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Spiritual Power Spiritual Practice
With Spiritual Power, Spiritual Practice, Caroline Myss explores the prayers, reflections, and other teachings she has developed in her own spiritual practice. Through these daily disciplines anyone can learn to tap the wellsprings of love, faith, and trust that energize our spiritual potential.
27 pages, Audio Cassette
First published September 28, 1998
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Caroline Myss
162 books1,045 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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March 5, 2020
I was looking for meditation guidance exactly like Ms. Myss does in this book.
She starts with explaining how to gain spiritual power and what one needs to do to get to that point, the changes one can make in one's life, behavior, thought-process, etc.
Then she guides us through morning and then night meditation. Visiting each of the chakras.
It will take a while to get to that level of concentration but I do need to bring it up... with the lives people live today where every minute is accounted for, how can one take 30+ of meditation in the morning and at night? Well, I am not sure yet... as of today my mind can't stay focused for more than 10mins... I guess it all goes to: practice, practice, practice.
She starts with explaining how to gain spiritual power and what one needs to do to get to that point, the changes one can make in one's life, behavior, thought-process, etc.
Then she guides us through morning and then night meditation. Visiting each of the chakras.
It will take a while to get to that level of concentration but I do need to bring it up... with the lives people live today where every minute is accounted for, how can one take 30+ of meditation in the morning and at night? Well, I am not sure yet... as of today my mind can't stay focused for more than 10mins... I guess it all goes to: practice, practice, practice.
April 29, 2014
powers of virtue of soul, a will to give up will as another paradox, pull back negativity, what are you attached to what shameful to admit, forgiveness first then love, practice your religion and self-examination, lose illusion that you are in charge, why repeat story of past get on with life, true forgiveness has no sting, rational divine mind, speed of change and forgiveness moves faster, with ecstasy comes agony, prayer as fuel, seek only truth and all good from God, a channel for gifts.
February 18, 2018
Loved this, listened to the audiobook.
In the audio book Myss shares lovely morning and might meditations plus in-depth advice or daily activities to help you daily.
I loved the two meditations at the end of the book, I will come back to these and play them again.
Myss' wisdom and spirituality shines throughout this book.
In the audio book Myss shares lovely morning and might meditations plus in-depth advice or daily activities to help you daily.
I loved the two meditations at the end of the book, I will come back to these and play them again.
Myss' wisdom and spirituality shines throughout this book.
September 25, 2024
Love the meditation and her practice
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August 7, 2012absolutely brilliant. AND simple!
August 5, 2013
3 hr 2 tapes; $1.78 goodwill
November 30, 2014
Good meditation included.
January 16, 2016
An inspiring book for change. Myss tells it straight as it is.... If you want the result you must put forth the effort ... She gives the how to tools in a practical and concise way.
October 28, 2008
Love Myss! She is such a spiritual bully!!
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