A groundbreaking book, Emotional Wisdom reveals powerful ancient tools for transforming our painful emotions into happiness and health. So-called negative emotions are valuable messages that let us know we are out of balance. With compassion and humor, Taoist authors Mantak Chia and Dena Saxer explain the messages that anger, depression, fear, worry, and stress offer us. They present three easy-to-learn internal energy practices, with helpful illustrations, to turn these imbalances into harmony and joy. They provide unusual nutritional advice for emotional healing and a Taoist First Aid section with proven natural remedies for minor ailments such as insomnia, indigestion, headaches, and overeating. Relevant quotes from the Tao Te Ching add inspiration to this practical, life-changing book.

All spiritual systems emphasize the importance of cultivating the virtues of kindness, patience, compassion, and agape, or unconditional love. But very few books give us concise, accessible formulas for releasing the toxins of anger, sadness, fear, or anxiety. Emotional Wisdom’s ten to twenty minute, easily grasped techniques release and transform turbulent emotions into an immediate sense of calm and balance. Practicing them puts the tools of transformation in our own hands—power tools for recycling our emotional baggage into vitality, joy, and inner peace. —from the introduction

The author of dozens of books, Mantak Chia has taught thousands of students the Taoist internal energy practices over the past 45 years. Dena Saxer has been teaching the Universal Healing Tao System internationally for 26 years.