I'm sharing my list of resources for living a balanced life. I've read all these books, and they've helped me a lot. I'll keep adding more, and I've sorted them into categories to show you the topics.

Physical

Below are a selection of books to tap into the physical. When possible, the links lead to the author’s website.

Anodea Judith 

The expert on chakras and energy and the portals between the physical and spiritual planes.

Wheels of Life
A well-known classic, the one most often referred to when someone asks about the chakras. Practical information for understanding and connecting the chakras within you to the life you were meant to live.

Charge and the Energy Body
Anodea Judith addresses all this & more in her groundbreaking book on mastering the life force. Taken from decades of teaching on the subject & her doctoral work in Mind-Body medicine.

Eastern Body, Western Mind
Readers all over the world call this book their personal Bible. Used by healing schools everywhere, it describes the psychological realities of each chakra, how we get shut down as we grow up, and what to do about it.

James Nestor

Breath
This book taught me a lot about breathing and how it affects both the body and the spirit. It helped me understand many things in my life. I highly recommend it.

There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat twenty-five thousand times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences.

Ellington Darden

Still Living Longer, Stronger
A book that gives a time- tested plan for how to live into old age. Not only does it work for any person at any age, it’s sustainable and transformative.

Caroline Myss, Ph.D

Anatomy of the Spirit
Building on wisdom from Hindu, Christian, and Kaballah traditions, this comprehensive guide to energy healing reveals the hidden stresses, beliefs, and attitudes that cause illness
 

The Creation of Health
This book illuminates the deep connection between emotional dysfunction and physical illness. It describes the role that emotional disturbances play in the most common diseases and ailments from the common cold to arthritis, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.

Spiritual

Below are a selection of books to tap into the spiritual via yoga, meditation, shamanism and more.

Raghubir

11 Yogic Arts of Creative Living
Originally conceived of as a series of volumes that would explore the progressive depth of consciousness that is achieved as a result of the academic and physical rigor of practicing yogic technology, this volume distilled the many years of experience into one comprehensive easy-to-read handbook for living an extraordinary and creative life.

Sally Kempton

Awakening Shakti
Most of us women as well as men, have yet to experience the full potential of our inner feminine energies. When you know these powers for what they are, they heighten your capacity to open spiritually, love more deeply and fearlessly, create with greater mastery, and move through the world with skill and delight.

Shamanism

Michael Harner

Anthropologist founder and president of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, Dr. Michael Harner, he pioneered the introduction of shamanism and the shamanic drum journey to contemporary life and is recognized as the world leader in this movement. I’ve studied at his institute and it changed my life.

The Way of the Shaman
Michael Harner gives a brief biography of his own beginner experiences, then a very short history of shamanism, what it is, and how the experiences during the shamanic vision walks compare to ordinary reality.
He goes on to give a few practices for beginners to experience those states of consciousness for themselves as well as methods for contacting your “power animal” and some basic healing techniques in this book.

Cave and Cosmos
Great stories from Michael Harners’ life as an anthropolgist. Drawing from a lifetime of personal shamanic experiences and more than 2,500 reports of Westerners’ experiences during shamanic ascension, Harner highlights the striking similarities between their discoveries, indicating that the heavens and spirits they’ve encountered do indeed exist. He also provides instructions on his innovative core-shamanism techniques, so that readers too can ascend to heavenly realms, seek spirit teachers, and return later at will for additional healing and advice.

 
Sandra Ingerman

The Book of Ceremony
Sandra Ingerman offers a practical and inspired guide for creating ceremonies infused with meaning, joy, and sacred light. Here she shares essential instruction for ceremonies that invoke the power of your intention, the support of family and community, and the aid of the spirit world. 

Alberto Villoldo

The Heart of the Shaman
Villoldo sets his focus on the dreaming and time-travel practices of the medicine men and women of the Andes and Amazon, whose wisdom radically changed his worldview. Villoldo shares some of their time-honored teachings that emphasize the sacred dream: an ephemeral, yet powerful vision that has the potential to guide us to our purpose and show us our place in the universe.

Emotional

Books to empower and understand your emotions.

Judith Orloff, Ph.D.

The Empath’s Survival Guide
Great resource for empaths, those that feel others emotions, energy and physical symptoms. Written by a psychologist and intuitive empath.

Learn more about the power in your name – all of the elements – sounds, vowels, and rhythms unlock your own personal empowerment and healing.

Dr. Masuro Emoto

The Hidden Messages in Water
In this New York Times bestseller, internationally renowned Japanese scientist Masaru Emoto shows how the influence of our thoughts, words and feelings on molecules of water can positively impact the earth and our personal health.

More Fun Reads

A variety of topics that are fun to read.

Ted Andrews

The Sacred Power in Your Name
Learn more about the power in your name – all of the elements – sounds, vowels, and rhythms unlock your own personal empowerment and healing.

Charles Eisenstein

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible
By fully embracing and practicing this principle of interconnectedness—called interbeing—we become more effective agents of change and have a stronger positive influence on the world.

James Clear

Atomic Habits
Amazing book on how to start new habits and get rid of the ones that dont serve you.

Tarot

Rachel Pollack

Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom- A Tarot Journey to Self-Awareness 
A modern and approachable approach to tarot through the lens of self-awareness.

Paul Foster Case

The Tarot: A Key to The Wisdom of the Ages
Case wrote the finest explanation of the occult meaning of the tarot, this books brings it to the modern student.