New Year's Reading List: 5 Books to Make 2026 Your Best Year Yet

Ready to turn the page to 2026? 

As the calendar flips, so many of us want to recommit to our personal growth. Change Your Energy’s founder, Ilchi Lee, has written many books to awaken your true potential through ancient energy wisdom and holistic practices. We’ve curated this list of five of them—all available in our shop—to guide you toward self-healing, authenticity, and meaningful inner change. 

Find one that calls to you (or read them all!), and set yourself up for a year of renewed health, happiness, and peace.

1. Finding Your True Self: 365 Daily Inspirations for Authentic Living by Ilchi Lee

Instead of starting the new year with resolutions that fade, what about a simple practice that builds momentum? This book has a full year's worth of bite-sized reflections from Ilchi Lee's teachings. Each day invites you to pause, turn inward, and cultivate awareness that brings clarity, purpose, and encouragement.

These messages help you let go of distractions and return to the joyful, authentic you waiting underneath. Each daily reflection is a few paragraphs—short enough to be easy to incorporate into your life, but with enough depth to give you something substantial to contemplate. This book can be your anchor for comfort amid the chaos, and a steady path to spiritual growth. 

2. Love Heals Practice Guide: A 21-Day Journey to Personal Transformation by Ilchi Lee and Ilchibuko Todd

Healing begins with unconditional love for yourself. This guide turns the power of the live retreats featured in the film LOVE HEALS into a step-by-step roadmap. Rooted in energy principles, it leads you through practices that circulate energy, dissolve trauma, and ease physical pain. While it’s especially helpful for anyone with chronic physical or emotional challenges, it’s really for anyone who wants to deepen their self-connection and cultivate self-love.

Over 21 days, you’ll build tools to get to the root of an issue, see it clearly, and release it. Simple movements and meditations help you take back control of your body and mind, and reconnect to your heart’s true spiritual essence. It’s suitable for almost anyone with any physical or emotional condition. Make this your first challenge of 2026 and watch love become your greatest healer.

3. Meridian Exercise for Self-Healing by Ilchi Lee

This book shares dozens of simple, low-impact moves to open your energy channels and improve whole-body health. The routines combine stretches, movement, and acupressure stimulation to clear energy blockages and restore healthy, natural energy flow.

Even just a few minutes a day can bring relief from symptoms like headaches, stress, high blood pressure, thyroid issues, flu symptoms, sciatica, and more. Along with symptom relief, the exercises help you relax, quiet and rebalance your mind and emotions, and awaken your body’s innate self-healing capacity.

Step-by-step instructions with full-color photos make the exercises easy to follow. You’ll also deepen your understanding of energy healing as you learn about the meridian system. It’s a simple, effective way to achieve greater health and wellness.

4. 21-Day Journal: A Journey of Personal Transformation by Ilchi Lee

This is the second book on the list that harnesses the power of 21 days. Committing to a practice for 21 days is considered an optimal time for creating new habits and sparking lasting change. In this journal, you’ll find Ilchi Lee’s encouragement and thought-provoking quotes, along with guided prompts to help you clarify your thoughts, track emotions and physical sensations, set intentions, and celebrate self-healing wins. 

The book includes blank pages where you can write directly inside, or you can use a separate notebook if you prefer. Over time, the process reveals patterns, increases gratitude, and helps solidify growth. Let your 2026 intentions take root here, or pair it with your other reads for a holistic reset.

5. Bowing: A Moving Meditation for Personal Transformation by Ilchi Lee

Bowing is a traditional Asian movement practice that cultivates both humility and expansion in the body, mind, and spirit. Simple, repetitive motions engage every joint and muscle, creating a full-body energy workout wrapped in a meditative flow.

This award-winning book has step-by-step illustrations that guide you from beginner bows into deeper spiritual practice. The practice can be done gently or vigorously, depending on your health and personal preference. Practiced with more intensity, bowing can improve heart health, release stagnation, and help the body detox through sweat. Practiced more gently, it builds physical strength, steadiness, and the capacity for sustained focus.

But the experience of bowing can also take you into the spiritual realm, as deep as you choose to go. With consistent practice over a few weeks, practitioners often experience a strong sense of oneness and connection to something larger than themselves. Whether it becomes a daily practice or an occasional reset, bowing is a beautiful, embodied path to personal and spiritual transformation. 

Choose Your Books

Together, these books offer a synergistic toolkit for the year ahead—daily inspiration, guided healing, body activation, reflective journaling, and meditative movement.

Step into 2026 supported, awakened, and thriving. Pick one book to start, or commit to all five. Get them here in our shop.