Rating *****

139 pages
published by Samuel Weiser
ISBN 0877288496

When we are isolated - emotionally, mentally, or physically - we isolate the heart chakra from the others, and block the "arteries of love," much like we do when our circulation is so bad that we require "by-pass" surgery for the physical heart.

When we close off - or by-pass - the heart, it's obvious to others. In Reconnecting the Love Energy Phyllis Kristal talks about these instances as she discusses our personal lives, partners, families etc. and gives us insights into the everyday aspects of life that create the traps that block love energy.

Negative energy is so overwhelming in western society that it's easy to think that our changes won't make any difference. But, Phyllis Krystal says that if enough separate individuals open their hearts and send out love and kindness in place of fear and hate, the world will get better. Each of us can accomplish our individual part by allowing the love to flow from our hearts to every person we meet. When enough people practice this daily routine, the world must change!

"Love is letting go
Not holding on.
Love is loving everyone
And not just some.

Love means demonstrating
What true love can do
By bringing joy to many
And not just one or two."

Synopsis: The Heart By-Pass in Personal Relationships: Heart By-Pass? What is Love? Learning How to Love; We are All Three People; What Do You Want? Why are We Here? The Four Functions in Relation to the Heart By-Pass; Personal Relationships; Partners; The Heart By-Pass in the Family and Home; Reviving the Puberty Rites; Parents Who Cause a By-Pass of their Children's Hearts; Child Abuse, Sexual and Otherwise; Competitiveness and the Heart By-Pass; The Heart By-Pass in the Workplace; The Heart By-Pass with Service People; Pampered Pets or Victims of Human Abuse? The Role of Women in Re-connecting the Heart Energy; Safe Nest or Steel Trap?
The Heart By-Pass in Public Institutions: The Heart By-Pass in Education; The Absence of Heart in Government; The Heart By-Pass in Finance; Vanished, Long Lost Luggage; The "Live Happily Ever After" Myth; The Food Industry; The Heart By-Pass in Medicine; Heart By-Pass in Religions; Heart By-Pass in Organizations; Machines, Computers and other Mechanical Devices that contribute to the Heart By-Pass; Traffic, Private and Public Transportation; The Media; Charisma and the Myth of the Public Image; The Fallacy of self-importance and the Importance of SELF-Importance; Be Happy; Work as Worship; Cracked Urn, Broken Reed, or the Stone the Builder Rejected?

Phyllis Krystal was born in England but lives and works as a psychotherapist in California where she has developed her own techniques of psychotherapy. For over thirty years, she has been developing a counseling method using symbols and visualization techniques that help people detach from external authority figures and patterns in order to rely on their own Higher Consciousness as guide and teacher.

Last Updated Saturday, January 2, 1999