"Grace is the breath of God—an invisible essence beyond intellect that moves swiftly amongst us," teaches Caroline Myss.
Is it possible to become a living conduit of this powerful force? "Not only is it possible," suggests this bestselling author, "but grace is immediately accessible to you and everyone around you—through humility, devotion, and the courage to follow divine guidance." With Channeling Grace you are invited to ascend to what Myss calls the "altitude of the mystics" and invoke this expansive energy in your life.
In session one, Myss explains how to recognize grace in your life by describing some of the countless ways we experience it—both internally as a sudden insightful voice, and externally as synchronicity in the world.
In session two, she offers a full set of specific invocations to contact grace directly, navigate your path in times of chaos, gain clarity and direction in your life, and heal yourself or others.
"Grace is as real and tangible as sparkling sand on the beach," teaches Myss. "It's ready to dramatically transform your life at any time—if you are willing to acknowledge and embrace it."
On Channeling Grace, this renowned teacher offers her expert guidance to help you maintain a steadfast connection to the illuminating divine phenomenon she calls grace.
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.
Quite simply, if you have a problem and there's seemingly no solution, you have to depend on grace to get you through.
If this wasn't a CD but a paper copy, it would be dog-eared and falling apart. I've had to access it many times in the last 20 years. Carolyn Myss is the real deal and all her books are solid gold for the soul.
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I can honestly say I didn't enjoy this at all. As a live performance, I found it unorganized and as I had noted earlier, there were too many disjointed ideas and sentences. I especially found the exercises at the end distracting. I don't think I could have channeled anything after listening to that!
The guided prayers she does (which she feins to call 'exercizes') taught me to feel God in me and to have a visual of what grace is. I just felt good listening to this book.
Some great content in this that goes well with Defy Gravity, which I'm also reading!
However, I felt that the language could be rather exclusive, as in, it excludes people who've been very hurt by the church in the name of God. The author invokes & prays to God in this, & as someone who has deconstructed harmful evangelical views that dramatically affected me years ago as a young wife & mom--especially about women's equality & sexuality being so denied by many churches, I found the language rather difficult.
Myss has some great work and this one didn’t hit the mark for me as much. She seemed a bit all over the place at times and it lacked structure, seemingly like a channeled, raw, talk. The ending has a couple of guided meditations that encouraged surrender to nonduality- trusting the greater plan since we are ultimately powerless against it anyway, and we are all parts of a collective soul.
I will leave this on my reading list because I plan on listening to the 2 part CD set again. On the first CD, Caroline talks about what grace is. On the second CD, she has visualizations that help bring grace into your life.
I was attracted to this CD because of what I have going through the last five months in my quest to improve my skills in American Sign Language. When I was doing that, I had this amazing experience where I saw myself entering a field of grace and I was where I needed to go in order to do my best work.