Soul Wisdom: Practical Soul Treasures to Transform Your Life (Soul Power)

This was a well-written book. The chapters flowed nicely into one another. The wisdom given was inspiring, enlightening, and not nauseating. My favorite part was the CD that came with the book, The Soul Song for Healing and Rejuvenation. I played it in my car as I was driving. I did the blessing as instructed before listening, and I really did feel that I received extra benefits from the CD. The book and CD make a great combo. Be sure to utilize the info in the index. There are many resources presented for further transforming your life and healing your soul. The author offers live healing/blessing sessions! Don't miss out.

Soul Wisdom: Practical Soul Treasures to Transform Your life by Dr. Zhi Gang Sha took me longer to read than most books because I wanted to do the suggested exercises, to follow the teachings as closely as I could.

I need to predicate this review by saying that I believe in energy work, do Qi Gong and Reiki with great success but only as a practitioner. I know it works because I have witnessed and experienced it in my life.

I did not experience success with Dr. Sha's exercises. I devoted myself to them and did not experience that intuitive awareness that there was something there. The physical things I associate with energy work were not there.

This is not to suggest that what he recommends is useless. If there were only one branch of healing that worked, there would not be so many branches out there. Do Dr. Sha's methods work? He wouldn't have a best-seller if they didn't. But after hours with soul language and song, I had nothing positive or negative to say. It was just nothing.

Also, I am unable to review the cd that comes with the book because the one I had did not work in any of the many players we have in our home. Not terribly disappointing. I am content if uninspired.

My final thoughts--try this on for size. If you reap benefits and can share them with others, wonderful! If not, there are other methods out there to be experienced and you can find a fit that resonates for you. Listen to your intuition and the rest will follow.

Soul Wisdom is basically a book of chants used for healing. An audio CD comes with it, which is also chanting, and not in a pleasing, relaxing tone.

For those who are into chanting, this may be for you. This simply is not a belief I hold to.

I chose this book because I am interested in meditation and, above all, in wisdom. I was not expecting to find such specific techniques, and I found them helpful, especially the Soul Singing and so forth, which was very new to me. I was not expecting, though, to find a book that was so explicitly religious. Readers whose world view coincides with Dr. Zhi Gang Sha's will enjoy his matter-of-fact stories about the Divine and other celestial matters, and so will those of us who can cherish different world views and the delightful people who bear them.

This book comes with a CD of the author singing a song that is meant to improve the health of the brain and spinal cord. It did seem to resonate with me, but the sound of the words reminded me of another song, which I did find to be a bit distracting.

If you are willing to accept the religious content or to overlook it, you will find this book to be quite interesting.

The soul system described in this book didn't do anything for me. I could see aspects of other healing and enlightenment techniques buried in the text: meditation, chanting, music, visualization, etc. But the overly complex and repetitive presentation lost me.

The book describes "soul language", "soul song", "soul movement", "soul tapping", and "soul dance". "Soul language" involves repeating a sequence of number over and over, faster and faster, until you begin to speak in your "soul language". You then "translate" what you have said by asking for divine guidance and then saying whatever comes to your mind.

The other techniques involve singing or moving in whatever way the divine moves you. I'm sure that spontaneous singing or movement, preceded or followed by requests or interpretation from the divine, would work for some. But it didn't work for me.