Table of Contents
Preface xiii
Part 1 Charge Basics 1
Chapter 1 Charge: The Key to Your Life Force 3
What Does Charge Feel Like? 5
Is Charge Positive or Negative? 8
How Does Charge Get Blocked? 9
What You'll Find in These Pages 9
Chapter 2 Mind and Body: Energy as the Prime Connector 13
Your Operating System 16
Charge and Psychological Complexes 17
Chapter 3 Charging and Discharging: Finding Balance in a Changing World 21
Common Activities That Are Charging 25
Common Activities That Are Discharging 27
Things That Can Either Charge or Discharge 29
Chapter 4 Riding the Wave: The Charge-Discharge Cycle 33
Four Stages of Charging and Discharging 35
Chapter 5 The Comfort Zone: Maintenance or Expansion? 43
The Sensation of Discomfort 45
Where Is Your Comfort Zone? 46
Tolerating Higher and Lower States of Charge 48
Expanding the Comfort Zone 49
Chapter 6 Binding the Charge: How We Create Blocks 53
Overbound and Underbound 56
Balancing Inner and Outer Charge 57
Part II Healing with Charge 61
Chapter 7 Begin in Awareness: Tracking and Harvesting the Charge 63
Tracking Your Charge 64
Tracking Charge in Others 67
Signs of Charge Arising 68
Working the Charge 68
Too Much or Too Little Charge 69
Ways to Discharge 71
What If You Can't Find the Charge? 74
Owning and Managing Your Core 77
Chapter 8 Self-Regulation: Tapping the Charge 81
How Does It Work? 83
The Basic Formula 85
Pros and Cons of This Method 89
Chapter 9 Charge and Trauma 91
What Makes Something Traumatic? 92
What Happens to the Charge? 94
Three Pathways of Charge 95
Working with Charge in Trauma 97
Can You Do This for Yourself? 101
Managing the Comfort Zone 102
Part III Charge and the Chakras 103
Chapter 10 Architecture of the Soul: Charge a Chakra System 105
The Chakras as a System of Energy 106
Chakras as Storage Pouches 111
Excessive and Deficient Chakras 112
Chapter 11 Chakra One: Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fold 117
Fight or Flight 118
The Freeze Response 119
The Fold Response 120
Stress Hormones and Body Chemistry 121
Freezing the Roots 122
What to Do? 123
Excess and Deficiency 125
Chapter 12 Chakra Two: Feeling Your Way through Sensations, Emotions, and Sexuality 127
Sensation 128
Feelings and Emotions 130
Present and Past 132
Limbic Resonance 135
Sexual Charge 137
Orgasm 139
Excess and Deficiency 140
Balance 141
Chapter 13 Chakra Three: Moving Anxiety and Depression into Action 143
Mastery 144
Anxiety and Depression 145
Anxiety 146
Excess and Deficiency 157
Balancing the Third Chakra 157
Chapter 14 Chakra Four: Opening to Love and Intimacy 159
The Balance Point 160
The Breath 163
Breathing Exercises 165
Vulnerability and Intimacy 167
Electromagnetic Charge in the Heart 167
Excess and Deficiency 169
Chapter 15 Chakra Five: Speaking and Handling the Truth 171
Speaking Your Truth 172
Vibration and Communication 174
What Blocks Communication? 176
Unblocking the Throat 176
Withholds 177
Balancing Charge in Your Throat Chakra 178
Fifth Chakra Exercises 179
Excess and Deficiency 180
Chapter 16 Chakra Six: Charging Your Imagination and Vision 183
Imagination 184
Memory and Charge 185
The Inner Witness 186
The Importance of Stillness 189
Working with Charged Memory 190
Steps to Detach from Charge 192
Seeing Your Way Through 192
Chapter 17 Chakra Seven: Divine Consciousness and the Charge of Beliefs 195
Stepping-stones to Deity 197
Kundalmi 199
What About Beliefs? 200
Part IV Charge and Character Structure 205
Chapter 18 The Challenges of Growing Up: How Character Structure Is Formed 207
How the Structures Are Formed 209
Chapter 19 The Schizoid Structure: Caught Between the Worlds 215
The Schizoid Source of Wounding 216
Charge Pattern 220
Recognize the Pattern When: 222
Gifts of the Schizoid Pattern 222
Healing the Schizoid 224
Chapter 20 The Oral Structure: The Empathic Lover 227
The Oral Source of Wounding 228
Charge Pattern 230
Recognize the Pattern When: 231
Gifts of the Oral Pattern 232
Healing the Oral Pattern 232
Earth Skiing 234
Chapter 21 The Endurer Structure: The Masochist 235
The Endurer Source of Wounding 237
Charge Pattern 239
Recognize the Pattern When: 241
Gifts of the Endurer Pattern 241
Healing the Endurer Pattern 243
Chapter 22 The Challenger-Defender Structure: The Power Broker 247
The Challenger-Defender Source of Wounding 248
Charge Pattern 250
Recognize the Pattern When: 251
Gifts of the Challenger-Defender Pattern 252
Healing the Challenger-Defender Pattern 253
Chapter 23 The Rigid Character Structure: The Achiever 257
The Rigid Structure Source of Wounding 258
Charge Pattern 261
Recognize the Pattern When: 263
Gifts of the Rigid Pattern 264
Healing the Rigid Pattern 265
Part V Relationship and Society 269
Chapter 24 Charge and Relationships: How to Keep It Cool and Hot at the Same Time 271
Energy Fields Overlap 273
Charge Wants to Find Balance 274
The Charge of Polarity: The Way to Keep Things Juicy 275
Partners Trigger Each Other's Charge 277
How to Handle Triggers in a Relationship 279
Chapter 25 Charge and Society 283
Theories of Groups and Charge 286
How to Maximize Group Energy 290
Chapter 26 Conclusion: Living a Full-Charge Life 293
The Journey 294
Additional Resources 297
Books Anodea Judith 297
Other Energy Healing Books 297
Recommended Websites 298
Endnotes 299
Index 303
Acknowiedgments 315
About the Author 317
