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Three Levels of Power and How to Use Them

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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. :-)

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.

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.

This CD worked on both my wife and I in subtle ways. Caroline has always challenged the listener. In this CD, it is done without being confronting. It is more like, "this is way it is. You are free to do with this information what you will". I am very glad I bought this CD. It has made a definite positive impact on my life.

Once again Caroline Myss has supplied great insight into how we can all make our lives, and this world a better place. I highly recommend this to anyone interested in raising knowledge, happiness, and gratitude for what is available to us all!

Maybe it's just me... and I'm into the unseen energy, healing thing... I find with this author, her original assertions ring close enough to how many people function, and how most of us function at least in part to make her work worth listening to. But when I actually listen to the tapes I find her examples and presumptions don't track. I don't see the examples she talks of and her discussions imply that a certain set of circumstances result in a specific result, without allowing the variations I often see. It is all very much from her specific view. I find myself thinking (as she speaks) how do you get this conclusion from those situations?
As if the complexity and variations of life experience follow a very specific set of experience and response... "People don't want to become conscious, in fact it terrifies them". All people?
At one point she talks of having been Catholic and then becoming Christian. Catholics are Christian.

I suppose my greatest disappoint with the audiobook was that after she discusses, at length, her view of the problems and how people fail to get it, there is little advice specific on rearranging our unconscious use of power. Being aware of the problems will help, I will spend more time in meditation about it (I'm convinced on that issue) but I expected material to assist the "how to use them" part.

I was disappointed by the other reviews that led me to buy it. If you do want to purchase it, consider buying my copy on sale on Amazon for $9.95. But I dont suggest you buy it! Why? Because there is no logic or credibility to the content. She seems to simply have an interesting way of talking and an ability to manufacture terminology. She's "America's premier medical intuitive" probably because she's the America's only medical intuitive. :)