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Book Reviews

The Body Speaks... Healing through Knowledge

Dr. Vandana Gupta, 2nd Revised Edition 2016
Healing Center, Bommayarpalayam, Tamil Nadu, India 605104
Pages: 80
Price: Rs. 300
ISBN:: 978-81-7060-284-2.

The body is the final battleground of all trace the origin of disharmony. In the process
diseases, all adverse forces, all conflicting what is important is she does not allow the
cognitive schemata and all contradictory client to exclude the bodily disharmony by
emotional upheavals. Yet we are ordinarily shifting to the inner realms. Instead one
not aware that the individual body has an shifts to an inner poise from where the outer
unparalleled uniqueness. We usually tend disharmony can be adjudged in a new light to
to ascribe uniqueness to an individual’s style be spontaneously and effortlessly acted upon.
of cognition and to the pattern of emotional This is unique because in traditional occult
expression but the body is assessed in neuro- work, an astral body is projected and invested
physiological terms. As a result, all bodies with qualia while the outer body remains
are evaluated in the context of biological unchanged. One escapes from suffering to
commonality. be in the astral body. After all, the ultimate
goal in traditional systems was to be liberated
One of the unique contributions by Sri from everything, including the physical body.
Aurobindo to the world of thought has been On the contrary, Dr. Vandana guides a client
the exploration and exposition of the subtle to shift inwards and view the outer body from
body consciousness that is unique for each that inner poise. A spontaneous movement
individual. Sri Aurobindo described that the in the inner consciousness can then work
subtle body consciousness can be developed miracles on the physical body.
to such an extent as to act in accordance to the
will or even independent of the will. Through guided probing, the inner worlds
reveal themselves through images, colours,
The subtle body-consciousness exists in the sounds or sensations or may be through none
inner being that stands behind the outer being of these but some intuitive awareness. The
or subtle personality. Dr. Vandana Gupta revelations are viewed non-judgmentally
explores the body-consciousness of her clients and with detachment. There are no conscious
in her own, creative way. She facilitates a attempts at correction. The problems are
dialogue with the body consciousness to resolved automatically and are replaced by

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