Healing Foods for the Mind, Body, and Soul Rejuvenate your body and spirit with smart food choices. Nutritionist and yoga practitioner Deanna Minich's Chakra Foods for Optimum Health will teach you how to recover from emotional and physical woes through making the right food choices. Not a diet book, it looks at both the nutritional and spiritual aspects of the foods we eat and how they can heal us. Nutrition for the soul. Minich drew from her extensive knowledge and highly successful "Nutrition from the Soul" classes to make this essential chakra food guide and cookbook. For each of the chakras, specific affirmations and other practices are offered alongside meal plans and recipes. Improve your energy, creativity, and heart. Similar to other forms of energy healing, Chakra Foods for Optimum Health looks at your mind, body, and soul holistically. In this book, you will find: Specific foods and practices that can help with each chakra - Lists, charts, and diagrams to help you easily pinpoint what you need - Clearly explained, actionable information that you can implement in your life today Readers of chakra books like Essential Chakra Meditation , The Ultimate Guide to Chakras , and Chakra Healing will be inspired and encouraged by Chakra Foods for Optimum Health . " Chakra Foods for Optimum Health is a "roll up your sleeve" self help book. Describing in detail, techniques that Dr. Minich has used successfully to assist her patients in rebalancing their chakra centers, overcome obstacles to health, regain energy, creativity, and find new meaning in their lives. Her Chakra questionnaire is a tremendous asset assisting you in pinpointing areas of dysfunction and imbalance. She expertly takes you through each of the seven chakra centers discussing in detail food and eating healing plans, simple affirmations that make a big difference, imaginative activities you can easily do to help rebalance your chakras, and a specific eating plan to support energy flow through each chakra. At the end of the book are countless tasty recipes to help you enjoy healthy variations of familiar foods and explore new flavors and sensations." Jacob Kornberg, MD, FACS ― Reviews " Chakra Foods is loaded with wisdom, joy, and practicality. Reading through this book provided me with many 'ah ha!' experiences. Chakra Foods is full of unusual and uplifting insights that one can apply to their life instantly." Christiane Northrup, MD, author of The Secret Pleasures of Menopause and Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom ― Reviews The material for Chakra Foods was developed out of the Minichas highly successful aNutrition for the Soula 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 foodsaapricots, carrots, salmon, pumpkin, orangesato 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! Dr. Deanna Minich is a wellness expert and author of a number of books. Having had health issues in her teens and twenties, she looked for solutions to feel better and to better understand her relationship with food. She embarked upon a scientific path to study nutritional biochemistry, while at the same time, she explored other disciplines like psychology, spirituality, and philosophy. Her journey to find answers ultimately led her to develop an integrated, complete lifestyle system called Food & Spirit™. Currently, she offers training to practitioners of all types to learn this color-coded method for full-spectrum health at www.foodandspirit.com. Dr. Minich has applied her system to the practice of detox to create Whole Detox, a whole-life, whole-systems, whole-foods approach to feeling vital and renewed. In 2014, she led the Detox Summit, the world’s largest event on detox featuring 30 experts in the field. She offers online programs for those looking for guidance on healthy eating and living the Whole Detox way at www.whole-detox.com. Dr. Minich is a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition, a Certified Nutrition Specialist, a Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner, and faculty for the Institute for Functional Medicine and University of Western States. Her passion is teaching a whole-self approach to living and bringing together the gaps between science, spirit, and art in healing. You can learn more about her at www.drdeannaminich.com. Chakra Foods will gently walk you through the journey of your energetic landscape and give you creative tools and insight as to how foods and way we eat can heal, brighten, balance, and strengthen parts of us that need not only physical but spiritual nourishment.