The Creation of Health: The Emotional, Psychological, and Spiritual Responses That Promote Health and Healing (Paperback)

by Caroline Myss (Author), C. Norman Shealy M.D. (Author) "THE TIME HAS COME to assert one primal fact: The human spirit is real..." (more)
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Who can help asking "Why?" when they develop a disease? According to theologian and "medical intuitive" Caroline Myss, Ph.D., and co-worker C. Norman Shealy, M.D., who is a physician, neurosurgeon, and expert on pain and stress management, the answer goes further than a medical explanation. The Creation of Health explores the emotional, physical, and spiritual patterns that form health and the stresses that can cause disease.

Myss identifies eight dysfunctional patterns that lead to illness. Being aware that "negative attitudes create negative responses within the physical body" allows you to make changes toward health after identifying your emotional, psychological, and spiritual stresses. The most interesting chapters discuss specific diseases in terms of lifestyle factors, stress, and psychological patterns and energy factors, with case studies. A heart attack, for example, is "an explosion of energy attempting to break down an emotional barrier ... caused by warehousing fears and anger," says Myss. The authors alternate, rather than co-write, chapters and topics, so you know whose perspective you're reading. The theoretical sections are not easy reading, but the insights you can apply to your own health make the work immensely worthwhile. --Joan Price

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“The pioneering work of Dr. Shealy and Caroline Myss is the best way I know to learn the dynamics of the human energy system. Applying the principles . . . outlined in this book in your own life may be the most important thing you do for your health this decade.” —Christiane Northrup, M.D., author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom

“An important book that addresses the crucial spiritual issues which lie at the root of many diseases. . . . Shealy and Myss provide a clear understanding of the reasons behind ‘dis-ease,’ as well as solutions that may heal the higher causes of illness.” —Richard Gerber, M.D., author of Vibrational Medicine

“A critical primer on the creation of health for the new millennium.” —Jean Houston, Ph.D., author of A Mythic Life and The Search for the Beloved


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Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press (April 14, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0609803239
• ISBN-13: 978-0609803233
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #258,347 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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74 of 77 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Life Changer, May 14, 1997

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This review is from: The Creation of Health: The Emotional, Psychological, and Spiritual Responses That Promote Health and Healing (Paperback)

We've been hearing about the body/mind/spirit connection for quite awhile now, but it took Caroline Myss to bring it on home.

Written with Dr. Norman Shealy, Ms. Myss fleshes out the popular theory that 'we create our own reality'.

The Creation of Health: The Emotional, Psychological,and Spiritual Responses that Promote Health and Healing documents the colaboration between Norman Shealy, MD, and Caroline Myss, a medical intuit.

Myss diagnosised Shealy's patients long distance via telephone. With only the patient's name, age and permission, Myss could read their body's medical and energetic history. The Creation of Health explores dozens of cases which strongly indicates that, indeed, "our biography is our biology".

Jane, for instance, suffered from rheumaoid arthritis. Her husband of twenty-eight years had been unfaithful from the start. Though she found out when her third child was a toddler, she decided to stay in the marriage until the children were grown. By that time he was serving in Vietnam. How could she divorce him then? That is when she developed her disease. By the time he returned safely, she was so handicapped that she believe she didn't have the physical capacity to divorce. "I kept saying to myself, 'if it weren't for this S.O.B., I wouldn't have this disease." Through Caroline's intervention, she realized that it wasn't her husband that created her disease. It was her attitude towards him that was the problem.

Hortense is another example. This forty-eight year-old woman felt she had very little in her life. Unloved and uncared for, Hortense felt fated to loneliness. She developed breast cancer. Later, metastasis to the liver was discovered. Myss noted that the liver is in the area of the third chakra, which is the center of a person's personal power. The liver, charged with cleansing the blood of toxins, also represents the seat of emotional cleansing.

When Hortense looked towards her future and saw only emptiness, she "could no longer cope with keeping her emotions positive, or cleansed, by herself." The experience of cancer, however, spurred her desire to live and stimulated the possibility that there were other choices she could make in her life style.

Myss puts forth a convincing case concerning control issues and stroke victims. People who need to dominate find it difficult to trust others. This lack of trust creates negative stresses in the body which in-turn triggers emotional charges such as frustration, rage, anger and fear. "The individual is challenged to remain in control while these high-voltage currents of electrical energy are racing through the body, like the explosive energy of a geyser waiting to burst through the earth." Often postponed with alcohol, drugs, or outbursts of temper, this behavior commonly leads to stoke.

Myss's first book wets the appetite for more understanding of how each of us can take charge of our life and create health.

(Yeshara Gold) [e-mail]

51 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Holistic" is Not a Technique, January 14, 2001

By	Mary R. Bast (Gainesville, Florida United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Myss and Shealy make clear that we are at a turning point in the diagnosis and understanding of disease. The trend in medicine to examine the influences of stress has retintroduced us to the knowledge that emotional tension is disruptive to the physical body. "...this recognition that human emotions do indeed affect physical health," they write, "has brought the traditional medical world face to face with the fundamental principle of holistic health: The majority of physical illnesses result from an overload of emotional, psychological and spiritual crises."

They outline eight dysfunctional stress patterns:

- Unresolved or deeply consuming emotional, psychological, or spiritual stress. - Negative (and disempowering) belief patterns. - Inability to give and/or receive love. - Lack of humor/inability to distinguish serious concerns from life's lesser issues. - Failure to exercise the power of choice in the matters of one's own life. - Lack of attention to the needs of the physical body. - Absence or loss of meaning in one's life. - Inability to face life's challenges and to acknowledge and change what is not working.

The term "Holistic" refers to a way of approaching healing that incorporates a variety of therapies including traditional medicine. "Metaphorically speaking, traditional medicine represents the 'mind' of health care and the holistic approach represents the 'heart' of health care." This book is an important guideline for approaching the heart of health care -- a useful frame of reference to examine how our lives contribute to illness or wholeness, particularly those who have already become ill, their families, and their caregivers.

46 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must for your bookshelf if your in the healing arts., June 22, 2000

By	seeker "tink-im" (cincinnati, ohio United States) - See all my reviews

Im my small wellness center, I've sold more of this book than any other. The author gives a very precise and easy to understand discription of the chakra system, in real words than anyone can relate to and see thier own issues in. As a reference book, its fantastic. You can look up the energetic causes of most of the diseases you'll ever hear about, and Carolines sage advice on prevention. Dr. Shealy adds the eliment of the Scientific credibility to Caroline intuitive diagnoses. My copy is dog eared, highlighted and worn. It is one of my Velveteen Rabits. Bravo to the authors. :-)