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Feed Your True Self
Cyndi Dale and Dana Childs, authors of Chakras, Food, and You: Tap Your Individual Energy System for Health, Healing, and Harmonious Weight, teach readers to nourish their core beings. BY CHRIS MANN
Fad diets—just like the 20 or so pounds they may momentarily eradicate—come and go. But a breakthrough approach to “feeding your true self” is poised to nourish our core beings in part by tailoring nutrition to our body’s subtle energy centers, or chakras, and helping us find our functional weight while giving new meaning to the phrase “soul food.” Internationally renowned author and professor of energy medicine Cyndi Dale has spent decades helping clients identify their primary chakra type using her proprietary 12-chakra system. Now, she and fellow intuitive energy healer and coauthor Dana Childs are showing readers how to optimize health and happiness by identifying and feeding their key chakra types and their corresponding endocrine glands. “Our endocrine glands are everything,” Dale says, pointing to the emerging science of endocrine nutrition. “They assist with metabolism, immune function, reproduction, cellular regulation, sleep, blood pressure, mood, and so much more. Each endocrine gland requires general and specific nutritional supports. Now let’s put that together with the age-old use of analyzing personality based on a primary chakra. Decades ago, I researched the work of Harish Johari, a now-deceased chakra expert. He suggested that each chakra links to an endocrine gland. This means that when you nourish that chakra with the foods related to its gland, you’re enhancing your soul and true personality. Isn’t happiness about being all of who you really are?”
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“Each chakra links to an endocrine gland. This means that when you nourish that chakra with the foods related to its gland, you’re enhancing your soul and true personality,” says Cyndi Dale (below), who wrote Chakras, Food, and You with Dana Childs (right).
Energetic and physical transformation go hand in hand in Chakras, Food, and You: Tap Your Individual Energy System for Health, Healing, and Harmonious Weight. “The entire book is a healing book,” says Childs. “Most of all, we encourage readers to release the shame and toxic ‘should’ around
eating. Instead, embrace your true self and stop trying make eating choices on par with your neighbor or loved ones. Our theme is that every person is unique, and the processes in this book offer a path to identify and live from that place. When we let go of what we think we should be doing and do what is best for us, we reclaim power. And that’s the ultimate healing. “To support the becoming-of-self, we offer practical, doable tips that allow for optimal relaxation and quality sleep, along with forms of exercise and spiritual practices that enable individuality. After all, how healing is it to know that you don’t have to meditate sitting in silence if it’s not your thing, or that you can eat carbs if going for the most suitable ones?”
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