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Caroline Myss' Essential Guide for Healers
If you are a healer or know someone who is, then you are probably well aware of the enormous challenges of this life path. Choosing to be a healer, teaches Caroline Myss, comes with serious spiritual and energetic demands, and it is crucial to understand and prepare for them.
With Caroline Myss' Essential Guide for Healers, the bestselling author of Sacred Contracts shares her most valuable insights and recommendations for health care professionals, counselors, therapists, body workers, and anyone serving to heal others. Drawing on her own experience as a medical intuitive (one who discerns illness and its root causes in the body), Caroline Myss invites you to explore:
The healer archetype—which specific healing arts are you meant to practice?
• How the cosmos trains healers, and ways to open yourself to its lessons
• Knowing when not to intervene as a healer
• Understanding psychic exhaustion, contamination, and other dangers, and how to protect yourself
• How your appointment to help others changes as your own inner evolution unfolds, and much more
The first tenet of any healer is: Care for yourself. Now, here is an unprecedented new resource for anyone seeking to cultivate the spiritual foundations of this calling: Caroline Myss' Essential Guide for Healers.
Runtime: 5 hours.
With Caroline Myss' Essential Guide for Healers, the bestselling author of Sacred Contracts shares her most valuable insights and recommendations for health care professionals, counselors, therapists, body workers, and anyone serving to heal others. Drawing on her own experience as a medical intuitive (one who discerns illness and its root causes in the body), Caroline Myss invites you to explore:
The healer archetype—which specific healing arts are you meant to practice?
• How the cosmos trains healers, and ways to open yourself to its lessons
• Knowing when not to intervene as a healer
• Understanding psychic exhaustion, contamination, and other dangers, and how to protect yourself
• How your appointment to help others changes as your own inner evolution unfolds, and much more
The first tenet of any healer is: Care for yourself. Now, here is an unprecedented new resource for anyone seeking to cultivate the spiritual foundations of this calling: Caroline Myss' Essential Guide for Healers.
Runtime: 5 hours.
5 pages, Audio CD
First published March 1, 2004
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About the author
Caroline Myss
172 books1,028 followersCaroline 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.
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.
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November 30, 2012
This is one tough lady who does not mash her words. I love her no nonsense approach to getting down to the nitty gritty. She is such an inspiration in the way she lays out the path and gives you the push to really examine truth or silly myths that we have filled our mind with regarding the healer types.
January 25, 2019
New Agey seminar talk for healers. She seems to like to verb a lot of non-verbs - "you can language that for them," which makes my grammatical teeth itch. However, there are some nuggets of good advice on how to behave and how to approach healing. It's okay to not be sure of things. Don't claim to know things you don't know. Don't try to have personal and professional relationships. Not all healing is energy or body work; financial advisers can be healers as well. You can't be delicate and effectively face the difficulties of healing.
My biggest takeaway was an almost throwaway comment about the power of the individual. Something along the lines of "If you don't think a single individual can have a big impact on the world, look at Osama bin Laden." How could somebody become the Osama bin Laden for peace, compassion, and understanding?
My biggest takeaway was an almost throwaway comment about the power of the individual. Something along the lines of "If you don't think a single individual can have a big impact on the world, look at Osama bin Laden." How could somebody become the Osama bin Laden for peace, compassion, and understanding?
July 15, 2022
I love C. Myss’ no nonsense teachings and demystifying of the healing arts.
Some great quotes:
“Nobody is born with Self-esteem. It is an earned power. It is an earned presence within yourself.”
“If an illness is scheduled as part of your spiritual journey, I promise you, an illness you will get.” - Caroline Myss
Some great quotes:
“Nobody is born with Self-esteem. It is an earned power. It is an earned presence within yourself.”
“If an illness is scheduled as part of your spiritual journey, I promise you, an illness you will get.” - Caroline Myss
February 7, 2015
I love anything by Caroline Myss, I admit at first I thought she was a bit harsh on people but as I read on I began to understand where she was coming from and have since read a lot of her books.
One of my favourite things by Caroline Myss is actually a DVD called, The Energetics of Healing. This is for anyone who uses the healing arts. It is so informative, running at 180 minutes. If you want to know what the chakras are all about then get The Energetics of Healing. It's quite an eye opener. I do Reiki and it helped me to understand a lot about people in general. Highly recommended and a must have for all healers no matter what modality they use.
One of my favourite things by Caroline Myss is actually a DVD called, The Energetics of Healing. This is for anyone who uses the healing arts. It is so informative, running at 180 minutes. If you want to know what the chakras are all about then get The Energetics of Healing. It's quite an eye opener. I do Reiki and it helped me to understand a lot about people in general. Highly recommended and a must have for all healers no matter what modality they use.
September 4, 2020
Essential for anyone in the healing professions; massage therapist, nurse, qigong, psycologist, counselor, etc. I relisten to this every year. Caroline Myss is one of the best in this field.
August 10, 2024
This was my first book I've read by Caroline Myss. I listened to the audiobook read by Myss. Advice and examples for people in healing professions. Myss tells it like it is or how she sees it. Lots of food for thought.
December 30, 2021
Amazing as usual!!
October 20, 2024
Great guide
We are all healers in all our professions
We are all healers in all our professions
March 13, 2020
I have based my own natural therapies work on what I learned from Caroline.
October 23, 2011
Oooo, can Caroline scold!!! More hard truths from the hard core Myss. She is never for the faint of heart or overly sensitive, but she is refreshing.
August 9, 2014
Myss has some excellent and refreshing ideas, but she is too aggressive for my tastes. I also feel that her advice does not apply to my own life.
February 17, 2016
A lot of information to absorb.
March 28, 2016
I still refer to it on a regular basic
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