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Memoir: Chakra Secrets by Becca Chopra — 3.75 Stars

 

Description:

Becca Chopra, best-selling author of The Chakra Diaries, takes you on a wild ride as she journeys from aspiring actress to respected yoga teacher and chakra healer in Chakra Secrets: On the Path to Love and Happiness.Through the betrayals and brutal loss of her husband, the illness of her best friend, and beyond grief and guilt, she explores yoga, meditation, kundalini, tantric sex, macrobiotics, and even past-lives.

She not only shares her personal secrets, but the extraordinary “instant healing” technique she learns in Hawaii from shaman and Huna philosopher, Serge Kahili King, Ph.D. 

Review:
 

1. A cool book for crunchy yoga and chakra lovers.

 

This book resonated with me because I, too, am a healer who has overcome trauma through chakra work. Chakras are energy centers in the body that embody certain emotions or themes at work in our life.

If this sounds too outlandish, stop now. This book contains description of not only chakras but tantra, macrobiotic, past life regression, meditation, yoga, etc. 


Anyone interested in these modalities and how they related to someone’s life, read on.

2. A well edited story that is almost too wild to believe.

While reading I was very impressed with the pace of the story. The writing was interesting but easy to read. The pages flew by and I completed this book in a weekend.

Chakra Secrets does not hold back! It covers alcoholism, drug use, corrupt teachers, believe-it-or-not soul mates, and lifelong struggle. 


It definitely puts the writer in a vulnerable place for the benefit of good for others. Admirable.

3. The end of the book teaches you a healing modality.

Finishing off the book is an appendix which explains what the Dynamind Technique is. While reading, it was the only loose end– a modality I had never heard of. 
 
The technique comes from her teacher in Hawaii and involves tapping on certain parts of the body to release tension anywhere. 
 
I tried it and it worked for me. Couldn’t hurt, right?

4. Product advertisements should not be in the middle of a story.

As I read good stories I get grumpy when interrupted.

Especially by advertising grumble grumble. This book advertised two products in the middle of the story, by using links in the footnotes on the same page.


Ads take away from the narrative and are tacky. This may seem like a small things, but it’s unheard of. The standard for ebooks is that ads go at the end.


The end already includes information about other products. The ads in the middle irked me and have caused me to give a lower review.

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