Summary of Anodea Judith's Eastern Body, Western Mind

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

Book Preview: #1 The body is the only place you are guaranteed to have, and it is the source of your aliveness. If you are disconnected from your body, you are disconnected from your aliveness, from the natural world, and from your most basic inner truth.

#2 The body is the testing ground for truth, and when we lose that, we lose our sense of aliveness. We become easily manipulated, and we lose our testing ground for truth.

#3 The first chakra, located at the base of the spine, is the foundation for the entire chakra system. It is here we build the foundation for the temple of the body, which anchors the Rainbow Bridge.

#4 The first chakra is the foundation of consciousness, and it is the underlying element of the instinct to survive. When threats are frequent, then consciousness becomes fixated at this level. This keeps the body in a state of hyperstimulated readiness, flooded with stress hormones that promote the fight-or-flight response.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Feb 23, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669352051

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The body is the only place you are guaranteed to have, and it is the source of your aliveness. If you are disconnected from your body, you are disconnected from your aliveness, from the natural world, and from your most basic inner truth.

#2

The body is the testing ground for truth, and when we lose that, we lose our sense of aliveness. We become easily manipulated, and we lose our testing ground for truth.

#3

The first chakra, located at the base of the spine, is the foundation for the entire chakra system. It is here we build the foundation for the temple of the body, which anchors the Rainbow Bridge.

#4

The first chakra is the foundation of consciousness, and it is the underlying element of the instinct to survive. When threats are frequent, then consciousness becomes fixated at this level. This keeps the body in a state of hyperstimulated readiness, flooded with stress hormones that promote the fight-or-flight response.

#5

When we are in an environment of danger or deprivation, we experience fear. If danger was a frequent presence in our lives growing up, then fear is pervasive in our baseline program for survival. The sense of fear brings a feeling of safety, as paradoxical as that might sound.

#6

The base chakra, muladhara, is the chakra of the earth. It is the ground for our roots, and our roots represent where we come from: the earth, womb, our ancestors and family, and our personal history.

#7

The first chakra, which is the root chakra, is the most important because it allows us to be energetically grounded. Grounding allows us to be present, focused, and dynamic. Our attention is concentrated in the here and now, and our experience is direct, sensate, and immediate.

#8

The first chakra is about establishing our ground, which is the foundation for any further growth. It is about the basic rights of the first chakra: the right to be here and to the right to have what we need to survive.

#9

The first chakra is about nourishment, and it is the most basic form of support for the body’s survival. Our past history determines how we support and nourish ourselves.

#10

The first chakra is the most specific and limited level in the system. A limitation is a boundary, separating something from what is around it in order to define it. A boundary creates a necessary limitation that allows us to have something whole, something specific.

#11

The most difficult task of all is to get born. You must help the child come fully into his body, develop a sense of trust in his caretakers, and a sense of safety about the world around him.

#12

The meeting of your needs is not under your control, and you are not provided with everything you need automatically. This creates a basic experience of trust or mistrust for your very self.

#13

The first chakra is about trust and mistrust. If you are not sure if the world is a friendly place, you will not live. If you are confident that the world is a friendly place, you will not feel threatened and can explore.

#14

The first experience of body for the developing fetus is through the uterus, which is the first home and environment for the child. The mother’s nutritional balance and emotional states during pregnancy have a significant impact on the child’s first chakra development.

#15

The first chakra is the gateway into life and individuality. It is the first step in our lifelong journey, and it has a profound effect on how we feel about that journey. If the child is unable to get her needs met, she develops a growing distrust of the outside world and a feeling of helplessness and inadequacy at the core of her being.

#16

The first chakra is the seat of perception, and it develops when a child is about six months old. The child begins to sit up and become vertical on her own for the first time. The chakras are now stacked up on each other, and the energy begins to flow upward.

#17

Anything that threatens survival, such as birth trauma, abandonment, neglect, serious illness, malnourishment, or physical abuse, impacts the first chakra. The more these threats occur early in life, the more they will damage first chakra formation.

#18

The first few months of