Intuitive Power: Your Natural Resource [Unabridged] [Audio CD]

Caroline Myss (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2004

Join Caroline Myss, a renowned intuitive practitioner and teacher in this live lecture 4 CD set on how to tap in to your intuition for health, healing, and life guidance. In this CD program, you'll learn how to tune in to the wisdom of your bodies, sense subtle energies and chakras, and make decisions based on your deepest sense of inner authority and power. Caroline discusses the mystical nature of intuition and offers instruction on intuiting your sacred contracts by recognizing your archetypes. Archetypes are energetic companions that coordinate the experiences and opportunities you agreed to, prior to your birth, and which serve the integration of your spirit. Your psychological and emotional patterns are clues to your archetypal patterns and to their mythic nature, continually manifesting in subtle ways in your life. Your individual spiritual life is carved around these subtle and extremely present cosmic companions. Coming to know these interior forces brings into focus the many sacred contracts of your life, offering you profound insight and direction in terms of making life choices based upon the needs of your spirit rather than the demands of your personality.

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About the Author

Caroline Myss is a pioneer in the field of energy medicine and human consciousness. Since 1982, she has worked as a medical intuitive: one who "sees" illnesses in a patient's body by intuitive means. She specializes in assisting people in understanding the emotional, psychological, and physical reasons why their bodies have developed an illness. Her New York Times best-selling books include Anatomy of the Spirit, Why People Don't Heal and How They Can, and Sacred Contracts.

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One's deepest sense of personal authority doesn't come from pleasing anyone or "being good." According to the author, an intuitive practitioner and expert on archetypes, such power comes from connecting with our bodies, our energies, and our chakras. This is wisdom that is already inside us and doesn't have to be learned in psychotherapy. More powerful than our personalities, these archetypal forces are manifestations of God that can give us guidance not offered in any of the conventional religions or in the urgings of popular culture. In lecture mode, Caroline Myss is a powerful teacher of these fundamental intuitive skills. She's a crisp thinker with a range of knowledge that will fascinate and provoke listeners into exploring the potentials she describes. T.W. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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• Audio CD
• Publisher: Hay House; Unabridged edition (November 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1401905293
• ISBN-13: 978-1401905293
• Product Dimensions: 5.7 x 5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #892,547 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Caroline M. Myss ' Biography

Caroline is dedicated to creating educational programs in the field of human consciousness, spiritually and mysticism, health, energy medicine, and advancing the science of medical intuition. She established CMED, her own educational institute, in 2003, which offers two programs running three courses per year, on Sacred Contracts and Mysticism. Additionally, Caroline maintains a rigorous workshop and lecture schedule internationally and continues a consultation practice with physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, and other health practitioners, as a medical intuitive.

In 1996, Caroline compiled her years of research in medical intuition with her work in the field of human consciousness, releasing the book, ANATOMY OF THE SPIRIT. This book became a New York Times bestseller and has been published in 18 languages. To date, it has sold over 1.5 million copies.

In investigating the underlying reasons why people sabotage their healing processes, Caroline identified a syndrome as 'woundology', characterized by a person who prefers to rely upon the power of illness for manipulation of his or her world as opposed to attained an independent, empowered state of health. As with her other ground-breaking research, this syndrome is now a recognized psychological condition. Her work in this area became the subject of her fourth book, WHY PEOPLE DON'T HEAL and HOW THEY CAN. This book was Caroline's second New York Times bestseller.

Caroline released her fifth book, SACRED CONTRACTS, which became her third New York Times bestseller. As with her previous books, this one is also in 18 languages and reports sales of well over 1.6 million.

Due to the interest generated by her work in Sacred Contracts, in 2003, Caroline opened CMED (Caroline Myss Education), her own educational institute. CMED offers two programs per year, each three sessions long. The first is on Sacred Contracts and the second is on Mysticism, Intuition, and Healing. The Institute draws students from nineteen nations, as well as across the United States.

In 2004, Caroline released her sixth book, INVISIBLE ACTS OF POWER, which also became a New York Times bestseller. She is now working on her seventh book: ENTERING THE CASTLE. She has also just published her first book through her company, CMED, entitled, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, an extraordinary piece of literature that was channeled sixty years ago by a nearly-blind woman named Edith Ellis. Myss considers this project to be a vital part of her commitment to support an archive of information on her personal passion, which is the mystical history of America.

Through the years of her career, Caroline has taught in thirty-five countries, continuing her international work at present. In addition to writing six books, Caroline is the leading recording artist for Sounds True, Inc., the major audio recording company in the holistic field. She has recorded with them since 1990, producing 30 different titles. Her entire library of recordings now number of 180.

In 2003, Oprah Winfrey gave Caroline her own television program for one year with the OXYGEN network in New York City, which ran successfully for one year.

BOARD MEMBERSHIPS

From 1999-2004, Caroline served on the Board of the State of the World Forum with Jim Garrison.

She is presently on the Board of Wisdom University, San Francisco, where she also Chairs the Department of Energy Medicine and the Healing Arts.

In 1995, Myss, along with C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D., founded the American Board of Scientific Medical Intuition.

CMED Institute

In 2003, Myss founded her own educational institute, CMED (Caroline Myss EDucation), providing seminars in Sacred Contracts and Mysticism and Intuition for students from all over the world. More information on her institute is available on her web site: www.myss.com.

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140 of 145 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Courage & Self Esteem Crucial To Intuition, November 24, 2004

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Janet Boyer "Author, Blogger, Mystic" (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
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According to author and lecturer Caroline Myss, intuition is the ability to take multiple systems of knowledge and make sense of them. Courage is a fundamental part to becoming intuitive-that is, taking action based on the guidance that's received. In fact, Myss says that the intuitive journey is actually the journey to self-esteem.

Intuitive Power - Your Natural Resource is a live Caroline Myss workshop on 4 CD's. The theme of this workshop is the role of intuition, the nature of intuitive blocks, the importance of personal power and self-esteem in hearing and following intuitive guidance, and the interior spiritual life.

CD 1

In CD 1, Myss discusses intuition "American style" which includes the myth that we deserved to have our life "settled"-that the Mystery of who we are is something to be "solved" rather than lived. She also discusses the propensity of many American spiritual seekers to elevate roles like "healers", believing they are of utmost importance to the Divine-and how they sneer at "blue collar intuition" and grounded occupations (like accountant, for example) believing they're "just jobs" that don't require intuition. She goes on to dispel the myth that intuitive skill and the spiritual life are one in the same, as well as the idea that intuition is a "gift"-only bestowed on those who are "good" or "light enough candles". Survival intuition, that of the first three chakras, is *not* spiritual guidance or higher revelation; in fact, this type of intuition has a private agenda built into it.

CD 2

Funny stories are peppered throughout this workshop, and Myss begins Disc 2 telling the story of a Puella Eternis who was in her 30's and still lived with her Dad. Myss was discussing how God can "wipe you out" in an instant-with or without a prayer of surrender-and mentioned that as she was teaching this concept at another workshop, especially as it related to finances, this Puella called out "God can't take my money because my Dad put it in a Trust Fund." The audience roars with laughter at this story. Myss also goes on to admit that she has changed positions of a lot of things as she read and learned more, including the concept that illness is caused by negativity. Stating that she "doesn't buy it anymore" and that it's a "cruel thought", she acknowledges that while negativity can enhance illness, it doesn't cause it. Myss also says that she will teach, until the day she disincarnates, that the great skill or power in the human experience is not love, but self-esteem.

CD 3

Myss explains how our physical body is the "caboose" on the intuitive train-it is not the engine. She explains how we are always doing "energetic readings" by scanning people-an unconscious process that lights up all 7 of the chakras. As she has taught in other workshops, Myss talks about how meeting new people is often an exercise in gathering energetic data-starting with 1st chakra questions like "Where are you from?", and working upwards to the other chakras. For example, a 2nd chakra question would be "Are you married? Do you have any kids?" Unfortunately, as often happens in her workshops, Myss doesn't go beyond the first three chakras so we can see how questions from the upper chakras would be posed to others, and what exactly we're assessing from chakras 4-7.

Myss explains why some people and situations "gut" us, how to call our power back and how to keep energetically "contained"-which is the object of health. She goes on to tell a story about reaming out a guy when she was on safari in South Africa, despite "knowing better". She begins taking questions from audience members and someone asks Myss if she felt it was her place to do so. "No, I wanted it to be my place", she answers.

CD 4

Myss continues to take questions from the audience about her safari experience. She is asked: "Is it better to do that (chew someone out) then hold it in?" She answers: "You know, what I did is never the better path. He didn't come there to be attacked by me." Myss admonishes the audience on the importance of being hard-core honest with themselves and ask "What is the real reason I want to do what I'm about to do? What's the real reason I want to say _____?" Myss also talks about the back-lash of the new age, saying we've become "hyper-responsible" about illness and the concept of creating your own reality. She argues that we influence our reality, but we don't create it.

She is then asked about archetypes and if they are actual entities. She replies that they are, in fact, actual entities and that a person can be "possessed" by an archetype by identifying so strongly with an archetypal patterns that the pattern becomes more real than they are. According to Myss, comments like "That's just the way I am" are important clues to your archetypal patterns, and she correlates Julie Andrews' real life nun archetype and Andrew's role in The Sound of Music.

In Conclusion

Myss spends a good amount of time hitting home the importance of self-esteem and the containment of our personal power in this audio workshop. I have the Myss CD workshop series on Self Esteem, but haven't listened to it yet, so I don't know how much of this information from this series is covered in that workshop. If you're unfamiliar with chakras, you'd likely be lost, so I'd recommend reading Anatomy of the Spirit by Myss first. For hard-core Myss fans, there's really not a whole lot new here in my opinion, but as is always the case with her workshops, there are many nuggets wisdom that bear repeating and will help you on your journey towards becoming more conscious.

Janet Boyer, author of The Back in Time Tarot Book: Picture the Past, Experience the Cards, Understand the Present (coming Fall 2008 from Hampton Roads Publishing)

42 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Decent but not what I expected, July 8, 2005

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If you already have an extensive Caroline Myss library, no need to purchase this-it's nothing you haven't heard before. I was hoping that it would draw in some new insights into harnessing intuitive powers but it was more of a lecture on "getting over yourself" and a loose interpretation on recognizing your wake-up calls. Although you got to love Caroline Myss-she really de-mystifies mystical journeys and grounds you squarely back into our real world with our real dramas. Do I feel more intuitive as a result of listening to the workshop?-Good question, can't really answer that. The results aren't in yet.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Love went out the window here, January 17, 2008

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Laura De Giorgio "hypnotherapist" (Canada) - See all my reviews
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On these CDs, Caroline shares some of her insights related to intuitive power. She states that what prevents people from becoming more aware of their intuitive impulses is fear and suggests that the more self-esteem and the more courage you have the greater intuitive power will you have. She has tossed love out the window, perhaps because to her love represents loss of power, and insists that intuitive power doesn't come from love, it comes from self-esteem.

To me and to just about anyone else I've ever come across who teaches how to access intuition, intuitive power does come from love (for that matter even self-esteem comes out of love), but then again perhaps the rest of us view love through a different lens than Caroline. For me, love is a unifying power, that which removes barriers and opens doors, that which dissolves fear and that which says "The Infinite Spirit in me honors the (same) Infinite Spirit in you". Through love we see our holiness (wholeness which arises out of one Spirit expressing through everyone and everything) reflected in another. Love is that which recognizes the omnipresence of that which is divine, immortal, and infinite. For me, love has nothing to do with fulfilling the whims of another or losing power, instead, it has everything to do with expressing your true spiritual nature - allowing the Spiritual Self to shine through you.

Caroline further suggests that you can increase your intuitive awareness by paying attention to the energy within you and all around you. This is a good point and at the same time, if you are already familiar with exercising your intuitive awareness, this may not be new to you.

While I do appreciate some of Caroline's insights, I find her language and attitude off-putting at time, and personally find authors like Sonia Choquette, Judith Orloff, Penney Pierce, Laura Alden Kamm, John Holland, and others, more palatable.