In this ground-breaking work, John Ruskan focuses on the vital but often misunderstood issue of emotional healing and growth on the path to higher consciousness. He presents a revolutionary synthesis of Eastern and Western psychological principles, resulting in a profound system of spiritual self-therapy that can touch and transform all levels of your being.

Emotional Clearing fills a void in the current New Age/ alternative-healing/ self-help book field. While a great number of books address alternative healing and pathways to spiritual fulfillment, there are almost no books that show in depth how to work with feelings as we advance on our journey. This area has been left to the Western psychological writers and psychotherapists who, sadly, often are unable to genuinely link the approaches they advocate to the holistic or spiritual path. Such an approach is especially needed as we engage in any work on ourselves, whether psychological, spiritual, or even physical, because one of the first aspects of our journey is that feelings and emotions are released from their suppressed condition. If we don't know how to handle these feelings, we become stuck and growth will not occur.

The book begins with explaining exactly what it means to suppress a feeling, and how this contributes to poor health, both on the emotional and physical level. The Western understanding of the psyche is drawn upon here, but tied to the Eastern concept of holism, recognizing the connection between body and feelings. The book goes into a basic discussion of the chakras, and what feelings are related to which chakras. The basic principles of acceptance and experience of the feelings as an important preliminary to clearing are explained.

The second part of the book presents the system of Emotional Clearing itself. There are four steps: Awareness, Acceptance, Direct Experience, Transformation.

Awareness means understanding how we suppress and then project feelings on others. We learn to take responsibility for our emotional experience. Acceptance means to stop trying to resist or act out the feelings. We recognize how much of our behavior is designed to keep our feelings from ourselves. Direct Experience means allowing ourselves to have the feeling experience that we have been long resisting, in a safe, controlled manner. Transformation ties into the spiritual, witnessing aspect of our being, where we access a higher source of power within ourselves to aid in our emotional clearing and healing.

The third part of the book gives practical pointers in how to work with the approach and how to use powerful Eastern tools including breathwork and meditation to augment the clearing of feelings. Various case studies are examined in the last chapter.