Light Emerging: The Journey of Personal Healing

This book is a must-read for all those endeavoring to become a better human being. Barbara Brennan beautifully explains the human condition and helps the reader understand things that most likely have been a life mystery. A lot to absorb, I limit my read to 10 pages per day to give myself time to absorb the rich information. Amazing read.

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In my opinion, this book is most suited to the "healers". I am only part-way through it right now, but thoroughly agree with what I have read so far because I have either experienced it or it makes logical sense from where I am on my personal journey. The book is slow reading, not difficult, but slow if you really want to understand what Barbara has written as she combines science with metaphysical beliefs. I cannot compare this book to her first book because, although I purchased her first book years ago, I honestly have not read it yet. "Light Emerging" was recommended by my master teacher. Barbara has spent significant time studying the auric fields of people vs. behavior. I plan to return to this review at a later time and update it with additional information, but I see it as a valuable resource for a healer (for both healing self and healing others). By the way, if you don't know it already, healing is not limited to the physical body. There is emotional healing and spiritual healing as well. ALL are important. The healthiest people are those who are balanced on all levels. This 342-page book explains a lot about energy, both scientifically and metaphysically. If you have already done significant reading, this book expands on a lot of it, such as explaining the chakras and the movement of energy throughout the system. As Barbara goes through each chakra, she explains how you likely behave if that chakra is fully functioning or if it is blocked. Quite a few illustrations within the book visually show you the energy movements within people who exhibit certain types of behavior, and the movements of energy within groups of 2 people exchanging energies at certain levels. This is one way in which this book is different from many other chakra and energy vibrational books. An example is an illustration of a couple in dispute and how they energetically resolved the dispute. Barbara has the developed ability to see the auric fields, as some do, and she supplements her writing with experiences she has had with clients. In this instance, she explains the energy movement in 3 stages of the therapy between the couple, as well as illustrates it in picture form, so you can follow what is happening energetically between the couple throughout the process. Here is a little tid-bit for you from the book: Barbara mentions that Dr. Robert Beck, a nuclear physicist, found that all healers exhibit the brain-wave patterns of 7.8 - 8 Hz while they are giving healings, the same fluctuation of the earth's magnetic energy field (the Schumann waves). The assumption is that the healers are synching up with the earth's magnetic field when doing healing. Dr. John Zimmerman, founder and president of Bio-Electro-Magnetics Institute, found through additional research, that once healers have linked with the Schumann waves, the right and left hemispheres of their brain have become balanced with each other and show a 7.8 - 8 Hz alpha rhythm. After they link

I found "Light Emerging" to be a profoundly inspiring book. It delves into the complex relationships of our minds and our spirituality, to our physical bodies. But more importantly, it opens doors to new possibilities with regard to healing and self-awareness. I felt it explored and championed the idea of a team effort between physician, healer, and patient. This triumvirate is a terrific concept when you think about it; it addresses all aspects of the person--body, mind, and spirit, and it serves to give the patient a feeling of solidarity, of not being alone in their struggle for both their heart and health. And, it keeps the focus on how the two are interrelated. The book is positive, enlightening, and filled me with an overwhelming sense of hope. I highly recommend it.

I would say that this is the best book on healing I've found. This and Anodea Judith's "Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System As a Path to the Self" are the two books I'd start with for anyone interested in this topic. Best wishes for healing yourself and in this way, the world!

This book throughly describes health and sickness and how the human aura reflects them. It also contains discussions on the hara and the core star, the holographic view of life, creating the healer-physician team, the different stages of healing, and in-depth discussions on how to heal through the seven levels of the human energy field. I liked this book because it always describes a positive approach to healing, no matter what the sickness may be. I was amazed to learn how the same health problem can holographically show in different areas on your life, visible and otherwise; and how this very truth itself determines the different areas in which the patient, along with him/her healer-physician team, need to work on. She describes how the healing of a physical sickness can bring wellness on the psychological and spiritual sides of the self; the reverse can also happen (psychological and spiritual healing can enhance the physicial well-being). There simply was nothing I disliked from this book. The author has written another book, "Hands of Light", her first book on the human aura, and it describes the human aura deeper but left out other areas described in this book, such as the hara and the core star.

If you are a healer, or someone looking to create a personal healing plan for your life, this is a powerful book. This book helps tie together the emotional and mental with energy healing.