A Guide for Turning Illness and Suffering Into True Health and Well-Being
“Alchemical Healing is not meant to be a replacement or even a complement to Western medicine, traditional psychotherapy, or the current symptomatic approach of modern Chinese medicine. Rather, it invites us to leap into a completely different conversation about health. It proposes a new set of values, attitudes, goals, and skills and offers a way to address the nonphysical forms of human distress, the psychic and spiritual imbalances, and dis-ease that are at the root of so much of modern suffering and illness.”
The Alchemy of Inner Work is a manifesto for the emergence of a new view of health and a guidebook for the alchemical adventure of personal inner work that leads to global outer change.
The book is a hands-on workbook for anyone on a path of healing as well as a journey of discovery, a meditation on what it means to live a truly health-filled life. It is an invitation to a new possibility and a reminder of an ancient memory—that we, like Alchemical Healers throughout history, have the capacity to imagine realities into being and to call the healing power of the soul into the world on a daily basis.
Drawing on traditional Chinese medicine, Taoist and European alchemical traditions, Western depth psychology, clinical case studies as well as long years of experience in the alchemy of their own relationship, Lorie and Benjamin offer practical tools that will help you activate your imagination, listen to your body, understand your dreams, and cultivate your own innate potential for health. In the process, you will discover your own inner Alchemical Healer as you transform your impasses, symptoms and resistances—your “lead”—into the “gold” of self-awareness, which is the secret key to true health and well-being.
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Author of Anatomy of the Spirit and The Power of Prayer –This text refers to the paperback edition.
Author of The Infertility Cure and The Way of the Fertile Soul
“The Alchemy of Inner Work shows the reader, through the author’s transparency and lucid presentation, how notions of soul and subtle body are necessary for the only healing that matters, a return to wholeness. The book vibrates with years of experience, and many lifetimes of engaging the alchemical mystery of the creation of a Self that has a body. I highly recommend it to both the general reader and therapist alike.”
Author of The Mystery of Human Relationship: Alchemy and the Transformation of the Self
Author of Treating Emotional Trauma with Chinese Medicine and Shamanism in Chinese Medicine
Author of The Five Element Solution and Clear Home Clear Heart
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