The chakras themselves are a beautiful progression of shifting colors, starting with the red root chakra at the base of the spine and moving up the body, shade-by-shade, and ending with the royal purple "crown" chakra at the top of the head. Each chakra interacts with a person's issues and concerns in the world. For instance, the root chakra relates to basic survival, such as money, shelter, and material needs, according to Virtue. If a person feels stable in this arena, the "root chakra looks like a brilliant ruby held under a spotlight," she explains. However, if people feel fearful about money or become overly obsessed with their career or possessions, this chakra will be come "dirty" and have a muddy, dark red color.

Virtue offers an extensive assortment of original, guided meditations that are effective in cleaning and clearing all the chakras. The information is well organized and clearly presented with a corresponding CD to help readers integrate the meditations into daily life. She also touches upon other cleaning tools, such as what foods and crystals support the chakra system. Advanced energy workers may find this material basic, but beginners should find it an outstanding primer. --Gail Hudson

Product Description
When you clear away negative energy residues from fear and worry, your natural spiritual power awakens. This innate power allows you to know the future; freely communicate with God and the angels; and heal yourself, others, and the planet. In Chakra Clearing, Doreen Virtue guides you through meditations and visualizations to clear your chakras, which activates your inborn healing and psychic abilities.

Enclosed youll also find a meditative CD that complements the material in the book. The CD starts with a morning meditation designed to begin your day with a bright, positive energy frequency and surround you with healing light. The relaxing evening meditation that follows clears away energy that you may have absorbed during the day, and invites angels to enter your dreams and give you divine messages.

"This book and CD will help you understand the functions of the major chakras,and esoteric methods for clearing them of fear. Your natural state is one of high energy,intuition, and creativity. You dont need to add anything to yourself to enjoy these characteristicsyou already own them within yourself. Just like a sculptor needs to chip away the parts of the statue that arent part of the ultimate creation, you only need to clear away fear to reveal your innate qualities."
Doreen Virtue

By the middle of the tape, I'm usually asleep and I feel well rested in the morning (and not wake up intermittently during the night). The only small complaint I have is that this would have been better as a CD because as soon as the tape is over, my tape players make a loud popping sound to stop playing it. Then I wake up, which defeats the purpose of it helping me to fall asleep. But then I do fall asleep immediately and it gives me time to take the headphones off and put my earplugs on. So I guess it's okay.

The other things this tape really helps me with is releasing any stressful interactions I've had with people that day and worries about the next day.

It takes a little bit of thought the first few times I listened to it (to know what to do... sometimes relaxing is harder than being stressed) but now my body knows how to just go along with it without much effort.

What a lifesaver this tape has been in my life specially recently when I've had to take care of health problems with my husband and my cat. It helps me take care of myself to be there for them.