Book excerpt: Free Your Mind of Negativity and Forge a Deeper Connection to Spirit with Completely New Practices and Insights Grounded in Eastern and Western Psychology Just as the body is able to heal itself, nature has provided a way for the mind to heal as well. In Chakra Wisdom, therapist, yogini, and zen practitioner Trish O'Sullivan shares a system known as Traya—a unique practice that provides a new way of healing negative mind energy through working with the chakras. This process includes techniques for connecting to your subtle body and your inner teacher so that you can release negativity, reduce stress, and enter the stream of spiritual energy. Filled with meditations and exercises for engaging the chakras, this book explores the key steps to working with the deep mind, including: Mindfulness and focus Letting memories come to the surface Releasing negative energy Receiving positive energy Chakra diagnostics With therapeutic chakra work, yoga, and meditation, Traya is a powerful practice for nourishing and deepening your spiritual connection. Trish O'Sullivan's expert guidance will help you move through emotional and spiritual blocks and achieve new experiences of personal fulfillment. Praise: "This book is one of few that could rightly be called paradigm shifting. Trish O'Sullivan lucidly provides practical techniques for purifying the mind and forging a robust mind-body connection. Chakra Wisdom is an invitation to insight, to true identity, to wholeness."—Scott Gerson, MD, PhD, Medical Director of the Jupiter Medical Center Department of Integrative Medicine, Division of Education and Research