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Summer books

Set aside some me time for reading. Here’s our pick of new titles…

The Crystal Workshop

Azalea Lee’s The Crystal Workshop is now available in a hardback edition that’s packed full of beautiful images, useful exercises and acts as a complete guide to the fundamentals of crystal healing. It’s an excellent starting point if this is an area you feel drawn to. It’s particularly strong on developing your own intuitive approach to working with the stones. It also covers how to select, cleanse, charge, and work with crystals of all kinds, and how to connect with their powerful healing energies and the importance of avoiding dyed or artificially treated stones. Available from Amazon for £17.28.

Chakra Cards for Belief Change

This attractive box set is designed to help users move past unhelpful limiting beliefs, using a combination of high-vibration chakra images paired with powerful affirmations to help clear the chakras and energetically realign your mindset. It includes 56 illustrated cards, each with a main chakra image or chakra-aspect image along with chakra-related beliefs and affirmations for energetic realignment. There’s also a guidebook describes how to use the cards for therapeutic guidance and inspiration or as part of the Healing InSight Method for belief change. Creator Nikki Gresham-Record, an energy therapist and psychologist, explains how unhealthy beliefs can take root within the chakras, causing energetic blockages that affect us emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. If you feel stuck but don’t know exactly why, or how to move forward, the cards can be selected through muscle testing or divination to identify the next steps. Find it at Innertraditions.com.

Remote Healing

Remote healer Maria Sagi shares her Sagi method of healing across space and time, which may be useful for anyone moving away from a skin-toskin modality. She shares techniques for diagnosing and transferring healing information at a distance, using geometric symbols to treat acute infections and reduce pain, and integrating information medicine with homeopathy and chakra therapy.

Sagi suggests that nonlocal healing is a quantum science that works through the transmission of information and that its effects can be controlled and verified. Drawing on the Akashic information field of Ervin Laszlo, she explains that the universe is not a mechanical system composed of matter--it operates like an overarching network that runs on and is connected by information. Personally, I felt a bit out of my comfort zone at times.

Maria Sagi demonstrates that by working with the Akashic information field we can trigger the body’s self-healing mechanisms and restore order to a person’s energy and information systems. Available from

Innertraditions.com.

Listening through my Hands

Experienced holistic therapist Carly Chamberlain’s new book seems particularly relevant at a time when many people are struggling with health and wellbeing issues, as well as uncertainty over their future path and even knowing what they want from life.

It’s a combination of practical insight and personal memoir that helps people find their way from burn-out to true holistic healing through rituals, simple living and the unravelling of your past to unlock the authentic joy withheld in the body’s intelligence. The paperback is £10.99 and the eBook is £4.99.

iThe books featured can be ordered from your local bookshop, from the publishers or purchased online.