. This is a brilliant book that has surely helped many people resolve psychological issues. Diamond's work has also inspired a radical shift in the way we understand psychological health and treatment. Fred P. Gallo, Ph.D., author of Energy Psychology: Explorations at the Interface of Energy, Cognition, Behavior, and Health, Second Edition (Innovations in Psychology), Energy Tapping,and Energy Tapping for Trauma: Rapid Relief from Post-Traumatic Stress Using Energy Psychology

John Diamond, M.D. has written more than a dozen books specifically written to help the reader. Life Energy was his second major book, written and published after Your Body Doesn't Lie (which was also published as Behavioral Kinesiology). The work covered in Life Energy is unique, showing the relationships between the acupunture meridian system and the emotions. Many since have written about the same correlation, often taking bits of Dr. Diamond's work and distorting it and often just getting it wrong. Dr. Diamond's work in this book is drawn from extensive expertise in medicine, psychiatry, the arts, and just as importantly is the knowledge and understanding of etymology. An example of this expertise can be demonstrated by comparing the difference between depression and unhappiness. Medically, the two emotional states have been confused and interchanged often leading to anti-depressant drugs being prescribed to people who aren't physically nor even mentally depressed but are unhappy. Dr. Diamond clearly shows how unhappiness relates to the Liver meridian and how depression relates to the Thyroid meridian. He also goes into great detail outlining the precise emotional states that are called 'depression' and 'unhappiness' and the precise relationships that they have with the energy systems within the body and their eventual manifest correlations with specific organs in the body. This book really stands head and shoulders above other allegedly similar books that have sprouted up since Life Energy was first published in 1985. As a reviewer, I am certainly biased - the author is my father - but the book stands on its own. By the way, it has been published in about seven different languages.