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Developing an understanding of living energy and how to work with it can bring you into deeper contact with your body and intuition, while helping clear heavy energy from your field.

Connected, 
The Five Threads of Intuitive Wisdom
Gabrielle Roth

Your Sixth Sense
Belleruth Naparstek

Sweat Your Prayers
Gabrielle Roth

Masters of Living Energy
Joan Parisi-Wilcox

Women Who Run with the Wolves
Clarissa Pinkola-Estes

Initiation
Elizabeth Jenkins

As the energy in the field begins to shift, dense energy releasing and resources returning, more space is allowed in you. There is more space in your heart, there is room for love and compassion, and the life crushing shame driving the inner critic can begin to soften, unwind and release.

Radical Acceptance, 
Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame
Tara Brach

Unattended Sorrow, 
Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart
Stephen Levine

Soul without Shame, 
A Guide to Liberating Yourself from the Judge Within
Byron Brown

As space opens around the inner critic, compassion overcomes learned shame and washes through patterned self-rejection, allowing the capacity to be kind to yourself to grow.

This loving kindness allows you to attend to the little one inside and begin helping them grow up. It deepens your capacity to investigate your lived experience and access your true nature. Discernment develops, knowledge replaces ignorance, and natural curiosity begins to shine, illuminating the true, unstained state of your being.

The Diamond in Your Pocket
Gangaji

Loving What Is
Byron Katie

Unfolding Now
A.H. Almass

Focusing
Eugene Gendlin

As heavy energy and habitual stories loosen, as the little one is no longer denied or ignored, and as action, thought and appearance are no longer met with shame, there is freedom to inhabit your life—to breathe into the heart, to feel and to move.

There is freedom to be, to explore and to learn. Freedom to make attempts, assess, adjust and try again, with joy and curiosity guiding the way.

And there is freedom to be still.

Emptiness Dancing
Adyashanti

Be Here Now
Ram Dass

Being
Florian Schlosser

*Non-dual means “not two”—the recognition that the deepest nature of you and all life is not separate.

As the practice of inquiry deepens, there is the discovery of the non-dual nature of you and all life. This opens into ancient texts that are living embodiments of the deepest truth of your nature—freedom beyond form.

The Bhagavad Gita and the Ramayana are ancient Hindu texts that embody the sacred experience of taking birth and remembering source.

The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: The Complete English Translation
Robert P. Goldman & Sally J. Sutherland Goldman

Text only:

The Bhagavad Gita
Eknath Easwaran

The Bhagavad Gita
Swami Dayananda Saraswati

Text & commentary:

God Talks With Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita
Paramahansa Yogananda

Perennial Psychology of the Bhagavad-Gita
Swami Rama

Christianity runs deep in the groundwater of Western civilization. Because of that, it can be helpful to explore not Christianity itself, but the teachings of Christ through other valued perspectives.

These books offer ways of encountering Christ outside the usual doctrinal frame—through yoga, Buddhist understanding, and contemplative practice.

The Yoga of Jesus: Understanding the Hidden Teachings of the Gospels 
Paramahansa Yogananda

Living Buddha, Living Christ
Thich Nhat Hanh