D onna E d e n

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D o n n a E d e n
I l l u s t r a t i o n s b y Brooks G a r t e n
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J e r e m y P . T a r c h e r l P u t n a m
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Copyright O 1998 by Donna Eden
First Trade Paperback Edition, 1999
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The Library of Congress had cataloged the hardback edition as follows:
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Eden, Donna.
Energy medicine: balance your body's energies for optimum health, joy,
and vitality1 by Donna Eden with David Feinstein ; illustrations
by Brooks Garten.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-87477-945-6
1. Vital force-Popular works. 2. Mental healing-Popular works.
3. Self-care, Health-Popular works. I. Feinstein, David.
11. Title.
RZ999.E327 1998 98-25809 CIP
615.8'9-dc21
ISBN 1-58542-02 1-2 (pbk)
Printed in the United States of America
15 17 19 20 18 16
This book is printed on acid-free paper. @
Book design by Deborah Kemer
Photograph of the author on page 379 O Cynthia]ohnson-Bianchetta
Dedicated to the women of ~y clan:
Mama, Tanya, Dondi, Susie, Maude,
Sharon, Shawn, C helli, Chris% Endiah, Tia,
Mozelle, Alice, Karen, Beverly, Mary, and Edith
And the men:
Daddy, Guy, Avon, Clarke, Danny,
Erinn, Ryan, Caz, Lehvi, Lawrence,
Seifert, Sol, Robin, Barry, Mark, Carl,
Ray, and David
Dedicated to the women of my clan:
Mama, Tanya, Dondi, Susie, Maude,
Sharon, Shawn, Chelli, Christyj Endiah, Tia,
Mozelle, Alice, Karen, Beverly, Mary, and Edith
And the men:
Daddy, Guy, Avon, Clarke, Danny,
Erinn, Ryan, Caz, Lehvi, Lawrence,
Seijert, Sol, Robin, Barry, Mark, Carl,
Ray, and David
Let the body think .
Of the Spirit as streaming, pouring
Rushing and shining into it from
All sides.
-PLOTINUS
Acknowledgments
De epest in my appreciations is Mama, the first alternative healer I ever
knew. I am also grateful to her doctors, Joseph Morgan, M.D., Howard
Morningstar, M.D., and Janet Bates, M.D., who have restored my hope about
Western medicine.
I could hardly overstate my personal gratitude and professional debt to
Dr. John Thie for having had the courage during the 1970s, and the genius,
to make available to the general public sophisticated self-healing techniques
through his system of Touch for Health. I will forever be grateful to Dr. Thie,
Gordon Stokes, Shanti Duree, Hazel Ullrich, Warren Jacobs, M.D., and the
Touch for Health organization, which started me on my path.
Sandy Wand has been an amazing friend, healer, and source of boundless
support. Paul Brenner, M.D., showed me what a physician can be. My edi-
tors, Irene Prokop and Wendy Hubbert, have been enormously patient,
provocative, and very smart. My agent, Susan Schulman, has provided wise
and empowering counsel. The institutional support of Innersource and its
friends, particularly Laleah and Hugh Bacon, Jean Lamb, and Rodney Plimp-
ton, are gratefully acknowledged. Stanley Krippner's brilliant critique of an
earlier draft of the manuscript has strengthened the book substantially. My
friends Carla Cunningham, Norman Friedman, Jane Maynard, and Peg
Mayo have also offered valuable suggestions on the developing manuscript.
Richard Duree provided source material for several of the research studies
reported in the book. Rik Jensen, our handyman with heart, has been a
model of how to remain buoyant through floods and other disasters that
could have derailed the entire project. And my daughters, Dondi and Tanya
Dahlin, have always been a compelling inspiration toward wholeness and
health.
My husband, David Feinstein, has beeA tireless in interviewing me and
writing first drafts from those interviews, editing transcripts of tapes from my
classes, conducting computer and library searches, and generally bringing
left-brained organization to my right-brained way of being. His abilities to
craft a phrase, suggest an analogy, find order amid complexity, and place an
idea into its larger intellectual context-all the while retaining the spirit of
my voice-permeate this volume. In short, this is the book I would have writ-
ten if my mind worked like both of our minds combined.
Contents
Foreword xv
Introduction: The Return of
Energy Medicine 1
Part I : A w a k e n i n g t h e
T w o - M i l l i o n - Y e a r - O l d
H e a l e r W i t h i n 13
Chapter I: Energy Is All There Is 15
Chapter 2: Energy Testing
Talking with Your Energy Body 29
Chapter 3: Keeping Your Energies Humming
A Daily Routine 60
Part 11: T h e A n a t o m y o f
Your E n e r g y B o d y
Eight Energy Systems 93
Chapter 4: The Meridians
Your Energy Transportation System 95
Chapter 5: The Chakras
Your Body's Energy Stations 133