Three Levels of Power and How to Use Them [Abridged, Audiobook] [Audio CD]

Caroline Myss (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 2004

Learn about the unacknowledged role that power plays in your spiritual development with Three Levels of Power and How to Use Them. Through wise management of your power, Myss teaches, you can stop wasting energy on events from the past and start using it for your ultimate development as a human being. She explains the profound spiritual implications for shifting to the highest level of personal power; a shift that, she shows, is already taking place. The original public TV broadcast on audio.

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Utilizing principles outlined in her many works--including the bestselling Anatomy of the Spirit--Carolyn Myss tells listeners how to restructure their thinking in order to better handle crises, health problems, and life in general. She divides power into three levels: tribal, individual, and symbolic, in which a person observes his/her life as if from a distance. Myss is an energetic speaker, keeping listeners tuned in by punctuating her lecture with compelling anecdotes (listen for the one about the mother of a hemophiliac), clear analogies (power as perfume), and bold statements (she believes the notion of having only five senses is antiquated). Performed in front of a live audience, Three Levels was also recorded as a PBS television special. (Running time: 2.75 hours, 2 cassettes) --Kimberly Heinrichs --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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On the concluding episode of the national PBS special, listeners learn about the unacknowledged role that power plays in our physical and spiritual evolution. Through wise management of personal power, Dr. Myss teaches, we can stop wasting energy on past events and start using it for our ultimate development as human beings. Dr. Myss explains the profound spiritual implications for shifting to the highest level of personal power -- a shift which, she shows, is already taking place. Includes a question-and-answer session not found on any other recording. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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• Audio CD
• Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated; Abridged edition (November 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591792355
• ISBN-13: 978-1591792352
• Product Dimensions: 5.7 x 4.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #563,396 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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48 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating concepts on where we get and loose power., June 22, 2000

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This review is from: Three Levels of Power and How to Use Them (Audio Cassette)

I heard this author first discuss this information in lecture, then again on tape. She is riveting. Her wisdom is so "right on" that it left me stunned for some days, trying digest the sheer quanity of new insights I had to find a place for it in my gut. This tape set truly analyizes the creation and maintenence of personal power, how we get it, loose it, and minipulate with it. Interesting also, is how we get suckered in by others who have found out power leaks. A must for folks in competitive work places, or disfunctional families. It taught me how to be more fair and truthful to myself and others. Thanks to the Author. :-)

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tribal, Individual, and Symbolic Realms of Power, April 10, 2006

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This review is from: Three Levels of Power and How to Use Them (Audio CD)

In Three Levels Of Power And How To Use Them, Myss continues to lift the curtain on the human body's energy network, and the vast data banks which stores our thoughts and feelings. She explains that the power centers (chakras) can be divided into 3 levels: the tribal, the individual, and the symbolic. She also discusses the 8th chakra, a place of symbolic, or archetypal, sight. Myss says that power (our life force/prana/chi) is the common ingredient within the human experience. Moreso, it is the common ingredient in health, and certainly in the loss of health.

Myss elaborates on the power of the tribal mind, which is group thought. It's where we all start, and encompasses family, ethnicity, religion, political ideas, and trends. If your energy is plugged into group thought, you will function, create and heal at the speed of the group. For example, let's say you were diagnosed with an illness that your family believes is incurable. You look into alternative health, and hear stories of people who were healed from this disease. You tell your family this, and they say "No one gets healed from this. Your grandfather, uncle, and cousin all died from this disease." If you're plugged into group thinking, you will align yourself to what they believe...and live accordingly. Groups usually move very, very slowly...mostly because of being resistant to change. Have you ever heard "We've always done it this way" or "We've never did it this way"? This is tribal language. It's giving your energy circuits over to the group for them to control you. Myss calls this level "eau d' toilette", because you need a lot to get anything done.

The next level of power is individual power. You have to have an incredible sense of internal power to overcome the structure of external power. This is the realm of power where you unhook from the tribal mind, and where you have to take responsibility for everything you believe--good, bad or indifferent. No "well, my family does it this way..." in the realm of individual power! You can heal much faster than the tribe in this realm, because energy moves faster. She explains that forgiveness is what helps us detach from the tribe, maneuvers us into individual power, and gets us into present time. Myss likens this level to cologne: it's stronger than eau d' toilette, and will work for longer.

The third level of power is the symbolic realm. This is the higher altitude where we become the observer of our life without being threatened. It is the symbolic and archetypal realm where we see our life through the eyes of sacred contracts and archetypal "dancing". This is a realm of power that can go the distance, which Myss likens to perfume.

Myss also discusses how we can manage our own power, especially through choice. We can choose not to put our energy into getting mad about losing a parking space, as well as not leaking energy into a past relationship that we should have let go of long ago. She explains how to build up our "grace account", live in the present, and invest our energy in staying above situations that would drain our precious life force.

Like the Why People Don't Heal presentation, Myss peppers this teaching with powerful stories. One of my favorites is about a lady in England who was smashed up in a very bad car accident. Her spirit left her body, and she could hear the grumblings of people in other cars as she hovered above them: "I'm going to be late for work", "Great. This is all I need.", and so on. All of a sudden, while still hovering out of her body, she sees an incredible light shooting out of the 5th car up ahead. This light shoots into her being, and she finds her spirit body sitting beside the women in the 5th car. The woman behind the wheel is praying "God, please help this person in the accident." Suddenly, she hears a voice that says "We're taking you back to your body. It's not your time." She begins to travel back to her body, but before she does, she gets the license plate number from the car containing the praying driver.

After she mends, the woman in the accident looks up the praying driver, and shows up on her doorstep with a bouquet of flowers. She said to her "Thank you for the power you gave me to come back to my life."

Truly, the power we have in our spirit is the power of creation itself--and we can also extend this power to others, as well as using it to heal ourselves.

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Can't wait to hear tape one., May 15, 2000

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This review is from: Three Levels of Power and How to Use Them (Audio Cassette)

I listened to tape two of the two tape series. It was recommended and lent to me by my brother. (he must still have tape one!) Even though I started on tape two, I was able to follow along midstream without difficulty. The author delves into her meaning of "self" and "self-discovery" that came to her on her journey into her faith. It is thought provoking and intellectual without losing the listener. The interviewer's questions were insightful, and really what I wanted to ask. It reminded me of a Bill Moyers type of interview. Respect for the author, while asking tough questions.