The Energy Codes: The 7-Step System to Awaken Your Spirit, Heal Your Body, and Live Your Best Life

Chakras and yoga accompanied by breath work, muscle squeezing, and stretching constitute the bulk of Morter’s innovative yet contentious debut. Morter, founder of the Morter Institute for Bioenergetics, argues that cleared and flowing internal energy (a personal energy that is connected to a universal energy field) leads to physical and emotional healing. Each of her seven energy codes—anchoring, breath, chemistry, clearing, feeling, heart, and spirit—is explored through her central channel breathing practice, specific movements, yoga poses, and diet intended to raise energy vibration and remove what she calls “gunk.” Those who practice energy medicine may find these exercises useful, but the endeavor is undermined by dubious-sounding energy healing claims, such as that a patient’s severed fingers “regenerated without surgery [and] grew new fingertips, including bone structure and fingerprint.” Readers who firmly believe in directed channeling of energy may want to take a look. (Mar.)