Chakra Foods for Optimum Health: A Guide to the Foods That Can Improve Your Energy, Inspire Creative Changes, Open Your Heart and Heal Body, Mind and Spirit »

Deanna Minich, Ph.D., CN, is a nutrition educator, researcher, counselor, and dynamic presenter. Her Nutrition for the Soul workshop series has been taught at medical clinics in the Pacific Northwest and at The Evergreen State College and Bastyr University. Deanna holds a MS in human nutrition and dietetics and a PhD in medical sciences/human nutrition and is very passionate about assisting others on their path to good health and balanced living.

The material for Chakra Foods was developed out of the Minnich's highly successful "Nutrition for the Soul" classes, workshops, and private counseling sessions. Not a diet book, it looks at both the nutritional and spiritual aspects of the foods we eat and how they can heal us. For example, someone feeling stuck in their lives could turn to chapter 5 and find a list of orange foods-apricots, carrots, salmon, pumpkin, oranges-to help their sacral chakra. With lots of useful sidebars, this book offers a treasure trove of energy medicine in teh form of food - truly food for the body, mind, and soul!

Acknowledgments ix

Preface xi

My Rainbowed Being xv

Note to Reader xvii

Chapter 1 The Vibration of Food and the Spirit of Eating 1

Chapter 2 Our Dancing Chakras 11

Chapter 3 Discovering Your Chakra Issues 25

Chapter 4 Foods for Grounding and Protection: Feeding the Root Chakra 33

Chapter 5 Foods for Feelings and Flow: Feeding the Sacral Chakra 61

Chapter 6 Foods for Power and Transformation: Feeding the Solar Plexus Chakra 85

Chapter 7 Foods for Love and Compassion: Feeding the Heart Chakra 113

Chapter 8 Foods for Communication and Truth: Feeding the Throat Chakra 135

Chapter 9 Foods for Intuition and Imagination: Feeding the Third Eye Chakra 155

Chapter 10 Foods for Purification and Clarification: Feeding the Crown Chakra 175

Frequently Asked Questions 191

Recipes for the Chakras 195

Sample Chakra-Balancing Menus 225

Appendix A List of Foods, Substances, and Processes that Deplete the Chakras 227

Appendix B List of Foods and Their Activating and Balancing Effects on the Chakras 229

Appendix C Chakras and Corresponding Foods 241

Appendix D Health Conditions and Corresponding Chakras 243

Bibliography 249

Index 251