The Five Wisdom Energies: A Buddhist Way of Understanding Personality, Emotions, and Relationships

This
book invites us to celebrate our strengths and work with our weaknesses by
learning to identify and utilize five basic personal styles or energies.
Written in a playful and accessible way, this is the first general-audience
book on a Tibetan Buddhist system known as "the five buddha
families"—an insightful way of understanding human behavior and promoting
personal growth.

Each
of the five wisdom energies is associated with particular ways of perceiving
and interacting with the world and also with particular colors, elements,
senses, seasons, and times of day. With easy, fun, and engaging exercises and
stories, Irini Rockwell shows us how to identify which energies are active in
our lives, and how we can work with them in any situation to improve
self-awareness, communication, and creative expression.

According
to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, each of us has one or two dominant energies,
but these can shift and change over time, and we can manifest different
energies in different areas of our lives. Each of the five energies has its
unique wisdom, but also its neurotic tendencies. By learning to recognize which
energies we possess—and which are present in those around us—we can learn to
relax and appreciate our natural traits and those of others, and we can move
away from our neuroses toward the wisdom-aspects of our character.