Homeopathic Color & Sound Remedies Author: Ambika Wauters Crossing Press 2007 (Revised Edition) ISBN #1-58091-183-8 Ambika Wauters is a homeopath, psychotherapist, teacher, healer and author. She is also the founder and director of the Institute for Life Energy Medicine in Tucson, Arizona. In "Homeopathic Color & Sound Remedies" she combines the modality of homeopathic medicine with the modalities of color and sound therapy. This book is meant to be used as a guide for novice practitioners, homeopathic practitioners seeking to broaden their skill base, and energy healers wishing to address a broad range of conditions. In her introduction, Wauters begins with the statement that we experience life through color and sound. These two qualities can either trigger a healing within us, or they can bring about dissonance. She goes on to note that color and sound have the ability to affect how we relate to others, and how we engage (act/react) in any given situation. The material in this book acts to take our study of the uses of sound and color to another level. Homeopathy, what it is and how it works, is addressed at the beginning of the book. Based on the principle of "like cures like", extremely dilute concentrations of a plant, animal or mineral substance that would create the same symptoms that the patient is experiencing are used for the purposes of healing. Homeopathic color and sound remedies are also discussed ... what they are, their history and use. There is a difference between conventional color healing and homeopathic color healing, in that homeopathic color healing goes deeper into the individual's energetic body (mind, body and spirit), with a specific affinity for the etheric energy body. The manner in which homeopathic color therapy works is through the chakra system. There is quite an interesting summary of the differences between potentized in winter and those potentized in summer. The winter batch was strongest for the hot colors of red, orange, yellow, while the cool colors of green, turquoise, indigo and violet were strongest in the summer. Magenta and spectrum were the same in both batches. In the field of vibrational medicine, homeopathic color and sound remedies fall somewhere between flower essences and plant remedies. Included in this book are numerous case studies on using color and sound alone and in combination to affect a healing. What I found interesting here was the symptoms that the individuals presented with, and the effect the homeopathic color and sound treatment had on them. The healing is brought about through bringing a balance to the individual's energy system (chakra system). A very important note is that chronic conditions cannot be fully treated using this system, and that homeopathic and allopathic treatments can be used to compliment each other. There is a complete presentation on each of the major chakra's, "how to" material on using sound and color to heal energetic flow and repair damaged fields, and a thorough description of each remedy, when and how it might be used, and in which cases its use is contraindicated (i.e. when it should not be used). Along with case studies, charts are included that associate color and sound with glands and life issues; color and sound with physical symptoms; and color and sound with emotional and mental symptoms. At the end of the book is an energy assessment guide for each of the chakras. There is a tremendous amount of material included in this book, which is well presented and easy to follow. This is a working manual, as well as a handy reference to homeopathic work with color and sound. © September 2007 Bonnie Cehovet Personal Lifestyle Reading - I offer a Personal Lifestyle Reading using Tarot that looks at past, present and future influences in your life, at the energies that are currently available to help you along your path, and at those energies that are appearing as challanges. My goal is to offer you insight into your decision making process, as well as tools that you can use to both better understand your path and make conscious, choice centered decisions. Home Personal Empowerment links Personal Empowerment articles Graphics by Art for the web