Why People Don't Heal and How They Can: A Practical Programme for Healing Body, Mind and Spirit

by Caroline Myss

A bold account of the development of human consciousness and spirituality over the ages and an examination of the dynamic global transformation of attitudes about healing.

For more than fifteen years, Caroline Myss has studied why some people heal, while others do not. In her previous book, Anatomy of the Spirit, Dr. Myss illuminated the hidden interactions of belief and body, soul and cell to show how, as she inimitably puts it, your biography becomes your biology. In Why People Don't Heal and How They Can, she builds on her earlier teachings of the seven different energy centers of the body to provide a vital self-healing program for physical and spiritual disorders. With her characteristic no-nonsense style and high-voltage storytelling, she exposes and explodes the five myths about healing, explains the cultural and individual contexts in which people become physically and spiritually ill and invested in woundology, and teaches new methods of working with the challenges that the seven energy centers embody.

To help you get and stay on the path to wellness, Dr. Myss provides rituals and prayers for gaining a symbolic perspective on your life issues; for bolstering your personal power; and for connecting with a universal divine energy. Dr. Myss's breakthrough views on energy medicine and her active approach to healing life issues and physical illness will help you overcome the mental blocks that keep you from becoming well.

Genres: Health, Spirituality, Self Help, Nonfiction, Psychology, Personal Development, New Age

288 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1994

About the author

Caroline Myss was born on December 2, 1952 in Chicago, and grew up with her parents, and two brothers, one elder and one younger, in the Melrose Park, Illinois neighbourhood near Chicago. Caroline was raised a Catholic, and attended the Mother Guerin High School, River Grove, Illinois, run by the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from the Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Indiana in 1974, and started her career in journalism in Chicago.

In the course of her career, she interviewed Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D., the author of the famous book, On Death and Dying, which inspired her to pursue a Master's degree in theology from Mundelein College, Chicago, which she completed in 1979. She also claims to hold a Ph.D in "intuition and energy medicine", but the degree was granted by Greenwich University, a now-defunct correspondence school that was never accredited to deliver higher education awards by any recognized government accreditation authority.

She started giving medical intuitive readings in 1982 and co-founded a small New Age publishing company, Stillpoint Publishing in Walpole, New Hampshire, where she also worked as an editor in 1983, next she began consulting with holistic doctors, which in 1984, led to her extensive collaboration with Dr. Norman Shealy, an M.D. schooled at Harvard, and the founder of the American Holistic Medical Association, with whom she later co-authored, "Aids: Passageway to Transformation," in 1987, followed by "The Creation of Health: The Emotional, Psychological, and Spiritual Responses that Promote Health and Healing," in 1988. Deriving from her practice as a medical intuitive, she started writing books, in the field of energy medicine, and healing, all of which became New York Times Best Sellers.[18] Starting with Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing (1996), which overlapped seven Christian sacraments with seven Hindu chakras and the Kabbalah's Tree of Life to create a map of the human "energy anatomy"; this was followed by Why People Don't Heal and How They Can (1998), which explored the reasons people do not heal through her concept of "woundology." Her next book, Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential (2002) dealt with the issue of finding "Life Purpose," while describing Sacred Contracts as "a set of assignments that our soul had formed around before incarnation". She has since appeared on the The Oprah Winfrey Show numerous times.

By 2000, she discontinued doing private medical intuitive readings, and instead started teaching it, through her workshops, seminars, radio shows and guided tours. She tours internationally as a speaker on spirituality and mysticism, and lives in Oak Park, Illinois, near Chicago. In 2003, she started the Caroline Myss Educational Institute, with Wisdom University in San Francisco.

Her 2007 book, "Entering the Castle" draws upon the writings of Saint Teresa of Ávila, a 16th century Carmelite nun, who wrote her most important work, The Interior Castle, towards the end of her life.

Reviews

[☘Misericordia☘ ⚡ϟ⚡⛈⚡☁ ❇️❤❣ · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lot of chakras-related stuff.

[Maria Clara · Rating 3 out of 5]

Qué puedo decir...! Tiene ideas interesantes, pero me han sonado antiguas; deslucidas, quizá, por el paso del tiempo.

[Jeanne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Myss had done us all a huge service by spotlighting our tendency to use our illnesses, traumas, and injuries as mechanisms to get close to others and to be excused from certain behaviors. A period of mourning should be "a boat to cross the river," she says, but too often we don't get off on the other side. We live in the past because "we are more afraid of change than we are of death." The final story she tells on side two of the second tape illustrates the awesome power and influence of genuine forgiveness. All of this emphasizes the importance of being in the present moment - not living in the past.

I find the discussion about how we bind our life force in maintaining wounds from the past most enlightening: the power of wounds is illusory; energy medicine is a treatment in present time - it brings us into the present.

Myss says our great fear is to honestly confront the questions: "What will my world look like if I'm healthy?" and "What's it like to bond out of strength?" I know from my own experience that the acts of genuine forgiveness and staying in the present moment are not only powerful, but essential in discovering the personal answer to those questions.

[Kyra · Rating 1 out of 5]

Caroline Myss, in the day when she was still boasting her bogus PhD in "Energy Medicine" from a unaccredited university. One of the greatest problems with this book is that it is a distant memory to Caroline Myss, who is busily promoting her latest creation, Entering the Castle, which focuses on prayer and grace. In Castle, Myss' focus is the notion of grace. She does not believe that everyone will receive grace and deliverance from disease, and she has held this since her work on Anatomy of the Spirit (though it was discussed slightly differently). I do not know why she would claim that illness is a product of wrong thought when she clearly states that you could do all the work and still not receive a healing. That said, I think it is inappropriate for her to say, "And how they can." In this book, just like in her others, she claims superior knowledge than most and ridicules and condescends to her reader. Her book is devoid of science, and makes its weighty claims based on anecdotes and testimonials (any quack pseudoscience has the same to back them up). To summarize: Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah by Caroline Myss.

[M. Joseph Murphy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I first saw Myss on Oprah in what feels like another lifetime (figuratively speaking). She slams a bunch of the new age flimflam as ridiculous and tells you to get real. You channel the archangel Gabriel? Really now. Grow up. She also thinks it's ridiculous when people say they control their own reality without putting the work in. Enlightenment is not for sale at your local crystal shop but it is possible. Healing is possible, even miraculous healing but there is real work to do. And of you believe in the immortality of the soul as I do, the work is more important than the healing.

[Yaaresse · Rating 4 out of 5]

Caroline Myss could be a brilliant intuitive or a complete charlatan looking for the next buck from the self-help groupies. As far as this book goes, I really don't care. This book has a point that is refreshingly stark and candid: people are so much in love with what they get out of being __________ (fill in that blank with whatever illness, label or condition is trending at the moment) that they would rather be sick than get well.

Think that's not so? I've lost track of the people who, in less than ten minutes after meeting someone, will announce a label. They are a ______ survivor or a former addict or suffer from ______ or lactose intolerant or allergic to _________. It won't even have anything to do with the conversation, but comes out like an ice-breaker or a line on a name tag. "Hi, I'm Jane, and I am a cutter, recovering klepto, and bipolar." Why do I need to know that when I am probably never going to see that person beyond the five minute wait at the bus stop or a PTA meeting? Because it is social currency for them. They exchange it for sympathy or absolution. They also know full well that very few people will call them out on it by replying with "TMI, Jane. Don't need to know that much about you."

Myss also makes valid points about how we talk to ourselves. We love to pin labels on ourselves. Behavior scientists long ago proved that if a child is told something often enough, they will behave to meet expectations. Adults are no different. If we tell ourselves "I am _____" often enough, we will become that trait/thing, especially if it is self-limiting.

At the period in Myss' writing career this book was published, she was an outspoken critic of throwing pity parties, using guilt tactics, extorting sympathy, and wallowing in general "poor me" behavior. She's since crossed over into the weird (and highly monetized), but I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It explained a lot of behavior I've seen acted out by people who always seem to flit from label to label, vague sickness to vague sickness, or who turn every conversation into one about their "condition." Even better, it helped me learn to catch myself from falling into the same habit and to put a stop to negative self-talk.

[Meg Kimball · Rating 1 out of 5]

I read this book several years ago, maybe around 2011. It's very offensive. Myss postulates that some people cling to the bad things in their past in order to manipulate those around them and play the victim. She uses a survivor of incest as an example. I have to wonder if Myss has experienced anything of that magnitude in her life. Because if not, she has no right to claim superiority.

I've experienced abuse in my life. (No specifics.) I have flashbacks and triggers and conflicting beliefs. I wouldn't wish it upon anyone. I really wouldn't. The problem with Myss's book is that she hasn't been there. It's easy to preach from atop a mountain you were born onto. If you walk through actual fire in your life, you come to see that everything's a process that can't be forced or pushed. Her casual attitude about someone who experienced incest, of all things, should be a huge turn-off to every reader.

While her book shows amazing anthropological insight, her ego is a bit too intrusive. There's a basic reason people cling to wounds, and I think Myss is overlooking it--it's that wounds hurt! And we're trying to quit hurting! I don't think we need to overthink it and blame people for not getting over something traumatic already. While it does become the individual's burden to overcome their past trauma, there are so many different pathways for it, and Myss hasn't taken any of them. She doesn't know what she's talking about. It's all puffery.

[Jeff Maziarek · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a very good starter book for anyone beginning an exploration of the entire concept of "healing." Here is a really insightful passage from it:

“Our drug-filled society maintains that most physically and psychologically painful conditions should be medicated away. Television commercials support the use of painkilling remedies for headaches, backaches, and every other symptom imaginable. Undeniably, chronic pain is a serious handicap to living a full life, and it makes maintaining a positive attitude enormously difficult. Yet emotional and psychological pain can also be a signal to pay attention.

It can be a teacher, whether it originates in our emotions or in our physical bodies. It directs our attention to the physical or emotional area that is begging for repair. Drugging pain prematurely or too much can be a mistake, because it can mislead us into thinking that we are healing when we are not. Instead of immediately medicating ourselves in every instance, we should examine why we have pain or a pattern of physical aches and pains.”

[Denisse · Rating 1 out of 5]

I am not sure what to make of this book. It felt so inauthentic. It seemed as though every anecdote she provided was too perfect, too staged. As much as I wanted to believe what she was saying, I couldn't do that based on the evidence she provided. I honestly didn't get to the actual "program" part because I was so put off by her initial discussion. She seems to condemn people with cancer, saying that their disease is the fault of unaddressed feelings and emotions. I don't necessarily disagree that this could happen, but just the way that she trivializes cancer seemed pretty insensitive.

Maybe one day I'll pick it up again and skip to the end and change my mind, but not today. I'm disappointed.

[Kimber · Rating 3 out of 5]

A primer on the process of healing being "not a process with an ending" from a spiritual point of view.

[Bonnie Atkinson · Rating 5 out of 5]

In the last 30 years I've read my share of alternative healing books and this is the first that almost completely matches the way I think. She begins with a section on "woundology," which is something I've noticed too (being unhealed provides benefits for some people and they have chosen that path, so even though they may express the desire to heal, in fact it is the last thing they want and we need to quickly understand that to make choices about our interactions) and learned to respect. She takes on the traditional control myth that many within the healing professions have (that we have made choices that lead to our illness and can therefore make choices to "fix" it) by addressing the many influences that contribute to syndromes, complexes, infections, and responses. She addresses a holistic approach that I have similarly taken and which has made a tremendous impact on my soul. She is a great deal more enamored of astrology than I am but beyond that, I found nothing with which I disagreed, which is saying a great deal in this field. I loved the candor of her telling, the lack of posturing, the often unfinished anecdotes because people come only for ideas and don't always report back with results. Because that's real. She makes no promises but simply offers tools. "You don't need a wishbone; you need a backbone." Now that's a healer I can get behind.

[Liaken · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first third or so of the book is about a concept the author calls "woundology." This is a fascinating aspect of the book, which I have re-read a couple of times. She talks about the reasons why people would hold on to their wounds rather than letting them heal. Power dynamics are explained with excellent examples of real people.

The second part of the book is all about chakra clearing exercises. I tried some of them, one of them was good for giving me a feeling of perspective, but frankly, this portion of the book felt rather ungrounded and I had a hard time putting my trust in the author. Alas.

[Sam Williams · Rating 1 out of 5]

It's a mix of chakra woo woo, toxic positivity, cultural and social tone-deafness, and just a very middle aged white American I guess Karen-esque book. If you like it there is probably a reason for that: you're like her and this resonates with you specifically for that reason. I am angry at the deceptive way this book was advertised to me and I am angry and judging every person who gave this a high rating so I'd think it was something worth reading and not a patronizing piece of religious propaganda.

[Magic Mary Austin · Rating 2 out of 5]

The first part discusses "woundology" which I found interesting and right on track, however, most have already known people who identify themselves by their wounds. We recognized it and didn't miss giving it a name.

The rest of the books discusses concepts and exercises that Myss uses in her workshops. Apparently it has value when you experience it, but all the members of my book group agreed that reading it was just boring.

[M · Rating 2 out of 5]

Anthropologically she hits on some points that speak to our humanity. But I found some errors in her perception or I should say I am not in agreement an I don't like "well I knew this lady once blah blah blah

[Alexis · Rating 4 out of 5]

At first, I was conflicted. I wasn't sure what to think of this book - not due to the content matter but rather Dr Myss' lens from privilege. But then I gave her a shot and by the final three chapters, I was glad I picked the book back up. The exercises and the layman's terms in which she explains complex theories of comparative religion really make a sense and would make those just starting out in their exploration of alternative spirituality feel comfortable. For me this book was review and a new perspective on chakras, as well as Christianity which I honestly was not expecting!

I say read it.

[Nancy Mramor-Kajuth · Rating 5 out of 5]

When we think of getting well, we often think of going to a doctor or taking medicine. But Myss asks the question of whether our emotional blocks are at the root of our illnesses. As the author of Spiritual Fitness, I know that we can contribute in powerful ways to our own healing through the removal and understanding of blocks to our healing. Personal acceptance and transformation are at the root of all healing and Myss offers a thorough explanation of how it all works

[Allyson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very interesting read. I enjoyed it and found the information helpful, but it was a new frontier for me, basically being ignorant about chakras, Chinese medicine, energy and such. I agreed with much of what was presented, and have read several of Myss' books. I like what she has to say, even if some it seems a little 'out there.'

[Cassio · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book teaches several methodologies behind healing. It is useful, and I will probably read it again.

edit: I want to note that I have moved on from this kind of affirmation or energy-based healing, and found mindfulness, yoga nidra, supplementation with a regimen, and regular medical care to be more useful.

[Yor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amigos mis comentarios sobre el libro “LA MEDICINA DE LA ENERGIA” por Caroline Myss.

La autora en este libro aborda desde un punto práctico temas similares a su otro libro “Anatomía del Espíritu” publicado en 1996. Ambos libros son grandiosos, les comparto mis comentarios sobre La medicina de la Energía – donde la autora incentiva a explorar el cómo buscar nuestro potencial interior para la curación. Sin duda es recomendable para todos aquellos que quieran descubrir sobre los puntos de energía, y como promover conscientemente un estado de salud plena.

En este libro la autora brinda una nueva perpectiva sobre la Salud y promueve desarrollar una visión simbólica para ampliar su comprensión sobre el papel que tienen las doctrinas ancestrales en el conocimiento de la energía corporal brindando una postura innovadora sobre el uso adecuado de la energía para la curación.

El desarrollo del tema central que es la curación por medio de la energía la autora lo divide en dos partes con el título de primero comprender porque las personas no sanan y segundo como pueden conseguirlo, a continuación, un resumen.

I PARTE. POR QUÉ LAS PERSONAS NO SANAN…

Iniciando con los fundamentos sobre la heridalogía, y la capacidad de auto curación al conectarse con la vida en sí. Muchas veces las personas al sufrir una enfermedad o vivir crisis físicas o psíquicas se consumen en su malestar y se desconectan de la vida como un todo o también conocido de la fuerza vital agravando su estado físico y brindando consecuencias graves a su organismo.
En esta primera parte se desarrolla por medio de historias y reflexiones sobre Los Chakras, las eras astrológicas y las formas y poder.
Parte de las bases es reconocer la necesidad de iniciar un viaje de lo que promueve la sociedad en lo que le llama las creencias tribales y conforme aprendemos a contemplar acontecimientos de nuestras vidas a través de la visión simbólica, reconociendo los patrones arquetípicos que constituyen la base de muchas de nuestras acciones. Comenzamos a movernos de la mentalidad tribal y adquirir poder individual, y posteriormente poder simbólico cuando empezamos a formularnos preguntas sobre nuestra relación con el resto del universo.

La autora aborda 5 mitos sobre la sanación y sobre cada uno de ellos formula un punto de reflexión.
1. MI VIDA ESTÁ DEFINIDA POR MI HERIDA.
2. ESTAR SANO SIGNIFICA ESTAR SOLO.
3. SENTIR DOLOR SIGNIFICA SER DESTRUIDO.
4. TODA ENFERMEDAD ES CONSECUENCIA DE LA NEGATIVIDAD Y ESTAMOS DAÑANDO LO MÁS PROFUNDO DE NUESTRO SER.
5. ES IMPOSIBLE LOGRAR UN VERDADERO CAMBIO.


II PARTE. …Y COMO PUEDEN CONSEGUIRLO.

En esta segunda parte la autora promueve desde una perpectiva práctica de auto reflexión y ejercer cierta conciencia hacía un cambio PARTIENDO Desde identificar el camino adecuado a través del caos de la sanación esto quiere decir encontrar un sentido de conexión entre la situación de crisis que causa ciertos síntomas o enfermedades y promover el camino de la auto sanación, seguidamente la autora promueve lo que le llamada de encender el fuego sanador en nuestro interior que no es más que entrar en sintonía de inmersión de la vida, la autora cita desde el inicio del capitulo que una cosa es comprender intelectualmente los pasos que debe dar para curarse, y otra muy distinta comprender lo que debe hacer emocionalmente. Resultando en que el primer punto es para encender su fuego sanador debe creer algo con todo su corazón. Además, formulando que no basta con un conocimiento psíquico, se debe combinar el poder de la mente, cuerpo y espíritu, y convertirlo en la voluntad de curarnos debemos aprender a utilizar los tres tipos de percepción comentados con anterioridad, para modificar su mentalidad y su vida. El hecho de interpretar sus pensamientos, actitudes y desafíos dentro de este modelo de tres tipos de percepción tribal, individual y simbólico le procurará una facilidad a la hora de sanas sus problemas físicos y resolver sus crisis vitales. Estas formas de enfocar la vida le ofrecen.

Los instrumentos y acciones que le apoyaran a encender su fuego interno consisten en pequeñas acciones que resulten en cambios en su vida, a continuación cito la “leña para el fuego”:
1. Aprenda a decir no. (Es de suma Importancia aprender a administrar su tiempo, y en qué invierte su tiempo escaso).
2. Cambie el rumbo de inmediato.
3. Practique el pensamiento cíclico. (La percepción de que el tiempo y la vida son experiencias lineales entorpece el proceso de curación).
4. Márquese metas realistas.
5. Desarrolle su fuerza de voluntad.
6. Sanar no es un proceso encaminado a resolver sus misterios, sino a aprender a vivir con ellos.
7. Cultive la gracia. (Las enseñanzas de todas las tradiciones espirituales ofrecen esperanza. Al mismo tiempo nos permiten vislumbrar el poder y la compasión de Dios y la dimensión de los milagros. Las verdades universales pueden ayudarle a contemplar la vida como un río eterno y un poder infinito)
8. Utilice Imágenes sagradas
9. Creen un nuevo vocabulario
10. Revise a diario dónde ha conectado sus circuitos. (Adopte la costumbre cotidiana de tomar nota de dónde ha invertido su energía.)
11. Practiqué la gratitud siempre que se sienta abrumado.

La parte final del libro es la combinación de la teoría, fundamentos de los chakras y la visualización de cada uno con el fin de activar la curación. Esta parte es la práctica la cual la autora promueve el auto descubrimiento de los 7 puntos de energía, al visualizar los Chakras se ejercita con la consistencia continúa.

Las mejores Frase que me llamaron la atención:
- “Comprométase a a hacer todo cuanto sea necesario para regenerar su cuerpo físico, emocional y psíquico. Las promesas más importantes son aquellas que hace a su espíritu. Su espíritu necesita esperanza, inspiración, oración y la energía del perdón. Prometa a su espíritu que vivirá en el tiempo presente para alimentarlo a él y a usted mismo. Rece todos los días. Mientras reza traiga su espíritu de vuelta en el tiempo presente para alimentarlo a él y a usted mismo. Rece todos los días. Mientras reza, traiga su espíritu de vuelta del pasado. Deje atrás los recuerdos y los lugares que debió haber abandonado hace tiempo, aunque ese <> sea hoy mismo.”

- “<> Piense en todo cuanto quiere y debe hacer para sanar.”

[Kerri · Rating 1 out of 5]

I’ve had this book on my TBR for years and I’m not sure where it came from but I got it on audiobook from the library. Big No for me. She had some potentially interesting ideas in all the woo-woo that maybe would have gone somewhere but she started mocking Christ’s crucifixion and that’s just a Big No. On to the next.

[Lynne Fisher · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wow, this is a very rich book full of observations and insights and interweaving theories from the astrological ages, seven sacraments, and the chakras, which had my mind bending to make connections one would think were impossible. In this sense it is impressive. I found the first two parts of the book the most engaging and useful, namely the exploration of how people can define themselves by their physical or psychological 'wounds' or by their negative attitudes and experiences, but most importantly moving into the essence of personal development and a recovery of spiritual energy to faciliatate an improvment in health. The level of detail and clinical examples given was superb and highly useful to think about and thereby put into practice.

I loved the examination of the three ages and their symbolism, with ensuing social changes and practices with their effect on social development as a whole and within the individual, and a great deal resonated with me here from other psychology and philsophy books I've read, particularly from Buddhism and Humanism.

But when I reached the 'how to heal' section and the exercises for the chakras, meditations and rituals, I faltered. How would the average person find the time for all this? This is a critical section of the whole book, it's ultimately why people would buy the book, and I felt the theories are stretched too far and about to snap. We are also asked to trust the writer's knowledge from personal experience and impossible to prove insights, and I asked myself why? So there is the rub for me.

That said, the benefit from the first parts of the book shows the reader the nature of a life well lived and what it takes to nurture spiritual health, through showing us the opposite, and therefore the book is well worth the read.

[Sujata Sahni]

You don't always need a life-threatening disease or debilitating illness to get you started on your personal journey. What do you want from your life? Do you have what you want? Have you ever considered that maybe that's not what you wanted? Beyond the old inaccurate definition that a healthy person is someone who has no physical illness, your health becomes first and foremost determined by your consciousness. One needs to focus on the feelings and not the illness like helpless, contaminated, afraid, betrayed, defeated. Separate yourself from the challenge and face the feelings of fear so that you can go after those things that empower you. There is a deep connection between the Christian seven sacraments, Kabbalistic Tree of life of Judaism and the Vedic Chakras. Each one of us is connected to the entire sphere of the 12 archetypal dimension as illustrated by Carl Jung. They play an intimate role in the development and maturation of our psyches. It is a warehouse of universal information to which all of us gain access. As our unconscious minds step into direct contact with our conscious minds, we have to learn to establish a direct dialogue with that part of ourselves which has traditionally been unconscious. Archetypal patterns are powerful forces that show themselves within the content of our dreams as well as within the dramas of our physical lives. This heightened self-awareness will help to create an impersonal atmosphere which allow you to observe the situations in your life dispassionately and this vantage point, similar to the Witness in Vedic Parlance will allow forgiveness to become a remarkably easy task.

[Mary Karpel-Jergic · Rating 4 out of 5]

A worthwhile read for an understanding of wholistic healing with a focus on transforming thoughts around illness & disease. Bottom line; we need to forgive and move on with our life.

Myss uses transformation through illness (a time-honoured spiritual theme) and provides ways in which to perceive our experiences from an energy perspective. It's quite a complex book as Myss aligns a number of different theories to explore and understand common responses to illness. Chakras, Astrological Ages, along with religious symbolic practices are considered in order to establish a sense of meaning in disease. "In every situation, no matter how challenging, you have the option to pursue the meaning behind the event".

"The purpose of the mysteries of our lives may well be to lead us out of our dependence on human reasoning and its limited ability to account for why things are and into the acceptance that Divine intelligence is actually in control of our lives."

[Johnna · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought this book was instrumental in showing "alternative" avenues for healing. Probably not for everyone's taste, because it challenges conventional medicine, but a very well-thought out and researched book by a prominent doctor who leads the way in the body, mind, spirit connection to health. I recommend it heartily.

[Nancy Dardarian · Rating 3 out of 5]

Felt outdated and wordy and I'd forgotton how much she talks about God. But I liked the part on Woundology and people who refuse to heal because they like being defined by their wounds. That was good.

[Tammy O'keefe · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a very interesting read with a unique perspective on the link between the Chakras and the Christian Sacraments. This book gave me a lot of tools to use to build my spirituality and help me be a healthier person.

[Malissa Larson · Rating 4 out of 5]

A book full of Myss's clients and their stories. Wonderful read for anyone working with healing and the public. I found it difficult to stay objective because the links were so relatable to my client and myself.

[Cadi Weaver · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow!

This is one of the most powerful books I have read. Seeing things objectively (Symbolic Sight) and becoming conscious of negative energies and what is preventing healing/progress are inspiring themes!

[Lynda · Rating 2 out of 5]

I found the first part of the book confusing and not at all believable. Most of the rest of the book was about chakras which I studied back in the 80s during what I call my seeker phase. I found them helpful for stress, but not something I could maintain long enough to reach full healing.